Sometimes I wish there was something in between a period and an exclamation point. A calmer, softer piece of punctuation that says: “yes, this is good news and I’m quite happy about it…but it’s not a ‘jumping out of my chair’ kind of happy and that’s perfectly all right.” Like many other people, I go [...]
Archive for October, 2008
Exclamation points are vapid
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged communication, emotion, punctuation, reading, writing on October 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Tree Torturer
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged plants on October 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Approximately one year ago, Andrew brought me home a bonsai tree as a gift. I’m not quite sure where he acquired the notion that a live plant is something I would get along with; perhaps he considered that if it eventually grew up, I could chop it down and turn it into a book.
Over time, the development [...]
Random Memory
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged food, memory, school on October 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
My life has never truly admitted the luxury of complacency; at 23 years old, I’ve changed dwellings more times than my age, and I’ve never spent a day over five years in any one city. Nevertheless, wherever my situation has taken me, I’ve usually found a few kindred spirits with which to ride out the journey.
This particular tale takes place during a brief [...]
La la la la life goes on…
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged hegel, history, middle class, music, paul bettany, the '90s, the beatles on October 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I don’t remember much of Hegel’s ‘Philosophy of Right’, but I do remember the line: “each individual is a child of his time.” While I fundamentally disagree with this maxim and while this is, in a way, the source of all my subsequent problems with Hegelian thought, I do take a peculiar pleasure in the [...]
Why Legalization of Marijuana Needs to Become an Election Issue
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged controversy on October 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This is not one of my pet issues, not even close. In fact, if for some reason I had the time, energy or necessity to draw up an all-inclusive hierarchical list of the things I care about, marijuana would not be on it. That being said, the politics surrounding this issue just seem so…silly that [...]
