Filth

ur rhetorical skills could use a bit of work, honey

Mon, 15 Apr 2013 00:18:01 -0400

ur rhetorical skills could use a bit of work, honey

When I mention the person who most inspires me as an individual, and who I hold most closely as a...

Wed, 06 Feb 2013 21:25:39 -0500

When I mention the person who most inspires me as an individual, and who I hold most closely as a model for my ideal future self, the vast majority of people to whom I speak have no clue who I’m talking about. That’s not because I’m a dumb exclusionist who gets off on namedropping for the sake of namedropping, either. It’s because Robert Pinsky, former poet laureate of the United States, for all his relative obscurity outside literature nerd circles, is the most perfect example I have found for the person I want to be when I grow up.

I’ve only ever met him once, at a poetry reading at a university near my school. I came into the reading with a set of presuppositions of sorts about poets, not flattering ones, either, but within the first three minutes of his reading, he proved every single one of them wrong. I was expecting smugness, heinous pretense, obscurity for the sake of obscurity, but what I got instead was a sense that this was an intelligent man who knew he was intelligent, yet, would still be a pleasure to talk to. He was clearly very knowledgable, very well read, an altogether well spoken individual, but, where in others those traits are easily associated with self-importance, egoism, and pretense, in Mr. Pinsky they were more fitly described as befitting of someone of his stature and accomplishments, and thus, worthy of admiration. All my life I’ve associated being an intellectual as an unfortunate prerequisite for social alienation and an inability to relate to others, but Mr. Pinsky showed me, an impressionable teenager of only 17, that this was not necessarily the case. I could, in theory, pursue the acquisition of knowledge with the vim and vigor of a scholar and still retain the ability to make people want to hold a conversation with me. It wasn’t impossible. It could be done. That poetry reading gave me hope. I don’t aspire to be a poet, but I do aspire to have the same kind of solid sense of self that Robert Pinsky does some day.

— I’m currently gearing up to play with a fairly prestigious bagpipe band in Texas, and, with a little hard work and persistence, I’ll be playing at (and winning) the World Pipe Band Championships in August. I’m making good progress, but it’s hard~ Aah!

— I spent seven weeks in the north of France over the summer with an exchange programme and was awarded the Certificate of Excellence.

—I was promoted to shift leader at my first job a little while ago! My mom told me straight out that she thought I’d be fired after the second day, so I’m pretty happy with myself, if only for proving her wrong~

passcode 4 iu = hey fuck off please

Wed, 06 Feb 2013 14:13:14 -0500

passcode 4 iu = hey fuck off please

trip preparation

Fri, 18 Jan 2013 13:28:18 -0500

possibilities 4research

center for wrongful convictions
7th circuit ct of appeals (federal ct) (yo)
university of chicago law school
todd henderson (we will lbe observing his torts class)
museum of contemporary art
artist goshka macuga

BRING 2COURT

Wed, 16 Jan 2013 12:10:49 -0500

factual scenario

case summaries

both briefs

script

2penz

paper

also water

and watch or phone (timepiece)

“if there are no further questions, this concludes my portion of the...

Wed, 16 Jan 2013 11:53:28 -0500

“if there are no further questions, this concludes my portion of the argument.”

“May it please the court…”

Use “Your honour” to address the judge lol

impressionists a whole bunch of instant camera s help someone help this might be expensive maybe a...

Fri, 04 Jan 2013 00:28:56 -0500

impressionists a whole bunch of instant camera s help someone help this might be expensive maybe a whole bunch of different shots of the same object over different times of the day/conditions??? impressionists?? like monet’s haystacks >???? some1 help i d k if this is a good idea or not idk

len1n: this might b my favourite album tbh

Mon, 31 Dec 2012 23:43:00 -0500

len1n:

this might b my favourite album tbh

i am supernaturally horny rn omfg

Sat, 29 Dec 2012 19:10:00 -0500

supernaturally

horny rn omfg

places 2 go in chicago

Fri, 28 Dec 2012 00:28:09 -0500

-Art Institute of Chicago (museum, from 10:30-5)

Steve McQueen exhibit
greek, byzantine, roman art (of gods n glamour)
Late Roman n Byzantine works
Material Translations (japanese fashion)
Cy Twombly sculptures
ancient n byzantine art
medieval n renaissance
european decorative arts
photography collection

-brown elephant resale shop 4 gays etc (from 11-6)

-Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (from 10-5)

Download free fucking books!

Wed, 26 Dec 2012 19:37:06 -0500

Download free fucking books!:

A fuckload of classic literature:

1984 by George Orwell

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

Aesop’s Fables by Aesop

Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Caroll

Andersen’s Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen

Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne

Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche

Bleak House by Charles Dickens

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell

Dracula by Bram Stoker

Dubliners by James Joyce

Emma by Jane Austen

Erewhon by Samuel Butler

For the Term of His Natural Life by Marcus Clarke

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

Grimms Fairy Tales by the brothers Grimm

Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson

Lady Chatterly’s Lover by D. H. Lawrence

Les Miserables by Victor Hugo

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

Middlemarch by George Eliot

Moby Dick by Herman Melville

Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard by Joseph Conrad

Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham

Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

Paradise Lost by John Milton

Persuasion by Jane Austen

Pollyanna by Eleanor H. Porter

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen

Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence

Swanns Way by Marcel Proust

Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs

Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Tess of the d’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

The Brothers Karamazov, by Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Great Gatsby

The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle

The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Iliad by Homer

The Island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. Wells

The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling

The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving

The Odyssey by Homer

The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle

The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James

The Prince by Nicolo Machiavelli

The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy

The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

The Tales of Mother Goose by Charles Perrault

The Thirty Nine Steps by John Buchan

The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Duma

The Time Machine by H. G. Wells

The Trial by Franz Kafka

The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells

Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

Ulysses by James Joyce

Utopia by Sir Thomas More

Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

Within A Budding Grove by Marcel Proust

Women In Love by D. H. Lawrence

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

Click on the motherfucking Hypelinks bitches.

Here! Have a fuckload of modern literature, too!

A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess

A Study In Scarlet - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter - Seth Grahame-Smith

An Abundance of Katherines - John Green

Artemis Fowl - Eoin Colfer

Bossypants - Tina Fey

Breakfast At Tiffany’s - Truman Capote

Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding

Catcher In The Rye - J.D. Salinger

Charlie And The Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl

City of Bones - Cassandra Clare

Clockwork Angel - Cassandra Clare

Damned - Chuck Palahniuk

Darkly Dreaming Dexter - Jeff Lindsay

Dead Until Dark - Charlaine Harris

Ender’s Game - Orson Scott Card

Everything Is Illuminated - Jonathan Safran Foer

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close - Jonathan Safran Foer

Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury

Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk

Go The Fuck To Sleep - Adam Mansbach

I Am America (And So Can You!) - Stephen Colbert

I Am Number Four - Pittacus Lore

Inkheart - Cornelia Funke

It - Stephen King

Life of Pi - Yann Martel

Lolita - Vladmir Nabokov

Marked - Kristin Cast

Memoirs Of A Geisha - Arthur Golden

My Sister’s Keeper - Jodi Picoult

Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro

One Day - David Nicholls

Paper Towns - John Green

Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightening Thief - Rick Riordan

Pretty Little Liars - Sara Shepard

Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut

Snow White And The Huntsman - Lily Blake

The Book Thief - Markus Zusak

The Bourne Identity - Robert Ludlum

The Giver - Lois Lowry

The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins

The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini

The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold

The Notebook - Nicholas Sparks

The Outsiders - S.E. Hinton

The Perks of Being A Wallflower - Stephen Chbosky

The Princess Diaries - Meg Cabot

The Things They Carried - Tim O’Brien

The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger

The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy - Douglas Adams

Tuesdays With Morrie - Mitch Albom

Uglies - Scott Westerfeld

Vampire Diaries: The Awakening - L.J. Smith

Water For Elephants - Sara Gruen

Wicked - Gregory Maguire

links (marijuana legalization)

Thu, 13 Dec 2012 12:13:46 -0500

http://192.5.14.43/content/dam/rand/pubs/working_papers/2010/RAND_WR771.pdf

http://jod.sagepub.com/content/34/4/751.full.pdf+html

http://jod.sagepub.com/content/40/2/461.full.pdf+html

http://www.in.gov/legislative/senate_democrats/files/blog/Budgetary%20Implications%20of%20Marijuana%20Prohibition-Jeffrey%20Miron.pdf

ccpl books

Thu, 13 Dec 2012 11:32:22 -0500

Legalizing Drugs-363.4 LEGALIZING
Drugs: America’s Holy War-363.45 BEN
Drug Legalization-362.29 DRUG
Drug Legalization-363.45 DRUG

ART HISTORY PIECES

Tue, 11 Dec 2012 10:40:42 -0500

Roman busts
Tabernacle
Book of Hours 1
Book of Hours 2
Madonna and Child painting
Flemish Gothic Diptych
Virgin and Child statuette
Madonna enthroned

Christmas List

Mon, 10 Dec 2012 18:57:59 -0500

Calendar
Backpack
Book
Another book
Probably something else later on, but.

top10

Thu, 06 Dec 2012 09:22:03 -0500

top10

this is a good list of movies i should watch

Thu, 06 Dec 2012 09:17:25 -0500

this is a good list of movies i should watch

Dubois’ veil – the veil through which we look at ourselves is imposed by white society and means...

Thu, 06 Dec 2012 09:09:29 -0500

Dubois’ veil – the veil through which we look at ourselves is imposed by white society and means that we cannot see ourselves in the way that we should.

Double-consciousness – measuring himself by someone else

More of an elevated diction – begins by theorizing the experience of slavery – a macro account of slavery (an abstraction), ideologically,

Phyllis Wheatley (1760) – had to be published in London b/c sued for authenticity (didn’t think she...

Tue, 04 Dec 2012 10:22:00 -0500

Phyllis Wheatley (1760) – had to be published in London b/c sued for authenticity (didn’t think she wrote it herself); poet.

African American lit separated out into pejorative (not taken seriously, writes well for a slave, but not v. well in general) and more positive à can now study African American lit as a subgenre.

1901-1903 two writers emerge – Booker T. Washington and DuboisWashington – skill-set of African Americans should be based on the farm (“Cast down your buckets”), Up From Slavery

W.E.B. Dubois – v. well educated, ideas about equality of education – black students should be educated along the same lines as white students;

Marcus Garvey’s back to Africa movement – not popular enough to merit a lot of movement, but persisted into MLK Jr. era. Created a sense of heritage of America before it was American (embracing of a more ancient past was a way of restoring a culture):

me three years ago: I’m shy so I don’t talk to people me two years ago: I don’t relate well to my...

Sun, 02 Dec 2012 22:05:10 -0500

me three years ago: I’m shy so I don’t talk to people

me two years ago: I don’t relate well to my peers so I don’t talk to people

me one year ago: I don’t relate well to people so I don’t talk to anyone

me now: why the fuck would I want to relate to you even fuck off