Category Archives: Commentary

Foucault is METAL

A  hilarious bit from a conversation with a friend about Foucault being a badass and post-modernism (whatever that is): Jack: I like postmodernism, but I usually take the radical end out and think it terms of history me: history? Jack: Yeah 9:03 PM Postmodernism thinks it has found the tr00 chaos underlying all things It’s [...]

General Advice on Mongolia Travel

If they fail to recognize you for your achievements (i.e. survival), realize they don’t get it (yet) and have faith that their time will come .

…well the G is swallowed, and calls up from the bottom of your throat, leading to a slippery o that somehow terminates in a soft V. Realize you won’t be learning this language from a book.

Reflections on Mongolia

Big Brother is watching, don’t say the

…[From Reflections on Mongolia | Chinggis Khan Moves to the City ]

Summer!

Yay for summer! I have a job. More on that later… but I have to go help my Dad set up my sister’s highschool for their after-prom party (An Evening in Paris…) I’ll post more after I take my computer back apart, then reassemble it… Hope everyone is having a great summer so far!!!

Peruvian Mahogany

In the rainforests of Peru, rampant illegal logging is threatening the survival of vulnerable indigenous peoples and wiping out some of the last remaining concentrations of big-leaf mahogany in Latin America. » Tell the Bush administration to act now to curtail illegal mahogany imports. (via NRDC.org)

Kitten Huffing, and Humor Writing

Via the Ultimate (Frisbee) list (in response to 4/20 et al.) Kitten Huffing @ uncyclopedia.org Kitten huffing is a controversial practice that has recently been growing as a popular and healthy alternative to street drugs.Despite a long history in Western culture, the practice remains largely taboo. Excessive huffing has been known to produce undesirable side [...]

THE ESSENTIAL JUDAS PRIEST

Well, I just stopped by wrmc to see if there were any new stuff for me to review, and there was one curious album in the usual pile… “The Essential Judas Priest”. Now I consider myself as much an expert on Heavy Metal as anyone, but Priest are one of the few bands I really [...]

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Blahhh I’m sick…

Movie

Completely unrelated, but I was cruising around the blogs and found a link to some other site, where a writer had just posted a great review of the upcoming film, V for Vendetta. It sounds like it could be quite intriguing, and suffice it to say he gave it an “A”. Technorati Tags: movies, writing, [...]

TIBET LECTURE

DIGITAL STORY to be CONTINUED after this lecture at RAJ on TIBET ECONOMICS…. NOW! (Friday at 4:28 pm) I will return.