Tuesday, May 25, 2010
I'm sticking with you, cause I'm made out of glue
Wednesday, May 5, 2010
Story written by a second grader
-Jarvezz G.
Friday, April 16, 2010
BOOHBAH!!!
Thursday, April 8, 2010
Baljinnyam Posts Bullshit
I've been thinking about posting on this glorious online forum for a long time now, and I never did because I always felt that what I had to say would not be nearly as funny or as entertaining as what you talented people write.
Well, here goes.
I think that I shall tell a story from my childhood. When I was small, growing up in Mongolia, I would often spend hours looking out of my grandparents' apartment window, observing the happenings of the surrounding neighborhood, the cars and the buses that went by, etc. One day, around the age of 3, I was hanging out with my grandpa. I turned to him, and I said, "Grandpa. Did you know that all my friends go to school? I went with them yesterday." I, then, proceeded to tell my grandpa, in elaborate detail, what happened at school. To which, my grandpa just nodded and let me finish telling my story.
Three things to note: 1) What I was saying was funny because I didn't have any friends and because I never went to school. 2) I am thankful that my grandpa let me exercise my imagination. I really loved that man. He inhabits a large part of my heart. 3) Even at an early age, I showed an affinity for all things academic? Cool? I think so.
Now, in this academic stage on my life, all the friends whom I love are at school. They make life better. Except, one friend is very far away, "in the land of the midnight sun."
Wednesday, April 7, 2010
borrrreeeddd
god bless the fillmore
Thursday, April 1, 2010
Friday, March 26, 2010
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Thursday, March 18, 2010
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Monday, March 15, 2010
into the madding crowd the caged cuckoo flies
DO IT. It's not that I'm sponsoring mindless procrastination, but there's something to be said for the rejuvenating benefits of not being able to draw breath due to sustained bouts of giggly giddiness.
And it's the time of the quarter when the general philosophy is "every thing goes; don't worry, be happy because it's physically impossible to endure higher levels of cortisone than this----ARRGG WHY ARE YOU NOT DEFLATING???"
If the sentence above isn't resolving itself into anything that makes even a modicum of sense, that's fine. In fact, that's kinda the point. (I mean, what was the point of Sandy's midnight pre-SLE final goth makeover? It was just delightful for plain delight's sake.)
Chronic nonsensicality.
Habitual whimsicality.
Burtonian fantasticality and Dali-esque bizarre insanity.
If you're still find yourself stubbornly refusing to submit to this Faisanite credo, I prescribe a hearty dosage of the fifth season of LOST.
But on a more earnest note, I would like to violently wish everyone good luck on the impeding week of mayhem.
Remember that the robin's egg azure of California skies are ever-forgiving, ever-enduring. Except when it rains, that is.
Saturday, March 13, 2010
Friday, March 12, 2010
substitute teachers have fun too
lineflyer 1
lineflyer 2
Thursday, March 11, 2010
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
shout out to my treeps!! (get it? trees + peeps)
I can communicate empathically with plants! I suspect that my great-grandmother did too. On my mom’s side I come from a family with a bit of a supernatural bent – people who have premonitions and see ghosts. I don’t know if being able to communicate with trees is really related to that, but it might be.
When I was a lonely boarding school kid trees saved my life in small but important ways. I remember a copper beech tree just outside the dorm I lived in for three years who became almost a parental figure. We developed a relationship over the first year I was at the school, and it continued to support me over time. This wonderful tree was old, large and awesome. It was probably the most stable figure in my life, and had the clearest voice out of all the plants I’ve ever interacted with. It would remind me that I wasn’t alone, and it would give me little mental nudges when it thought my worries were too transitory to be important.
You can imagine that as a nerdy, lesbian tree-psychic I wasn’t the most popular kid ever but with the trees in their New England glory all around me I really didn’t care. I witnessed a dramatic world of life and rebirth, changing seasons and unchanging years that seemed beyond many of the things that school made me worry about. I had some human friends who were awesome, some of whom even accepted this whole tree-thing I had going on. The copper beech, a gingko down the street, a pine tree by the lake and three maples by the path to the schoolhouse all supported me too, and I needed it.
These days my life has so many human connections that I barely even remember that I can have plant ones, too. On Saturday, without thinking, I greeted a tree on campus in the way that I used to. It had been so long that I forgot how to close that part of my mind back up. It seemed as though tree consciousness were everywhere. I remembered what it used to be like on fall evenings in New Hampshire, when every deciduous tree and bush extravagantly mourned its leaves and I thought I was going crazy, surrounded by voices that weren’t voices. I remembered, too, the wonderful feeling it gave me of never having to be alone.
Monday, March 8, 2010
FACES
Sunday, March 7, 2010
Friday, March 5, 2010
Thursday, March 4, 2010
nostalgia win
Tuesday, March 2, 2010
Monday, March 1, 2010
Sunday, February 28, 2010
Saturday, February 27, 2010
A Song about Beans
Natto
Black Bean
Green Pea
So Corey wrote the chords, and I encourage him to cover this song so we can have some decent singing on the blog! Anyway, here is a short uke song about Mameshiba!!
Friday, February 26, 2010
Thursday, February 25, 2010
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Monday, February 22, 2010
Sunday, February 21, 2010
Criminals and Crime
The first option is, I must confess, the one that has most occupied my time for the period in which I have carried out this study, since abstract consideration is the area in which I personally excel insofar as I excel in any skill. The first theoretical way to understand crime has come through study of the most superficial aspect of crime, its name. The word "crime" stems from the Greek word "krima," which means "shame." This points to an essential aspect of crime: it involves shame, an internal feeling, as opposed to, say, dishonor, an external condition. Crime is thus tied to our current culture of shame, and of the importance of internal feeling in general, as opposed to outside societal influences. In such a world, shame is inevitable; thus, crime is an inevitable part of the fabric of our society. Since society and its paradigms form our perception of the universe, and since, if Berkeley's arguments are to be accepted, our perception constitutes reality along with our will (esse est percipi)--then we come to the inescapable conclusion that crime is a part of the very fabric of the universe itself. Since we have come to this conclusion by reaching into the etymological roots of the word "crime," it follows that our discovery must similarly reach into the roots of the universe -- not only is crime a part of the universe, then, it is a core part, present in the singularity from which the Universe sprang. A full account of cosmology and ontology must therefore take crime into account in its analysis of reality.
Yet our modern word is "crime," not "krima" -- this primordial krima must be separated from our modern "crime," though it is a form of the same phenomenon. Thus we may consider two forms, two different manifestations of crime: krima and our modern word "crime," which concept I will refer to, for convience, as CRIME. Let us take the word CRIME: several meanings can be attributed to it. It is productive to analyze it as an acronym: CRIME Rightly Irrigates Moist Earth. Thus, CRIME is a nurturer, a force responsible for the growth of life. CRIME Really Is Most Excellent. This statement reveals an essential aspect of CRIME: that it is most excellent. Indeed, CRIME is most superb and admirable -- for criminals. For law-abiding citizens, CRIME is reprehensible. This reveals an essential dualism inherent in the concept of CRIME: it divides the world into Criminals and Law-Abiding Citizens (henceforth LACs, pronounced "lacks"). In this respect, CRIME differs from krima, which is an essential part of all reality. Yet the two concepts cannot exist independently of one another. With their common ground removed, CRIME and krima are reduced to CE and ka, pronounced "see" and "ka", together "seeka" or "seeker": i.e., seeking truth, since truth is absent. Thus to remove the common ground of CRIME and krima is to remove truth; we must conclude, therefore, that truth consists in the common ground of CRIME and krima, which may properly considered "crime" in the lower-case.
We know from the many schools of Western philosophy that the truth may be sought in two ways: a priori and a posteriori. A posteriori understanding of crime can only come from study of it. But crime cannot be seen, or touched, or smelt. Only its by-products may be apprehended this way: the smoke of a gun used to assassinate a duck, the smell of the money used in illicit transactions. The basic unit of Crime is the single criminal act, but this act is only an epiphenomenon originating in the criminal who commits it. Therefore, an a posteriori understanding of crime can only come by the study of its nature in one who has commited a crime, i.e. through an interview with such a person. But for the reasons cited in the first paragraph, a criminal can offer no insight into crime: such an insight must come from one who is both criminal and LAC. Such people do exist, in the twilight zone between the World of Crime and the World of Law-Abiding Citizens, and I have completed an extensive study of them, consisting of interviews and psychological tests. These half-criminals claim to take pleasure in committing actions beyond the realm of the law-abiding man. It is this experience of a different universe that these people find attractive: the tax-evader or child-molestor experiences an entirely different universe than the law-abiding circus ringleader or dentist. The condition of being caught is also commonly cited as pleasurable, because it excites jealousy among the officers of the law. This interpretation may seem to be unique to those who travel both in the World of Law and the World of Crime: for crime for a criminal is not anything new, just as obeying the law is nothing new for a LAC. Yet it offers us an insight into Crime nevertheless. That it gives pleasure for half-criminals to travel between two entirely different universes reveals exactly that the Criminal and the LAC live in entirely different and incompatible realms. The criminal commits crime just as naturally as the LAC learns mathematics. The apparent co-existence of two entirely different universes in what we often perceive as a unified whole is disturbing at best and mind-shattering at worst. When asked to describe the World of Law as opposed to the World of Crime, nearly all subjects responded, "The World of Law is temporal." Indeed, the World of Law is regulated by finite time, clocks and numbered law-codes, which we all must follow lest we become criminals ourselves. It is difficult for us LACs to imagine a world that is anything but "temporal" and codified, yet it is exactly in such a world, co-existing with ours, that criminals live. Indeed, It Is Impossible for a LAC to imagine anything but a temporal world; as such, it seems to be impossible for us to understand crime at all.
One asks: how can we seek to understand crime when we have established that crime is utterly incomprehensible to a law-abiding citizen? The answer lies precisely in that incomprehensibility. Crime is utterly distinct and opposite from the law-abiding nature. Thus, what law-abiding nature is, crime is not. Thus analysis of a LAC reveals precisely the opposite of analysis of a criminal. Therefore, to obtain understanding of the criminal, the LAC must be analyzed, and the conclusions from this inquiry must be negated. Now the best information about crime would be obtained by analysis of the most prototypical LAC, of one must opposed to crime and the criminal underworld. For this purpose I will psychoanalyze the man who has most strongly fought against crime in our generation, Sheriff John Bunnell. Let us take an archetypical statement from Sheriff Bunnell: "Jack may be nimble. Jack maybe quick. But when Jack takes on the Cleveland County PD, he's going to GET BURNED!" Sheriff Bunnell is clearly harking back to childhood nursury rhymes, indicating a full childhood and strong Family Values. Thus, we may conclude that the criminal lacks a full childhood and Family Values. Indeed, it is this lack of Family Values that makes a criminal most stand out in LAC society, and which makes us able to recognize a criminal from a distance of up to 6o meters. Yet this remaking of the famous nursery rhyme differs from the original in one crucial aspect: it does not rhyme. This is in direct opposition to the criminal and to crime itself -- the ultimate crime being, as is commonly known, the so-called Crime Sublime. According to criminal folklore (according the half-criminals I have interviewed), the Crime Sublime is unattainable and unknowable, and those who commit it become as God. Since what is unknowable to a criminal must be supremely knowable to a LAC, it seems logical to conclude that this Crime Sublime is nothing less than to live a totally morally upstanding life. Our utmust possible achievement, our equivalent of the Crime Sublime, must be, then, to live a life of entire depravity and criminality. That the zenith of achievement for the World of Law is Crime, and that the paramount achivement possible in the World of Crime is to obey the Law, reveals perhaps the most important aspect of the interplay of the opposite worlds of law and criminality. Though they are indeed opposite, they are dependent on one another and indeed derive meaning and values from one another.
That the life of crime and the normal life are dependent on one another for their structure and existence reveals an important fact about the nature of Crime and the nature of the very universe. The Crime Sublime and its law-abiding equivalent exist wholly in the others; this implies a union of the two worlds. Indeed, this is how we may perceive the universe as a unified whole, and not consisting of a world of Crime and an entirely separate world of Law; this is why we do not detect the force of "krima" at the very center of our existence in opposition to the other forces at that location. The two worlds are united in a mystic union, and it is only through this union that they acquire any meaning or existence. This observation leads to a conclusion that is simultaneously terrifying and irrefutable: without crime, the universe would not exist.
Saturday, February 20, 2010
Vusi Mahlasela
Friday, February 19, 2010
Thursday, February 18, 2010
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Monday, February 15, 2010
Sunday, February 14, 2010
I love you Corey!!!
(p.s. I see you sugarbear)
From the NYT today (link)
"What is love, anyway? Ah, best for last. If I were Spock from “Star Trek,” I would explain that human love is a combination of three emotions or impulses: desire, vulnerability and bravery. Desire makes one feel vulnerable, which then requires one to be brave.
Since I’m not Spock, I will tell a story.
Say you decide to adopt a baby girl in China. You receive her photo, put it on your refrigerator and gaze at it as the months pass, until finally you’re halfway around the world, holding her in your arms, tears of joy streaming down your face.
But later in your hotel room, after undressing her, you discover worrisome physical signs, in particular a scar on her spine. You call the doctor, then head to the hospital for examinations and CT scans, where you are told the following: she suffered botched spinal surgery that caused nerve damage. Soon she will lose all bladder and bowel control. Oh, and she will be paralyzed for life. We’re so sorry.
But the adoption agency offers you a choice: keep this damaged baby, or trade her in for a healthier one.
You don’t even know about the trials yet to come, about the alarming diagnoses she’ll receive back home, the terrifying seizures you’ll witness. Nor do you know about the happy ending that is years off, when she comes through it all and is perfectly fine. You have to decide now. This is your test. What do you do?
If you’re Elizabeth Fitzsimons, who told this story here one Mother’s Day, you say: “We don’t want another baby. We want our baby, the one sleeping right over there. She’s our daughter.”
That’s love. Anyone can have it. All it requires is a little bravery. Or a lot."
Friday, February 12, 2010
Oh, Kim Hess.
Thursday, February 11, 2010
Thoughts en 65'
Have you ever been so happy that it didn’t matter if you died? This comes from a movie that changed my life and has inspired me to in the last two years write in 65 words what I have learned from life in each month. Try it sometime. From now on I am going to try and keep all my posts to 65 words. Love
(That was 65 words but I have more to say this time)
Watch the trailer to the movie, tu vida en 65
http://www.traileraddict.com/trailer/your-life-in-65/trailer
It changed my life.
If you guys don’t mind (please give me feedback) I would like to make my post a weekly post about awareness of some issue. Don’t worry I’ll keep them to 65 words.
Hope Everyone is having a wonderful week
Things that makes me happy-Family
i was laughing so hard i couldnt stand. i was rolling on the floor crying. leo makes me laugh. hmm and then me and him were teasing mom, talking about her reactions to when we got into college. then mom teased us. and we were all laughing and yelling and pointing and laughing. just like always.
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Monday, February 8, 2010
Friday, February 5, 2010
Thursday, February 4, 2010
more posters!
Turgid (nothing to do with the post, really. It's just a cool word.)
Anyway: The Office and 30 Rock episodes at the RF's Apartment. 9PM.
Sublunary souls under a turgid Thursday moon.
I'll see you all there.
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
Something old, something new
Example ... well, this song (Lousy Reputation) is from the first wide-release cd, With Love and Squalor, and is does not fall under the EP category (with the wonderful wonderful songs like The Method, We Are Scientists v. Mothra, and Human Technology will Render You Obsolete) but the vid is more classic W.A.S., a bunch of friends hanging out and making music. On a budget!!!
link: Chick Lit
Guess which one I prefer ... happy blogging!
Monday, February 1, 2010
hey guys, sooooo...
- lol
- appalled/outraged
- love life
- swoon
- confused
- hate life/homework
- wish you were asleep/could fall asleep
- think/dream
- happy
- uncomfortable
- move/dance/get loose