July 2007

On The Simpsons Movie.

July 31, 2007

SPOILER ALERT: If you don’t want to know oh come on. The show’s been on forever, which means that you’ve essentially already seen this movie. Once upon a time, there was a very funny TV show called The Simpsons. It was well-written, clever yet unpretentious, and was always good for at least one bout of hysterical, [...]

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Yellowed.

July 27, 2007

Part of the marketing campaign for the Simpsons movie is a website called SimpsonizeMe.com. You go there, upload a photo of yourself, press a button here, turn a dial there, and after a minute or two, you’ve got a yellow, four-fingered, bug-eyed picture of yourself. Then, if you think the computer didn’t quite capture your essence, you [...]

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“As leaving some grand waterfall, We, lingering, list its roar—”

July 20, 2007

It occurs to me that I didn’t write about my latest trip to Clemson. I graduated from the university, lived there three-and-a-half more years, and visited as much as possible over the the next few years. It’s always been neat to see the town and university change—stores changing hands, or locations, at least one new [...]

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ATTN: Former students (’06-’07).

July 17, 2007

If you would, please e-mail me your AP scores. The school seems not to have them yet, and I grow impatient. Thanks.

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Regarding humanity’s role on this planet.

July 11, 2007

About two months ago, I wrote that “Humans are more important than all other living things combined and multiplied by a bazillion.” Well, a lot’s happened since then. After watching and reading about all the hoopla leading up to last weeks’ major media event, I am ashamedly forced to admit that I was wrong, and that [...]

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Fourth of July, 2007.

July 4, 2007

Happy 231st Birthday to the United States of America! … I’ve always felt a bit of pity for John Adams. He is the most boring and overlooked of the Founders: during the Revolution he was an unglamourous Ambassador, he never owned or slept with any slaves, he couldn’t write as well as Jefferson, he didn’t [...]

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