So today I set off on a five hour drive from Syracuse to my Grandmother’s house for Thanksgiving. It was one of those times when the speedometer says you are going 65, but it feels like you’re driving a go cart around 15. However, I did discover that my ipod has a faster audiobook playback …
I’m currently up to my eye-balls in papers to write before the semester ends. Today is consisting of trying to get a solid start on my paper for Historical Methods, which is about the MPAA appeal staged by Warner Brothers for All the President’s Men. This is perhaps my favorite quote, which I found a …
“Over the next thirty years I came to realize that just as there is one way to love a person, so is there more than one way to love a book. The chambermaid believed in courtly love. A book’s physical self was sacrosanct to her, its form inseparable from its content; her duty as a …
I’m not interested in writing short stories. Anything that doesn’t take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing. Cormac McCarthy [via WSJ.com] In a nutshell, this is often how I feel about graduate school. Also I still can’t believe The Road has been made into a movie, I can’t …
“This is a comedy first and foremost,” Murphy said. “But we see the obligation to go deeper. This isn’t just a genre show to me. It’s about the desperate need for a place in the world and how we all fit in and how hard it is for some people to get by.” via Exclusive: …
I love when fortune cookies blandly written are still oddly prescient. I got this fortune on Tuesday night during my three hour film screening for one of my classes. Right now things are pretty hectic, I’m trying to wrap up the semesters with final papers, dealing with my thesis and girding my lions to apply …
Normally, I’m a big fan of Starbucks Red Cup time. I think it’s tied to their ephemerality, they only bring me such joy because they are around for such a brief period of time. But this year, maybe in the face of everything I have to do between now and Christmas, they are not bringing …
So I started keeping a small list of kitchen related gadgets and books I wanted to acquire – more for my own reference than gift list purposes. Then yesterday a belated birthday box of gifts arrived from my Aunt, with a bunch of the kitchen stuff from my list that she had and didn’t want. …
Where’d the buzz go? ‘Gossip Girl’ no longer the hot series it used to be. So while I was watching Gossip Girl last season, I couldn’t understand why the show seemed on a fast track to get the characters out of high school. The show seems to have an unnatural attachment to linear time. I …
Ah, how we miss the undergrad life: Waking up at the crack of noon, hitting the cafeteria with your friends, then maybe or maybe not going to class, depending on how much TV we had to catch up on. Well, it seems that up in the hallowed halls of Harvard, one professor is hoping to …
