January 2012
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Puja: Morning. What is your day like?
Me: Clear blue skies. Snow on the ground.
Puja: No snow here [in Kathmandu], but it's cold. No central heat, no lights.
Me: Rolling blackout?
Puja: Yeah. #thirdworldproblems
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“And how do our foreign guests feel about conservative accusations that Obama is...”
– GQ: European Socialists at Romney Event Say Obama is no European-Style Socialist
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Found on StumbleUpon
SOPA Emergency IP list: So if these ass-fucks in DC decide to ruin the internet, here’s how to access your favorite sites in the event of a DNS takedown tumblr.com 174.121.194.34 wikipedia.org 208.80.152.201 # News bbc.co.uk 212.58.241.131 aljazeera.com 198.78.201.252 # Social media reddit.com 72.247.244.88 imgur.com...
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“As non-neoclassicists began to reappropriate IPE as a term for their study, a...”
– I kid thee not. This is not only how I take notes, but this is just a smidge of what we talked about in my Great Books in International Political Economy.
December 2011
2 posts
Today is my grandfather’s birthday.
He lived through the Depression, and, if I’m not mistaken about his age, the Flood of ‘27. He still jokes that the Japanese decided to give them best fireworks display ever for his birthday. He didn’t celebrate his birthday in 1941 because he was having to help his family work in the fields, but he ended the day knowing he would go to...
November 2011
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If the SEC were a high school
Bama would be the Jock that is always pretty big, but has to make up stories about how he was being tackled by 3 guys in the backfield before he threw the 60 yard perfect spiral for a TD to win the game, when in reality he just threw a 3 yard screen pass. Arkansas is kid that everyone knows, but can’t remember their name. Auburn is the hippy kid that acts they don’t care about what...
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If I won the lottery I’d smash ancient pottery Burn a Picasso with cigars Wreck multi-million dollar cars Buy and burn a fancy ship And sponsor a small scholarship That way people will think high of me if I won the lottery.
October 2011
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The people at Korbel asked me to send them a bio for the webpage, since I run it and stuff. Here’s what they got:
After inspiring the Alan Parsons Project to write “Sirius” specifically for the 1990s Chicago Bulls team, Daniel Green took a hiatus to focus on academia. After drinking his way through a philosophy-heavy undergraduate degree, he decided to waste time working on...
mindyradabaugh asked: miss you! you need to tell me all about your new digs, dude!
September 2011
8 posts
There is something wrong with us
Me: Reggaeton is the worst thing to come out of the New World since syphilis.
Drew: I live in a very Hispanic neighborhood in Chicago. Don't even talk about that shit to me.
Me: Why couldn't Michael Vick run into Pitbull?
Drew: God DAMN. You win.
Me: I still think that a man who holds an injured dog's head under water while cackling maniacally is the only person in the world who makes Donovan McNabb look like a decent person.
Drew: CAMPBELLS CHUNKY SOUP MOTHERFUCKER
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This is my first post as part of the Josef Korbel School of International Studies student blogging team:
When it comes to buying books for classes, I find myself feeling a little Ostrogothic. There is nothing that would make me happier than wielding a massive ax and burning a Roman edifice filled with ancient tomes to the ground while cackling at the inept legions sent against me from Rome....
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EDIT: HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Auburn.
Utah St.
War Damn Eagle, I guess.
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“Dr. Andrew Hall, the pastor at First Baptist Church in Fayetteville, posted a...”
– Horns, Hogs and Nixon Coming, Terry Frei
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Tis Beerita Season
One of the best things about college football season is the utter white trash level of cuisine I find myself gleefully and shamelessly descending into. Then again, it’s not just me. I think the entire South single-handedly could keep Velveeta and Rotel in business for the next 20 years just from one football season alone.
My all time favorite trashy substance is the hallowed beerita....
August 2011
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So, my site might be starting on a podcast series with a fantastic NGO, Heifer International. Based out of Little Rock, the organization is focused on elimination of poverty and food insecurity, as well as working towards gender equality. Here’s my first podcast with them:
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Korbel Classes - Autumn Quarter
International Political Economy
Ancient Political Theory
Early Modern Political Theory
Whatchoo think, Omar?
Wherein Bachmann's Eyes Eat Our Souls
April: The Newsweek cover cracks me up. Bachmann crazy eyes!
Me: Oooooh, yeah.
April: I think you could threaten children with it. "Now kids, if you do that again, mommy's going Bachmann on you..."
Me: Remember when they talk about combat vets in Full Metal Jacket? The thousand-yard stare? THAT.
April: YES
Wherein We Dovetail Eagle Eye Cherry and...
Me: People [in Denver] are bitching about the 90s. Whatever.
April: Which part? Hearing the Eagle Eye Cherry song over & over?
Me: The temperature.
April: Oh.
Me: THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH EAGLE EYE CHERRY.
April: Can you actually name more than one Eagle Eye Cherry song?
Me: What kind of needy, cold, soul-less person needs more than the one?
April: Without Googling it?
Me: Save Tonight is ample for the rest of us, woman.
April: You still listen to it everyday, huh?
Me: Yes ma'am, I do.
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fuckyeahexistentialism:
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Wherein Herring and I Plan To Disturb His Korean...
me: You Vegas-bound?
Herring: not until tomorrow morning
me: Remember to take lots of ether and acid and scream something about bat country at [yr wife]
Herring: Yes, I should've watched that with her before going there.
me: Or don't, and still reenact it
Herring: "Holy Jesus, what are these goddamn animals" Yeah, that'd probably go over well with her.
me: She'd have you committed
July 2011
8 posts
Fear is the mind-killer, right?
I dunno, I’ve never been someone who believed that was a wholesale truth. Apprehension, worry, and even outright fear can serve a purpose. It can help you realize the error of your ways or even save you from a situation that has “BAD IDEA” written all over it. Unfortunately, fear more often than not becomes a rationale for a retreat into a comfortable,...
It’s getting much better.
The pangs of loneliness don’t hit as hard, as often as they did when I first moved. Two weeks in, and I’m already Mr. Acclimated. Har dee har. I crack myself up with these jokes of mine.
It still hurts. I went through a lot with my friends and I cannot shake the feeling that moving here was me abandoning them. I had to come, though. This is where I...
Me: I'm kind of in a panic. Do you know anyone with a truck?
DJ: Uhhhhh....
Me: Yeah, I know.
DJ: This is fucking Arkansas. I shouldn't I have to think that hard.
Me: I know!
Alright, I know I'm asking for all kinds of spam...
But do any of my followers want a Google+ invite?
EDIT: Nvm. It’s open to all Google accounts now. There went my only metric of self-worth.
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I finally mapped out where all my contributors for A:A have been. The results:
View Where We’ve Been in a full screen map
Erin: My bro had these toy laser guns and targets that you could wear on your chest. I swear I had just as much fun playing with those as he did.
Me: Totally had those too, bro
Erin: I'm not a bro!
Me: Brosef Stalin.
Erin: No!
Me: Bro Chi Minh
Erin: Brodolf Hitler
Me: Bronito Mussolini
Erin: BroQaeda
Me: Brol Pot
Erin: Fidel Castrbo
Me: That was a good one
Erin: Pablo Escobro
Me: Francisco Francbro
Erin: Al Bropone
Me: Marilyn Monbro
I’ve noticed that by putting everything I own into boxes - portable ones, at that - the best thing I can do at the moment is de-incentivize the theft of my property. that calls for some kind of deterrence, the kind that makes the risks of theft so high as to be inconsiderable in the first place. Ergo, my current labelling scheme:
POISONOUS SCORPIONS = DVDs
LIVE BLACK WIDOWS = Computer
...
June 2011
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Wherein Irony Is Displayed via Skype
Me: So, you have good internet service over there [in Macedonia]?
Hristijan: Oh, well yes. I'm on cable. It's a good...
Skype: Call Dropped.
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Wherein Drew and I Discuss Mashed Potatoes and...
Me: If I had known it was going to be that kind of party, I wouldn't have had the mashed potatoes.
Drew: a sample that has provided mirth for many years
nigh on two decades
oh ok NOW i read it right
Me: The immediate follow up
Drew: that and "well just what the hell kind of party IS this, anyway?"
what events could lead to a person thinking that, yes, indeed this is THAT kind of party
Me: What kind of party has mashed potatoes?
That seems, like, a catered affair
Drew: or a potluck
Me: family reunion?
Drew: NEITHER OF WHICH would seem to be "dick out" situations at first glance
Dress- Formal (Dick out optional)
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Reads.
So I have about two full months between my move to Denver and beginning grad school. I’m really excited about it, and I can’t wait to see what these classes do for my library. In the meantime, do you have any suggestions for good reads over the break? Here’s what I have so far:
Camus - The Plague, The First Man
Kissinger - On China
Cobb - Away Down South
Personally, I love...