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General Science

About Me


My Interests

Music:

Pixies, Burning Brides, Danger Mouse, Arrah and the Ferns, Mr. Bungle, the Odds, Cake, the Eels, Aphex Twin, Stephen Malkmus, the Fiery Furnaces, Del tha Funky Homosapien, Placebo, Neutral Milk Hotel, Common, Tom Waits, Margot and the Nuclear So and Sos, Grampall Jookabox, Mike Doughty, Rilo Kiley, PJ Harvey, Frank Black, They Might Be Giants, Interpol, the White Stripes

Movies:

Die Hard, Memento, Requiem for a Dream, Mysterious Skin, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Little Miss Sunshine, Best in Show, etc., etc.

Television:

Cracker, Touching Evil, An Unsuitable Job for a Woman, House, Red Dwarf, A Bit of Fry and Laurie, Lost, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Deep Space Nine (or DS9 to you hipsters), and so on and so forth.

Books:

HOWZA 'BOUT AUTHORS? Jonathan Lethem, Kurt Vonnegut, Jen Banbury, John Steinbeck, Matt Fraction, G. K. Chesterton, Daniel Clowes, Ande Parks, George P. Pelecanos, Patricia Highsmith, Howard Bloom, Michael Shermer, Chogyam Trungpa, P. G. Wodehouse, Art Spiegelman, Douglas Adams, Dave Eggers, Roddy Doyle, Stephen Fry, Davy Rothbart, Robert A. Heinlein, Neil Gaiman, A. M. Homes, Charlie Huston, Malcolm Gladwell, Adrien Tomine

Heroes:

Matt Fraction, John McClane and Frank Black, aka The Holy Trinity.

My Blog

the world’s most unwanted song

25 minutes long, but worth every second! http://ubu.artmob.ca/sound/komar_melamid/KomarMelamid_The-Mo st-UnwantedSong.mp3 via boingboing.net...
Posted by General Science on Fri, 18 Apr 2008 07:54:00 PST

i’ve made a huge mistake

A day or so ago, my instructor sent a mass email to myself and the other students I’ll be in school.  Excited and eager to be friendly, I hit ’reply all’, deleted the instr...
Posted by General Science on Fri, 04 Apr 2008 05:00:00 PST

Attention Ladies of America (part 2)

I'm a grad student now. This doesn't really have anything to do with the ladies of America.  I just like getting 'em all riled up.
Posted by General Science on Tue, 04 Mar 2008 07:08:00 PST

for the choir

I don't usually post political blogs, and I'm not interested in starting a long discussion or dialogue here, though I'm not against the idea in general. This is strictly for anybody who's voiced suppo...
Posted by General Science on Sun, 02 Mar 2008 08:46:00 PST

one hand jason

Fascinating interview on ModBlog with a guy who got over Body Integrity Identity Disorder by having his right hand amputated.  I'm posting it here so a) I don't lose it, and b) I thought some of ...
Posted by General Science on Wed, 20 Feb 2008 08:34:00 PST

things america should know (list for february)

1. "In the Land of Women" is not the snappy romantic comedy the previews may lead you to believe it is, unless you think Meg Ryan getting breast cancer is hilarious (but even then, there's no real che...
Posted by General Science on Fri, 15 Feb 2008 08:59:00 PST

Attention Ladies of America:

I am officially off the market. She said yes.
Posted by General Science on Sat, 02 Feb 2008 10:11:00 PST

so i don’t forget the quote again...

Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situati...
Posted by General Science on Thu, 31 Jan 2008 03:07:00 PST

the cryptid

I was talking to my friend Nate at work today, and my one UFO story came up.  It's not very exciting, and I've recounted it here before.  I use the term "UFO" in its most literal sense, only...
Posted by General Science on Fri, 11 Jan 2008 10:22:00 PST

good night

Sometimes you have a really good night, and sometimes your night is good because someone else's was great.
Posted by General Science on Sun, 23 Dec 2007 11:19:00 PST