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John

Whoo! Party

About Me



My Interests

Architecture, gardening, lo-tech & D.I.Y., human rights, swifferphobia
PARTIES Rarely smoke or drink, I'm not straightedge but I will destroy your dancefloor, fuck your best friend and do it with a bottle of V8 by the bed.
AESTHETIC Broken-down cities, modernism that copies natural shapes, third-world America wannabes, Art Deco & cubism
LIKES MUSIC: Ratatat, Dosh, the Roots, Diplo, Missy Elliott, Fugees, Claude Debussy

BOOKS: Days of War Nights of Love, To Kill A Mockingbird, The Boy Scout Handbook, Tao Te Ching

FOOD: Whole-wheat mac & cheese, sweet potatoes, raw radishes, Taco Bell, granola with yogurt
DISLIKES Parties without Politics

I'd like to meet:


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Music:

Ratatat, Dosh, Snoop Dogg, Daft Punk, Claude Debussy, The Fugees, and all that new stuff

Movies:

Death to Smoochie

Books:

Days of War Nights of Love, To Kill A Mockingbird, The Boy Scout Handbook, Tao Te Ching

My Blog

Iran to make major nuclear announcement on the 11th

No news as to what the announcement is.
Posted by John on Mon, 05 Feb 2007 10:50:00 PST

Iranian Nuclear Scientist Assassinated

It may have been Israel.http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,250196,00.html
Posted by John on Sun, 04 Feb 2007 12:37:00 PST

This Week's News / 3 February 2007

This was a weird week for news, and for me personally. It got especially weird for me when the giant chunk of ice fell out of the sky in Florida and crushed some dude's red Mustang. They said it might...
Posted by John on Sat, 03 Feb 2007 12:29:00 PST

2 UPDATES: Massive Anti-War Protest in D.C.

Attendance is numbering in the "tens of thousands."http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,247419,00.htm l - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -Estimates are now somewhere around 100,000. A crowd of 300 pe...
Posted by John on Sat, 27 Jan 2007 10:17:00 PST

This Week's News / 27 January 2007

First off, I've got three words about the State of the Union: coulda been worse. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - FREAKY SCIENCE:MILITARY ANNOUNCES NEW PAIN GUNAs reported in the New York Times &am...
Posted by John on Sat, 27 Jan 2007 09:45:00 PST

New blog format

It's got a name now, it's called "About-Face" and it'll be focused on studies, polls & other announcements along with a review of world news, and then pop culture, random or positive stuff and D.I...
Posted by John on Sun, 21 Jan 2007 10:09:00 PST

Trans Fats Threaten Women's Fertility

From the Daily Mail:Yet another reason why hydrogenated oils are freaky. Dr. Weil was warning about these years ago, and I believed him: it's pretty amazing to find what I thought to be a hippy extrem...
Posted by John on Sat, 20 Jan 2007 02:02:00 PST

Fuck American Idol

From myway.comJust a quick one here: sounds like they're starting to really enjoy being really mean to people, what's with that?http://apnews.myway.com/article/20070119/D8MOE2J00.html ...
Posted by John on Fri, 19 Jan 2007 10:53:00 PST

2 Rumors: America and Foreign Oil

Because hell, who really knows what's gonna happen next?Rumor #1From the Independent:Iraq's massive oil reserves, the third-largest in the world, are about to be thrown open for large-scale exploitati...
Posted by John on Thu, 18 Jan 2007 11:25:00 PST

Hungry For A Month

From fazed.org:This guy wrote a blog about voluntarily living off a dollar of food a day. Pretty nice.http://hungryforamonth.blogspot.com/2006_11_01_hungryfo ramonth_archive.html...
Posted by John on Thu, 18 Jan 2007 08:20:00 PST