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Dan

Don't make fun of grad students! They just made a terrible life decision.

About Me

Whatever


You're The Two Towers!
by J.R.R. Tolkien
September 11th really shook you up and when people think of you, that's the first thing that comes to mind. Regardless, you feel betrayed, beleaguered, and beaten. Your best friend turned his back on you and then started advocating environmental desecration. It seems that your only hope remains in two very short people who are very far from you. In the meantime, it looks like you're stuck between a rock and a hard place.
Take the Book Quiz at the Blue Pyramid .


You are a Theory Slut. The true elite of the
postmodernists, you collect avant-garde
Indonesian hiphop compilations and eat journal
articles for breakfast. You positively live
for theory. It really doesn't matter what
kind, as long as the words are big and the
paragraph breaks few and far between.
What kind of postmodernist are you!?
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You're a Weasel!
Cunning and conniving, the only thing darker than your motives is your reputation. People shy away from you, consider you slimy, and warn their children not to make friends with people like you. A rare few have even threatened to skin you alive. The good news is that you're clever enough to keep away from others for the most part. You are most popular when screeching.
Take the Animal Quiz at the Blue Pyramid .


You Are 42% Evil
You are evil, but you haven't yet mastered the dark side.
Fear not though - you are on your way to world domination. How Evil Are You?

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Whomever

Music:

Beastie Boys, Elliott Smith, The White Stripes, John Coltrane, The Velvet Underground, Charles Mingus, Django Reinhardt, Miles Davis, Beck, Thievery Corporation, Wu Tang Clan, Public Enemy, Blondie, DJ Q-Bert, Squarepusher, The Pogues, The Gorillaz, Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson...

Movies:

The Big Lebowski, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Blade Runner, Enter the Dragon, Lost in Translation, Amelie, The Indiana Jones Trilogy, Bowling for Columbine, and lots more I'm sure...

Television:

MST3K, Aqua Teen Hungerforce, Sealab 2021, SGC2C, Wrestling, Baseball (Anaheim Angels and San Diego Padres), Deadwood, the Sopranos, Family Guy, Futurama, the Simpsons, Robot Chicken, The Ultimate Fighter and UFC in general, Rome, the Science Channel, and any of the Adult Swim stuff not mentioned above.

Books:

Recently I've been reading almost exclusively for my digital rhetoric class and my Middle Englsih class. In my free time, I read all sorts of stuff, including but not limited to: Tolkien, Tim Powers, Phillip K. Dick, Viking Sagas, Umberto Eco, Alan Watts, Joseph Campbell, the Tao Te Ching, Wired.com, theonion.com, Kurt Vonnegut, and plenty of other stuff I know I'm forgetting.

Heroes:

My Grandfather

My Blog

ATHF Movie!!!

For any Aqua Teen Hunger Force fans out there, rejoice!!!http://www.wizarduniverse.com/television/tvother/0 02949439.cfm
Posted by Dan on Thu, 04 Jan 2007 06:39:00 PST

RIP Priscilla Cruces

One of my students, Priscilla Cruces, died in a car crash early Saturday morning. She was only 18 and had just started college. I'm really torn up by this news. Her and a friend were driving back to t...
Posted by Dan on Thu, 02 Nov 2006 09:36:00 PST

Gay Marriage

So I came across this story today on the LA Times website and it got me to thinking about the larger issue. http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-gaymarr iage21jan21,0,2790811.story?col...
Posted by Dan on Sat, 21 Jan 2006 12:30:00 PST

Sir Tom

I just wanted to pass this on to all of the many tom jones fans out there. He is now Sir Tom Jones. Check out the story here and revel in his amazing masculinity. http://entertainment.tv.yahoo.com/ent...
Posted by Dan on Sat, 31 Dec 2005 12:14:00 PST

Some Good Quotes I Came Across

These are from Giorgio Agamben's Means Without Ends: Notes on Politics. "Nothing is more nauseating than the impudence with which those who have turned money into their raison d'etre periodically wave...
Posted by Dan on Fri, 04 Nov 2005 11:10:00 PST

Non-violent Video Game

I found this on wired.com. It's pretty cool. Check it out, yo. http://wired.com/news/games/0,2101,69372,00.html?tw=wn_tophe ad_3 I haven't checked out the game itself, but it sounds pretty interesting....
Posted by Dan on Thu, 27 Oct 2005 11:20:00 PST

They're finally getting it

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20051025/pl_afp/iraquspoll_05102 5142356 Well, it didn't take too long to see through all of the yellow ribbon bumper stickers, talk of evildoers, no WMDs, and incessant fla...
Posted by Dan on Tue, 25 Oct 2005 11:04:00 PST

Religion, Technology, and the Revolution

I've been thinking lately about religion and the changes it is sure to undergo with emerging media and the shifts in fundamental ways of thinking that news ways of reading and interacting bring about ...
Posted by Dan on Mon, 17 Oct 2005 09:23:00 PST

More Musings on Dissent and Community

After reading Franks article, Why Johnny Cant Dissent, Ive been stymied by the question of whether or not any kind of meaningful countercultural movement is possible or even desirable at this poi...
Posted by Dan on Thu, 06 Oct 2005 11:24:00 PST

Is Dissent Still Possible?

So I've been thinking about the idea that no real form of dissention, or at the least a major counter-culture movement, is possible due to the constant adaptability of global capitalism and multi-nati...
Posted by Dan on Fri, 30 Sep 2005 09:42:00 PST