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Tiny Baby Sphinx

Librarians are trained democracy superheroes.

About Me

"You are life's monkey wrench."

Myspace Layouts at Pimp-My-Profile.com / Fenced

My Interests

Beagles; Buddhism; Chaos theory; Civics; Deconstructivism; Dialectic theory; Disambiguation; Dogmatic irreverence; Form follows function; Freckles; Global micro-lending; Integrity; Ireland; Innovation; Linguistics; Logic; MAYA; Minimalism; MoCo Design & Architecture; Modernism; Modernity; Nakedness; Nahua culture; Personal responsibility; Public broadcasting; Rationalism; Semiotics; String theory; Sub-Saharan Africa; Sustainable community development; Truthiness; Tweed; Unified theory; Yoga; etc.

I'd like to meet:

Your mom. I hear she's hot.

"selfish jean" by travis & demitri martin
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids....

Music:

The Holy Trinity: Bruce Springsteen, Jeff Buckley, & Prince. Also, pretty much anything they play on Entourage (M.I.A., Lily Allen, Obie Trice, to name three).

Movies:

8 1/2; Barcelona; Before Sunrise; Being John Malkovich; Better Off Dead; Blue Velvet; Decalogue; Donnie Darko; Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind; Fight Club; Gross Pointe Blank; High Fidelity; I Heart Huckabees; Italian for Beginners; Kicking and Screaming; Lost Highway; Metropolitan; Mulholland Drive; North by Northwest; Peeping Tom; Roger Dodger; Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead; Shadow of the Vampire; Shock Corridor; Singles; Talk to Her; The Graduate; The Station Agent; Vertigo

Television:

Talk to me about LOST. Come on, I dare you.

Books:

Simone de Beauvoir; Albert Camus; Todd Colby; Dave Eggars; Jim Fallows; Brian Greene; James Joyce; Patrick Marber; Marge Piercy; Jean-Paul Sartre; David Sedaris; Wes Stace; Tom Stoppard; Neil deGrasse Tyson; Sarah Vowell; David Foster Wallace; etc.

Heroes:

Simone de Beauvoir, Santiago Calatrava, the Dalai Llama, Frank Gehry, Zaha Hadid, Herzog & de Meuron, Adam Kalkin, Aung San Suu Kyi, Daniel Libeskind, Huey Newton, Javier Senosiain, Nina Simone, Aaron Sorkin, Desmond Tutu, Cornel West...

My Blog

MORPHINE!

Anyone seen the new commercials for the GMC Acadia? Oh, yeah, they fucking play Morphine! Loud and proud, bitches.Have I mentioned lately how psyched I am that it's 1997 all over again? Aces!Good good...
Posted by Tiny Baby Sphinx on Mon, 23 Jul 2007 09:01:00 PST

Dick Lugar

I don't get why people are hailing Dick Lugar for his courage. Personally, I think if you supported the surge, you shouldn't call for a "change in direction" TWO WEEKS after all the troops you wanted ...
Posted by Tiny Baby Sphinx on Fri, 29 Jun 2007 08:52:00 PST

Immigration

Immigration, schmimmigration. You know what pisses me off about "The Great Compromise"? That it came out of some back room dealing. No committees. No hearings. It completely circumvented the legislati...
Posted by Tiny Baby Sphinx on Fri, 29 Jun 2007 07:33:00 PST

Terrorism

Seriously, who would blow up a silver Mercedes? Come on, people.And also, the Tiger Tiger nightclub? Is that a Sri Lanka reference?Put on your conspiracy caps and get your party on.
Posted by Tiny Baby Sphinx on Fri, 29 Jun 2007 07:07:00 PST

Two Things That Enrage Me

UnImmigration Law. It's a big, messy issue and I don't know what the right answer is. But I'm tired of politicians acting like it's a simple problem. Specifically, the notion of forcing 8-14 million "...
Posted by Tiny Baby Sphinx on Tue, 22 May 2007 07:47:00 PST

Fucking Amazing

A Green Environmental Tower - DubaiDubai Plans Self-Powered Skyscraper With Individually Rotating FloorsA $350 million tower to be known as the Dynamic Architecture building is to be constructed in Du...
Posted by Tiny Baby Sphinx on Tue, 22 May 2007 06:50:00 PST

Ding dong! The bigot is dead!

Jerry Falwell is dead.I guess that means "the pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and the lesbians" win.
Posted by Tiny Baby Sphinx on Tue, 15 May 2007 12:28:00 PST

I have sperm in my backyard!

Tadpoles! Hundreds of tadpoles!Or, at least I did. Until the man with the dump truck started filling in the sinkhole.I'm thinking of chaining myself to it and shouting "Save the sperm!"Because, as you...
Posted by Tiny Baby Sphinx on Mon, 14 May 2007 07:58:00 PST

Area Codes

I've had two mystery calls this afternoon. One from Michigan City and one from Medford, Oregon. Who would be calling me from these places? Anyone?Solve the mystery and win a prize!
Posted by Tiny Baby Sphinx on Sun, 06 May 2007 02:59:00 PST

I fucking suck.

Why am I only disarming and endearing for six to eight weeks?Why do the exact same traits become insufferable overnight?Why must I always turn back into a pumpkin?
Posted by Tiny Baby Sphinx on Thu, 03 May 2007 07:29:00 PST