Confessions of a bibliophile: Poignant Potok |
Given the enormous success of my last installment of this dumb series, I figured why the hell not go on with it and ramble on about Potok next?Chaim Potok is a beautiful author in all senses of the wo...
Posted by on Wed, 09 Jul 2008 23:23:00 GMT |
Confessions of a bibliofphile: my love affair with T.S. Eliot |
As promised in the first installment of this pseudo-literary criticism piece, I will be covering my deep abiding love for all poetry T.S. Eliot, and hope that by doing so, I can provide insight to peo...
Posted by on Mon, 09 Jun 2008 00:03:00 GMT |
Confessions of a bibliophile: the beginning |
I love the written word. I love the beauty of language, the power it can hold, and the messages we are able to convey with it. I love that literature constantly changes, and that the canon follows b...
Posted by on Tue, 06 May 2008 00:53:00 GMT |
Bearing burdens, or, the nobility of suffering |
"You need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star."-NietzscheFor the past four to five months, as anyone remotely close to me has been aware, things have been very difficult. There have be...
Posted by on Sat, 26 Apr 2008 00:53:00 GMT |
Three and a half weeks later... |
Today, after many hours spend wondering, praying, and tacking up names on a giant map, I finally received my mission call. Come July 23, I will officially be a missionary for the Church of Jesus Chri...
Posted by on Fri, 28 Mar 2008 00:22:00 GMT |
It’s guessing time... everyone has to. |
Lovers, friends, Romans, countrymen, people of myspace:My papers to go on a mission are officially in. After one to two weeks I'll know where I am going, but until then... it's fun to guess. My ques...
Posted by on Mon, 03 Mar 2008 20:56:00 GMT |
Coolest survey EVER...! I promise! It has zombies. |
I stumbled across this gem awhile back; of the many silly, pointless surveys I've posted up on myspace out of sheer boredom, this one takes the cake for being most creative for having a specific subje...
Posted by on Sun, 17 Feb 2008 20:34:00 GMT |
In celebration of my day to do as little as possible, I give you a blog |
1) Go on Wikipedia.2) Click Random Page - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random The title of this article is your band name.3) Click Random Page again. This is your album name.4) Click 12 more t...
Posted by on Mon, 10 Dec 2007 15:02:00 GMT |
What better thing to do than a pseudo-scientific personality test made up by Dr. Phil? |
So I decided to further litter my blog with useless items by posting this Dr. Phil personality test I swiped from a bulletin. Anything I add to it is denoted by "-----" or a [bracket] beneath each se...
Posted by on Mon, 29 Oct 2007 23:09:00 GMT |
All you well-read kids better have something to say about this |
Tonight, I took a quiz. It let me know that I am a hero of the absurd, in terms of where I fit amongst figures in philosophy. You scored as Absurd Hero, Life is absurd, but that is no reason to becom...
Posted by on Wed, 26 Sep 2007 00:14:00 GMT |
