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About Me

Fuck-up striving for greatness. The next generation of semiotician/bartender.

My Interests

primary sources. secondary colors. tertiary consumers.

I'd like to meet:

anyone who'll stick around when I turn on the smarm

Music:

Is a great way to make me dance in the kitchen when I am drunk and/or alone.

Movies:

Ones about drugs, or existential crises, or movies.

Television:

free cable and still I don't watch.

Books:

"All swans are white and the absolute is perfect." -Carl Hempel"The movement that posits as it deposits and deposits as it posits is position, in the end." -Vladimir Jankelevich

Heroes:

from clues above: Holocaust poets, mural painters, sharks and dingoes.

My Blog

bad decisions

Yep, Drew is making bad decisions again. Socially, academically and fiscally. Raise your hand if you're surprised!
Posted by no fun at all on Mon, 05 Nov 2007 05:35:00 PST

The difference is why you drink

Animation is sometimes the best of things.
Posted by no fun at all on Fri, 26 Oct 2007 08:07:00 PST

Alanis, this is real irony

I got hit by a car while riding my bike tonight with the bike gang. It weren't nothin bad, and the driver stopped to make sure everything was okay and to give me his information. Which is the funny ...
Posted by no fun at all on Wed, 24 Oct 2007 09:14:00 PST

This, at least, felt good

Today, I was walking through the University of Chicago campus lost in thought, anxious, confused, worried about the future, when I heard the muffled bark of a dog. I looked up, and there was a golden...
Posted by no fun at all on Fri, 28 Sep 2007 07:39:00 PST

seizures

For the record, a rhythm section built around handclaps is a good rhythm section by default.Oh, and I just remembered how I laughed so hard that I cried so hard that I almost choked on my own glorious...
Posted by no fun at all on Thu, 13 Sep 2007 01:10:00 PST

poker

Posted by no fun at all on Sat, 19 May 2007 09:42:00 PST

#7- "Art"

So I just finished Giorgio Agamben's "The Man Without Content" and it got something sparked in my head somehow. I won't review the book or nothin'--I think it's worth reading, y'know, so you can...
Posted by no fun at all on Fri, 29 Jun 2007 01:10:00 PST

booksblog #6

Been crashing through Kurt Vonnegut's nonfiction lately, reawakening to some of the simple, true things about being human that have helped me not give up on the project in the past (i.e.-just go ahead...
Posted by no fun at all on Tue, 26 Jun 2007 12:01:00 PST

booksblog #5

Actually finished Forgiveness by Jankelevitch yesterday. I'm reading it in conjunction with something by Dostoevsky, which could cloud my judgment a little, but I feel like I get along with this...
Posted by no fun at all on Thu, 24 May 2007 12:13:00 PST

booksblog #3: Four Months in Hell

I finished the BA project this week. Finally. It came out to right at 50 pages, after I narrowed the margins. Christ. The final title was "STRUCTURE-COLLAPSING STRUCTURES: How Jorge Luis Borges Ch...
Posted by no fun at all on Sat, 05 May 2007 07:30:00 PST