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Sean

Pictures @ http://photos.yahoo.com/seanpennington/

About Me

Some interesting facts about my life:I attended a total of 8 schools K-12, and no, my parents aren't military; we have a fear of having the same address for more than 2-3 years (addressophobia I believe...or creditorphobia I'm not really sure).I can wiggle my fingers, toes, ears, and I'm working on other appendages.I never saw the ocean until I was 21.I can cut pizzas faster than you.I believe smoking marijuana is NORML.(more to come...)

My Interests

Simcity, political philosophy and urban planning

I'd like to meet:

Camilo Jose Vergara, Robert Moses, Jared Diamond, Malcolm Gladwell

Music:

Most everything except country/western

Movies:

"Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas", "A History of Violence"

Television:

Adult Swim

Books:

"The End of Poverty" by Jeffrey D. Sachs...next up: "American Theocracy" by Kevin Phillips

Heroes:

Robert Moses and Camilo Jose Vergara

My Blog

Warning, All Ye Who Enter...

I am not easily persuaded.  My best friends know this, that I am often in fact the embodiment of the Missouri mule and his legendary stubbornness.  This is not to be equated however with an ...
Posted by Sean on Thu, 30 Nov 2006 08:58:00 PST

Popular Wisdom

There is this myth that John Kenneth Gralbraith, the celebrated and controversial Harvard economist who died yesterday, coined the phrase "conventional wisdom" in one his books, the exact title of whi...
Posted by Sean on Sun, 30 Apr 2006 10:24:00 PST

We Did It! Hooray!

Muhammed would be proud- the Iranians have enriched uranium!  Hooray!  Now they can relish in the glory of making a major milestone in nuclear development, and westerners around the world ca...
Posted by Sean on Wed, 12 Apr 2006 10:07:00 PST

Life at MTV Networks

So some of you might be wondering what exactly it is that I do for the godless capitalist pigs at MTV Networks, the monopolists of teen culture and music television.  My job position is "Encoder"...
Posted by Sean on Sat, 08 Apr 2006 07:14:00 PST

Semititis

Let's face it- America has Semititis, and has for some years now.  Our unequivocal support for Israel is unprecedented, and in many cases, unwarrented. But what's far worse than our double standa...
Posted by Sean on Fri, 07 Apr 2006 08:04:00 PST

How to Get a Job

So I was sick and fucking tired of not working (full time or at all, intermittently) the past four months, and realized there was only one thing to do about it- I had to murder someone and assume...
Posted by Sean on Thu, 30 Mar 2006 05:50:00 PST

The "I" Word

Immigrant. What does that word make you think of you racist bastards?  Dirty Irish and Eastern Europeans departing a filthy steamboat, fresh from an Atlantic journey?  Sweaty Mexicans runnin...
Posted by Sean on Tue, 28 Mar 2006 09:41:00 PST

Woohoo!

I would be remiss not to begin on this note: I was not intoxicated or under the influence of any drugs or pressure otherwise to write what I wrote before.  I stand by it 100nbsp; Jesus fuckers. M...
Posted by Sean on Mon, 27 Mar 2006 09:26:00 PST

Jesus Fuckers

Sometimes I think I would be in better company amongst radical Muslims and their disdain for Christians, who for years have baffled me with their distorted view of the world.  I guess though beca...
Posted by Sean on Thu, 23 Mar 2006 06:08:00 PST

Nothing Too Complex...

Recently I have been preoccupied by the book I just finished, "The End of Poverty" by Jeffrey D. Sachs (go read it!).  After reading the book I have become ever more convinced of the similarities...
Posted by Sean on Wed, 22 Mar 2006 09:57:00 PST