tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-319068652012-01-26T20:18:52.598-06:00Emily Rosenoreply@blogger.comBlogger2151100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31906865.post-91380718136316275582007-10-28T11:56:00.000-05:002007-10-28T12:01:08.062-05:00

My Lazy Cells is *gasp* moving, to Wordpress. I have a couple of reasons. Although Wordpress makes you pay for CSS customization (unless you're on your own server) I don't do much of that kind of thing anyway (although I'm trying to learn!) The layout I've got up now works very well for the kind of stuff I'm posting, and it's just prettier in general.The new site: http://

Emily Rosenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31906865.post-73199233480846302562007-10-24T00:44:00.000-05:002007-10-24T00:45:04.623-05:00

My friend over at Mashed Potatoes is trying his luck in a contest at Threadless (T-shirt design based on Ferraby Lionheart lyric). Please, vote and comment! (the two of you who actually read this, that is...)UPDATE: I sleuthfound the video to the Ferraby Lionheart song that the shirt is based on, and liked it very much. I was always a fan of boxing, particularly the kind with bowler hats. Enjoy

Emily Rosenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31906865.post-42077958479303916122007-10-24T00:26:00.000-05:002007-10-24T00:37:46.174-05:00

Who would win in a fight:A MINOTAUR armed with A TRIDENTorA CENTAUR armed with A CROSSBOW?Answer the all-important question HERE.

Emily Rosenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31906865.post-86101766698261853222007-10-23T23:44:00.000-05:002007-10-23T23:53:42.390-05:00

Play this music video really loud and you won't be able to hear Freddie Mercury rolling over in his grave.

Emily Rosenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31906865.post-9182503153834737502007-10-23T19:47:00.001-05:002007-10-23T22:37:52.581-05:00

Something that made me chuckle today, in an email following up on a bomb threat we had (obviously, they waited to threaten until after my art history lecture):As if Gmail didn't have enough vices to begin with...

Emily Rosenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31906865.post-84111924050166331692007-10-23T11:42:00.000-05:002007-10-23T11:46:38.512-05:00

A drawing battle: who is the superest hero of them all?From the site:The Superest is a continually running game of My Team, Your Team. The rules are simple: Player 1 draws a character with a power. Player 2 then draws a character whose power cancels the power of that previous character. Repeat.

Emily Rosenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31906865.post-51604951793265905002007-10-22T13:49:00.000-05:002007-10-22T13:52:15.929-05:00

Emily Rosenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31906865.post-25046067598477943752007-10-18T21:30:00.000-05:002007-10-18T21:35:04.896-05:00

I have found the greatest site in the history of facial hair.

Emily Rosenoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31906865.post-13150636179032782952007-10-18T20:50:00.000-05:002007-10-18T20:58:30.152-05:00

Stephen Colbert (future President of the United States of America) in an interview with Russian Presidential candidate and chess champion Garry Kasparov, asked Kasparov whether he'd be running his campaign like a chess player, looking 60 moves ahead.No, I cannot, because in chess there are rules. In Russian politics there are no rules. But the other difference is that in America, you have

Emily Rosenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31906865.post-62665587468676075342007-10-18T10:55:00.000-05:002007-10-18T14:15:32.774-05:00

Vote Colbert '08.

Emily Rosenoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31906865.post-6999698698906105262007-10-17T21:39:00.000-05:002007-10-17T21:42:26.808-05:00

Ran across a face transformer.Clockwise from top left: Original image, "Baby" filter, "East Asian" filter, and "Botticelli" filter.

Emily Rosenoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31906865.post-8784933103001285122007-10-17T14:07:00.000-05:002007-10-17T14:08:42.793-05:00

Emily Rosenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31906865.post-69213141640998014972007-10-16T18:05:00.000-05:002007-10-16T20:51:34.818-05:00

The Real Beginning of the End of the 20th Century, or, Batten Down for the Silver Tsunami at Reason Magazine Online.

Emily Rosenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31906865.post-26198283796420159962007-10-16T12:22:00.000-05:002007-10-16T12:26:59.806-05:00

"Frankly, it's time for the establishment of a Palestinian state."U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice

Emily Rosenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31906865.post-88450758012265014292007-10-15T19:49:00.000-05:002007-10-15T19:58:16.336-05:00

Salih Saif Aldin, a reporter for the Washington Post in Baghdad, was shot in the forehead on the way to interview Baghdad residents about sectarian violence in their neighborhood.Residents of the neighborhood and Iraqi military officers at the scene said Saif Aldin was killed while taking photographs on a street where several houses had been burned. His wounds appeared to indicate he was shot at

Emily Rosenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31906865.post-29640180132012865512007-10-15T19:35:00.000-05:002007-10-15T19:38:00.834-05:00

... Why shouldn’t gay people be allowed to marry if they want to? I detect four putative arguments. There’s the will-of-the-people-style argument. There was a proposition, people voted and the results were the results. Superficially that seems to work, but it eludes the substantial question, which is why someone would think that same-sex marriage is a topic on which they ought to be allowed to

Emily Rosenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31906865.post-88031918189971460112007-10-15T19:14:00.000-05:002007-10-15T19:24:16.352-05:00

"I don't want to know what you just mopped, do I?""I mopped the ladies' vomit room.""They have a vomit room?""It's for the bulimics, on the ninth floor."(via RunAwayBlog, original skit here. But the outtakes are better.)

Emily Rosenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31906865.post-20874280346044324642007-10-15T13:23:00.000-05:002007-10-15T13:50:38.912-05:00

No, not politics. Brains. Here's a new left brain vs. right brain test.I initially saw the dancer as moving clockwise, but when I looked at it again, it was going counterclockwise. I kept looking at it, and although I can switch back and forth pretty easily, it's easier for me to see it going clockwise.(photo credit: "mutant brain's attack", by *hiver*, the quiz I got from Andrew Sullivan.)

Emily Rosenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31906865.post-35038310993627409982007-10-15T01:32:00.000-05:002007-10-15T01:41:50.203-05:00

An open letter from Muslim clerics, theologians and academics to leaders of the Christian world seeks to highlight the similarities rather than the differences between the two great faiths. PDF here.(photo here)

Emily Rosenoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31906865.post-73050206407918022772007-10-14T12:53:00.000-05:002007-10-14T13:17:51.909-05:00

A world in which it is impossible to escape the insidious grasp of... Comic Sans! Here's the devil, i.e. Comic Sans typographer Vincent Connare, attempting to defend the atrocity he unleashed onto the world.(comic found here)

Emily Rosenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31906865.post-37475158463694714252007-10-14T02:16:00.000-05:002007-10-14T02:21:57.145-05:00

With all my obsessing over the work of Neil Gaiman the other day, you won't be surprised when I geek out over the staging of another Gaiman-written masterpiece: his children's book "The Wolves In The Walls." Not as if I could actually go see it... but it's interesting to think of it sung.And when the wolves come out of the walls, folks, it's all over.

Emily Rosenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31906865.post-18040926920372105852007-10-14T01:45:00.000-05:002007-10-14T02:35:28.510-05:00

Apparently I'm too shallow to live.What Kind of Reader Are You? Your Result: Book Snob You like to think you're one of the literati, but actually you're just a snob who can read. You read mostly for the social credit you can get out of it.Literate Good Citizen Dedicated Reader Obsessive-Compulsive Bookworm Fad Reader Non-Reader What Kind of Reader Are You?Create Your Own Quiz*sticks out tongue*I

Emily Rosenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31906865.post-32772920928181173572007-10-11T10:12:00.000-05:002007-10-11T23:07:50.439-05:00

As it becomes more and more likely, it is sounding less and less appealing. In fact, I would say downright gross; as Richard Johnson of the Times Online writes (snarkily) in "The 400-mile high club":Well, if space tourists are planning a dirty weekend with lots of astronautiness, they ought to know the facts. It will be hotter and wetter than on Earth as there’s no natural convection to carry

Emily Rosenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31906865.post-57014902338107813512007-10-11T00:26:00.001-05:002007-10-11T01:49:05.250-05:00

Allow me to geek out a little bit. The Absolute Sandman Vol. II is here, and I am drooling over its general excellence. No, I haven't bought the first volume. Yes, I want to badly. No, I can't afford it, although that doesn't stop me from pulling my debit card out of my wallet and running my fingers over the raised numbers as I gaze longingly at the images of the cover on Amazon... As Joe of

Emily Rosenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31906865.post-41581165835156549542007-10-10T08:03:00.000-05:002007-10-10T08:09:46.867-05:00

It's not just Blackwater.The priest and relatives near the scene identified the driver as Maruni Uhanees, 59, and the dead passenger as Jeniva Jalal, 30.As twilight set in, family members gathered beside the car in a dirt alley outside the police station, staring at the blood and hair on the inside of the windshield.A brother-in-law of the driver, Hrair Vartanian, said Ms. Uhanees was the mother

Emily Rosenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31906865.post-58207082246856934962007-10-10T02:33:00.000-05:002007-10-10T02:36:31.798-05:00

Another interesting bit of commentary from Carl Bernstein, celebrity journalist and part-time god of my universe. It's an interesting paradox, being famous for reporting. From the article:Seated in canvas-backed director’s chairs with several other participants, Bradlee, Woodward and Bernstein got the rock-star treatment from the standing room only crowd in the ballroom of the Hyatt Regency

Emily Rosenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31906865.post-83342933288783929542007-10-10T02:11:00.000-05:002007-10-10T03:23:11.842-05:00

Well, I conquered the daunting task of redesigning the header for this blog (something that I've been itching to do forever, but couldn't because I left my Photoshop installation disc at home and my hard drive had to be wiped). My first couple of tries I didn't even bother to put up, but they got better. Near the end, I had my best pal over at Potatoes Mashed take a look. The photo on the right

Emily Rosenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31906865.post-53928442718056132642007-10-09T19:37:00.001-05:002007-10-09T19:38:40.460-05:00

Finally: a reason to love the Backstreet Boys.

Emily Rosenoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31906865.post-58114870120855686792007-10-08T18:24:00.001-05:002007-10-08T18:29:39.541-05:00

I missed it when it aired, but here's Spoon performing "Underdog" on Saturday Night Live on, well, Saturday night.

Emily Rosenoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31906865.post-25176390706617639112007-10-08T12:53:00.000-05:002007-10-08T13:03:21.861-05:00

Neil Gaiman writing about an interview he did for BBC's Radio 3 on the fifth (available here).My favourite conversation about language and words was before we went on the air, when Ian told us not to swear (as Radio 3 is only allowed one serious swear word per show) and also not to answer any question with an enthusiastic "ABSOLUTELY!" (which is apparently what writers tend to do). And when I

Emily Rosenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31906865.post-9216128443339290332007-10-07T12:33:00.000-05:002007-10-07T12:38:44.955-05:00

Being home for the last two days has felt weird. Here's an example of how it is -- I was packing this morning and couldn't for the life of me find my hairbrush or toothbrush. It took me fifteen minutes to figure out that I'd put my toothbrush where it belonged -- in the toothbrush cup with my brothers' and sister's toothbrushes, and the hairbrush was in the basket beneath it. It feels like I've

Emily Rosenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31906865.post-75453025514527766682007-10-03T21:26:00.000-05:002007-10-03T21:30:07.617-05:00

As we have learned in the past, sex and politics don't mix very well. Especially in a lecture setting:State Rep. Matthew Barrett was giving a civics lesson Tuesday when he inserted a data memory stick into the school computer and the projected image of a topless woman appeared instead of the graphics presentation he had downloaded.... "I have no idea where these came from," the Democrat said.--

Emily Rosenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31906865.post-65994954176260490812007-10-03T16:31:00.000-05:002007-10-03T16:33:07.125-05:00

"I know you say there are no gays in Iran, but you're in New York now, baby."

Emily Rosenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31906865.post-24940929471567464842007-10-03T12:56:00.000-05:002007-10-03T14:19:22.537-05:00

Ladies and gentlemen: the one-semester-of-Spanish Spanish love song. Some random guy I talked to at Bailey Hall recommended it to me, and I decided to look it up on YouTube, but before I got to it, I checked my feed reader, and Andrew Sullivan had blogged about it earlier!Most fortuitous.More later.

Emily Rosenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31906865.post-23642569684659560712007-10-02T11:41:00.000-05:002007-10-02T19:04:17.712-05:00

Today my sketchbook is due for art class. Since I do a lot of drawing and note-taking in my ruled assignment notebook, I'm turning that in too. But it will be a struggle to subsist for a day in a completely different notebook than the one I've been using for the past month.I am very apprehensive about giving it up. But I'll have enough on my hands doing my master imitation due on Thursday, when I

Emily Rosenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31906865.post-32733620493746225712007-10-02T11:37:00.000-05:002007-10-02T11:41:18.818-05:00

"In an Oct. 24, 2005, incident in the northern city of Mosul described in the company's documents, Blackwater personnel fired on a vehicle that appeared to be turning into their path. One of the bullets passed through the car and hit a bystander in the head. Blackwater reported the 'shooting and probab[le] killing' but reported no attempt to aid the victim or his family."-- Karen DeYoung of the

Emily Rosenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31906865.post-91073562145624301582007-10-01T14:19:00.000-05:002007-10-01T14:22:21.935-05:00

"We've now reached what can only be called the alpha and the omega of contracting accountability breakdown ridiculousness. We're outsourcing our investigations of Blackwater to Blackwater."- Josh Marshall, Parody Surge Hits Mil Contractors in IraqTalking Points Memo

Emily Rosenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31906865.post-10505993589696505882007-09-29T15:06:00.001-05:002007-10-10T02:44:02.933-05:00

As if designed to jog me out of my unjustified depression: here's more news on the protests in Burma, straight from Time.com's news aggregator (in the first 2-3 paragraphs of the post). This particularly struck me:Japanese video journalist Kenji Nagai kept filming after he was shot on the streets of Rangoon yesterday, just one of an unconfirmed number of fatalities as the Burmese military junta

Emily Rosenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31906865.post-70757262363074181062007-09-29T13:19:00.000-05:002007-09-29T14:01:36.886-05:00

You don't believe me? I fell asleep listening to Damien Rice last night.It's a cover, because I felt that 2 live Pete Yorn videos in the same week would be a bit much, even given my mood. If you really feel like another one, check out this version of Lose You, but the sound gets fuzzy at the end. The best thing for this song is to buy Music For The Morning After yourself, though, and listen to

Emily Rosenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31906865.post-24484751505821885662007-09-28T18:35:00.000-05:002007-09-28T18:40:50.705-05:00

I've posted some of my stuff to Flickr (click above) and also to my newly-created DeviantART account. Enjoy!

Emily Rosenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31906865.post-42333159929357595852007-09-27T00:39:00.000-05:002007-09-27T00:57:53.725-05:00

So I've had Pete Yorn's "Murray" stuck in my head basically all day. I tried to get rid of it by listening to it on repeat for the last half hour. Hasn't worked, and I'm still not sick of it. So maybe if I post it here, it'll go away?Either way, it's a good song. Enjoy.My favorite part of the lyrics:I know a man who wakes up in the eveningUh uh uh uh uh uhLost his mind from the TVNow he’s blaming

Emily Rosenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31906865.post-35522326224298332782007-09-26T22:18:00.001-05:002007-09-27T01:10:04.087-05:00

To all those protesting in Burma:We salute you.UPDATED (Sept. 27, 1:09 AM):In an effort to give this post substance, I found Mizzima News via the lovely blog of Andrew Sullivan, just in case your thirst for information was not quenched by the unadulterated admiration that this post was, pre-update. There is a general agreement that people have been killed; according to Mizzima, for example:Junta

Emily Rosenoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31906865.post-76831124724105803402007-09-26T14:04:00.001-05:002007-09-26T14:05:23.177-05:00

Remember when I said I felt old on the occasion of my brother's birthday on the 14th?Well, my other brother (freshman in high school) just got a Facebook.Now I feel even older.

Emily Rosenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31906865.post-48537041137728777392007-09-24T23:15:00.000-05:002007-09-24T23:42:10.136-05:00

I don't quite knowHow to sayHow I feelThose three wordsAre said too muchThey're not enoughSnow Patrol, Chasing Cars

Emily Rosenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31906865.post-64945390694565629622007-09-24T22:13:00.001-05:002007-09-24T22:17:06.203-05:00

Why are milk cartons square and soft drink containers round?According to Robert H. Frank's book The Economic Naturalist (which I found on Design Observer), it's because milk needs to be constantly refrigerated, while soft drinks can be stored in the open. Square containers occupy less refrigerator space.Who knew?

Emily Rosenoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31906865.post-6229581237449531462007-09-24T14:04:00.000-05:002007-09-24T14:08:40.891-05:00

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn't serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that

Emily Rosenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31906865.post-16269467820326654042007-09-24T01:24:00.000-05:002007-09-24T01:28:43.191-05:00

I've been thinking recently (OK, for about a year) about dying my hair. However, I don't want to dye all of it as it is really a pretty color. So I'm thinking about dying just the bottom half some crazy color. But I can't decide.Pink? Orange? Purple? Blue? Brown? Black? Should I bleach part of it white?Not green, I'll tell you that. But I would like some feedback. What do you guys think?

Emily Rosenoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31906865.post-77444516091877793882007-09-23T16:40:00.000-05:002007-09-23T17:06:38.375-05:00

With a little help from my friends, who have a coffeemaker, I have begun to drink straight black coffee.My coffee-connoisseur friend's recommendation was to do it cold turkey. For those of you who wish to drink straight coffee, my advice is:a. Do it cold turkey, it actually works. and:b. Stop thinking of it as a Starbucks beverage like a mocha or a chai tea latte. They're not even in the same

Emily Rosenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31906865.post-65769649449280476612007-09-20T14:07:00.000-05:002007-09-20T14:09:38.670-05:00

"I have discovered photography, now I can commit suicide."-Pablo Picasso

Emily Rosenoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31906865.post-41965672086575836582007-09-18T01:57:00.000-05:002007-09-18T09:07:39.786-05:00

I feel purposeful as I slide my feet down the cement hallway to the whirring room where every girl and boy in Comstock Hall does all of their laundry. Like the insomniac freak I am, I don't usually start my loads until around 1:00, to ensure that there are driers free when my load finishes. I told myself that I'd finish homework in this empty time, this nighttime, when I sit upstairs in my room

Emily Rosenoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31906865.post-46465657609088468172007-09-14T14:14:00.001-05:002007-09-14T14:15:37.257-05:00

My brother turns 13 today.I feel ancient.

Emily Rosenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31906865.post-84917687158794077692007-09-12T18:56:00.000-05:002007-09-12T18:57:21.587-05:00

Emily Rosenoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31906865.post-53017265047679235842007-09-10T21:56:00.000-05:002007-09-10T22:04:54.735-05:00

Sleep, don't weepMy sweet loveYour face it's all wet'Cause your day was roughSo do what you must doTo find yourselfWear another's shoeOr paint my shelvesThere's times that I was brokeAnd you stood strongI think I found a placeWhere I feel I wouldSleep, don't weep,My sweet love.-- Damien Rice

Emily Rosenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31906865.post-72688154583261555172007-09-09T23:53:00.000-05:002007-09-10T00:05:20.233-05:00

So I really wanted to go to this Fiery Furnaces show.But it cannot be, as I am 18.Damn.

Emily Rosenoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31906865.post-41973148639316900112007-09-09T13:54:00.000-05:002007-09-09T14:03:57.351-05:00

Emily Rosenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31906865.post-87510161653372316402007-09-09T03:19:00.000-05:002007-09-09T03:25:06.531-05:00

For a geek like me (who identifies herself as a member of the second dorm), this equals interesting, with a dash of I'm-dying-inside.

Emily Rosenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31906865.post-30553896154300344012007-09-08T15:21:00.000-05:002007-09-08T15:30:27.238-05:00

My first visit to Electric Fetus, a Minneapolis-area record store, was entirely an accident. We stumbled upon it, due to the fact that the bus stop where we picked up the #2 back to campus was directly in front of it. I picked up the Flaming Lips' Hit To Death In The Future Head, their major-label debut, with the smashing first track "Talkin' 'Bout The Smiling Deathporn Immortality Blues (

Emily Rosenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31906865.post-38407978921192421492007-09-07T10:47:00.000-05:002007-09-07T10:49:32.657-05:00

Yet another meaningful pursuit to put on my cultural to-do list.

Emily Rosenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31906865.post-19401417531678342292007-09-07T10:12:00.000-05:002007-09-07T10:13:55.637-05:00

Two things of creamer, two packets of sugar. I have backpedaled.Obviously eating Lucky Charms for breakfast is not an option for the duration of NG1, since it only highlights the bitterness of the coffee.Damn.

Emily Rosenoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31906865.post-35147875851329536092007-09-06T19:59:00.000-05:002007-10-09T18:28:17.987-05:00

As my roommate snores in the twin bed next to me, I thought I'd take this opportunity to say:WTF LAUNDRY?I swear that I've been up and down six flights of stairs 3 times, and about to be 4.

Emily Rosenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31906865.post-57052126576360909982007-09-06T19:32:00.001-05:002007-09-06T19:32:49.079-05:00

Emily Rosenoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31906865.post-33918348993630661482007-09-06T17:56:00.000-05:002007-09-06T18:02:08.945-05:00

"Is 'suicide' under 'self-help'?"-- Alan Hakman (played by Robin Williams) in the film The Final Cut.

Emily Rosenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31906865.post-49149193941232391722007-09-06T09:13:00.000-05:002007-09-06T11:17:49.418-05:00

There are several reasons to go to college. One of these, doubtlessly, is to learn what is taught to you in your classes (to my chagrin) but another is exposing oneself to new experiences. To this effect, I am beginning a new series of posts called "Nonsense Goals" to document my struggles to learn outside of the classroom. This first, "Black coffee," is in response to the amount of strange looks

Emily Rosenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31906865.post-82547968886332308622007-09-05T16:56:00.000-05:002007-09-05T16:58:59.309-05:00

Click here, then navigate to the film "Elettra in the City."You won't regret it.

Emily Rosenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31906865.post-80038375402792299512007-09-04T22:34:00.001-05:002007-09-04T23:28:07.502-05:00

On second thought, looking at tomorrow's classes, I am considerably less optimistic about college in general. Four of them, with really quick turnaround in between the two around lunch, amount to some serious work. Wednesdays are going to suck so bad.Put that on top to adjusting to this brave new world, and being cast adrift by the world, and you get sheer panic, mixed with dread and a dash of

Emily Rosenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31906865.post-19848266670491835772007-09-04T16:07:00.000-05:002007-09-04T16:14:50.379-05:00

First day of classes. I only had two today: art history and drawing. I liked both, especially the drawing class. We have as our instructor a second-year grad student, and the most intriguing phrase he used was drawing as an extension of thought, which really interested me. I hope to get to the point where it's a natural and organic function: eat, sleep, draw. But the most difficult part of

Emily Rosenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31906865.post-72833600192375286542007-09-03T14:27:00.000-05:002007-09-03T14:30:41.985-05:00

An interesting read on the modesty movement, pointed out to me by a friend.I suppose I'd feel better about the modesty movement if it had a parallel in the world of men. But quite the opposite is true. At the top of the best-seller list is "The Dangerous Book for Boys," a celebration of male derring-do that encourages boys to dive into life headfirst, taking and embracing risks along the way. The

Emily Rosenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31906865.post-79322941683667637782007-09-02T17:44:00.000-05:002007-09-02T17:45:56.183-05:00

I've moved into my college dorm. It's tiny, but comfortable. However, I can't get my computer to play well with others, most notably the ethernet cable, but will be back when all that's resolved.I think I love it here.

Emily Rosenoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31906865.post-67846921029896949142007-08-29T21:25:00.000-05:002007-09-30T09:48:13.382-05:00

Rita: "What's wrong with you?"Jack: "Let me think about that."

Emily Rosenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31906865.post-71810178243434520472007-08-29T18:40:00.000-05:002007-08-29T19:34:09.432-05:00

We've had some disturbing news about Owen Wilson. I've been a fan of his work ever since I saw Zoolander at a young and tender age, and learned to love his collaborative work with Wes Anderson. News like this inevitably brings up the iconic image of the "sad clown"-- Chris Farley, anyone?-- but it is naive to think that comedians should be inherently happier than other people. A post on The House

Emily Rosenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31906865.post-10554413711164109332007-08-27T21:32:00.000-05:002007-08-29T21:39:14.253-05:00

My "to do" list, by Wednesday night:&UPDATE: I fail. 1 out of 2. Pitiful.

Emily Rosenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31906865.post-8469557447074851992007-08-27T00:09:00.000-05:002007-08-27T00:21:11.667-05:00

"Shortly after the Gulf War in 1992 I happened to visit a July Fourth worship service in a certain megachurch. At center stage stood a large cross next to an equally large American flag. The congregation sang some praise choruses mixed with such patriotic hymns as "God Bless America." The climax of the service centered on a video of a well-known Christian military general giving a patriotic

Emily Rosenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31906865.post-52470567370186174952007-08-26T01:22:00.000-05:002007-08-26T01:29:23.079-05:00

"The only way we can break out of the gridlock and overcome the special interests and the lobbyists is if people break out of this red-state, blue-state half the country's divided, there's nothing we can do about it, we just have to battle it out."-- classic Barack ObamaAnd a quote on the Republican candidates, what Jon Stewart terms "the worst backhanded compliment ever": "I think some of

Emily Rosenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31906865.post-15950949191494330502007-08-26T01:11:00.000-05:002007-08-26T01:16:43.750-05:00

says Morning's Minion, a poster over at the Catholic commentary blog Vox Nova. Here:"The notion that the morality of an act depends solely on a calculation of foreseeable consequences is endemic in our society. How many people truly believe that the rightness of the act depends primarily on the object chosen by the deliberate will, and that intentions or consequences are irrelevant if the chosen

Emily Rosenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31906865.post-68203420902852697612007-08-26T01:03:00.000-05:002007-08-26T01:09:09.351-05:00

"Do one thing every day that scares you."-- Eleanor Roosevelt

Emily Rosenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31906865.post-34415620901153803842007-08-24T11:56:00.000-05:002007-08-24T12:00:00.334-05:00

"I'm a Jew, I'm small, I'm homosexual, and I live in Sheffield. I'm fucked."

Emily Rosenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31906865.post-30294988361131214262007-08-23T13:58:00.000-05:002007-08-24T12:00:31.338-05:00

The Pretenders' Tattooed Love Boys: the first song I ever played on Guitar Hero 2. I am converted.

Emily Rosenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31906865.post-80968412506297966002007-08-21T13:56:00.000-05:002007-08-21T13:58:16.477-05:00

An awesome campaign banner. Thank you, Andrew Sullivan.

Emily Rosenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31906865.post-76447799380292590352007-08-21T13:38:00.001-05:002007-08-21T13:58:34.277-05:00

"Don't base your votes this time on fear. Base it on possibility. Think, listen. The game of politics is to make you afraid, so that you don't think. And what we need right now isn't political rhetoric, it isn't game playing. We need leadership. We need people with judgement. We need decent people, people with common sense, people with strong family values, people who understand the world. We

Emily Rosenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31906865.post-76980475146265091022007-08-21T00:29:00.000-05:002007-08-21T13:59:04.759-05:00

I feel as if I'm approaching a glass wall. I know it's there, and that I'm going to smash my face into it, but I can't really conceive of it actually being solid, or stop believing that there's something behind it.Photo: "Northrop," from my Flickr page.

Emily Rosenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31906865.post-74476333896762205962007-08-19T19:47:00.000-05:002007-08-19T22:41:38.586-05:00

"But perhaps the most mysterious thing [Ransom] ever said about [his voyage to Venus] was this. I was questioning him on the subject--which he doesn't often allow--and had incautiously said, "Of course I realize it's all too vague for you to put into words," when he took me up rather sharply, for such a patient man, by saying, "On the contrary, it is words that are vague. The reason why the thing

Emily Rosenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31906865.post-20457514627515128242007-08-19T15:20:00.000-05:002007-08-19T15:40:12.794-05:00

Note to self: the minute I get to the cities, go see No End In Sight.

Emily Rosenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31906865.post-45640586207554475522007-08-18T18:16:00.000-05:002007-08-19T15:30:27.184-05:00

An unpublished Mark Twain dictation that will be timely for as long as we attempt to justify the atrocities of war with the self-righteousness of faith. An excerpt: "...When you have prayed for victory you have prayed for many unmentioned results which follow victory--must follow it, cannot help but follow it. Upon the listening spirit of God fell also the unspoken part of the prayer. He

Emily Rosenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31906865.post-33098568193715943412007-08-18T01:48:00.000-05:002007-08-19T15:31:13.017-05:00

An awesome word-geek video (tip of the hat to my token expatriate friend.)

Emily Rosenoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31906865.post-67248421492379719372007-08-18T01:29:00.000-05:002007-08-19T15:31:36.772-05:00

Tonight I entered into a new era of life.Went out to coffee with a couple of friends at Starbucks. We got back and the garage light was on, which means that either (a) one hell of a large animal was around or (b) someone had just come up our driveway. I didn't see anyone, though, and went to get the spare key to let my friends and myself inside.I hear: "Emily... there's some people coming up your

Emily Rosenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31906865.post-74272728926268291122007-08-17T12:33:00.000-05:002007-08-19T15:34:07.152-05:00

Rolling Stone.

Emily Rosenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31906865.post-85276289315958530602007-08-15T16:26:00.000-05:002007-08-19T15:33:47.666-05:00

They're breakin' both my handsThey're breakin' both my handsThey're tellin' me to take it like a manTake it like a manWell fuck thatwe are scientists

Emily Rosenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31906865.post-30679784104492140402007-08-14T00:29:00.001-05:002007-08-19T15:33:33.617-05:00

The list of freedoms I now enjoy is indeed exhaustive. I now may (legally):> vote> smoke> buy Sharpies and spray paint at our local convenience store> enter a porn store, or, indeed, be in a pornographic film> bear arms> own property> marry without parental consent> get an abortion> donate my body to science> serve on a jury> check out videos from the adult section of the Tosa library> go to

Emily Rosenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31906865.post-64523425944741625392007-08-13T15:00:00.000-05:002007-08-19T15:33:09.600-05:00

I'm afraid today. And the worst part of it is that it's not an irrational fear, like being afraid of moths or the dark. It's a more subtle fear, a fear of the head rather than the heart. And it is terrible.

Emily Rosenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31906865.post-1573052299082304802007-08-06T23:41:00.000-05:002007-08-06T23:59:33.067-05:00

High school better not be the best four years of my life. Because if it is, I'm killing myself now and saving myself the struggle. Fortunately, I have heard by many people that college kicks its ass. Minus all that actually-working stuff. So for now, I'm allowed to be annoyingly optimistic.I've decided that reflections on college life vs. my life so far will be forthcoming. I feel obligated at

Emily Rosenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31906865.post-84969550532232437432007-08-02T02:18:00.000-05:002007-08-02T02:22:35.800-05:00

Everyone's already asking me when I'm leaving for college. I haven't started packing, or given notice at work. It's surreal to know that I'm leaving for college in just a few weeks, really, and am about to be torn asunder from every single one of my best friends and every single support construct I've collected throughout the years besides my own self.I don't know whether to feel liberated or

Emily Rosenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31906865.post-28685094505051552612007-07-27T08:56:00.000-05:002007-07-27T09:04:27.529-05:00

A big influence on the philosophy behind Philip Pullman's series His Dark Materials, the first book of which (Northern Lights, or The Golden Compass in America) is a film, in post production and set to be coming out on Dec. 7, 2007.

Emily Rosenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31906865.post-64228107460810538992007-07-26T19:15:00.000-05:002007-07-26T19:19:49.627-05:00

Today, I received my first laptop in the mail. It's a brown Dell Inspiron 1521 with a 15.4 inch screen, and it is my baby. Right now I'm using the free wireless connection at the library (my magnificent workplace) on my break.As the door of fanatic Harry Potter fandom closes behind me, the door of technology-worship and -enslavement opens before me. Ah, what a wonderful world we live in.

Emily Rosenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31906865.post-26298807701723983422007-07-25T15:41:00.000-05:002007-07-26T19:20:29.501-05:00

My childhood ended on Sunday, July 22, at approximately 10:30 AM. No, my birthday's not until later in the summer. And no, I did not witness a triple homicide or get pregnant.I finished Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.I found it hard to explain, even to myself, why I got so worked up about it. I read it on the car trip back from South Dakota, and barely paused to breathe. And now I'm on

Emily Rosenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31906865.post-65785090302521569642007-07-23T08:32:00.000-05:002007-07-23T08:36:41.343-05:00

Finally home from South Dakota. It was a lonely trip, but a good one. I missed everyone like hell, and had a wonderfully chaotic time. My pictures didn't turn out at all (they need Photoshop like I need aspirin before I can even think about posting any of them), and without respite, I return to work.It's nice to be home.

Emily Rosenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31906865.post-14196061688241150552007-07-14T15:08:00.000-05:002007-07-14T15:20:53.975-05:00

Here I am, in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. I'm in the hotel lobby, typing on their ridiculously funny-looking, almost-round keyboard. (Side note: I hadn't noticed what a snob I was when it came to Internet browsers until I was forced to use the only browser on this computer, which is the old Internet Explorer. The loss of the beloved tab function cuts deep as a knife to the very center of my

Emily Rosenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31906865.post-55281068055814964512007-07-14T01:11:00.000-05:002007-07-14T01:30:17.585-05:00

I know this is my petty and anal side speaking, but I'm getting kind of ticked off by people who spell group names wrong on Facebook. It's really geeky, but it really annoys me. For example, there's a group named End Cardinal News Corrup[tion, which obviously happened because some devious person had put some kind of oil or other slippery substance on the creator's "p" key, causing their finger to

Emily Rosenoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31906865.post-68563454596469546402007-07-13T23:33:00.001-05:002007-07-13T23:43:59.890-05:00

I have a simultaneous love and abhorrence of the little quotes they put on Starbucks cups. I think my feelings about these are similar to the way I react to horoscopes; if they're good I'm pleasantly surprised and if they're bad I think, "Who does this person think they are anyway? Who does Starbucks think they are?" I begin to stew about it: the cliche, sappy, "enlightened" quotes that are the

Emily Rosenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31906865.post-50752863879633413752007-07-12T01:28:00.000-05:002007-07-12T02:36:55.562-05:00

Well, here I am again. The last time I got my hair cut I compromised on the length; the woman cutting it told me that I'd want to have it long enough to put up during the hot summer. And for a while I resisted the temptation to put up my hair, really I did, but now I do it basically every day. And I don't like it.Consequently, I have decided to cut my hair again. My plan before was to get a

Emily Rosenoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31906865.post-82307719989056909422007-07-11T15:42:00.000-05:002007-07-11T15:44:28.859-05:00

Quite simply, what is the correlation between rock concerts and global warming? It seems like Sesame Street for adults, the idea being that a spoonful of sugar makes the medicine go down. But I'm skeptical of the idea that by juxtaposing this information with something that people want to see, they will somehow be able to effect change in the way people think about global climate change.In fact,

Emily Rosenoreply@blogger.com0