March 2009
26 posts
McSweeney's Internet Tendency: Saved by the Bell: The Grad School Years. →
mcsweeneys.net
I can’t decide if this is only interesting because of how big of douchebags the people at McSweeney’s are or because of how obnoxious the characters in the story are or the fact that I can even understand some of these references because of college.
Life is confusing.
Listen
“God Answers Back” by Clem Snide
You better pray you never wake up
to find your your dreams have all come true
Play
Play
Deaths at the hands of the Khmer Rouge →
cache.boston.com
This is completely sickening.
“We take a lot of long walks on beaches because we like to go to sunny locales. And we are talking about fertilizer and malaria and deaths of women in the developing world.”
—Melinda Gates, in an interview with Vogue
Maybe, just maybe this will be my life some day. Minus being married to a billionaire.
Listen
“Optimist Vs. The Silent Alarm (When the Saints Go Marching In)” - Casiotone for the Painfully Alone.
I wonder if CFTPA knows that this new song of theirs sounds exactly like “The Chinatown Bus” by Bishop Allen.
The Associated Press: Leader in AIDS fight to be Dartmouth president →
google.com
My favorite save-the-world person, now the president of Dartmouth! I actually got the chance to attend a seminar he was leading last year, and I have nothing much else to say except that I hope he still has time to devote to Partners in Health business while still being Dartmouth’s president.
“Something has been done wrong. Or something wrong has been done.”
—William Gass, “The Case of the Obliging Stranger”
