The blotter does not have anything too fun this week, so I’ll just have to make do with what is available:
Swinging bats and even a ball peen hammer, multiple people participated in a fight on the streets of Isla Vista. Although it diffused quickly when deputies arrived on the scene just before 3 a.m., the melee [...]
This Week is Slim Pickings
Amen to That
So here’s where I get to spit on an icon by proxy. As those who know me know, I am not what one would call a churchgoing man. However, I happen to agree with this article by Mark Shea who tears apart “Imagine” by John Lennon:
Everything the song advocates and hopes for as a supreme good [...]
Famous International Playboy
School has not officially started for me and already I have a bunch of stuff to read for a seminar on John Milton. The editor of the anthology saw it fit to add a footnote to almost every other word, so it usually takes at least twice as long to read a poem than it [...]
My Precioussss…..
I finally got the damn DSL modem today but I won’t have service until Friday. This brings me back to the old haunt, the coffee house. I would be sitting outside right now and enjoying the weather and my little cloud of tobacco smoke, but a more vocal member of the housing-impaired community is sleeping [...]
Sunday Afternoon Nonsense
The Sabbath is a fairly bustling day around here. I went to Border’s a moment ago and ran into some sort of craft fair. You know the kind: a bunch of women selling crap made from macaroni and furniture and a bunch of other women buying it. There is something strange about women of a [...]
The Student
Or, There and Back Again
I may as well start you off with a bit of fun news from Isla Vista:
“‘Get your Jesus burgers,’ hollered the university student, 22, speaking gibberish on the streets of Isla Vista. Patrolling deputies came across the intoxicated male around 1:20 a.m. as he staggered alone. He was arrested for public [...]
Social Stupidity
I hate new situations. This must be why I make bad first impressions. Whenever some new thing comes about, I get these crazy anxiety attacks. I can control my voice and speak normally, but I lose motor control and my hands shake. This happened today when I was picking up the keys to the department [...]
The Opposite of Life
Not death, but California. You can’t smoke anywhere in this damn place without getting dirty looks. This would certainly not be the case in Texas, folks. I finally found a local spot with Internet access, and have finally been able to check email and other essential things. How on earth did students manage to live for centuries [...]
My Horrible Confession
Friends, Romans, countrymen, and you, Will, I have committed an egregious sin against the laws of common decency, the good of our nation and God Himself. I come to you with a heavy heart, for I am a man who takes responsibility for his crimes. T’would be easier to make excuses or equivocate, but such would be [...]
We’ll Meet Again…
IN HELL! According to this little quiz, anyway. The context is all whacked out, of course. Heaven must be full of very boring people if God really is that strict. Anyway, I suppose we all might as well prepare for a barbecue.
Hat tip to Melissa L.
