January 2009
6 posts
Inauguration postscript: waiting, watching,...
After getting some much-deserved sleep last night, I’m back with my second Inauguration journal entry. After hearing about internet users’ trouble with the live webcast and a fellow Duke Chronicler’s unfortunate lockout, I’m increasingly grateful for my relatively smooth, yet tiring, January 20.
After our disappointing failed attempt to attend the free concert on Saturday,...
Inauguration weekend journal: libraries, lines,...
As I write this, I’m sitting in a cramped library in the heart of Georgetown. Libraries here are not like Duke’s. They’re more like a doctor’s waiting room; long rows of chairs line every wall and corridor and everyone is talking as loud as he wants.
What are they talking about? Mostly upcoming school projects, actually. These D.C. college kids have been given Tuesday off (and some even Wednesday)...
Where the heck is Ron Paul?
Gail Collins, the funniest New York Times columnist, and former editor of the whole Editorial Page, wrote an end-of-the-year quiz. Though it is, as usual, filled with her own commentary about TARP, Bush, questionable governers and pop culture, it also does have its facts straight. Here’s the most fun part of the quiz. Good luck!
Match the presidential candidates:
John McCain
John...
“Please understand that holding the dearest people in my life hostage is not...”
– From McSweeney’s. This humorous very brief essay really puts the “got” into “you’ve got to watch ‘The Wire.’” Sometimes I wish I were more effective at getting people to watch the show. It really is the best show ever.
“The institution of marriage is simply too far out of sync with the realities of...”
– from Steve Pavlina, the goofy advice-dealing-self-help-guru-whose-ideas-often-make-too-much-sense. He has recently decided, with the agreement of his wife of over a decade, to begin living a polyamorous lifestyle — one that lets a person grow emotionally and physically intimate with many...
Showtime's new "The United States of Tara" has... →
The show, called “The United States of Tara,” is written by Juno’s writer, Diablo Cody. Produced by Steven Spielberg with Toni Collette starring, the show has already gotten buzz for the big-name raw talent involved.
But the show (first episode available from Showtime here, password TARA) revolves around a character with dissociative identity disorder, or DID. The disease...