Love's Labours Lost in Space

So I graduated, I think, but Covenant hasn't told me one way or the other. I took my apartment key with me by mistake, but no one's complained yet. Hopefully, that won't bother them too much. I sure would hate to have to make a trip up the mountain to deliver them back (or, more likely, a trip to the post office). I started looking around in Athens to see what the post-philosophy job scene looks like; it doesn't look too bad to me.

Futurama is the greatest television series ever. I can't believe that its brief life was cut short by the evil execs at Fox, while the Simpsons is allowed to continue sadly after its comic genius light-bulb has already gone out. Which, I know, was brighter than Futurama's ever was -- but, if Futurama hadn't been cut short, I think it could have been better. I got the first box set (13 episodes, the first season) with some of my Christmas money (the rest will go to defraying the cost of buying presents for other people, I think). I've watch two or three a night since I got it and I'm not even slightly tired of the series.

If you want to see it, Futurama's back episodes are on Adult Swim (on the Cartoon Network) now; I think its on Fox on Sundays, too, but I'm not sure (it was this summer).

In a teenage spaceship

This is how I feel after finally turning my SIP in:

Just be simple

If you live in America, read this (by David Brooks), then read this (by Mesh). Someone really needs to clarify the distinction between the indie-rockers and the hipsters, though. Folk always getting them mixed up (trust me, there's a difference).

Then read this to see how dumb everyone else is and laugh about it with your friends (didn't we just talk about that... I forget what we said).

We're computerizing and we just don't need you anymore

Democratic presidential debate last night

1. Moderated by the offensive and awful Ted Koppel, who managed to insult everyone of the candidates at one time or another -- asking Mosley Braun, Sharpton, and Kuicinich when they would drop out of the race was rather inappropriate, if you ask me. (Though Mosley Braun and Kuicinich probably will.) Kuicinich said it best:
"To begin this kind of a forum with a question about an endorsement, no matter by who, I think actually trivializes the issues that are before us."
And if Koppel mentions another poll, as if all our elected leaders should be spineless poll-watchers, I'm going to move to a remote African country where a dictator can rule me with an iron fist.

2. Lieberman: though I didn't like Bill Clinton at all when he was in office, in retrospect, he wasn't really that bad at all (with the exception of his abdication of responsibility on matters of foreign policy, with an exception to that exception being made for random large-scale peacekeeping operations), particularly in that he introduced the largest welfare reform in the history of the country. I think another Clinton-style Democrat wouldn't be too bad an option; I just hope (and think) that Lieberman is a bit more solid on the personal-moral side than Clinton was. I won't say that I won't vote for Bush in the general election, but I have every intention of registering as a Democrat (right now I'm registered as an independent), so that I can vote in this primary. (I hope I haven't missed a deadline).

3. Sharpton: the man is a parody of a presidential candidate, but he's a funny one:
"The Republicans shut us up four years ago. Al Gore -- no Democrat should shut us up today. Let the people decide on the nominee. Bossism shouldn't happen.
I know that Governor Dean and Al Gore love the Internet; www.bossism doesn't work on my computer."
Or this one (I can't tell what he's saying):
"I also want to address your first question as a minister. I think that you can have a personal motivation of religion, but you should not try to act like your religion is something that dictates where people ought to go.
I pray every day. I can assure you, in my talks in with God, he is not a registered member of the right wing of the Republican party. "

4. Politics is overrun by drivel and cliches (if Mosley Braun talks about needing to "look after the children" one more time, I'll poke my own eyes out with a spoon) -- but that's been known for so long, saying so is a cliche in and of itself.

Los Angeles, I'm yours

This is pretty.

(picture from cardiff)

Like foxes through fences

If I told you that I preferred my cousin's drawings to Van Gogh, you wouldn't think I was stupid, but you would probably think I was wrong. If my mom told you that she preferred my sculpture of t-rex (which I made in kindergarden, and it just barely resembles a dinosaur) to Donatello's David, you wouldn't think she was an idiot, but you would probably think she was mistaken. Why should music be any different?

Sail the strange seas of thought alone

Today's humorous reading includes the sad story of a woman trampled by what I like to call the shopping monsters at a sale Friday morning, an analysis of the Hummer ad where the angry child in the hummer go-kart nearly crushes all the little normal go-karts which the simpletons who can't afford hummer go-karts rid in, and a review of the McNastys that the fast food restaurants are pressing on us in their desperate (and apparently successful) attempt to convince us that we can eat at McDonalds and be healthy. The anti-war protestors in London were all wrong... shopping monsters are the physical embodiment of pure evil, not George Bush. When we will see the mass demonstrations across the grimmy streets of European capital cities against sixty percent discounts and one-time only buy one, get two free specials? When?