Backup of my old LiveJournal blog
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30 May 2008Oscar Pistorius is a South-African athlete, world-record holder for the 100-, 200- and 400-meter races. Oscar Pistorius has no legs, and runs on a pair of Cheetahs – carbon-fiber prosthetics attached at the knees, which led to his nickname of "Blade Runner". His current 100-meter world record is 10.91 seconds, compared to 9.74sec able-bodied world […]
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16 May 2008יש לי חבר עם העדפה מוזיקלית שלא בהכרח נגזרת מסגנון הלהקה או ההשפעות המוזיקליות שלה. לא, הוא אוהב אלבומים ראשונים של להקות צעירות. בעיקר ישראליות. ואני מבין מאיפה זה בא. יש באלבומים הראשונים, מצד אחד, חספוס שהופך אותם למאד אישיים וישירים. ומצד שני, הם מכילים בהרבה מקרים תוצרים של שנים. אלבום שני לרוב מופק תחת […]
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15 May 2008I don’t know what bothers me more about this picture – the jarring black-white-and-orange theme so popular in Modern Mechanics Magazine, the weasel-like lack of commitment about how this method MAY be common in the future, the retroactive ridicule of radio-wave recipes or simply the fact that I don’t get why a ham sandwich […]
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13 May 2008In the interest of conservation of time and space, every test I have this semester takes place on the same day at the same time. Peachy.
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10 May 2008"Who would have guessed that when you remove Garfield from the Garfield comic strips, the result is an even better comic about schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and the empty desperation of modern life?"
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9 May 2008I didn’t go camping much when I was 12. I don’t have sepia-hued memories of summer afternoons and life-altering trips. No halcyon days of careless joy. I didn’t have a girlfriend when I was 16. No rosy recollections of first love among the daisies, No mythological ex. No unreasonable standards set to sour future relationships. […]
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9 May 2008This is a reworked version of a recent entry of mine. I had brought it over to my creative writing workshop for review, and revised it according to the (excellent) comments I received. Now I wanted to have this version up as well, for comparison. *** I cross the Golden Horn to Galata, escaping Sultanahmed’s […]
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6 May 2008I bought a lot of concert tickets this week. Blondie. Ian Brown. Artists I’m not too familiar with, but that’s no excuse. I wasn’t too familiar with Mercury Rev or dEUS either, when they showed up. I enjoyed them anyway, and have since gotten to know dEUS, at least, very well. "You never regret the […]
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