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I watched “Joe’s Apartment” last night with my boyfriend. It’s a very 90s movie about this guy who lives in a crappy apartment in the East Village that is infested with talking/singing cockroaches. It had its moments…. such as this, which I now have stuck in my head.
Apparently I am not up to speed on all conspiracy theories (though conspiracy theorists don’t like to call them that; only “sheeple” who are blind to the world call them that or something). I mean, I can totally appreciate the concept of hegemony; I’m a sociology major after all. And then I came across [...]
Ever since I moved to Vancouver in September, 2006, I have had a slight interest in trying out snowboarding on one of the many mountains in the general vicinity. There are a couple of problems: 1) I am afraid of heights 2) I am extremely accident prone (more on this in a moment!) 3) I [...]
I found the following. It is an old blog entry from 5 years ago when I had just started going to university and was majoring in English. My failed attempt at being Kafkaesque is at least somewhat existential, I guess. “Here is the super short story I wrote for a different class where we had [...]
I deactivated my Facebook account two days ago because I realized my use of it was resulting in hours of procrastination. For example: – 1 + hour bus ride to and from UBC each day; instead of reading, I would use Facebook on my phone – get home from school and spend an hour bumming [...]
Oh hey. I cleared house. All old entries are now gone, and the stuff below is just crap from my barely-used Tumblr that I have imported. I don’t think this blog will be particularly tumblr-y, but it’s now to said seldom-used account, so the occasional stupid picture might pop up. Stay tuned?
My mom just came back from Paris and has €60 leftover. I am going to be in Vienna next month, so she generously offered to mail her remaining money across Canada to me. While [I think] most people would gladly accept such a gift, I didn’t feel like it was necessarily in my mom’s best [...]
“Earth’s EATMOSPHERE”. I am not sure how I managed that one, but I refused to change the mistake.
The Hamburger bed: Claes Oldenburg’s giant hamburger ([formerly?]on display at the Art Gallery of Ontario) A hamburgercycle A meal for the whole family