January 2007 archive

The gift you didn’t get for Christmas

Here’s a video clip of that one gift that I’m sure you didn’t get this past Christmas. Maybe if you ask again, you’ll get it for your birthday. 😉 The following clip is rated PG-13 for explicit content and language. Please, if you want to watch the video more than once, download the Riva FLV …

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After the second day of classes, I am giving even further thought to dropping my education degree. Even though I am quite close to completing the required courses for the B.A., I just don’t know if I can handle the banality any longer. Paradoxically, the entire School of Education claims to focus on critical thinking, …

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What is the goal of a writer?

Recently I started reading Thomas Mann’s Death in Venice. It is typical Mann in that every scene is an intricately woven web; a coalescence of words so delicately crafted that you timidly turn the page, as to not disturb the sleeping ink. One passage was so powerful that I couldn’t resist sharing it. In it, …

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