Excerpt from an interesting article on medical marijuana: The Bush administration argues that Congress has found no accepted medical use of marijuana and needs to be able to eradicate drug trafficking and its social harms. Eradicate drug trafficking? Social harms? Let’s break this up. 1. Eradicate drug trafficking. On face, it’s not at all a […]
Month: November 2004
Rock On
I just finished watching the recently remastered and released Star Wars episodes IV, V and VI back to back with my roommates. Go us! The LOTR marathon (extended director’s cuts, of course) in January is going to be insanity. 12 hours of LORT. I just hope I have someone to cuddle with. =) So here’s […]
If they read my mind, they’ll all go blind.
“I’m sick of following my dreams, man. I’m just going to ask them where they’re going, and hook up with them later.” -Mitch Hedberg *** From Friday night (I didn’t have internet so I couldn’t post it): Ah. 5:52 AM. And I still haven’t gone to bed. From Thursday. Hell yeah! I’m at a lan […]
“I wouldn’t even tie my shoe laces without a backup plan.” -Heist
Tonight was great. It started by watching a movie called Monsoon Wedding with my T&C class across campus. The movie itself was the chronicle of an upper-class(or upper-caste, in the case) Indian (dots) wedding. The wedding and its traditions were as beautiful as the film’s direction and cinematography, creating a wonderful experience for me, as […]
Scene from The Waste Land
(Magritte’s The Lovers II) …The typist home at teatime, clears her breakfast, lights Her stove, and lays out food in tins. Out of the window perilously spread Her drying combinations touched by the sun’s last rays, On the divan are piled (at night by her bed) Stockings, slippers, camisoles, and stays. I Tiresias, old man […]