while i was home for the weekend, i took the opportunity to meet my father for dinner one evening. we went for mongolian food at my favorite restaurant, jp lee’s in millburn.…
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FINIS
my “published” writing portfolio for the honors colloquium has been completed. pages = 30 chapters = 8 (yeah that seems weird, like… if tiki barber ran for 30 yards on 8 carries…
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CLANDESTINE
i know this kid. he is easily the smartest person i’ve ever befriended. i don’t mean that as an affront to all my other friends (all four of you), but this guy…
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ASSUAGE
i’ve become enamored of a new guitar tuning. i guess the most common descriptor would be that it’s a baritone tuning (low to high C-F-A#-D#-G#-C)? i first started using it last year…
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RETICENCE
let’s take a break from livejournal bs for one day to discuss some music. namely, nina nastasia. the talented songstress is playing what i believe is only her second new york area…
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INTREPID
yesterday i was challenged to think of a plot for a dramatic movie that i could write. at first the prospect seemed rather simple — perhaps intended for a novice — but…
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PARAGON
if this were 1997, and you had asked me what kind of movie i wanted to write, i would have said, “the saint.” for some reason, i had a strange fascination with…
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The Top Ten Brit-Pop Albums
today we’re getting a little more obscure with the top ten. for those of you who didn’t know me, in 8th grade and 9th grade, boy was i into british music. i…
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HARLEQUIN
on monday evening, the college brought in a professor from the university of pittsburgh named peter simonson to give a presentation titled “Robert K. Merton’s ‘Self-Fulfilling Prophecy’: An Episode in (Jewish) American…
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Ten Great Albums Recorded Before 1983
A few weeks ago I decided it would be interesting to write about the ten albums I find to be the greatest since my birth. This week we are going back in…