What about people who say "I love you man, I mean I really love you" when they are drunk?

Yup. What an asshole.

Nice. They use the words "cult" and "ganglike" in the same paragraph.

Yeah, you know, for the beach.

That's sweet that she loves you so much. Thanks for sharing!

The story is in Philadelphia.

That's not right.

And I hope that you've tried Herodotus. He's not like Thucydides. More democratic. More interested in collecting stories rather than "getting it right." Invasion of Persia, the 300 from Sparta, Marathon, etc. and some really funny passages.

Agree. I tried putting sticky notes on pages that had particularly well-written paragraphs but there were just too many.

Currently in second volume of Karl Popper's The Open Society and It's Enemies written during WWII and published in 1945 — blames Plato for totalitarian thought, blames Hegel for the Nazis, and warns of Communist totalitarianism by reading Marx before the Cold War really started.
I'm reading it as a response to Slavoj…

Excellent stuff. It took me a year to read Decline and Fall because I was finishing grad school at the time. I really enjoyed how big it was and how long it took to read. I enjoyed revisiting a group of Germanic invaders after four generations had passed and the social situation is completely different and the new…

Not a dance number. Many dance numbers.

I think Sing was a Video Jockey for Mtv.

"Verbing weirds language." — Calvin

it's trying to be listy.

In college I loved his work with the anarchist Hakim Bey. Dangerous stuff.

Be Satanic. Venom started this gimmick for the shock value.

"As if we had wanted to leave one remnant of our presence on this planet, they would find a frozen sturgeon mysteriously hidden away beneath the mathematically precise true south pole. They stash it back away into its frozen shrine for another eternity." from Encounters at the End of the World.

Ever find a reason, please share 'cause I don't understand it either.

Guess I'm old, too. Last youtube I watched was a 2 minute clip of Slavoj Zizek talking to Charlie Rose about Kung Fu Panda.