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  • Goings on about town, week of July 18

    1. I had the honor of overhearing a drug deal go down at the public library. It was just pot, and this is Madison, so they didn't even have to keep their voices down, though they did make a token effort to sound underhan…

  • Teeeeeeenage Wastelaaaaand...

    1. This week, I tell you, has been all over the place. Monday, I was still recovering from June 28, when Madison has its annual Independence Day celebration, Rhythm & Booms. It's the biggest fireworks display in the …

  • 1. So Israel is 60 years old. I expect I'll have something to write about this next week after finals.2. I did rather enjoy all the festivities on the UW quad, though. There were pro- and anti-Israeli booths set up. By t…

  • Answers to your questions:1. Yes, I'm alive.2. Dunno. Got bored with blogging for awhile. Tried starting a new one. Got bored with that, too.3. A case of the ennuis, maybe?4. Obama. Yes. Still.5. West-coast hardcore. All…

  • Eastern to mountain third party call1. I can always gauge how happy I am by how much country music I listen to. If I lived in the country I doubt that would be the case--I'd identify directly with the music and feel what…

  • Yawny at the Apocalypse (instrumental)1. What is there to be said? It's vacation time. I'm working part-time, drinking too much, and frantically studying Greek paradigms so that I can fake my way through another semester…

  • Pretend you never went to school...1. Thursday morning, when my alarm went off at 5 a.m., I was in the middle of a nightmare about Jacob Milgrom. Milgrom is one of the world's leading commentators on the Book of Leviticu…

  • Last cigarettes, all you can get...1. It's been a depressing week, but not in a permanent way. The consistent theme has been self-embarassment, particularly in front of my professors and most especially with regard to a …

  • It's just another story1. I have learned in the past two weeks: it is nearly impossible to say anything good about Christianity in the context of Jewish history. Nothing makes me feel more ashamed to be a Christian than …

  • God's Word declared it would be so...1. All-nighters get harder and harder as you get older. At 29, I'm not sure whether this is because my body is less able to sustain lack-of-sleep or because I have the good sense to r…