"The West hears the word 'Stalinism,' and has a collective urinary moment..."

this is why i love my professor

so much win. monster goodness.

god, this cheese is SO GOOD. whole foods ftw. drunken goat goats milk cheese from spain with red wine washed rind. MMMMMM.

for the sanity of all involved, here's a neat way to convert pdf books to readable files for your iphone:

You Will Need:
- Stanza (application)


What To Do:
1. Open the PDF file in Stanza (the "Open with" option when you right click the file, or via Ctrl/Command-O in Stanza itself)

2. Copy all the text via Ctrl/Command-A, Ctrl/Command-C

3. Open up a new Stanza window via Ctrl/Command-N or going to File > New From Clipboard

4. Go to the information windown via Ctrl/Command-I or going to Edit > Book Info

5. Save the information, share it to your iPod/iPhone/reading book of your choice.

6. TADAAA!! Dance around and celebrate.

Because nothing says "gangsta" like the lyric "My tasks include internal systems integration."

What! no capacity for business, no knowledge of law, no sympathy with art, no pretension to philosophy; only a simple knowledge of the secret that has puzzled all the philosophers, baffled all the lawyers, muddled all the men of business, and ruined most of the artists: the secret of right and wrong. Why, man, you are a genius, a master of masters, a god! At twenty-four, too!

--George Bernard Shaw, Major Barbara, (Act III)

china? bizzare, surreal, introspective on a morally and physically painful level, and thankfully over. not that i don't like the place, far from it, i feel it has Character and a severe case of contradiction that i find so appealing, but i need a break from it and all that it entails for me right now. i need i guess some space to figure out myself after a semester of being Way Out There, so far out that i didn't feel myself anymore.

in other words, the mfa sent me an e-christmascard. wtf. how spooky.