We Are Scientists – Hoppipola
Thanks again for all the well wishers today as I went to get my lower wisdom teeth pulled (we decided to leave the upper wisdom teeth in for now….I wasn’t willing to be completely unwise).
Everything went incredibly smoothly except for one small scare towards the beginning. The doctor told me he [...]
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Mofobaru – OK Computer in 60 Seconds
Why take 60 minutes to do what you can do in seconds?, otherwise known as “Thank goodness Windows 7 is finally here!”
So much faster, so much lighter (quite literally) is my new favorite operating system, which gives me yet another excuse for the next several years to have at [...]
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Mötley Crüe – Kickstart My Heart
A routine Tuesday this week turned slightly sour when my dentist told me it is time to get my lower wisdom teeth removed. To little relief did he assure me that there had been nothing that I could have done to prevent this inevitable moment from coming. Nonetheless, oral [...]
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Randy Newman – Burn On
Yesterday our Superintendent decided to get down to the nitty-gritty and actually do something about the dropouts facing LAUSD. So he, and mountains of other district bureaucrats traipsed through the neighborhoods, going door-to-door looking for drop-out and truant kids. While perhaps not the most efficient way to lower the truancy rate [...]
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Beta Band – Won
I have been to two MLB playoff games in my life, both at Dodger Stadium. The first was in the fall of 2006 when, after losing twice to the Mets in New York, the Dodgers came home to finish getting swept in the N.L. Division Series. Being a lifelong Mets fan, I [...]
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MGMT– Kids
Remember snap bracelets? Or Beanie Babies? Or Pogs??? The aforementioned pieces of tack bring back memories of junior high school, when it was so incredibly important to express one’s individuality by doing whatever everyone else was doing.
Nowadays, the content of fads has most certainly changed, although the underlying motives (and the likely response) [...]
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Ligeti – Lux Aeterna
Skills: Knowing which buildings in Los Angeles you can actually sneak up onto the roof of and get a-MAZ-ing views of the city. I’ll log this one away as a future potential date location.
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Hujhax – Under Pressure
Today, was the first day I was not at school. Where was I, you say? Not sick, but rather with two partners in crime, colleagues Rustum and Raul, who, along with myself were invited by our principal to his district principal’s meeting in order to both observe a principal’s meeting and [...]
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Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young – Déjà Vu
Despite being a 6-year “veteran” at school, I’m still fairly young; in fact, young enough to cause some raised eyebrows among some of my elder colleagues who wonder how on earth I came to love the music of their childhood and teenage years, rather than my own. [...]
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KISS – Hard Luck Woman
Disappointed? Definitely.
Should I have known better? Absolutely.
Who’s fault? Mine.
Exhibit A: Eternal hard rock gods, KISS, who’s makeup and power chord-age inspired decades of sonic bliss and great Halloween costumes. A band who’s corpus of work spans nearly three decades, and yet, perhaps surprisingly, prior to yesterday, I had never actually owned [...]
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