“I pay the dues; you keep the difference.”
Lil’ Wayne On Paying Dues
December 6, 2008 by tes274Wrong Person
December 1, 2008 by tes274“I had finally met the wrong person — and he was I.”
-Paul Mercurio
“Free Speech Is…”
November 15, 2008 by tes274To promote this year’s free speech awareness project, we asked Longwood students to briefly describe free speech for themselves. By doing this they made themselves eligible to win a number of prizes at ”Free Speech Is…”, to be held November 17th, from 3-4, behind the Lankford Student Union.
Below, in no particular order, are the responses. Thanks to all who participated and helped this week!
Free speech is…the constitutional right to hold an unpopular opinion
Free speech is…freaking awesome
Free speech is…body piercings
Free speech is…FUCK
Free speech is…the freedom to express yourself without fear of prosecution
Free speech is…your right
Free speech is…great
Free speech is…nonnegotiable
Free speech is…great
Free speech is…free ballin’
Free speech is…being able to say whatever I am thinking, without fear
Free speech is…the right to speak without fear of consequence, no matter what you say
Free speech is…being able to say what I want when I want
Free speech is…one’s right, granted by the government, to speak his or her own thoughts and opinions without persecution
Free speech does not exist
Free speech is…the ability to workshop the world
Free speech is…stupendous!
Free speech is…what you want it to be
Free speech is…a way of expressing your thoughts and feelings
Free speech is…invigorating
Free speech is…saying what you want without fear of consequences
Free speech is…asking to it your way at BK
Free speech is…American
Free speech is…my constitutional right
Free speech is…American’s right to express their opinion in ways to highlight concerns of society
Free speech is…the power and right to say whatever the hell you want to say
Free speech is…awesome
Free speech is…creativity
Free speech is…what we make it
Free speech is…a wonderful concept
Free speech is…saying what you want
Free speech is…balloons
Free speech is…oxygen; let’s breathe
Free speech is…being able to say what you want without holding back
Free speech is…being able to say what you want and feel within reason
Free speech is…like tattoos
Free speech is…saying what you want when you want
Free speech is…priceless
Free speech is…according to the constitution, the ability to say anything as long as it doesn’t infringe on the rights of other; so it’s misleading in name?
Free speech is…a good thing
Free speech is…awesome because I can just write whatever I want
Free speech is…the ability to express my beliefs and ideas with others, without fear of persecution
Free speech is…I love to take naps!
Free speech is…included in the Bill of Rights
Free speech is…mandatory
Free speech is…amazing
Free speech is…being able to express your ideas
Free speech is…American
Free speech is…worthy of being taken by force
Free speech is…saying anything and being able to do so (rude, inconsiderate or not)
Free speech is…not a problem now. Just say something and mean it.
Free speech is…the ability to say what you want
Free speech is…a right
Free speech is…Jesus fuck me in the ass with his cunt and Messiah cock both on his god damn shit-eating dick-sucking hell
Free speech is…expressing what is in your heart
Free speech is…beautiful
Free speech is…America
Free speech is…being able to say what the HELL I want, where I want, because I want
Free speech is…saying what the fuck you want, regardless of surroundings
Free speech is…being able to say what you want, do what you want and be free. It’s what our fathers wanted. It’s what this country was founded on.
Free speech is…saying whatever the hell you want!!!
Free speech is…having the ability to say what you want.
Free speech is…rewarding
Free speech is…FREE!!!
Free speech is…being able to have your own opinion
Free speech is…amazing
Free speech is…cunt, fuck
Free speech is…Thomas Scott screaming during “Better Get Hit In Your Soul”
Free speech is…being able to exercise my rights of speech wherever I want, whenever I want.
Free speech is…the right to say “Fuck you, you suck.”
Free speech is…my freedom of expression and freedom from oppression. It is the joy of my life.
Free speech is…the right of any U.S. citizen to express their opinions verbally in a respectful and responsible manner
Free speech is…expressing your beliefs and opinions without physically or mentally harming others
Free speech is…the ability to express your beliefs without persecution
Free speech is…being able to say FUCK YOU LONGWOOD on Brock Commons without being written up by J-Board
Free speech is…awesome
Free speech is…[blank]
Free speech is…shit, fuck, bitch, slut, honesty, ability, openness, rich, poor
Free speech is…writing poems about sex
Free speech is…fucking bullshit assholes! GO OBAMA!!!
Free speech is…A Constitutional Right
Free speech is…cheese
Free speech is…our president elect is a MUSLIM
Free speech is…saying things while intoxicated
Free speech is…America
Free speech is…being able to say whatever you want and you cannot be held accountable for it, no matter how drastic it is
Free speech is…MINE
Free speech is…our god given right as people
Free speech is…[a smiley face saying] Free!
Free speech is…saying how you feel without fear of persecution or death
Free speech is…the greatest thing in America God bless USA
Free speech is…having the right to say what I want as long as it doesn’t hurt another person
Free speech is…live, laugh, love
Free speech is…peace, love, happiness
Free speech is…America!
Free speech is…I say what I want, yo!
Free speech is…is it worth if no one’s listening?
Free speech is…the commonwealth
Free speech is…amazing…fuck
Free speech is…having Obama as president
Free speech is…awesome
Free speech is…go Lancers
Free speech is…able to say what I like [smiley face]
Free speech is…standing up for a cause and not being persecuted
Free speech is…being able to say something sucks
Free speech is…the foundation of America fuck yea
Free speech is…give me the guitar that is free speech…
Free speech is…be free, fuck the man…
Free speech is…awesome
Free speech is…the ability to say what you want
Free speech is…one of the defining characteristics of the U.S.
Free speech is…the freedom that leads to all others
Free speech is…wonderful
Free speech is…my ability to write this
Free speech is…saying whatever the fuck I want when I want however I want
Free speech is…the ability to speak my mind
Free speech is…a perfect explanation of speech that is all right to say in certain locations and situation
Free speech is…CUNT [smiley face]
Free speech is…amazing!
Free speech is…the basis of our being.
Free speech is…amazing!
Free speech is…being able to express yourself without feeling guilty
Free speech is…the right to say whatever you want!!
Free speech is…your right to keep your opinion public.
Free speech is…saying whatever you want as long as it does not hurt others physically
Free speech is…to say what you want, when you want to.
Free speech is…protected through the 1st Amendment, yet being taken down through court bases and the Bush Administration while the populace is too scared by threat of terrorists who don’t exist to say anything.
Free speech is…the ability to hold an unfavorable opinion.
Free speech is…totally AWESOME!
Free speech is…being yourself without fear of anything
Free speech is…saying whatever you want as long as that speech doesn’t threaten those around you
Free speech is…not needing to worry about what you belief regardless of race, social class, social class, and most importantly, who you are.
Free speech is…wonderful
Free speech is…hippopotamus
Free speech is…[smiley face saying] freedom
Free speech is…not recognized
Free speech is…the right to vote
Free speech is…essential
Free speech is…cool
Free speech is…winning this guitar
Free speech is…BALLER
Free speech is…“my president elect is not black! He’s bi-racial”
Free speech is…free
Free speech is…your personal thoughts, feelings, perceptions, opinions, to beliefs expressed vocally or written without legal repercussions or persecutions
Free speech is…one of the greatest rights in the constitution and should be taken advantage of!
Free speech is…free
Free speech is…be able to say whatever you want
Free speech is…America
Free speech is…3x as free as air
Free speech is…3x as free
Free speech is…the shit
Free speech is…happy
Free speech is…wisdom
Free speech is…great in some instances, bad in others
Free speech is…singing on the pot
Free speech is…the power to voice one’s opinion vocally without hesitation or doubt
Free speech is…speaking truth
Free speech is…not saying a word at all and letting your heart scream His name!
Free speech is…wonderful!
Free speech is…good
Free speech is…saying what you feel
Free speech is…purple cheese
Free speech is…what this country was built on
Free speech is…saying what you want to say without holding back
Free speech is…the right to do and say what I want…with Chex cereal
Free speech is…the right one has to speak without fear of consequence from the government
Free speech is…expression and tolerance
Free speech is…something to talk about
Free speech is…being able to say “no” without reprisal
Free speech is…randomly busting out in song in a crowd
Free speech is…the ability to say what you truly feel without censorship or risk of persecution
Free speech is…the ability to say what’s on one’s mind
Free speech is…a leather in pouring rain
Free speech is…being able to write this
Free speech is…illegal!
Free speech is…saying what you want to say, resisting and existing
Free speech is…writing a letter to the editor of The Rotunda, defending the right of an author to have an opinion
Free speech is…whatever I think it is
Free speech is…a joke
Free speech is…puff puff pass
Free speech is…a lie and we must fight to regain it
Free speech is…[picture of spongebob]
Free speech is…pretty ballin’
Free speech is…fuck yeah
Free speech is…a must!!!
Free speech is…the epitome of freedom
Free speech is…a never-ending battle to hit the man
Free speech is…a joke
Free speech is…a pretty cool guy, and says shit about folks and doesn’t afraid of the FCC
Free speech is…saying and doing whatever the fuck I want
Free speech is…being myself
Free speech is…awesome
Free speech is…kicking ass and taking names
Free speech is…being able to offend all the wrong people
Free speech is…pretty cool
Free speech is…proof of excellence still clinging to this world!
Free speech is…the most basic of human rights
Free speech is…saying what you believe in without consequences
Free speech is…impeach Bush!
Free speech is…[smiley face]
Free speech is…priceless
Free speech is…free expression and a free guitar from the guys who are expressing the free guitar
Free speech is…America
Free speech is…bitchin’!
Free speech is…freedom to critique
Free speech is…arousing
Free speech is…the backbone of our country, and the sole reason we have survived and thrived
Free speech is…important for a functioning society
Free speech is…Fuck the Police!!!
Free speech is…being human
Free speech is…the foundation of our youth
Free speech is…expressing one’s opinion, without fear of duress
Free speech is…purple
Free speech is…a free guitar for Jon Rickers, if this ticket gets drawn
Free speech is…that I’m a happy person
Free speech is…fuck*ng awesome
Free speech is…love
Free speech is…not only the right to say what you want, but believing it
Free speech is…consequence-free verbalige
Free speech is…having the right to contradict yourself
Free speech is…worth a Johnson guitar
Free speech is…fucking fantastic…
Free speech is…the ability to believe what you say
Free speech is…having sex
Free speech is…speaking with no remorse or consequence
Free speech is…saying the first thing that comes to mind without thought
Free speech is…the freedom to say what I believe…FUCK THE POLICE…just kidding…maybe
Free speech is…a unique gift we should all cherish
Free speech is…more or less a feeling and right of the people to be able to express his or herself however they choose, to create their own point, for everyone to know
Free speech is…Jesus fucking god damn Christ-sucking anal rape on a cunt-licking fag-cunt’s ass
Free speech is…the right to say or print one’s opinion on any given matter at any given point in time without negative repercussions due to laws
Free speech is…my ability to write this without fear of being “abducted” by the establishment
Free speech is…like finding $20 in your pocket: you don’t always remember it but when you do remember it, it’s awesome
Free speech is…being able to express yourself in a way that should garner no negativity or persecution, unless that speech is intended to harm
Free speech is…Rockin’ to Rock n’ Roll however the way I want!
Free speech is…arousing
Free speech is…over-rated
Free speech is…where good conversation comes from…and allows me to sing in the shower
Free speech is…a white kid wearing a Wu-Tang shirt
Free speech is…”Dig It?”
Free speech is…not always free
Free speech is…SCREAMING
Free speech is…the right to say what you think and what you believe without the pressure of being judged
Free speech is…our right to speech however we feel like it
Free speech is…the basis of America
Free speech is…Dan Akroyd, naked, filtering vodka through diamonds, naked (again), singing “Row, row, row your boat”
Free speech is…[German Spongebob]
Free speech is…[girl with a shiner]
Free speech is…the ability to express yourself and your opinions in anyway you like. Not just verbally, but any way you like.
Free speech is…anything you want it to be.
Free speech is…the single most important characteristic of America. It’s the freedom to be an individual
Free speech is…drunk dialing your ex-girlfriend, deleting her number, and apologizing two years later on Facebook
Free speech is…music
and is free for everyone
regardless of law
Free speech is…the single most terrible thing that has happened to anyone, anywhere…But I’m entitled to say that
Free speech is…saying what you mean and getting away with it
Free speech is…screaming as loud as you can at the Eiffel Tower
Free speech is…REALLY BITCHIN’
Free speech is…saying what you feel
Free speech is…something that should be respected, with no questions asked
Free speech is…being a Hot MILF someday
Free speech is…telling the person you are in love with, who happens to be engaged, that you can’t live without them, while yelling it to the whole world
Free speech is…knocking up a random girl and spreading rumors that she’s a whore
Free speech is…whatever you want it to be
Free speech is…the right to say and do things, regardless of whether or not they are the best things to say or do
Col. J.D. Wilkes on stress
November 6, 2008 by tes274“Pinetree Boogie” from the album “Cockadoodledon’t” by the Colonel’s band, The Legendary Shack Shakers
Got an eyeful of moonlight
Shine down through the trees
Fell down by my bedside
All moony for sleep
But I woke right up, yall
Just to cut my hair
Don’t want no whippoorwills
To make a nest in there.
So I burned ‘em up, boys,
Like the colored man said
Got a garnet gem, ya’ll,
Bound around my head.
Now I’m nestin’ high
Them needles underneath
The Lord likes the pines y’all
Best of all his trees.
Pinetree Boogie, Pinetree Boogie, Pinetree Boogie
Do it all night lo-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-ooh, all night long
Tripp-y Thoughts
October 22, 2008 by tes274From the novel “Wonder Boys” by Michael Chabon:
Albert Vetch…was the first real writer I knew. He set a kind of example that, as a writer, I’ve been living up to ever since. I only hope that I haven’t invented him.
I found myself going over a particular troublesome scene in the novel, for the one thousand and seventy-third time, in the manner of a lunatic ape in a cage at the zoo, running his fingers back and forth along the iron bars of his home.
I knew I shouldn’t have, but I did it all the same; and there you have my epitaph, or one of them, because my grave is going to require a monument inscribed on all four sides with rueful mottoes, in small characters, set close together.
There’s nothing more embarrassing than to have earned the disfavor of a perceptive animal
The Secret Truth About Midgets
October 20, 2008 by tes274With classwork and work-work, it’s easy to lose focus of what should be the most important thing in our lives: The Wire.
Here are some quotes:
McNulty: It’s got dots, Deputy loves dots.
Landsman: Fuck you and your fucking dots.
***
McNulty: I’m late for soccer practice.
Bubbles: Suck what?
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Cheese: You know who got the best ass and pussy? Midgets, yo. I’m not even playin’
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Chris: We good?
Snoop: Yeah, man. Man say if you wanna shoot nails, this here the Cadillac, man. Meant Lexus but he ain’t know it.
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Slim Charles: Don’t matter who did what to who at this point. Fact is, we went to war and there ain’t no turnin’ back. I mean, shit, it’s what war is, you know? Once you in it, you in it. If it’s a lie, then we fight on that lie. But we gotta fight.
This week’s mantra
October 7, 2008 by tes274From “The Blues Brothers”:
“Our Lady of Blessed Acceleration, don’t fail me now!”
The Asimov Paradox
September 30, 2008 by tes274I recently posed this riddle: Is Asimov dead, or is he a wine critic for the New York Times?
The answer? He is both.
Isaac Asimov, Russian-born professor of biochemistry, prolific author of science-fiction, died in 1992. He wrote close to five hundred books. Not short stories, but novels, big ole books…five hundred of them. And according to Wikipedia, his work is available in nine out ten major categories of the Dewey Decimal System. He is attributed to have said, “If someone told me I had six minutes to live, I would type faster.”
Some of his story collections include:
I, Robot (1950)
The Martian Way and Other Stories (1955)
Earth Is Room Enough (1957)
Nine Tomorrows (1959)
The Rest of the Robots (1964)
Through a Glass, Clearly (1967)
Nightfall and Other Stories (1969)
The Early Asimov (1972)
The Best of Isaac Asimov (1973)
Buy Jupiter and Other Stories (1975)
The Bicentennial Man and Other Stories (1976)
The Complete Robot (1982)
The Winds of Change and Other Stories (1983)
The Alternate Asimovs (1986)
The Best Science Fiction of Isaac Asimov (1986)
Robot Dreams (1986)
Azazel (1988)
Robot Visions (1990)
Gold (1995)
Magic (1995)
Isaac was survived by many relatives, including a nephew who is chief wine critic for the New York Times: Eric Asimov. Although not as prolific as his uncle, Eric has published a number of books, including:
$25 and Under: A Guide to the Best Inexpensive Restaurants in New York, 1995
$25 and Under: A Guide to the Best Inexpensive Restaurants in New York, 1996
$25 and Under: A Guide to the Best Inexpensive Restaurants in New York, 1997
$25 and Under: A Guide to the Best Inexpensive Restaurants in New York, 1998
Among little Eric’s more famous quotes:
“I’ve thought a lot recently about the intersection of price and value in the context of everyday wines, and I’ve opened a lot of bottles in search of that sweet spot.”
Jack Handey on finding humor
September 24, 2008 by tes274“In general, the easiest way to locate the Humor section in any bookstore is to go through the front entrance of the bookstore and to the farthest point from the entrance. That’s where the Humor section will be. If the bookstore has a second floor, the Humor section will be on the second floor, at the farthest point from the entrance. If the second floor has a window that can be jimmied open, and there’s a ledge outside, the Humor section will be at the very end of the ledge. “
Read the whole essay here:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/21/books/review/Handey-t.html?ref=books
The Best Three Seconds, Ever
September 21, 2008 by tes274
I’ve recently been listening to nothing but Amy Winehouse on the morning drive to school. It’s changing my life, mostly in the hearing area. You can’t play “You Know I’m No Good” at a low volume. At the very least, the sound must be loud enough to vibrate the rear-view mirror.
That song, actually, has become a double hazard for me. At the end of the second verse, after she says “I cried for you on the kitchen floor,“ the drummer sets down the most sexy, concise fill in contemporary soul music. It lasts from 1:50-1:52. He kicks hard on the base and then claps down the high-hat, creating a hiss like when you drop the lid on a boiling pot. The beauty of the lick is in the maturity of his restraint. Most drummers would play something much showier. By bucking this convention, he reinforces the mournful tone of the chorus, serving the song, not himself.
Whenever I hear it I have to listen to it again, and again. I’ve become more concerned with the rewind button than the stop lights on Main Street. It would be ideal if my CD player began to skip on that drum fill, and I could listen to it forever.
