Posts for August, 2005

August 31, 2005

A Matter of Principle

Turkey Armenia Orhan Pamuk Genocide WWI “denigration of Turkish identity” Istanbul Yerevan Kurds

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August 29, 2005

We Live!

This is going to seem odd, as most of the people who read this blog were present this weekend as the following events, but we write as if to the void, as always.
When you have some critical mass of guys from our circle of friends get together, you can be assured that the ensuing activites […]

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August 24, 2005

Yeah, it can be stressful, but my Mom’s an incredible cook too.

Home for two hours and I’ve already had a long talk with my mother about why I don’t currently have a girlfriend, and how, as long as if I won’t get angry because she’s afraid I’ll be pissed off, she knows some very nice Armenian girls in San Francisco whose parents have been asking after […]

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Psychosomatic Gastronomic Distress

Why is it that whenever I go home for a visit, I get a stress induced nauseating feeling in my gut? Oh right, I’m going home and get to be frustrated in nearly every conversation I have with my immediate family. This isn’t to say I don’t contribute to the dischord that occurs, but I […]

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August 23, 2005

Clash of the Titans

Oh you better believe that this was the most important slow pitch softball game to decide 5th place in a 7 team league that this mortal coil has ever seen.
On one side you have Changston’s company team. They have 800 employees to draw upon, a waiting list to join, and probably inject […]

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August 22, 2005

FSM


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August 21, 2005

Transition States (a double purpose post)

Jack Johnson - Do You Remember
Art Brut - Good Weekend
Birdie - Open Letter to Jenny

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August 17, 2005

The Cost of Tolerance

Whenever I see or hear the word tolerance, I think of a friend who once stated to me that he is a very tolerant person. He tolerates everyone around him despite their general incompetancy and frustrating lack of sharing his point of views on life. Of course, this is the same friend whose high school […]

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August 16, 2005

Miscellany for the day

My friend Loki here at work is in one of those phases where the group has some work to do, but a decent amount of lag time before the material arrives. Thus today he has provided me a few links I wish to share with the rest of you:

Christopher Walken in ‘08. Mr. Walken does […]

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Jesus

The tenacity of the internet and its denizens never fails to amaze me.
Hello, people of the web! I’d better start getting a LOT better about pseudonyms, for myself and others.

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