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Who kicked ass on the oral arguments? Oh yes, that would be me. I made the sharp little gestures. I was confident. I hit the roadmap like an anvil to a cartoon head.

Oh and that rebuttal! That was the greatest. (1) Standard of Review, come on! WTF!?! (2) She traded for it. That is so not the same is it just being in a drawer! (3) This lady grows weed. She is totally a danger to society.

Yeah, it was great.

Tonight Bronwyn's house is throwing a boardgames and tiki drinks party. Oh yeah little umbrellas! It'll completely be like 1953 or something.

Now I'm going running.

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So Sarah and Ashley and two of their housemates and I went dancing at The Black Cat. Lots of high-schoolers there, which was cool. They were fun. They made me smile with their fresh enthusiasm, the halloween costume jewelry, and off-the-shoulder fashions. They were adorable. Another high-school girl asked me to dance with her and her friend. "But I can't dance," her friend insisted. "Look around," I said, "half these people can't dance either." It was true. (Gosh you should have seen the guy in the leather jacket. Robin I miss you.) I smiled at them and went back to dancing with Sarah.

The DJ was good, not excellent. She pulled some interesting things that I can't quite remember now. She wore red sequin boots and had tattoes all over her arms and shoulders. I was scared and awed by her. But not enough Cure songs. There are never enough Cure songs.

Okay, to bed now. In less than 12 hours I have to be in front of a pretend appellate court, wearing my suit and acting more aggressive than I did at practice, at least that's the advice I got.
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• Registration is going to be a no-brainer and I will for sure get the classes that I want either fall or spring.
• The Post gave that new movie, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, a good review.
• I have a secret. Don't worry, it doesn't mean much to any of you. But it's very important.

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QUESTION: Change of subject to Haiti?

Now it's not only Aristide who is making accusations about the U.S. role in his departure, but also, Maxine Waters has made remarks today saying that the U.S. Government had a hand in helping the opposition threaten Aristide. She went so far as to question whether the U.S. actually organized a coup, blaming Noriega in particular.

I know we've been through refuting many of these allegations, but I guess you have to do it again.

MR. ERELI: Consider them refuted. They're not true.

President Aristide voluntarily, of his own volition and his own initiative, with no coercion, resigned as president of Haiti and left the country in order to spare that country further bloodshed, which was the result of his misrule.

QUESTION: (Inaudible) she's calling this another regime change by the U.S. Anything -- with that in particular -- she says it's a policy of regime change, and pre-emptive strikes on Haiti.

MR. ERELI: Where to start. First of all, it wasn't pre-emptive, because the country was falling apart. We tried to work with all parties to come to a peaceful solution. When that proved impossible, and when violence was threatening to tear the country apart and to produce a horrific repeat of what it had been through ten years ago, Aristide, in assessing the situation, as I said, decided to do the wise thing and spare his country further suffering and resign. That was something that he decided to do.

So it wasn't the United States supporting regime change, it was the decision of the leader of Haiti that it was in the interest of his country that he leave. And he decided to do that, and he resigned. And he wrote his own letter of resignation, and he asked us what we could do to help him leave.

QUESTION: If I could follow up. I don't know if Teri brought this up, but there are some accounts that he claims that he was actually brought to the airport under some kind of rouse that he was about to have a press conference -- I don't know if you've seen the reports -- and that -- I mean, and apparently those are backed up by -- on the record by one of the pilots, and that the U.S. military said that they were going to transport him securely to a press conference and, in fact, took him to the airport, and then put him on a plane.

MR. ERELI: False. Completely, utterly without basis.

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3/17/2004
4:45PM
System diagnostics have indicated an imminent hardware failure with the E-Mail system.
System administrators are working to resolve the issue.
We apologize for any inconvenience.

This is very annoying. I have important things to write to people about.

My power adaptor is also broken. It won't charge my battery. A woman at a phonebank that was outsourced to India will get me another one, but not for a week. No battery power for a week.
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So you know those dreams you have in which bad things happen and then you wake up and you're just so relieved that it isn't real? Usually for me it involves my bike being stolen. But last night it involved me eating housemate Tim Kennel's CDs. I think I ate about a half-dozen. They were thin, crispy, and just a little sweet, a lot like those anise wafers my mother used to buy when I was in high school. I was hungry, so I ate them. I was so upset afterwards. I thought, "How am I going to explain this to Tim?" and "How am I going to pay for replacements?" and "That was a really expensive snack!" But then I woke up and realized that I hadn't eaten the CDs at all and it was fine. What a relief.

In other news: bored? lonely?
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I'm back in DC now. This will have to be 'goodbye' for everyone who I didn't get to see one last time before I returned. I had a really nice ride home, getting some Contracts work done last night and a little Civ Pro done this morning, though I'm not quite sure if I understand the Civ Pro stuff. I do understand the Contracts, which is good because I might miss class tomorrow to legal observe. But yeah, no screaming babies, though a conductor did lose his temper and shout at a passenger. I considered doing something, but the passenger herself called Amtrak from her cell phone to complain and that sounded like enough. I didn't really see the incident anyway, as I was curled up waiting for Toledo to go away. But it was weird.

Things look uglier from the train. I think it's because no one thinks to keep the back of their property looking nice. Graffiti and trash accumulates on the back side of buildings. No one thinks about people like me, watching out the train window.
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At Harvard Business School, thirty years ago, George Bush was a student of mine. I still vividly remember him. In my class, he declared that "people are poor because they are lazy."

"There's many reasons not to use real firemen," retorted one Bush media adviser. "Mainly, its cheaper and quicker."

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And thanks so much to Meg who missed class to pick me up. She is the greatest. And here is my journal competition entry. It sucks, but not for reasons which are likely to be immediately obvious to people who haven't subjected themselves to law school (i.e. citation) so I won't elaborate on them.

TABLE OF AUTHORITIES
Sanders v. Acclaim Entertainment, Inc., [2001-2002 Transfer Binder] Prod. Liab. Rep. (CCH) 57,944 (D. Colo. 200).

U.S. Const. amend. I.

Brandenburg v. Ohio, Russell L. Weaver & Arthur D. Hellman, The First Amendment 73 (2002).

Weirum v. RKO General, Inc., 539 P.2d 36, 40 (Cal. 1975).

DeFilippo v. National Broadcasting Co., Inc., 446 A.2d 1036 (R.I. 1982).

McCollum v. CBS, Inc., 249 Cal. App. 3d 989 (Cal. Ct. App. 1988).

Rice v. Paladin Enterprises, Inc., 25 Media L. Rep. (BNA) 2441 (4th Cir. Nov. 10, 1997).

Byers v. Edmondson, 712 So. 2d 681, 1998 La. App. LEXIS 1776, 29 Media L. Rep. 1982 (May 15, 1998).

James v. Meow Media, Inc., No. 00-5922, slip op. at 22-23 (6th Cir. Aug. 13, 2002).

145 Cong. Rec. H4407 (daily ed. July 23, 2001) (statement of Rep. Osborne).

Marjorie Heins et al., Violence and the Media: An Exploration of Cause, Effect, and the First Amendment (First Amendment Center 2001).

Carl F. Horowitz, Teenage Wasteland, Reason, Feb. 2004, at 50.

Clay Calvert & Robert R. Richards, New Millennium, Same Old Speech: Technology Changes, but the First Amendment Issues Don’t, 79 B. U. L. Rev. 959 (1999).

Juliet Dee, Basketball Diaries, Natural Born Killers and School Shootings: Should There be Limits on Speech Which Triggers Copycat Violence?, 77 Denv. U. L. Rev. 713 (2000).

Karen Abbott, Judge Says Nintendo, Others Didn’t Cause Harris and Klebold to Carry Out Killings, Rocky Mountain News, Mar. 5, 2002, available at http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/columbine/article/0,1299,DRMN_106_1014458,00.html.

OBJECTIVE PORTION

On April 20 at about 11:20 in the morning Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold arrived at Columbine High School armed with guns and other “implements of destruction.” Sanders v. Acclaim Entertainment, Inc.,[2001-2002 Transfer Binder] Prod. Liab. Rep. (CCH) 57,944, 57,945 (D. Colo. 200). They proceeded to kill twelve students and a teacher, William Sanders (“Sanders”). Id. In the investigation following the attack, police allegedly uncovered that the two consumed large amounts of obscene, violent, and sexually violent video games and movies. Id. at 57,946.

The plaintiffs, the widow and stepchildren of Sanders, brought an action in diversity for wrongful death against a number of video game and movie producers. Id. The plaintiffs claimed that but for the actions of the defendants, in conjunction with the actions of Harris and Klebold, the killings would not have occurred. Id. Chief Judge Babcock dismissed their action under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 12 (b)(6) for failing to state a claim upon which relief could be granted. Id. at 57,945.

The judge rejected the plaintiffs’ negligence claim on the grounds that the defendants owed no duty of care to the plaintiffs. Id. at 57,950. The judge also concluded that no reasonable jury could find that the defendants had caused the conduct that resulted in Sander’s death. Id. at 57,951. Finally, the judge concluded that the plaintiffs’ claims were blocked by the First Amendment. Id. at 57,954.

In finding that the defendants owed no duty of care to the plaintiffs, the judge considered four factors: (1) the foreseeability of the injury; (2) the social utility of the conduct of the defendants; (3) the burden of guarding against harm; and (4) the likely consequences of placing that burden on the defendants. Id. at 57,948. The judge found that any foreseeability of this specific injury was “speculative” at best. Id. He also noted that other courts have found no duty in similar circumstances. Id. The judge noted that a Kentucky court in a case involving very similar circumstances found that media defendants could not have foreseen this sort of attack resulting from their actions. Id. 57,948-49, (citing James v. Meow Media, Inc., 90 F.Supp.2d 798, 804, 806 (W.D.Ky. 2000)).

The judge found that the defendants’ conduct - creation of works of imagination - contributes significantly to the social welfare. Id. at 57,949. The fact that the plaintiffs characterized the material as “violent” did not lead the judge to discount the material’s social value. Id. The judge noted that violence is part of many stories throughout history. Id. The judge further questioned the notion that society would be better off if the sensitive were protected from violent images. Id. (citing American Amusement Mach. Ass’n v. Kendrick, 244 F.3d 572, 577 (7th Cir. 2001), cert. denied, 122 S.Ct. 462 (2001)).

The judge combined the final two factors, evaluating together the magnitude of the burden on guarding against injury and the consequences of placing the burden on the defendants. Id. at 57,950. The judge found that Colorado courts “repeatedly reject efforts to impose overly burdensome and impractical obligations on defendants, including the obligation to identify potential dangers.” Id. (citing Davenport v. Community Corrections, 962 P.2d 963, 969 (Colo. 1998)). The judge also found that the magnitude of the burden that would be imposed on the defendants were they to be found liable would be “daunting” and would “chill their rights of free expression.” Id.

Finding that all four factors weigh against imposing a duty on the defendants, the judge found no duty. Id.

Additionally, the judge found that no reasonable jury could find that the defendants caused the injury. Id. at 57,951. The judge found that the actions of Harris and Klebold formed a superseding cause that the defendants could not have anticipated. Id. The judge held that as a matter of law, causation was not present. Id.

The judge considered several First Amendment issues. The judge noted that courts protect video games under the First Amendment because they contain messages. Id. at 57,953. The fact that they are entertainment does not preclude them from carrying messages. Id.

The judge held that the defendants speech was not incitement under the Brandenburg test. Id. (citing Brandenburg v. Ohio, 395 U.S. 444 (1969)). Inciting speech is not protected. Id. The defendants’ speech, however, was not incitement because it was made without any intent that it would lead to illegal activitiy. Id. at 57,954. The defendants’ speech was also not “likely” to produce “imminent lawless action,” as the Brandenburg test requires. Id.

Finally, the judge found that the plaintiffs failed to develop a theory for restricting defendants’ speech to minors that would meet the Supreme Court requirement that such restriction be “narrowly tailored.” Id. The plaintiffs’ theory would restrict the defendants’ speech to all persons. Id.

SUBJECTIVE PORTION

This ruling in Sanders v. Acclaim Entertainment, Inc. is consistent with a reluctance on the part of the courts to find media defendants liable when viewers engage in violent acts allegedly as a result of consuming the media. The high-profile nature of the facts may mean that this ruling will further entrench this reluctance in the courts. A threat to this tendency could come from the realm of social science. However, social science shows no signs of coming to a consensus on the effects of media. Furthermore, serious questions exist as to whether psychological research can even be capable of determining the effects of media. Finally, even were we able to know the effects of media on behavior, we would be faced with the equally difficult question of determining whether restricting media to reduce violent behavior is a desirable option.

The decision in Sanders is in line with the requirement of courts that the defendant have the intent that the speech result in dangerous or criminal activity for the speech to be left unprotected by the First Amendment. Where speech is “directed to inciting or producing imminent lawless action and is likely to incite or produce such action” it is not protected by the First Amendment. Brandenburg v. Ohio, Russell L. Weaver & Arthur D. Hellman, The First Amendment 73, 75 (2002). Courts are unwilling to find that media can incite criminal action when the media does not “intend” a violent response and when that response is not “imminent” or “likely.” James v. Meow Media, Inc., No. 00-5922, slip op. at 22-23 (6th Cir. Aug. 13, 2002) (holding that media defendants’ speech is protected under Brandenburg and did not “incite” a school shooting). Cases where courts do find that media incited illegal activity are rare exceptions where the defendant intends the response and the response is highly foreseeable. Weirum v. RKO General, Inc., 539 P.2d 36, 40 (Cal. 1975) (finding that a radio station offering prizes at various locations could foresee that listeners would drive dangerously to arrive at those locations); Rice v. Paladin Enterprises, Inc., 25 Media L. Rep. (BNA) 2441, 2469 (4th Cir. Nov. 10, 1997) (holding that only in rare cases where media defendants intend for their materials to be used to assist a crime can they be found liable). The court’s finding in Sanders that the defendants are not liable because they did not intend and could not have foreseen the violence they allegedly caused is in keeping with this precedent.

If any further challenges to the line of cases finding media defendants not liable arise, their likelihood of success may be dampened by the high profile of the facts in this case. If anything could have overturned this series of cases it seems likely to be the national shock at the shootings at Columbine High School and the general atmosphere of concern around school violence that existed in the late 1990s after several high-profile incidents. Juliet Dee, Basketball Diaries, Natural Born Killers and School Shootings: Should There be Limits on Speech Which Triggers Copycat Violence?, 77 Denv. U. L. Rev. 713, 713 (2000) (listing high-profile incidents of school violence and noting national concern). However, it did not do so.

A challenge to the precedent of no liability for media defendants could emerge from social science, but is unlikely to do so for several reasons. Strong scientific evidence of a link between consuming violent media and violent activities could conceivably create a situation where courts would impose strict products liability on media defendants for the violent actions of consumers. However, this seems unlikely in the near future, given the present divides among social scientists as to whether media violence leads individuals to engage in real-life violence. See Marjorie Heins et al., Violence and the Media: An Exploration of Cause, Effect, and the First Amendment, 4 (First Amendment Center 2001) (noting the deep divisions in psychology as to why humans act violently). Furthermore, it is uncertain that psychologists could even formulate studies that would answer this question. See id. at 7-8 (pointing out the artificiality of the lab environment and the multitude of factors that confuse results in correlational studies).

Finally, even were social scientists to prove conclusively a link between the consumption of violent media and violent acts by the consumers, we would be left with perhaps an even more difficult question: do we want to restrict speech in order to prevent lawlessness? Killings incited by music, movies, or video games are certainly tragic, but does the prevention of a handful of murders really justify the restrictions on speech that might be necessary to prevent them? Might we not decide that free speech has such value to a democratic society that we are willing to accept the cost in blood?
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American History X to his Transforming Conflict and Violence class tonight. I met the group, all first years I think, in AD 36, and with one student's help put the DVD on (technology is not my friend).

Two hours and a lot of graphic violence, hate mongering, near redemption and wrongful death later, we all sat there stunned. I had never seen the movie before.

I got up to turn off the DVD, and the group of kids not much younger than I looked at me with wide eyes. It seemed like they wanted to talk about the movie, but I didn't know where to begin; I was too shocked myself. I asked them if they wanted to share anything that was on their minds. They looked at me with wide eyes some more. I told them I didn't want to keep them, and they silently filed out of the room.

Now I need to do homework, yet I imagine it will be several days before I'm able to shake those images out of my head.
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This dude is so invited to Wednesday's Super Spring Ultimate Frisbee Showdown featuring GC Science faculty vs. Science students. It's gonna rock. All you Science students out there better be there (10:30 a.m. on the Coffman lawn), and if Vic Koop is reading this, a word to the wise: I'm gonna own your ass.

And that's the double-truth, Ruth.
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Also: you (and everybody else) is hereby invited every weeknight at 6pm (except Wednesdays) for a delicious supper at Brick House. We're going to rock this thing till we run out of money/energy/time. We'll see how far we get.
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Clue

Hey well if you go on Friday I'd be able to swing it. Saturday night I'll be riding the train.

Schedule for this afternoon:

• 2:30 - Leave house
• 3:30 - Print out journal competition entry
• 4:00 - Turn in entry
• 4:30 - Head to Union Station
• 5:20 - Hop train to Elkhart!

All this to be done while carrying two very heavy bags. Oh yeah.

In other news: see you all soon!
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Clue: The Musical Update

So far, Kanagy and Celeste have responded to say that they are interested in going (and perhaps some other people from Torba). If we would go as a group, I would only be able to go either of the following times (because of conflicts with my Torba schedule): the 12th or 13th (Fri. or Sat.) at 8 P.M. Student tickets are $12 each.
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12 Reasons Same-Sex Marriages Will Ruin Society
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Sunday, March 07, 2004

MEG!

Ok, first thing you do is call this number: 1-800-872-7245.
Then say these things to a computer program named Julie:

• "Train Status" when they ask what you want to do
• "Yes" that you do know your train number
• "Two nine" for train twenty-nine
• "Arrival" for arrival times
• "Elkhart, Indiana" for the station
• "Tuesday" for the day you want to know about

Don't use the website. It doesn't work. But do check the number to know what time I'll be in. I'm supposed to get in at 9:04am Tuesday morning, but we'll see about that.

To get to the station, take 33 north towards Elkhart. Just keep following South Main Street into town. You'll cross East Indiana Avenue, then Prairie Street, then in about a third of a mile you'll be at the station. 131 Tyler Avenue, to be specific.

Also, I saw a guy with a District of Corruption shirt today while walking to church. Also: Meg, I love you.
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I think Derek may have won this round....
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Blog

Blog blog bloggity blog. Bloggiferous, bloggifery, bloggacious bloggy blog. Blogoneous, blognastic blogger. Blogunctious Bloggorean. Blogibly bloggible, blogtastic, blogtankerous blognacular. Blogterically blogarious. Blogstipated blognarian. Blogsexual bloggette. ... Blog.
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Saturday, March 06, 2004

I just got engaged too!
to the blog! ha, who loves the blog more, now? bitch.
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Jeff and Vanessa and Engaged!

Yeah, so that's basically it. Jeff is my housemate and Vanessa is his girlfriend of several years. I mean, we all saw it coming for the past month, but last night it finally happened. Ang decorated the house by herself this afternoon. She thought I'd already left for Goshen. In reality I was hiding in my room, writing my Journal competition entry and mostly goofing off. I like my new bed. It has lots of space for scattering books and papers about me as I work. And now I'm going to blow off the rest of the evening with a little impromptu party, even though I still need to finish the objective part, write the subjective part, and (biggest of all) prepare the table of authorities. But I do have a good outline...

They haven't set an exact date yet, of course, but they're thinking about June 2005. That's a long way off, at least in my opinion, especially when they've already been together so long. I want the wedding now! But of course there are the usual mixed feelings on the subject.
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How much we love our BLOG
The first page of blogs had the word "blog" 24 times throughout the page. This page has it only 3 times. Perhaps we don't love our blog as much as we used to? nahh. We still love our blog. I love you blog. Blog.
in blog,
-meg

Note: After this post, I will have upped the "blog" count to 14. It looks like I love the blog the most. blog.
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OMG, Happy Birthday everyone!




It has been such an honor to be part of this great virtual community. Here's to another great year of blogging!


Also: Kate, when is the Shoup merchandise going to go up? Do you need any help?
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Friday, March 05, 2004

march 6, 2003
i'm having so much fun, i'm afraid i might forget:
happy 1st birthday!
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Anyone up for some theater?

Would anybody like to go see Clue: The Musical at the Elkhart Civic Theatre sometime? I love the board game and I love the movie, but I'm excited to see what will happen to it when you add music! The dates are March 5, 6, 12, 13, 14, 18, 19 & 20. I think it would be fun to get a group together. Contact me somehow if you would like to go.
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I saw ben stiller!
I got a call from the film people. Score!! we'll see what sunday brings...
The place where we stayed ruled until the cable company stop letting us use the internet or watch television because they owner-dude didn't pay the bill. dumb fuck. How the hell am I supposed to live without internet. arrgh. poop head.
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Sun
It's a sunny and warm Friday afternoon in DC, and everyone is happy. Female GW students have, as required by law, stripped down to the bare essentials while male GW students wander around in Abercrombie shorts, trying to look cool. Secretaries wait at the bus stop in long black jackets that seemed so necessary in the morning but that they now wish that they hadn't worn. Hot-shot investment bankers in convertable coupes with the tops down pull out in front of lawyers in SUVs. The lawyers honk. Janitors chat and smile on cigarette break out front of offices. A man on a church lawn has abandoned the brown paper bag of winter and is drinking his Bud Ice cheerfully unemcumbered. Clusters of schoolchildren walk home, talking loudly. A man in a white t-shirt is carrying an energy drink in his right hand and has what looks for all the world like an albino boa constrictor draped over his shoulders. "Is it real?" I slow down to ask him. "Don't you see it moving?" he retorts. "Shit," I say. Everyone in DC is happy.
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I still don't have a tan...
Some how I've managed to visit Arizona on it's worst days. It's almost exactly like Indiana temperature and climate wise... but it's so much more beautiful here. Tucson is right inbetween some really amazing mountains. If I could afford it, I'd love to move out here some day. I really like the Mexican influence here. And I think I can survive easily without grass or giant shady trees.
So far I've seen a hawk, a lot of rabbits, some golfers, purple cacti, and an attack of quails. (I'm telling you, they want to take over the world...) It's really odd.. I've been waking up at 7a here because there's a two hour time difference.. and like Indiana, Arizona doesn't change times. So I've actually been going to bed at 8 or 9p here...
Anyway.. It's nice to be away.. even just for a few days. Now, I must go, my Aunt has scheduled my mom and I for a hot rock/stone massage... yay for relaxation and a lot of shopping!
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Thursday, March 04, 2004

So the appellate brief is done, and now it's time for journal competition. Not quite sure why I'm doing this. Everybody else is, I guess that's my reason. And I already bought my train ticket for Monday night anyway, so what else would I do with my weekend?

Last night was NLG meeting, which was cool. Miles from UDC and Andrea from American and I are going to get a meeting on and throw together some stuff. Yeah. And we'll get Quasim from Georgetown in on it, too. Should be a good time. I like them.

Oh, and don't go to Buffalo Billiards. Too friggin' expensive.

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what's up at alamo laboratory?
a photo of a panda bear. note the photog. ha!



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Wednesday, March 03, 2004

Jesus for dogs

A dogbone for anyone who can make heads or tails of this site.

Or someone who thinks they can do better. Just think of what you could do with lots of video captures of a trained monkey and George Bush's state of the union address.










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Brief is Done!

Yep, I printed them all out yesterday. Tonight I'm going out for Emily's birthday after the DC NLG meeting. This weekend will be full of journal competition. Celeste is on her way to visit Jenna in Boston, which is good because I'll need the time.

Somehow it's only 1:45 but it seems so much later. I often feel this way when I get up very early, but today I slept in until 8:30. Who knows?
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Tuesday, March 02, 2004

Safe-for-work porn

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I think out of any addictions one could have.. this one is the most entertaining..
I've been dancing to this particular one for a while this morning..
This only further excites me about my desires to go to Africa after finishing GC to just wander and film....
posted by Erini CS @ 4:54 PM 0 comments

thank you panasonic

posted by kate @ 4:03 PM 0 comments

Good Morning!

What a great day it's been. Okay, a couple of things:If you want fulfilling political/techy work after college (Schrocks, I am so looking at you), take this test and post yourself at MoveOn.org. Actually, isn't this kind of what Sue does? Family footsteps...

In congressional news, we are represented by an ass (maybe you knew this already) but Mark Kirk seems to be holding it down on this whole EPA/mercury business.

Lastly, Cannibal! The Musical is going down at Brick tonight. Dinner at 6pm (bring wine/dessert), movie following. Good times guaranteed.
posted by sasha @ 3:15 PM 0 comments

Blonde opposition to Chavez continues in Venezuela


posted by Unknown @ 6:08 AM 0 comments

County Seat, 9am

And now--after hamming it at 534, the Dembufsky (Bona-riffic!), the Pub and then 534 again--we fall into bed with early morning breakfast plans. At this point, we are reminded of one last William H. Davies poem. And yes, it is just as bad as the last one:

LIFE IS JOLLY

This life is jolly, O!
I envy no man's lot;
My eyes can much admire,
And still my heart crave not;
There's no true joy in gold,
It breeds desire for more;
Whatever wealth man has,
Desire can keep him poor.

This life is jolly, O!
Power has his fawning slaves,
But if he rests his mind,
Those wretches turn bold knaves.
Fame's field is full of flowers,
It dazzles as we pass,
But men who walk that field
Starve for the common grass.

This life is jolly, O!
Let others know they die,
Enough to know I live,
And make no question why;
I care not whence I came,
Nor whither I shall go;
Let others think of these--
This life is jolly, O!

Again, there you have it. This genius, who wrote "What is this life if, full of care, we have no time to stand and stare?", is pretty accurately summing up Spring Break so far.
posted by sasha @ 2:33 AM 0 comments

p.s.
the dood who lives in the hostel with us is NOT funny. he thinks he is, he wants to bae a stand-up comedian. no, REALLY. But he's horrible. OH dear, I wish the cable television worked...our only hope is the saving grace of a home video. God, if you would only send us, "analyse this," I would be eternally greatful.

p.p.s. I don't give a damn about spelling, so don't make fun of me
posted by meg @ 12:15 AM 0 comments

Go to see The Passion and give your life to Jesus.

Evidently, there was an unfortunate happening in Wichita, KS. I'm paraphrasing the following from imdb:

Mel Gibson's new film ... caused more controversy on Wednesday when a woman suffered a fatal heart attack during the graphic crucifixion scene. Peggy Scott, a 56-year-old advertising sales manager, suffered the seizure during the 25-minute scene in which Jesus ... gets nailed to the cross. She died before reaching [a] hospital. ...[A] local TV reporter described the incident: "She had a seizure during the crucifixion scene, which is very graphic. She was taken to [a] hospital, but later pronounced dead. I do not know if she had deep religious convictions, but she must have felt something to have been at the theater at 9:30 A.M. to watch this movie."
posted by D-Bo @ 12:09 AM 0 comments

Monday, March 01, 2004

GC Women Going to Fecking Nationals With Their Huge Basketballs of Glory

Man, the basketball team just did a great job of holding the fort and taking the Indiana Wesleyan people for a 70-64 ride. Wonderful! As a representation of how we all feel about the thing (before 534 and Pub-ing), here's a little poem I found. It is so for real.

A MAY MORNING

The sky is clear,
The sun is bright;
The cows are red,
The sheep are white;
Trees in the meadows
Make happy shadows.

Birds in the hedge
Are perched and sing;
Swallows and larks
Are on the wing:
Two merry cuckoos
Are making echoes.

Bird and the beast
Have the dew yet;
My road shines dry,
Theirs bright and wet:
Death gives no warning,
On this May morning.

I see no Christ
Nailed on a tree,
Dying for sin;
No sin I see:
No thoughts for sadness,
All thoughts for gladness.

I guess that's all I have to say about that.
posted by sasha @ 9:11 PM 0 comments

Updates from the big apple
This place is fucking amazing our hostel has free internet (note the blogging) and isn't really a hostel at all. it's really some apartment in washington heights that we share with the two guys who run the place and no one else! we have it all to ourselves!! It's, like, 6:15, and we're completely wiped. Pictures might be posted, although no promises....we haven't really done anything yet, but schmeh. Maybe some food would be nice. This place is completely decket out in Ikea stuff and bob marley is in the CD player, we have a kitchen with free tea and sugar and a free washing machine and dryer which means I lucked out because I only brought one change of clothes, score for me. Anyway, I highly recommend the place. It's the 1291 club, which means that sometimes ytou can get rooms for $12.91...not now though, but ours are only $20!!! score, this is SOOOO recommended. ooh, and I called the people with the film thing and I can SOOO SWING IT!!! I just have to get kate to cover for me in aesthetics and do a senior show and a hermeneutic and a methodology paper and a senior thesis all while working from 10 hours a day, 6 days a week, for three weeks starting next week, no sweat, I'm golden, shit, what the hell have I done!! umm... ok, time to go drown my anziety in beagels and pizza.
posted by meg @ 6:19 PM 0 comments

1. Hi Hallie!!! Happy birthday in advance, because i know i won't be able to come. Bleh. I DO really want to visit you'all sometime though.

2. Ok, all of you I'm-staying-in-Goshen-for-spring-break-losers (I can call you that I because I'm one too) should get your heinies over to 534 around 9:00 for pre-pub gaming! And if you aren't going to the pub, come anyway and just "game".

3. That's all.
posted by julia @ 4:03 PM 0 comments

What we should all be doing tonight

The GC women's basketball team beat Taylor again last Friday, putting them up against second-seeded Indiana Wesleyan in a big game tonight, 7pm in the RFC. I think it costs $2 to get in, but we can probably work it. Then, of course, get out of your oedipus funk at the Pube. Attendance mandatory. We'll see you there.
posted by sasha @ 12:23 PM 0 comments

in reference to sasha's "do something out of the ordinary" link:
i managed to to do most the suggestions:

- try that new restaurant you've always wanted to eat at! (Luna's: nachos, sweet potato fries and woodchuck cider) - get a new haircut! (my mom cut my hair) - walk, don't drive! (a 5 hour city hike mind you) - say hello to a friendly stranger! (talked with random couple from iowa and their baby outside of the UDC metro stop) - bring your mum flowers! (didn't do this, but i did take a picture of my dad licking a cops nipple)

i win.
posted by kate @ 3:02 AM 0 comments

I hate bragging.

OK, no I don't. I would just like to say that I was the official winner at the New World Players Oscar Gala this evening, correctly guessing 18 out of the 24 awards. Yay for me! I do have to add that, by far, the biggest disappointment for me was the best lead male actor going to Sean Penn. I love Sean, but I wanted to cry for the fact that Bill Murray didn't get it. He played such a sad character in the movie and I wanted him to be happy again. Also because this was his one chance; comedic actors are never nominated and it's so late in his career.
posted by D-Bo @ 1:03 AM 0 comments