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    Monday, May 14th, 2007
    1:39 am
    Saturday, February 24th, 2007
    7:05 pm
    Dan Dennett is coming~
    Dennett's giving a lecture on March 29 entitled "How Can the Brain Be the Seat of Consciousness?"

    He's giving another lecture the following day entitled "The Domestication of Wild Religions."

    I'm going.

    You should too.

    Who's going?
    Monday, January 22nd, 2007
    1:36 pm
    Tuesday, December 12th, 2006
    4:02 am
    Sunday, November 26th, 2006
    12:22 am
    live from starlingrad
    Birds of Britain

    Current Mood: a bit guilty
    Wednesday, October 11th, 2006
    10:01 am
    I got a gold star.
    Teacher told me I was smart today.



    I made what my professor thought was an intelligent remark in my Evolutionary Psychology class today. We were talking about high-status individuals using positive reinforcement to keep their lower-status lieutenants in line.

    The irony was not lost on me.

    Current Mood: insufferablypleasedwithmyself
    Tuesday, September 19th, 2006
    12:27 pm
    Sunday, September 3rd, 2006
    1:49 pm
    There's a woman who works at IUB
    and her name is JEANNE POOLE.

    Current Mood: sick
    Saturday, August 26th, 2006
    5:43 pm
    Titus Andonicus
    The New Revels Players are auditioning for Romeo and Juliet and Titus Andronicus Wednesday.

    AUDITIONS for both shows will be held THIS WEDNESDAY, August 30th, in room 69 of the English Building (on the Quad). You can come in anytime between 6-10pm that night to impress us. WALK-INs are WELCOME!! For those of you experienced actors, we suggest that you bring in 14-16 lines of a Shakespearean monologue, memorized, not necessarily from TITUS or R&J. The monologue is completely OPTIONAL for everyone, so don't worry... we'll have material for you to read anyway.

    I thought at least one of you would like to know. :)
    10:16 am
    Troglodyte no more
    My power is back on. Yay!

    Current Mood: working
    Thursday, June 15th, 2006
    4:19 pm
    RoboCup
    RoboCup--the tenth annual robot World Cup

    "The organisers of the tournament hope that in 2050 the winners of the RoboCup will be able to beat the human World Cup champions."

    Current Mood: robots <3
    Tuesday, April 18th, 2006
    3:33 pm
    Updates:
    - I'm going to be in a show on Saturday. It's a Commedia dell'Arte show (meaning it's outdoors and improv and all that), and it should be a lot of fun. Four o'clock Saturday, near Race and Main street in Urbana. Come, damnit.

    - Also, I'm going skydiving next weekend. So, if you all never hear from me again, it's because I'm a bloody smear on the pavement somewhere in Chicagoland.
    Wednesday, March 29th, 2006
    7:12 am
    NormalView!
    Hey guys. This weekend is the weekend of NormalView 5 -- C-U's annual(ish) festival of really bad movies, run by Sean. As the festival chair's girlfriend, I'm probably going to be present at most if not all of these, so I'd really like it if any of you could come! The line-up this year is looking pretty awesome---here's Sean's official press release:



    Good evening, Champaign-Urbana. It is the thirty-first of the third, and this is the Voice of Fate broadcasting to you from the Siebel Center on the medium band. Citizens are advised that Storm Saxon will be delayed throughout the weekend to bring you the following selection of classic films approved by the Ministry of Information...

    NORMALVIEW V:
    V IS FOR FIVE

    Yes, it's that time of year again-- when we take up arms against a sea of crappy movies and heckle them until we can't breathe. Come join us for a slice of improvisation, laughter and horror in the style of Mystery Science Theater 3000 as we direct our verbal violence with valor and verve versus the most vile and vacuous films we can view.

    Friday, March 31st (2405 Siebel):
    7:00 PM -- Queen of Outer Space
    As we've learned in previous festivals, Mars features angry red dinosaurs and angry red oxygen consumption gauges. Venus, however, has Zsa Zsa Gabor. Ever wonder what Amazon Women on the Moon was making fun of? Now you know.

    9:00 PM -- The Creeps
    From the people who brought you Scanners and Crash and Burn comes this heartwarming tale of lovable midgets: namely, midget Frankenstein, midget Wolfman, midget Dracula... Need I say more?

    Saturday, April 1st (4401 Siebel):
    1:00 PM -- Sword and Sorcerer
    If a sword is a phallic symbol, then what's a three-pronged sword that shoots rockets? Maybe a symbol that the effects department is trying too hard.

    3:00 PM -- Double Dragon
    Even the combined might of Robert Patrick, Paul Dini, George Hamilton, Andy Dick, Vanna White, and Alyssa Milano will not be enough to save this one. Are you a bad enough dude to sit through this movie?

    7:00 PM -- Golden Munchie Showcase: Batman and Robin
    Sean has a confession to make. He watched this movie once, and in his weakness has stayed away from it ever since. Help Sean finally conquer Arnold Schwarzenegger by thoroughly roasting this worst film in the Bat-franchise.

    9:00 PM -- War of the Planets
    What do you get if you mix independent filmmaking, computer technology, and 50s-style science fiction? Apparently, space sasquatch. This one is not to be missed, folks.

    Sunday, April 2nd (4401 Siebel):
    2:00 PM -- Viewer's Choice
    Continuing the grand tradition of last year, YOU bring the movies, YOU vote for the movies, then YOU suffer the consequences.

    Also, as a special treat, we'll be showing segments of R. Kelly's Trapped in the Closet between films. Marvel at this masterpiece of modern musical storytelling.

    "Audiences should not be afraid of their movies. Movies should be afraid of their audiences."

    Chambana prevails.
    Friday, March 3rd, 2006
    5:26 pm
    Obviously, NWS
    "The Hitler Youth, always sharp,
    also has a love life.
    His leader also has seduced him:
    The asshole is already stretched."

    A whole ton of WWII pornographic propoganda

    http://www.psywarrior.com/sexandprop.html


    Strangely compelling stuff.
    Friday, February 10th, 2006
    10:32 pm
    Friday, January 27th, 2006
    6:25 pm
    Friday, December 16th, 2005
    3:53 pm
    Forwarded from Sean - a William Carlos Williams poem that doesn't suck
    The Descent

    The descent beckons
    as the ascent beckoned.
    Memory is a kind
    of accomplishment,
    a sort of renewal
    even
    an initiation, since the spaces it opens are new places
    inhabited by hordes
    heretofore unrealized,
    of new kinds--
    since their movements
    are toward new objectives
    (even though formerly they were abandoned).

    No defeat is made up entirely of defeat--since
    the world it opens is always a place
    formerly
    unsuspected. A
    world lost,
    a world unsuspected,
    beckons to new places
    and no whiteness (lost) is so white as the memory
    of whiteness .

    With evening, love wakens
    through its shadows
    which are alive by reason
    of the sun shining--
    grow sleepy now and drop away
    from desire .

    Love without shadows stirs now
    beginning to awaken
    as night
    advances.

    The descent
    made up of despairs
    and without accomplishment
    realizes a new awakening:
    which is a reversal
    of despair.
    For what we cannot accomplish, what
    is denied to love,
    what we have lost in the anticipation--
    a descent follows,
    endless and indestructible .

    --William Carlos Williams
    Saturday, December 10th, 2005
    2:19 pm
    Some of you will get a kick out of this:
    Dr. Huntington (Classics of East Asian Literature) posted this on my class's discussion forum. I thought it was amusing:

    I'm typing this here because I don't want to drive everyone crazy in lecture telling cute stories about my kids. I think in our household all monkey stories are merging into one really big Monkey story. This means that Sun Wukong is also Curious George is also Hanuman (their father is Indian, so we have a big collection of comic book retellings of Indian myth, epic, and history). (If you think about it, it works in a certain demented episodic way- this is the time he wrecked havoc in heaven, this is the time he called the fire station...) Last night when I recapped for them the chapters I'd be teaching today ("you know, it is the part where he steals the peaches...") and got to the Bodhisattva Guanyin offering Monkey a chance at redemption, my daughter said, "No more monkeys jumping on the bed?" (since "five little monkeys jumping on the bed" is also a favorite song.) The image of the Bodhisattva saying that in place of the doctor in the song made me laugh really hard.
    Long live the oral tradition.
    Thursday, December 8th, 2005
    11:31 am
    Exalted and RAGE
    I got my paper on "The Pirates of the Carribean" back. Here's what Dr. Littlefield wrote:

    "Jen(sic),
    I really admire your analysis of PoC - you've done a fine 'queer' reading of the film. I am also interested in the ways this film works to explain your argument about fantasy as transgressive not hegemonic. My main concern is that this repsonse doesn't touch on the article, Gattaca, or Jurassic Park. However, just this once (and because it's quite novel) I will allow this to count for a response.
    Well done.
    A"

    It was all I could do to keep from laughing my ass off.

    In other news, I think we should play Exalted at my place tonight, because:
    A.) My apartment is warm.
    B.) My apartment has places to sit.
    C.) My car is still not fixed. Actually, it's been lost, which worries me.

    RSVP ~ j
    Wednesday, December 7th, 2005
    8:17 pm
    housing
    I will not be living with Amanda next year. Do any of you know anyone who's looking for a roommate?
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