Longform Potporri

Yeah, I lied about the other Christmas posts coming. Though maybe Santa will come a bit early. He actually showed up yesterday to deliver the final draft of the gay marriage paper I've been working on for 5 weeks. Glad it's done, though there was more I would've liked to have said. It turned out to be 21 pages (two pages were bibliographic). A decent read if you're interested.

Cameron is not good at math. That shouldn't news to you out there (Emily; who else reads this? Sometimes we conflate blog-reading for date night). But it turns out I'll need to take one more semester before that game ends.

My least favorite question has an answer: Cameron will major in Informatics, (probably minor in English), and is interested in an MBA/JD program if he can find one dumb enough for him. Yes, both.

So, the new Kanye West record is FANTASTIC. Not a fan of the Lil Wayne song, but everything else is worth checking out, especially if you avoid rap because of the sweary-swears. This one is clean. Check "Bad News" or "Street Lights".





In the router we got awhile back was attached a free eMusic 50 song trial. eMusic has some great stuff (this was my second trial; you just gotta know howto do it), and this time an audiobook was part of the deal. I started to read Moby Dick back in September, but life got crazy, so I stopped, but am glad to listen in again to the tale. I am completely stuck by its stark explicative narrative. Ishmael spends five pages on describing the a-bedding of the cannibal Queequeg and you're entranced. The book is hilarious. I love the biblical overtones thoughout.
Go read it.

I try to get Emily to write on this thing instead of just post pictures. She could use some motivation.

When not listening to MD/KW, I have been hooked to the AM "Country Classic" station in town- er, in Winchester. This leads me back to Christmas: Hayddawg, here's a list: Jim Reeves, Mr. Johnny Cash, Patsy Cline, Hank Williams, Emmylou Harris, or the album Will the Circle be Unbroken. Simple, honest, personal pop songs. Or a decent record cleaner like this one.