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"We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless."
--Oscar Wilde, the Preface to "The Picture of Dorian Gray"

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  • James Marsden
  • Hayden Christensen
  • Luke Wilson
  • Milo Ventimiglia
  • Peter O'Toole (circa 1965)
jan 21 2008 ∞
jan 21 2008 +
  • Need:

-1 cup of softened butter -1 cup of sugar -1/3 cup of brandy -3 beaten eggs -1/4 teaspoon of nutmeg -1/2 teaspoon of cinnamon -4 cups of flour

  • Mixing Directions:

-pour butter in a large mixing bowl and beat until creamy -add sugar to the butter, beating until light and fluffy -Individually add and mix together the eggs, brandy, and spices -now slowly mix in the flour until you get a ball of dough -cut the dough in half and wrap each log in wax paper, putting them in the refrigerator for a few hours (like three or four) or overnight.

  • Cooking Directions:

-preheat the oven to 350 degrees -heavily (seriously) flour your rolling surface, ...

dec 18 2007 ∞
dec 18 2007 +
  • cats
  • Legos
  • lolcats
  • the color green
  • books
  • poetry
  • my king-size bed
  • steak
  • my old old old chucks
  • insects
  • spiders
  • Harry Potter
  • smiles
  • hugs
  • gingerbread steamers that I make myself, cause only I know the way I like them.
  • cold chai
  • pumpkin pie
  • wine
  • guinness
  • my guitar
dec 5 2007 ∞
apr 21 2008 +
  • Snow Patrol
  • Regina Spektor
  • Neutral Milk Hotel
  • Lily Allen
  • The Decemberists
  • Hanson
  • Ok Go
  • The Killers
  • The White Stripes
  • Metric
  • Bright Eyes
  • Bruce Springsteen
  • Death Cab for Cutie
  • The Postal Service
  • Ben Gibbard
  • Radiohead
  • Damien Rice
  • Brand New
dec 5 2007 ∞
dec 5 2007 +
  • I Love New York
  • Strangest UFO Sightings
  • Gingerbread steamers
  • Cigarettes
  • Wine
  • Guinness
  • Cops
  • Cat videos
  • Perez Hilton
  • Good Charlotte
dec 7 2007 ∞
dec 10 2007 +
  • people who absolutely cannot dress themselves
  • people who are in more than 30 groups on facebook
  • the syllabus for my American Literature class
  • olives
  • spaghetti
  • Charles Dickens
  • World of Warcraft
  • too much pink
  • too much orange
  • newports
  • ignorance
  • rednecks
  • "modern" art
  • dentists
  • Nickelback
  • being forced to listen to my roommate and her boyfriend tickle each other
dec 5 2007 ∞
dec 7 2007 +
  • procrastination
  • picking my zits
  • smoking
  • food
  • the internet
  • chocolate
  • picking my thumb cuticles
  • telling the caf people that my 4.00 subway roast beef sandwich is really a 2.00 veggie wrap
  • thieving drinks from the Attic while I'm working
  • thinking horrible thoughts about people I don't like
dec 5 2007 ∞
dec 5 2007 +
  • Titus Andronicus
  • Nikita Khrushchev
dec 7 2007 ∞
dec 7 2007 +
  • Simon
  • Oliver
  • Alice
  • Jane
jan 21 2008 ∞
jan 21 2008 +
  • Field Guide to Insects and Spiders
  • iPod
  • clothes
  • SuperBad
  • Burberry perfume
  • books
  • shoes
  • a new cell phone
  • legos
  • star wars stuff
  • food
  • Bladerunner, the final cut
dec 5 2007 ∞
dec 26 2007 +
  • wallet--black issac mizrahi clutch
  • phone--LG chocolate
  • planner--moleskine daily
  • numerous lipglosses
  • a book
  • keys--unicorn keychain, pi phi keychain, library card keychains
dec 10 2007 ∞
apr 21 2008 +
  • Mark Twain
  • William Faulkner
  • Ernest Hemingway
  • Emily Dickinson
  • Langston Hughes
  • John Steinbeck
  • Ralph Ellison
  • Charlotte Perkins Gilman
  • Harper Lee
  • Walt Whitman
  • John Updike
  • Tennessee Williams
  • Flannery O'Conner
  • J.D. Salinger
  • Truman Capote
  • Zora Neale Hurston
  • Kurt Vonnegut
  • William Carlos Williams
dec 7 2007 ∞
dec 7 2007 +

in chronological order,

  • Napoleon the poodle who took care of me when I was a baby.
  • Josephine the calico cat my parents took in as a stray when I was five and we only had for three months because she had feline leukemia.
  • Cinderella the calico cat, who we got when I was five to assuade my mourning over Josephine.
  • Beetlejuice the border collie who we got from the Animal Shelter when I was fourteen. He is the best dog in the entire world.
  • Robespierre the poodle, my mother's annoying dog.
dec 5 2007 ∞
jan 21 2008 +
  • write an American Literature paper
  • write a Modern Russia research paper
  • write a 20th Century BritAm Poetry paper
  • Fail my Sociology exam
  • Fail my Modern Russia exam
  • murder my American lit exam
  • smoke a newport ever again
  • listen to my roommate being loud
  • work in the Attic the day I have to finish my Russia paper
  • work in the Writing Center the day before I go home
  • ever see Gail Smith again
  • write a paper for Human Rights
dec 5 2007 ∞
jul 30 2008 +
  • Bruce Springsteen (five times)
  • The Backstreet Boys (twice)
  • The Spice Girls
  • Amy Grant (twice)
  • The Moody Bluse (eight times, and I met them once)
  • The Corrs (roundabouts five times, met them every time)
  • Nickel Creek (twice, met them the first time)
  • Matchbook Romance (met them once)
  • Death Cab for Cutie
  • The Killers
  • Maximo Park
  • Regina Spektor
  • Louis XIV
  • The United we Stand concert that had like fifty five acts
  • Paul McCartney
  • Good Charlotte
  • Mest
dec 9 2007 ∞
dec 10 2007 +
  • Dan/Dr. Whatthefuck/Dr. Oliver Wellington Wordsworth III
  • Dorian Gray
  • Beatrice
  • Prufrock
dec 5 2007 ∞
dec 5 2007 +
  • camel no. 9s
  • marlboro smooths
  • camel turkish silvers
  • camel lights
  • marlboro lights
  • nat shermans
  • marlboro no. 27s
  • camel signature blends (but not the frosts)
  • parliaments
dec 5 2007 ∞
dec 7 2007 +
  • I love cats.
  • I am very very loud.
  • I smoke cigarettes--camel no. 9s, for today.
  • I love English.
  • I don't put up with shit.
  • I am really good at bitching. About anything.
  • I have a very weird ocd about how my shit is organized.
  • Don't touch my computer unless you ask.
  • I will make you listen to Girl Talk. And probably Cats. And definitely Bruce.
  • I love poetry.
  • I can't drive a car.
  • Or ride a bike.
  • Or swim.
  • I love grammar.
  • I procrastinate dangerously.
  • When I get fucked up, I am usually quite happy and don't require someone taking ca...
apr 30 2008 ∞
apr 30 2008 +
  • From Mom:

-Field Guide to Insects and Spiders -Stardust -a bunch of jewelry -a sandwich maker

  • From Santa (Dad):

-iPod 80GB

  • From Dad:

-Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest -Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End

  • From Grammy:

-Burberry perfume

  • From Aunt Penny and Uncle Mark and Mallory:

-Pink Columbia sweater -cat mousepad

  • From Phil:
dec 26 2007 ∞
dec 26 2007 +
  • The night I broke up with Patrick, and we all piled in a car and drove around Birmingham.
  • The first time Phil said "I love you."
  • First going to college
  • My grandfather's funeral
  • Doing shrooms for the first time
  • Watching my cat die
dec 16 2007 ∞
jul 30 2008 +
  • Ishmael, by Daniel Quinn
  • Harry Potter
  • Demian, by Hermann Hesse
  • Cat's Cradle, by Kurt Vonnegut
  • The Last Unicorn, by Peter S. Beagle
dec 10 2007 ∞
dec 10 2007 +
  • Onna
  • Meg
  • Juliet
  • Nick
  • Ian
  • Dave Vanlandingham
  • Ashley
  • Carleson
  • Chas
  • Miles
  • David Miller
  • Brandon
dec 5 2007 ∞
apr 21 2008 +
  • F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Virginia Woolf
  • Kurt Vonnegut
  • Ernest Hemingway
  • Oscar Wilde
  • Geoffrey Chaucer
  • William Shakespeare
  • J.D. Salinger
  • David Sedaris
  • T.S. Eliot
dec 4 2007 ∞
dec 5 2007 +
  • Mika: if you really miss Freddie Mercury, then this is your guy. He's like a mix of Freddie, David Bowie, and the Scissor Sisters. Mmm.
dec 18 2007 ∞
dec 18 2007 +
  • age five:

-Ross

  • age six:

-Drew

  • age seven:

-Kevin Stapleton

  • age eight:

-Chris lamb

  • age nine:

-Chris (another one), my first b-friend!

  • age ten:

-Ian Doerner -David Rothman

  • age eleven:

-Ian Doerner

dec 7 2007 ∞
jul 30 2008 +
  • Canada (Quebec)

-Montreal -Quebec City

  • France

-Paris -Tours -Provence -Normandy -Carcasonne -Nice

  • Spain

-Madrid -Barcelona -Figueres

  • England

-London -Bath -Salisbury

  • Ireland

-Dublin

dec 10 2007 ∞
dec 10 2007 +