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Musings and Poems, both sober and drunken, Rants and Ruminations... These are the Cries of Blog 49

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  • Et Tu England? on Apr 2, 2009

    The following note includes foreign loan words you might not know. I have included English translations in order to eschew obfuscation.Circa (around) 43 A.D., (in the year of our lord) Rome invaded England. Post hoc ergo propter hoc (after this, ther...

  • Physics Poem β on Mar 5, 2009 in Poetry Physics

    With apologies to Allen GinsbergII saw the best minds of past generations destroyed by physics, tired, frustrated, delusional, dragging themselves through the European streets at dawn looking for a frame of reference,Angel-headed scholars who offered...

  • Math Major on Feb 27, 2009 in Math

    My 12th grade math teacher told me this joke. I’ve always liked it, because I believe that there is a lot of truth in it.Two engineers are sitting in the basket of a balloon. For hours, they have been drifting through a thick layer of clouds, and t...

  • The Oscars on Feb 23, 2009 in Film

    Ah, Oscar Night: The night when the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences brings us together to appreciate quality films. Who could forget such classics as Goodfellas, Dr. Strangelove or Citizen Kane? The Academy. That’s who. None of them won...

  • Tag Your Friends! on Feb 15, 2009 in paranoia facebook Parody

    Here are the rules:Once you've been tagged, you must participate. No, don't think. Just do it. All your friends (and "friends" too) saw that you were tagged. They are gchatting each other right now and wondering what kind of asshole wo

  • An Email I Received When I Quit Rowing on Jan 27, 2009

    Names have been changed to protect the innocent. I have chosen not to fix any errors or add [sic] after each of them because there are too many.Morgan,Im writing this email from the perspective of wanting you to continue to row and with no intention...

  • Mary Had A Little Lamb on Jan 25, 2009 in Plays Pynchon Parody

    As written by Cormac McCarthy:The girl Mary had the lamb. Mary followed the road and the lamb followed Mary. The lambs fleece was whiter than branding rods that left the deepest scars. The deepest and darkest. Mary walked and the lamb followed. It wa...