Forty-five minutes until the second (and thankfully final) day of my comprehensive exams begins. By the grace of St. Jude, the school decided to fashion most of the exam around four 900 word essays chosen from ten, a task well-suited to my skills: fashioning something erudite and coherent from random mind-phlegm. In other words BS-ing like lawyer in [...]
Archive for October, 2008
Exam Time
Posted in Stumbling Sober, tagged education, essays, exams, life, school, writing on October 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I Don’t Know, Third Base
Posted in Malarchy, tagged Abbot, Abbott and Costello, Add new tag, baseball, comedy, Costello, humor, midterms, school, skits, Who's on First on October 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
My blogging has been lax lately due to a weekly affliction natural to professors, students, and masichists: midterms. Thus, until these dire days pass, my posts will encompass a few witty phrases followed by an awesome video or two. As Halloween approaches, I find myself of late falling asleep to Abbott and Costello monster movies. [...]
The Sharpest Knife
Posted in Malarchy, tagged addictive songs, big band, Bobby Darin, Darin, Frank Sinatra, Mack the Knife, music, Sinatra, songs on October 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Every once in a while, I yearn for a little Mack the Knife. Seriously, very few songs today communicate the energy and excitement as this little ditty from half a century ago. Moreover, it’s the only song I know about hitmen and killers, so even the lyrics make you want to sing aloud.
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