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"Science is interesting; if you don't
agree, you can fuck off."
agree, you can fuck off."
From a pro-Dokdo campaign.
I say this without expressing any opinion on the actual Dokdo issue, but merely as a critic of media advertising.
That shit's funny.
I'm officially beginning my academic career. I met with my advisor, was graduate-student-oriented at the department orientation, and registered for classes. That makes this weekend the calm before the storm, I guess.
Just cleared the spam comments. We might need to add a filtering module.
Love that title, now comment slaves~!
China didn't allow singer onstage, hired a lip-syncing ringer.
Aside from the obvious statement on body-image in young women, didn't the chick they decided to put up front look kind of freaky? She looks too mature, not really childlike. I think the "real" singer was the cuter kid. Their choices suggest more disturbing things about self-image than the fact that they hired a ringer, I think.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080804/ap_on_fe_st/odd_car_fence
Palm trees, and the other icons of tropical life, all tiki-ness, are incredibly cliched. Not only has the novelty worn off and they became a cliche, but their use as ironically cliched has be come cliched, and even the post-ironic, return to innocently un-cliched-ness has become cliched. They are the post-modern Ur-cliche from which all banality springs.
I have been in China for almost 6 months now. I have made a few tiny trips out of town but in general I have been passing the days in Beijing. In summary I have to say I am loving it. Although I am never *strike* not always happy to go to work at 7.30 in the morning, I feel intensely happy and lucky every evening when I am on my way home for a relaxing evening or prepping up for a hang-out with friends.
