the flying geeks

Seriously the best movie I’ve seen in a really really long time. I’m pretty winded from all the homework I’ve been working on for the past 48 hours, but I’ll try to sum up my feelings.
Speed Racer has everything I want from a movie: action, integrity (in the writing and in the characters), family pride, […]

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This was my second project in ART 216. It’s a triptych, yuh.
These ultra mega go-getters in my design classes are a constant source of guilt and self-loathing. It makes me lash out wildly. I gush irrelevant arguments to myself: What are you, 19? You graduated last year? Yeah, what you’re experiencing right now is something […]

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Dad belongs in California. He is a California Man. With his long blond hair and his thick mustache eking down his chin he went west, cruising on his motorcycle from Bloomington, Indiana all the way to the golden, gleaming, welcoming West Coast.
He is easy and rational, not wishy-washy like some of the too-medicated, too-wealthy, or […]

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And also a remedial grammar lesson. An email:
Hey, do you think you should put this on [Anona’s wedding site]?
LM [Love, Mom]
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OMG, for sure! Thanks!
LJ [Love, Jeannie]
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So, if you want to be cool, you can add this to the “alex and anona” group photo pool. Just upload […]

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I caught a glimpse of my neighbor, a moppy haired boy, riding his bike past my house. He’s a smart kid, a little small for his age, but all confidence and cleverness and coolness. A special boy, you know? When he should have been a toddler, he was very likely reading box scores and memorizing […]

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The dogs walk funny on the new floors in the entry and dining room, stiff-legged and slow like they’re afraid of sliding off the Canyon Maple laminate and out into space, if they let too much claw touch the floor. No doubt it’s a well founded worry; my dogs are savants.
I’m exhilarated by the […]

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