upstaging by lina will be tolerated. gonna blog twice in a month, whats that about? ok it will be permitted if only because we need to carry the dead wood of everyone else's lack of having interesting lives to post on the internet (yes thats meant to provoke you non-bloggers out there)
soo right. just got 3 texts from peoples all saying 'why arent you out getting hammered with us?' in case i forgot i was in england.
so half-bro robert came down to london this weekend from rugby (yes the town where the sport was invented) where hes working on a project for a few months so that was really cool to see him. saw some cool african dancing at royal festival hall on saturday and mixed up some oxford street shopping which is always a favourite. i had a birthday party to go to in covent garden so i managed to sort out this play at the old vic theatre with him and his girlfriend (cristina) to go to called national anthems. it was one of those crazy 3 actor plays and kevin spacey's one of em- i should check it out apparently its really good.
really looking forward to being back in new york!!! i can't want to see you lot. i'm also psyched about the rome affair this weekend but i need to get into the proper schools out vibe. also my cold better be done by then. also roman girls are rumoured to be stunning so we'll be taking careful notes and reporting back don't you worry.
extricated myself today from the sticky situation that was this romanian girl i was seeing, which is good because i ended up being a bit of a prick to her since i wasnt really into it and she kept sort of pressing me for time and affection and i was like i think mommy's calling me.
i promise i don't watch desperate housewives. ok that was a lie. shit is kinda crazy!! why did she burn his passport?!? (yes i know we're 38 episodes behind). also have you all heard the new jack johnson album?!? its REALLY good. like hardcore. doves came out with a new album too which is quite good as well but not as impressive as my man JJ. international political theory (IPT) class is funny cause every week now whatever we cover i end up being the ambassador for neo-marxism which is awesome cuz it really does give a far superior description of the international system than this western-obsessed orthodox theory nonce.
lindt chocolates are REALLY good. no joke. how cool is the disney story? you walk in and all your problems go away. really! go sometime if you dont believe me.
whats everyone doing this summer by the way? if you're interested in positions at ChandlerBlackstone LLC drop me a line so we can talk about the opportunities available for comrades. did i mention i had a brief stint as a vegetarian in the supermarket for about 20 minutes when i was deciding if it would be economical? needless to say i concluded the 400% increase in my food budget could not be justified by "eating cows is icky" (my original thesis for being a vegetarian). also, that new iMac shit is so pretty!! the computer IS the monitor!!! but its ok cause material possessions are useless and private property will soon be abolished. oh wait i dont think i was supposed to send that stuff out.
don't you miss the pretzel shop across from stuy from frosh year?? how good was that place? SO good. i miss it. i saw lord hannay of chiswick today who spoke about UN reform-- he was the UK seat on the High-level Panel which came out with its report in december of prescriptions for reform (lina i'm sure you know all about this) so it was cool hearing him say shit like 'so on this issue we all booed down the US, but once in a while we let them have their way.' speaking of which you know the EU contributed 42% of the UN budget? for reference the US gives (or rathr is assigned to give but doesnt give the full) 25%. in conclusion the US sucks big donkey scrotum and the EU is pretty fly for a white guy. oh and there was this loudass protest going on cuz the Turkish foreign minister was speaking across houghton street at the same time. theres this weird sound coming from my desk and its kinda creepy. i hope its not something alive.
so to conclude i will advertise my dates in NY once more
March 25 (evening) --> April 23rd (evening).
Much loveeeeee
paul
Tuesday, March 15, 2005
Sunday, February 20, 2005
most productive thing i did today was go to tesco's
so i am officially sad.
not in the literal sense of course, :-) had a nice party last night, people are crazy im taking out the bottles today and I counted them as I pushed them into the recycling doobie and shit was 23 bottles of wine. and tom took out a fair amount last night too. and 5 bottles of spirits and about 40 cans/bottles of beer. so what the hell? unless people somehow dropped off empty bottles i have no idea how we accumulated so much of that shit there couldnt have been more than like 50 people here.
so the last of 'em left at 4 which translated into a 2pm rising which means 3 hours of sunlight was experienced by me today-- those days can never be good. but i managed to fit it a £30 tesco run including such highlights as 2kg clementines, 800g of beef, and a litre of channel island milk (aka heavy cream) which tastes amazing.
friday was half term aka didnt have to wake up at 7.30 to tutor at my nice bermondsey secondary school of charming young ladies who like to call me gringo and ask me where i'm from. instead i got to finish off this wonderful application to a fellowship with the state department and paid the same amount of money to send 2 pieces of paper (the recs) to new jersey as cost me for a week's worth of groceries (shit is wack).
there must be something exciting to talk about.. oo! got a 73 on an essay this week which was very exciting!! 70+ is a "1st Class Honours" for those not familiar with the looney english university system, and about 3% of foolios get dat shit. the coolest part was the essay was on UN reform and it was 1945 words!!! i am the man.
ugh so its 2am and i have nothing to show for myself today. don't you hate it when that happens? it would be perfectly fine if it was say july 9th when theres no need to do anything productive but on february 19? there was the need. and that my friend was an essay on something relating to foreign policy analysis. currently talking to this kid (american of course) on my degree who thinks hes going to be president (obviously at the wrong college) and is working out some internship in the white house which he thinks will get him connections to be the republican nominee in 2034.
so tom refused to clean up this morning cos he "did the setting up" which is true but wtf he stayed up half the night talking alan then struts out not doing a damn thing and the place is in a proper state. broken glass=not my friend.
ah something of remote interest, i'm going to rome after term ends! very exciting, we still have to book accomodation but im thinking we may get a flat cos there will be 7 of us or so. oh i'm also seeing a romanian chick, she's nice but i dunno im totally incapable of demonstrating any affection and i feel bad but i dunno. i cant work out if its me being a total weirdo or if its her being... capitalist. shes from 'public school' (private school) and has this posh british accent and talks about how cool aston martins are and im like can we sing la vie boheme please?
lemon yogurt is really good. you should try it sometime. oo and i made chicken tonight and i had the inventive idea to put onions and lemon juice in it and it was good cos the onions soaked up the lemony flavour and it was actually quite yummy. roasted potatoes with rosemary accompanied. i should be a chef like in spanglish (and cos that woman was HOT).
so bruce will be in europe in 2 weeks but thanks to his waiting a month to tell me when i should book eurostar shit is now twice the price.
oh, and facebook added lse which makes for an interesting observation of british culture.
i really miss you guys. you're growing up without me! what if you become assholes or conservative or something that would be really shitty. oh i have a really scary big black neighbour who tells us we close our door too loudly and threatens to break down our door. and nelson mandela spoke in trafalgar square a couple weeks ago, was very cool. i want to see this play called his dark materials, nat saw it when he came last year and said it was super amazing and the primary reason he came but its sold out but luckily the NT (national theatre) keeps some seats on reserve for those who come to the box office on the day (but u gotta queue for like 2 hours in the morning!!! but i wanna do it anyway). so thats something cool. and im looking into retail space downtown manhattan to launch chandlerblackstone this summer--very exciting. i still need those bikini-clad brand reps girls... much love and i'll see you over my spring break ill be in new york from march 24 to april 23 mark your calendars!!!
not in the literal sense of course, :-) had a nice party last night, people are crazy im taking out the bottles today and I counted them as I pushed them into the recycling doobie and shit was 23 bottles of wine. and tom took out a fair amount last night too. and 5 bottles of spirits and about 40 cans/bottles of beer. so what the hell? unless people somehow dropped off empty bottles i have no idea how we accumulated so much of that shit there couldnt have been more than like 50 people here.
so the last of 'em left at 4 which translated into a 2pm rising which means 3 hours of sunlight was experienced by me today-- those days can never be good. but i managed to fit it a £30 tesco run including such highlights as 2kg clementines, 800g of beef, and a litre of channel island milk (aka heavy cream) which tastes amazing.
friday was half term aka didnt have to wake up at 7.30 to tutor at my nice bermondsey secondary school of charming young ladies who like to call me gringo and ask me where i'm from. instead i got to finish off this wonderful application to a fellowship with the state department and paid the same amount of money to send 2 pieces of paper (the recs) to new jersey as cost me for a week's worth of groceries (shit is wack).
there must be something exciting to talk about.. oo! got a 73 on an essay this week which was very exciting!! 70+ is a "1st Class Honours" for those not familiar with the looney english university system, and about 3% of foolios get dat shit. the coolest part was the essay was on UN reform and it was 1945 words!!! i am the man.
ugh so its 2am and i have nothing to show for myself today. don't you hate it when that happens? it would be perfectly fine if it was say july 9th when theres no need to do anything productive but on february 19? there was the need. and that my friend was an essay on something relating to foreign policy analysis. currently talking to this kid (american of course) on my degree who thinks hes going to be president (obviously at the wrong college) and is working out some internship in the white house which he thinks will get him connections to be the republican nominee in 2034.
so tom refused to clean up this morning cos he "did the setting up" which is true but wtf he stayed up half the night talking alan then struts out not doing a damn thing and the place is in a proper state. broken glass=not my friend.
ah something of remote interest, i'm going to rome after term ends! very exciting, we still have to book accomodation but im thinking we may get a flat cos there will be 7 of us or so. oh i'm also seeing a romanian chick, she's nice but i dunno im totally incapable of demonstrating any affection and i feel bad but i dunno. i cant work out if its me being a total weirdo or if its her being... capitalist. shes from 'public school' (private school) and has this posh british accent and talks about how cool aston martins are and im like can we sing la vie boheme please?
lemon yogurt is really good. you should try it sometime. oo and i made chicken tonight and i had the inventive idea to put onions and lemon juice in it and it was good cos the onions soaked up the lemony flavour and it was actually quite yummy. roasted potatoes with rosemary accompanied. i should be a chef like in spanglish (and cos that woman was HOT).
so bruce will be in europe in 2 weeks but thanks to his waiting a month to tell me when i should book eurostar shit is now twice the price.
oh, and facebook added lse which makes for an interesting observation of british culture.
i really miss you guys. you're growing up without me! what if you become assholes or conservative or something that would be really shitty. oh i have a really scary big black neighbour who tells us we close our door too loudly and threatens to break down our door. and nelson mandela spoke in trafalgar square a couple weeks ago, was very cool. i want to see this play called his dark materials, nat saw it when he came last year and said it was super amazing and the primary reason he came but its sold out but luckily the NT (national theatre) keeps some seats on reserve for those who come to the box office on the day (but u gotta queue for like 2 hours in the morning!!! but i wanna do it anyway). so thats something cool. and im looking into retail space downtown manhattan to launch chandlerblackstone this summer--very exciting. i still need those bikini-clad brand reps girls... much love and i'll see you over my spring break ill be in new york from march 24 to april 23 mark your calendars!!!
Wednesday, January 19, 2005
awesome show on bbc last night
not sure what it was called but it was this dude going through papua new guinea integrating himself into various tribes. the tribe the show focused around was cannibalistic and so at first you're like holy shit then after a while of watching it you're like holy shit thats so COOL. not the eating humans part but how they live. hunter gatherers are very different from farmers and while both populate the "non-globalized" (i.e. "underdeveloped") world we tend to not distinguish the two. although it takes so long for them to knock down a tree! like an hour son! fuck that. and they eat the stuff inside, apparently tastes like artichoke heart. but they dont have to do any planting and so on so it actually ends up being relatively time efficient and they get to chill and smoke all day (who said western culture was the apex of civilization?)
so blog of the day goes to *drumroll...* lina tetelbaum. of course that does mean a little less today than it did back in the golden age of blogs when we had the globetrotter squad in the heezy. amalia? luci? we're looking at over a month here. susie bailed. bruce's picture is adjacent to the word 'rubbish' in the dictionary. padula oblongata joins him on the following page for a cameo next to 'slag'. the world is in a sad state.
Tom has been lying in the bed ofr a little bit and then he found that he had very, very bad wind and unfortunaltey the whole of the upstairs of 8D Clarence Av now smells of shitty farts. There may even be bits of follow through in the bed? But noone is quite sure.... so if Pauls starts smelling of shit you knjow who to blame
that very important message brought to you by mr. ketteley of essex. right. so that seriously was the foulest smell i've smelt in a long long time. at least since west africa 2 summers ago and let me tell you there was some pretty nasty smelling stuff....
so of course at 19 i'm at a crisis of what to do with my life but then of course my life is worthless so who really cares, lets just think about philosophical stuff thats more fun OK so why dont we bail on capitalism? because its the price of entry to society which we've been conditioned to need. no conspiracy, no inevitable human nature bullshit. simply the result of geography and one guy stepping on another guy's toe about 8000 years ago and ever since there's been beef. and all thats gone wrong in the world today is an extrapolation of that beef. hardcorely so. like very minced into little molecules and quarks and ittier things than that until we do the whole big BANG thing again and blamo back to no more humans, no more beef (quite literally) and no more wasted egos converging with other wasted egos at random intervals. who really knows a piss about human nature anyway? beyond what you or i would like to think human nature is because it paints a rosy picture for the future, or gives us an excuse to piss on others, no one knows because all this stepping on toes bullshit extrapolation has become so entrenched in our upbringing that an objective 'nature' cannot be had and if it ever could then we could never talk to this totally objective organic natural human because he or she would not have any social skills at all. no mommy. no dada.
whoa i have a straight clear view of the moon from where i am sitting right this very second. it looks like some huge giant just fell down on it with his arms stretched out. maybe the giant is that iron dude from the movie.
so why bother studying people if we're just going to burn up in a short few moments anyway? shouldnt we concentrate on more important stuff like building star destroyers and not this pithy deficit and consumer confidence and disease and so on? its not going to matter in like half a second of the life of a rock anyway (susie: rock movie from the short films we saw in DC).
even at the pinnacle of success you're still trivial. look at a picture of the world from space. even if you do every single thing you could ever want to do the picture would look the damn same. unless you were a dick and became president and blew up china. but short of that, you wouldnt do SHIT. and thats doing everything you've ever want to do! how shitty!
to bring to a conclusion: we're going to abandon discussion of humans as it is futile and they are doomed anyway. #2. we're going to use one or two of them to obtain indestructible atom-thin suits of alien material that will allow us to travel anywhere we want at any speed, including wormholes. #3. we're going to have a universal arm wrestling championship to see if we can beat the shit out of amoeba-sized mofo's. damn them.
back to that essay on material influences of foreign policy.
love,
paul
so blog of the day goes to *drumroll...* lina tetelbaum. of course that does mean a little less today than it did back in the golden age of blogs when we had the globetrotter squad in the heezy. amalia? luci? we're looking at over a month here. susie bailed. bruce's picture is adjacent to the word 'rubbish' in the dictionary. padula oblongata joins him on the following page for a cameo next to 'slag'. the world is in a sad state.
Tom has been lying in the bed ofr a little bit and then he found that he had very, very bad wind and unfortunaltey the whole of the upstairs of 8D Clarence Av now smells of shitty farts. There may even be bits of follow through in the bed? But noone is quite sure.... so if Pauls starts smelling of shit you knjow who to blame
that very important message brought to you by mr. ketteley of essex. right. so that seriously was the foulest smell i've smelt in a long long time. at least since west africa 2 summers ago and let me tell you there was some pretty nasty smelling stuff....
so of course at 19 i'm at a crisis of what to do with my life but then of course my life is worthless so who really cares, lets just think about philosophical stuff thats more fun OK so why dont we bail on capitalism? because its the price of entry to society which we've been conditioned to need. no conspiracy, no inevitable human nature bullshit. simply the result of geography and one guy stepping on another guy's toe about 8000 years ago and ever since there's been beef. and all thats gone wrong in the world today is an extrapolation of that beef. hardcorely so. like very minced into little molecules and quarks and ittier things than that until we do the whole big BANG thing again and blamo back to no more humans, no more beef (quite literally) and no more wasted egos converging with other wasted egos at random intervals. who really knows a piss about human nature anyway? beyond what you or i would like to think human nature is because it paints a rosy picture for the future, or gives us an excuse to piss on others, no one knows because all this stepping on toes bullshit extrapolation has become so entrenched in our upbringing that an objective 'nature' cannot be had and if it ever could then we could never talk to this totally objective organic natural human because he or she would not have any social skills at all. no mommy. no dada.
whoa i have a straight clear view of the moon from where i am sitting right this very second. it looks like some huge giant just fell down on it with his arms stretched out. maybe the giant is that iron dude from the movie.
so why bother studying people if we're just going to burn up in a short few moments anyway? shouldnt we concentrate on more important stuff like building star destroyers and not this pithy deficit and consumer confidence and disease and so on? its not going to matter in like half a second of the life of a rock anyway (susie: rock movie from the short films we saw in DC).
even at the pinnacle of success you're still trivial. look at a picture of the world from space. even if you do every single thing you could ever want to do the picture would look the damn same. unless you were a dick and became president and blew up china. but short of that, you wouldnt do SHIT. and thats doing everything you've ever want to do! how shitty!
to bring to a conclusion: we're going to abandon discussion of humans as it is futile and they are doomed anyway. #2. we're going to use one or two of them to obtain indestructible atom-thin suits of alien material that will allow us to travel anywhere we want at any speed, including wormholes. #3. we're going to have a universal arm wrestling championship to see if we can beat the shit out of amoeba-sized mofo's. damn them.
back to that essay on material influences of foreign policy.
love,
paul
Saturday, December 18, 2004
back in the city of nouveau york
so anyone not in new york must by definition suck because new york is the centre of the universe. and that aint a lie. cnn is mad annoying, can they try to report more than 5 stories the whole day? jeez.
oh so i went to budapest this week, very groovy. matt, emily and i hit up the shizzy after james's 21st on friday which translated into the sweet 48 hours of no sleep, arriving in hungary totally shattered but that didnt stop us from enjoying some quality goulash. it was coooold there, around same as new york but london is considerably warmer so yeah. plus we were doing a lot of walking around and siteseeing so after a day in that weather (around 5 below centigrade) we were very welcoming to BATHE hungarian style which was exciting to say the least. mad old fat floppy men jumping around in a big room together and just about every permutation of weirdness you can think of was live in practice. parliament was cool as well, half of it is rented out because when it was built they had an upper and lower house whereas now they just have a lower house so the upper house (which is identical to the lower house) can be had for 20,000 euros per day, just about the same price as bush's signature on the bill of your choice. met up with these 2 guys from warwick, another university in england, and they were cool, had a good night out with them and so on. mad soviet style shit going down in budapest but the nightlife is fairly western (although then again being western myself maybe i was self-selecting such venues) and the people were generally nice with a few exceptions (the staff in the baths were awful!) so all in all a nice trip.
london came on 14th, ny on 15th, all i needed was tokyo on 16th but alas i missed the proverbial boat, because its already the 17th and im still in new york (and because what boat could get you from new york to tokyo in one day?? get a grip man). ah ran into goluskin and matt katz on 9th and broadway last night with sam, wow i must've not seen him since stuy because he's changed quite a bit (physically i mean, voice changed, taller, facial hair) so that was cool. also saw joanna roth last night which was also pretty cool, hit up the 86st diner frozen in the 20th century.
im reading the curious incident of the dog in the night-time (amalia!) and its pretty good but i only read it on airplanes or so far at least thats been the case but i read like 30 pages of it and then dont want to keep going cuz then it'll be over and that would kinda suck. :( i dont think i'd like to have a child with behavioural problems. the strand bookstore is your friend.
come home soon peoples!!
oh so i went to budapest this week, very groovy. matt, emily and i hit up the shizzy after james's 21st on friday which translated into the sweet 48 hours of no sleep, arriving in hungary totally shattered but that didnt stop us from enjoying some quality goulash. it was coooold there, around same as new york but london is considerably warmer so yeah. plus we were doing a lot of walking around and siteseeing so after a day in that weather (around 5 below centigrade) we were very welcoming to BATHE hungarian style which was exciting to say the least. mad old fat floppy men jumping around in a big room together and just about every permutation of weirdness you can think of was live in practice. parliament was cool as well, half of it is rented out because when it was built they had an upper and lower house whereas now they just have a lower house so the upper house (which is identical to the lower house) can be had for 20,000 euros per day, just about the same price as bush's signature on the bill of your choice. met up with these 2 guys from warwick, another university in england, and they were cool, had a good night out with them and so on. mad soviet style shit going down in budapest but the nightlife is fairly western (although then again being western myself maybe i was self-selecting such venues) and the people were generally nice with a few exceptions (the staff in the baths were awful!) so all in all a nice trip.
london came on 14th, ny on 15th, all i needed was tokyo on 16th but alas i missed the proverbial boat, because its already the 17th and im still in new york (and because what boat could get you from new york to tokyo in one day?? get a grip man). ah ran into goluskin and matt katz on 9th and broadway last night with sam, wow i must've not seen him since stuy because he's changed quite a bit (physically i mean, voice changed, taller, facial hair) so that was cool. also saw joanna roth last night which was also pretty cool, hit up the 86st diner frozen in the 20th century.
im reading the curious incident of the dog in the night-time (amalia!) and its pretty good but i only read it on airplanes or so far at least thats been the case but i read like 30 pages of it and then dont want to keep going cuz then it'll be over and that would kinda suck. :( i dont think i'd like to have a child with behavioural problems. the strand bookstore is your friend.
come home soon peoples!!
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