| undergraduate thesis |
[02 Jul 2008|12:58pm] |
hello fellow history rockstars
I'm a senior history major with a concentration on American Studies. At my school we have to write undergraduate theses. I've chosen the topic of Cold War conspiracy theories and i need help!
I'm fascinated by the Kennedy assassination conspiracy theory so i plan on researching it, however, my advisor told me that i'm not going to figure out who really killed him and i need to focus on more general stuff, like why the cold war was a fertile ground for conspiracy theories. I also am interested in who created these conspiracies and stuff like that. Since it's a big project im going to look at specific conspiracies as well - kennedy assassination, the appollo moon landing "hoax," and i'm not really sure about the others. I've thought about alger hiss as well.
Right now i have a ton of secondary sources on Kennedy so i'm falling into the trap i'm supposed to avoid. Anybody know of any good sources, primary or secondary, on stuff OTHER than kennedy? Like i said, general info on the cold war backdrop and such. also if you guys can throw out some conspiracies that would be awesome.
any help is greatly appreciated!!!
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| Bargains for the outside lady |
[02 Jul 2008|06:27am] |
Here at The Man of Feeling, we like to keep cheap girls looking their best. At the Campmor website we noticed this hot little number for only 20 bucks!
It's authentic fake suede, suitable for a day in the woods or a night at the opera.
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| Update |
[02 Jul 2008|12:03am] |
I have begun teaching and have been bringing over ~six carloads of stuff to the new house each day. Hopefully tomorrow will be the end of moving, so I can focus on putting together furniture and cleaning floors.
Yesterday, I stepped on a wasp. My foot is itchy.
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| Life, in Photos |
[01 Jul 2008|04:02pm] |
Ten days ago, I planted some herb seeds in some little windowsill pots that I like to refer to as my Window Garden. This is how my little seedlings greeted the world this morning.
Cilantro, Basil, Parsley: 10 Days Old
Also, a few weeks ago, I was driving down route 15 and then 80 in New Jersey, and saw the rainbow that James had seen the day before in Toronto.
Canadian Rainbow
Finally, some good news arrived in my inbox:
"Blue is still with us, he had a HUGE sub solar abscess from a bout of laminitis that took up his entire hoof. He didn't follow any of the clinical signs, and the abscess broke open. He will require a great deal of care, twice daily soaks and wraps. BUT HE IS STILL WITH US! I could have cried I was so happy he didn't have to be put down. In the next few days his pain level should ease up."
Blue, a shelter resident that has seen more hell than most people can imagine, will be ok :)
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| Newsflash: |
[30 Jun 2008|12:52pm] |
I am a giant girl sometimes and that is gross.
PS. I would do this if it wasn't suuuper disgusting:
http://www.rent-a-dildo.com/
And like, if it was for real.
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[30 Jun 2008|04:58pm] |
I'll be the first to admit that my idea of God is pretty different. I
believe in a God with a long white beard, a gold crown, and a long
robe with lots of shiny jewels on it. He sits on a big throne in the
clouds, and He's about five hundred feet tall. He talks in a real deep
voice like "I...AM...GOD!" He can blow up stuff just by looking at it.
This is my own, personal idea of God.
--Jack Handey
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| Book Meme |
[29 Jun 2008|10:27pm] |
The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they've printed.
1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) Strike through the ones that you'd never read in a month of Sundays.
1. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2. The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4. Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6. The Bible <--- read parts
7. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8. Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9. His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11. Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12. Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller <--- my favourite book ever
14. Complete Works of Shakespeare
15. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16. The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18. Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19. The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20. Middlemarch - George Eliot
21. Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell <--- sorry Juli
22. The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23. Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25. The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28. Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck <--- remember that time in high school when we were supposed to read this, and I wrote a song using the sparknotes, brandons wrote a rap, and jenny did a diorama of grapes sitting at a campfire?
29. Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33. Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34. Emma - Jane Austen
35. Persuasion - Jane Austen
36. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
37. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38. Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40. Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41. Animal Farm - George Orwell
42. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44. A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46. Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47. Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48. The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
49. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50. Atonement - Ian McEwan
51. Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52. Dune - Frank Herbert
53. Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55. A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56. The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57. A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60. Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63. The Secret History - Donna Tartt <---- flipping amazing, thanks Jeff K. for telling me to read this
64. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65. Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66. On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67. Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68. Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding
69. Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
70. Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72. Dracula - Bram Stoker
73. The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74. Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75. Ulysses - James Joyce
76. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77. Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78. Germinal - Emile Zola
79. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80. Possession - AS Byatt
81. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82. Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83. The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84. The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86. A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87. Charlotte's Web - EB White
88. The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Alborn
89. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle <--- Have actually read a few of the collections
90. The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92. The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93. The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94. Watership Down - Richard Adams
95. A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96. A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97. The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98. Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
34/100 - alright Phoebe and Jeff, show me up.
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| You can't spell "megafauna" without "megafun" |
[29 Jun 2008|03:18pm] |
This is something I've been meaning to draw for awhile. It was ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) meifumado who first introduced me to the lamassu, centuries ago.*
My favorite thing about the lamassu is that it has five legs. I don't know if there are any free-standing lamassu in the world, but the one at the Met, for example, is carved in alto relievo; so to make it look normal from whatever direction you're observing it, lamassus must have five legs.
*This story is recounted in the writings of the mad Arab, Abdul Alhazred
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| Stiff upper lip |
[29 Jun 2008|05:40am] |
I have two episodes from the Falklands war to mention. First then the British destroyer HMS Sheffield was hit and sunk by one anti-ship missile, the crew had a different and pleasant way of tackle the tragedy. From wikipedia: “After the ship was struck, her crew, waiting to be rescued, sang "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life" from Monty Python's Life of Brian”. Imagine standing on the deck on a sinking, possible burning ship, would you start singing Always look on the bright side of life?
Then we have The Sun’s less tasteful news bill after the sinking of Argentina cruiser Belgrano and killing over 300 men: Gotcha. That’s the second time since the second world war a submarine have strike a ship, (Bush, Clinton and Bush have ordered submarines to lobbing cruise missiles, but not to attack other ships). I have also read (The Guinness Encyclopaedia of Signs and Symbols – not the best source) that the submarine in question flagged the Jolly Roger, then returning to Scotland, also bizarre.
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| Magical battle of the wills |
[28 Jun 2008|01:21pm] |
So, like, Russell has decided that it's Salsa Saturday. I have woken up and am countering with Funker Vogt at a fraction of the volume that I can inflict upon him, but it covers the salsa up nicely. Now he is stomping.
AHAHAHHAAHAH!
God, I love it so much!
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| A tiny drawing for a special girl |
[28 Jun 2008|09:02am] |
What does it mean? Nobody knows.
Check out this chihuahua skull, too. The eyeholes are huuuuge.
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| Elephant Shrew |
[25 Jun 2008|11:16am] |
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Elephant shrews or jumping shrews are small insectivorous mammals native to Africa. Their traditional common English name comes from a fancied resemblance between their long noses and the trunk of an elephant.
( MOAR )
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| I was just watching a documentary... Partially about these geese. |
[26 Jun 2008|04:46am] |
Barnacle Geese frequently build their nests high on mountain cliffs; away from predators (primarily Arctic Foxes and Polar Bears) but also away from food. Like all geese, the goslings are not fed by the adults. Instead of bringing food to the newly hatched goslings, the goslings are brought to the ground. Unable to fly, the three day old goslings jump off the cliff and fall; their small size, feathery down, and very light weight helps to protect some of them from serious injury when they hit the rocks below, but many die from the impact. Arctic foxes are attracted by the noise made by the parent geese during this time and capture many dead or injured goslings. The foxes also stalk the young as they are led by the parents to wetland feeding areas.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnacle_Goose
They actually had taped some goslings leaving the nest and falling down the cliffs. 0_0
All I could think was "Holy shit! OW!" I'm trying to find the video of it, without much luck right now... But to give you an idea, the nest that the goslings jumped out of was probably 200 feet up or more, and the goslings bounced off several outcroppings of rock before hitting the ground...
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| Instruments of Suckitude |
[26 Jun 2008|06:56pm] |
Firefox 3 is a giant, steaming pile of shit. I regret downloading it.
I'd try uninstalling it and installing an older version of Firefox but I'm lazy.
Still, I may do it.
Fuck, it's a piece of shit.
( My letter to Mozilla. )
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| Hrmm |
[26 Jun 2008|08:18am] |
You people and your memes:
1. Post things you've done in your lifetime that you don't think anybody else on your friends list has done.
2. See if anybody else responds with "I've done that."
3. Have your friends cut & paste this into their journal to see what unique things they've done in their life.
Whatever. I haven't done anything interesting that no one else has done that I can think of. I am not cool and I am rather boring.
Things that you might not have done:
-Been spanked with an electric fly swatter (Elliot, ouuuuuuuch)
-Instigated and then took part in an enema party (with photos)
-Mud wrestled naked at a party and then fucked some random chick in a storage room at the same party an hour later
-Made and wore a full body tentacle costume out of materials that I already had in six hours
-Lived in Okinawa, Japan for 3 years (everyone's lived on the mainland before)
-Modeled for a Japanese children's fashion mag when I was 7 (wtf)
-Broke a brass cabinet door handle off into my head and got stitches
-Hung out with kids at a Japanese orphanage
-got kicked out of my home by my lesbian mom for having nude photos taken of me
-Gone to the Bovington Tank Museum (\m/)
-Watched someone embalm a full post autopsy case that smelled really bad, and then got to hold the front chestplate part of the ribcage
I dunno, that's all I have time for. I don't know if any of that stuff counts. Your turn.
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| If You're Curious As To What My Job is Like... |
[26 Jun 2008|10:51am] |
and you have time to watch a short film...
You should watch this!
http://blip.tv/file/1015028
This is exactly what I do every day here with a few exceptions...
- I play Unreal 3 rather than Halo
- I play Diablo 2
- I don't run any Apple OS's in a dual boot or as a shell.
- Our facility doesn't have I.P. security cameras.
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