Plastics. I took my car into the shop yesterday, 2/22/22. The odometer had 155,555 miles on it. I’d like to think that would translate into some good fortune on the repair bill, but I’m not that kind of lucky. So I decided to point that luck somewhere else and go a little (just a little) …
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Dave didn't get the memo until, like, just now. He is capable enough at arranging words, but he's only just getting started at getting those words to actually do anything. He is motivated by a disrespect for authority, and for the shambles that authority has made of the world. He's a Leo. Active here and BlueSky, tilting at windmills on Instagram.
AMC Stories: The Regulars
I didn’t get the writing job, but that’s not so bad. It would have required a move to Minnesota, and Minnesota sucks. Instead circumstances have pointed me in a different direction entirely. Tenure’s only useful if it’s useful, after all. Two bright sides though- I helped save a bunch of my fellow project workers a …
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The Falcon and the Whiter Soldier- a second look
I’m interviewing for a writing job so I feel like I should be watching my mouth here. Luckily, race in America is no longer an issue, amirite? Falcon and the Winter Soldier has entered the rotation of shows that play well in my background. It’s actiony sure, but the dialog through most of it is …
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(Pols499) Gunning For Votes: Finding Connections Between Campaign Funding and Congressional Support.
My last semester at CSUCI was the first semester of lockdown, and those months got pretty weird. My sense of time got all mushed- that spring break lasted a solid month, basically. Then I had to spend the rest of the semester recovering from dissociating so hard. My capstone got scaled back in a big …
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DRAFT National Security in the Years Before Covid, and After Donald
I have this egotistic conception of myself as a writer, offering up my voice to the National Conversation. Which is nutty but whatever. I read these ‘think’ pieces from knowledgeable people, and sometimes they make sense. Sometimes they draw upon a broad slice of reality, and present conclusions that seem reasonable and ring true to …
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Deconstructing For The Chain Gang: from ‘Raisin in the Sun’ to ‘Clybourne Park’
I had an elective requirement to fill during that last semester, and it was almost a crisis. I wasn’t able to register until several weeks after the window opened (the housing dept was insisting I cough up $6k for a dorm I’d never occupied, pure theft), so I’d already been waitlisted for my first choice …
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Who Let The Owls Out, Who, Who, Who
My last semester included two environmental classes. First was the parks course from which the Wrigley presentation was posted. The other was pols340, politics and the environment. The professor was the same as the essay-heavy Comparative/Race professor, so I was perhaps asking for trouble, but the lockdown turned all of those expectations upside-down pretty quickly. …
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It’s True; The Internet Said So
I didn’t make this up, I just want to be clear. But I don’t disagree. One question ’bout which I rant and raveis what it takes to be a DaveDaves are witty, pleasant, kind,and of an odder state of mindbesides. But peering closer showsfacts often startling when disclosed.Tastes in music, art and science,and often stubborn …
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Pols335 Essay 5: And That’s a Wrap.
I skipped over a question set from this module, the responses for Wag the Dog. The movie was only ok, and the writing didn’t really add anything to the experience so I gave it a pass. I’m liking the writing here though. “At least he’s not doing drugs” lol. This was the last set from …
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