Fuck. Well I’ve managed to spend a solid month in the captivity of my room, entrenched with my seemingly limitless studies and essay-writing. My latest piece involves an analysis of the profit-squeeze hypothesis (a early 1970’s Marxist framework on the end of the “Golden Age” of capitalism) and subsidiary alterations to the hypothesis that I feel are relevant. Talk about god damn specialization of labor. Any input on how to remedy my essence back into being centered and social again would be much appreciated. Yes, I have though about E. PS This is how we look… now:

The Stage: Valentine’s Day, 2001. I am a high school senior, I do not have a valentine, and I have oddly colored hair. I do not like society or its make believe holidays

The Victim: A decorated ‘Happy Valentine’s Day’ banner and the 900 or so cohabitants of the cafeteria during the lunch period.

Yes, this is me.

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No, seriously. Come see how good I look.

I am bearded. I am graduate student.

I am in London. I am a graduate student. I am increasing my vocabulary. I am writing lots of things like this. I am meeting new people. I am intentionally neglecting the past. I still feel divorced from the present. I promise to be better in the future. I look like this:

Enjoy your worries, you may never have them again. So do me a favor and shop at Amazon.

I saw it coming
I just thought that you should know
I’m feeling better every day
I’m only waiting if you stay
So don’t feel bad
Your faith was an illusion
And you’re as loyal as your faith
Will let you be

Or, how I went to Ellis Island and learned to love Scandinavian robot immigrants in disguise.

Today, the Senate voted for a measure to censure the MoveOn.org General Betray Us ad in the New York Times, 72-25. So much for winning the majority, right Democrats? A year later, we’re still knee-deep in this piece of shit war and the most legislation that can get passed is for censoring a group for FREEDOM OF SPEECH. Anyway, you have these 21 Democrats to thank for this wonderful waste of time:

Baucus (D-MT)
Bayh (D-IN)
Cardin (D-MD)
Carper (D-DE)
Casey (D-PA)
Conrad (D-ND)
Dorgan (D-ND)
Feinstein (D-CA)
Johnson (D-SD)
Klobuchar (D-MN)
Kohl (D-WI)
Landrieu (D-LA)
Leahy (D-VT)
Lincoln (D-AR)
McCaskill (D-MO)
Mikulski (D-MD)
Nelson (D-FL)
Nelson (D-NE)
Pryor (D-AR)
Salazar (D-CO)
Tester (D-MT)
Webb (D-VA)

Cheers mates! (ugh). I am finally arrived and settled in London. For those of you not in the know, your dear author and PBH blog founder (that’s me) has packed up from Washington DC for a year of education at the School of Oriental and African Studies. For the next year, I’ll be discovering the wonders of Political Economy of Development, tragically far from the familiarity of Washington DC and it’s various gay blowjob cathedrals. I know I’ve been absolutely terrible about updating the ol’ blog, and I’ll be doing my best in the near future to get things going again.

i apologize for the lack of updates and articles. its been a long, trying summer for me, and im off in a couple of weeks to graduate school in London. anyway, in the process of moving out of my apartment, i found some writings from around the third year of college — approximately 4 years ago when i would have been 20 years old. this particular passage felt particularly timely given the big leap ahead:

After watching the Simpsons for 15 years and having recently seen the movie, I thought I’d share my favorite 25 Simpsons scenes, quotes, and other miscellany sequences from the history of the show. The majority of the quotes from seasons 5-10, but feel free to add your own (and perhaps I’ll expand it to 50 if a lot more get added).

1. Bill Cosby explains ‘the rap music’ and kids, all while including all his favorite corporate sponsors:

Sorry for the absence of bloggery. In the meantime, here’s a picture of me keeping it real at the 2000 Bush inauguration in DC (consider me an original gangster in this respect):

Ever since I was stalked on Facebook and kicked off permanently (non-related events), I’ve been a little hesitant about this social networking thing. Alas, my reckless nature and curiosity in the hopes of a grundle-licking hussie falling into my lap via the interwebs has gotten the best of me. So I suggest you add me (and PBH) on MySpace and Facebook ASAP. Oh, and you can find me on Reddit, Digg, Stumble Upon, and Delicious also.

Facebook me!

While perusing the local liberal periodical, I came to a simple but sane realization. I would like to work on the quality of this site more frequently: make it more usable while upgrading our content. I’m going to work on 3 or 4 things a week. There’s no substitute for thinking things out over time rather than rushing to judgment.

Always,
Alec