Title: an homage to my new favorite band. A very good weekend. Some discoveries and such, in brainwaneWatch 200[1]. I had a great deal of fun, on purpose, this weekend. My classes are over for …

Wow. I've gotten used to cleaning, or maybe it's just that I've cleaned up my apartment so many times in the last few weeks that I haven't had time to get it *really* dirty again, …

Very little to say, and I'll go ahead and say it. Today: My friendship braid is neither eternal nor golden, but it's neat nonetheless. And I've watched a bit on the telly, what? I watched …

End of classes; woo-hoo. Finals approach; no woo-hoo. Finals still a few days away: woo-hoo. Turns-on: Proper pluralization. Turns-off: Plagiarism. More randomness follows. I, like Seth, am not a vegan yet, though Berkeley certainly makes …

The game in Russian today was "Find the Nose." The history grad student cut a picture of a nose out of a magazine. Someone left the room, the other students hid the nose somewhere, the …

Is "the funny" an ideal? Is it a perception? Is it the manifestation of The Good? Is it a transaction of some sort? An accident of juxtaposition? Why is it that sometimes two people can …

I may, in fact, be a figurative nut. But at least I haven't figuratively cracked. Air hockey and boredom, on today's "brainwane." I've decided to try to be content with what I have. "All Your …

We played "telephone" in Russian. Of course, we made fun of the guy who's never there. "I saw him sleeping on the street in big red waterproof boots" turned into "I saw him sleeping with …

I played Hangman with a random seatmate in California Politics yesterday. Political Science was the category. judiciary, resolution, legislation, reapportionment, cabinet, elect, naturalize, parliament, farm. Farm? "My term paper was on farm labor," he said. …

No, it's not actually in Canada, nor is it a Showdown. It's another U.C. Berkeley Comedy Night, this one put on by SUPERB on Monday, May 7. I'll probably be there; you? Yes, I borrowed …