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Represent your hood
Represent your block
Represent your spot
know what I'm sayin?

A Hefty F*ckin Fee

I was at a rummage sale today and saw an amazing sight. At first it was nothing special, just a maroon felt blanket, but upon turning it over I noticed a beautiful thing--- Embroidered in yellow in the middle of the blanket were the words "FREEDOM ISN"T FREE" I instantly thought of all of you!

Genocide

Fun title right? So the other day at work I was forced to commit the most cold hearted act I have ever partaken in during my lifetime. Hard to believe I know, but yet true. We recieved a shipment of 1000 baby chickens (chicks if you will) which then had to be killed so they can be fed to our red tailed hawk. So bascially I was responsible for the deaths of 1000 defenseless chicks. We actually put them in large trash bags and executed them with gas (CO2). Total downer, especially after eating chicken nuggets for lunch. Made a bit nauseaus, and surely screwed my Karma for a couple of years. I told my boss that I would forever be haunted by the longing souls of those thousand helpless chicks who we cruely killed....and she looked at me like I was crazy. But she has a portrait of her family where they are all looking slightly to the left as if there was something more interesting going on over there. I think that's weird. (a little mitch?) Anyways, peace out.

Hot Art debate gets even HOTTER

So I was at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, and as I was perusing the Museum (as I would sometimes do with the Jello concoctions in KU) I came across an interesting sign above a beautiful ebony wood chair-like object:

Please Be Seated
Exercise caution when sitting, as this chair is also a work of art and is valued by the MFA. Do not hesitate to use it as a chair, but please remain respectful of the artist and his/her work
(this is not verbatim, but rather a paraphrasing)

So, my dear Ali Kinsella, it appears that art can in fact be functional, as per a very distinguished Museum of Fine Arts definition of art. As you are one to trust established and renowned institutions to an extent when contemplating these type of hairy situations, I believe a response to this post is quite in order. All others are of course welcome to respond to this as well, but I think a further explanation by Ms. Kinsella is definetely in order. In addition to the numerous PLEASE BE SEATED signs above several functional but still artwork chairs, I also found several ceramic bowls and plates, waterpipes (indeed, even smoking apparatuses fit this particular museum's definition of art), samurai swords, armor, helmets, and other such weaponry (not the ornate ceremonial variety, but rather the functional variety) and coffins and sarcophaguses, even one containing a mummy inside. This museum was not a natural history museum, but clearly a museum of fine arts, exhibiting countless works of art that were at least at one time extremely functional. Even if they are given the status of works of art for having survived centuries of time, the problem of the chairs still remain, as those are very recently made. So, I must ask again Ms. Kinsella, what then separates our beloved Pineapple bong of the summer of 2007 from being a work of art, if it is not functionality?

Move In weekend/ Speca bday

jordan and i discussed getting an alumni house for move in weekend in august to have a reunion/celebrate specas 21st

discuss

Hoptical Illusions

to start...congrats ali

i have found a new delicious IPA and just wanted to share the knowledge with you all...i doubt that any of you can find it since it is a long island brewery...but it is called Blue Point Brewing Company Hoptical Illusion. A very clever play on words. Hope all is well me love you long time

stay classy