6.29.2015

The Newcomer's Guide to the 2015 Tour de France

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( Map from the TdF homepage) France! Wine! Paris! Bikes! The 2015 Tour de France starts this Saturday, meaning that anyone...
6.15.2015

Chivalry on the Dodgeball Court

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(From the Commons ) A few weekends ago, I played dodgeball for the first time in ten years. You know the game - where you get to th...
4.16.2015

Favorite Things in Life: Bookstores

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I took a trip to my favorite bookstore today. I hope you have a favorite bookstore; life is too short to spend it browsing the stacks of ...
3.31.2015

Helmets, Freedom, and California Law

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1980's track helmet (Photo from whatisabicycle.tumblr.com) Much commotion was raised on the Internet over the weekend about the pro...
1.08.2015

The Inevitability of the Fifty Shades of Grey Movie

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(via IMDB) As the Fifty Shades... movie is set tempt teenagers everywhere this Valentine's Day, just over a month away, I want ...
12.30.2014

Highlights from Derek Walcott's Odysseus

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I just finished reading Derek Walcott's stage adaptation of Odysseus, that he wrote back in 1990. Here are some highlights. EURYLOCH...
10.27.2014

Haha, Haikus

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I carry around a notebook with me in which I write down haikus. Most of them are pretty rubbish, but practice does help make them better...
10.10.2014

Michel Foucault or Max Ernst?

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There have been quite a few times when, while reading a book, I have no idea what I'm actually reading. The prose just doesn't make ...