Random Rants XII: It's Alright To Cry

[Cheezy the Wiz]

I've think I've just lost my mind. It's been coming for some time, but I looked in the mirror and saw the madman eyes staring back at me. Oh and I've heard out of nowhere a friggin classical concert playing in my head and an african tribe preforming some ceremony. Splendid.

I knew you were out of it for some time now.

 

[Red Door]

I suggest lawsuits. Just for the heck of it.

Well, we are protesting the game because we got gipped with the circumstance.

 

[choxorn]

I forgot to get a girlfriend for Valentines day this year.

Quick! You have 6 days! Find someone fast!

 

[PeteAtoms]

Quick! You have 6 days! Find someone fast!

Shouldn't be too hard. At this point you would basically be looking for a prostitute. Someone who you have to give stuff to, to feel loved...

 

[Mad Man]

I need to feel loved

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

I'm completely ridiculous. Its only barely February and I already have a book wish list a mile long. I have so many books I own and have yet to read, yet I feel the desire to obtain more. The interest in their content is genuine, and I feel that I should, and in some cases, must read them. I also feel that getting them now rather than later (in life, that is) is better, since I can then read them at my leisure; they're not going anywhere. I'm considering getting most of them on amazon soon, since I recently discovered their fantastic discount system, where the more you get at once, the more is deducted from your total price. I don't understand how they can afford to do anything but negate the shipping charges, but I'm not going to argue.

Here's the list I've assembled so far. I have a feeling it may grow still.

Spoiler :

Xenophon - The Anabasis
Herodotus - The Landmark Herodotus: The Histories
Thucydides - The Landmark Thucydides: A Comprehensive Guide to the Peloponnesian War
Plutarch - The Lives
Karl Marx - Das Kapital, Volume I-III
Georg Lukacs - History of Class Consciousness
Adam Smith - On the Wealth of Nations
John Maynard Keynes - The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money
V.I. Lenin - What is to be Done?
V.I. Lenin - Imperialism: The Final Stage of Capitalism
Leon Trotsky - History of the Russian Revolution
Leon Trotsky - The Revolution Betrayed
Leon Trotsky - Fascism: What it is and How to Fight It
Leon Trotsky - My Life: An Attempt at an Autobiography
Geoffrey Hosking - The First Socialist Society: A History of the Soviet Union from Within
J. M. Dennis - Rise and Fall of the German Democratic Republic 1945-1990
Howard Zinn - A People's History of the United States, 1492-Present
Stephen Katkin - Steeltown, USSR: Soviet Society in the Gorbachev Era
John Reed - Ten Days that Shook the World
Naomi Klein - The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
Plato - The Republic
Thomas Paine - Collected Writings

 

[cubsfan6506]

you can probaly get most of those for free off the internet. For sure all the marx, lenin, trotsky, thomas paine, and plato.

 

[Dachs]

Thukydides, Xenophon, and Herodotos are all easily visible for frees on the internets. I have to question your desire to read What Is To Be Done?, though, because Russian history is full of works with that title and they ALL SUCK.

 

[PeteAtoms]

I'm really craving a nice cup of coffee right now, but i know if I have one, I won't be able to sleep tonight

 

[Harbringer]

Sleep is for the week, I don't even know what time it is, I'm on my way to Tijuana rite now. blah.

 

[Dachs]

You know the kursii, the little "seat" that you have to put a hamza on in mid-word when writing Arabic? I hate it. It looks friggin' ugly.

 

[Harbringer]

I need to feel loved

Dude, dont give up, its all you can do, just dont give up.

 

[Annex]

Shouldn't be too hard. At this point you would basically be looking for a prostitute. Someone who you have to give stuff to, to feel loved...

Hmm, yes. Theres got to be some of those around here somewhere...need to be careful, though. Im allergic to penicillin.

 

[Virote_Considon]

I just very nearly got in a fight with someone on the bus home today.

And a car splashed me, and I got all wet ...

 

[Oruc]

Charity adverts are very annoying, most of them are stupid. A charity for African donkeys? you are ******* kiddin me, isn't there more important stuff to worry about!

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

Thukydides, Xenophon, and Herodotos are all easily visible for frees on the internets. I have to question your desire to read What Is To Be Done?, though, because Russian history is full of works with that title and they ALL SUCK.

I always wanted to specialize in Russian History, but since my school doesn't have a Russian History professor, and thus no classes on the subject, I'm taking it on myself. I have a few books about it, but that section of my library desperately needs expansion.

I can't read long things on computers, I get headaches and lose mental focus. Paper is better.

You know the kursii, the little "seat" that you have to put a hamza on in mid-word when writing Arabic? I hate it. It looks friggin' ugly.

Yes. And at first glance it vaguely looks like thaa.

 

[salty mud]

Astronomy coursework freakin' SUCKS!

 

[Dachs]

I always wanted to specialize in Russian History, but since my school doesn't have a Russian History professor, and thus no classes on the subject, I'm taking it on myself. I have a few books about it, but that section of my library desperately needs expansion.

Ah. We do have a Slavic Studies prof, and he's pretty cool. Took a class with him last semester, which is where I got that opinion.

I can't read long things on computers, I get headaches and lose mental focus. Paper is better.

Yes, I agree. Which is why I printed Xenophon out during freshman year of high school using my high school's printers.

Yes. And at first glance it vaguely looks like thaa.

AAARGH I KNOW RIGHT?!? Mistaking the kursii for thaa doubled the time I spent on Arabic homework last night.

 

[Mad Man]

I have a cold.

 

[Nylan]

It isn't fun to collect 10 sources for my paper on String Quartet No. 17 in G Major. Sort of mind-boggling, really.