four-thirty-three

While cleaning my family’s place in Chula Vista, my brother stumbled upon a few writing assignments from when I was in first and second grade.
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Rain
The rain is raining all around,
It falls on feild and tree,
It rains on the umbrellas hear,
And on ships at sea.
[January 30, 1981. Second grade. A literal drawing of the poem is [...]

One of my favorite cultural critics is Slavoj Žižek, from Slovenia.  He’s sassy, has an inimitable style and is really witty; kind of like the Oscar Wilde of postmodern Marxist philosophers.  Here’s a Žižek linkdump for everyone.
First of all, he’s on Twitter. Or it may be him, at any rate. It’s not listed as a “verified account,” [...]