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It’s summer vacation, and that means it’s time to enjoy a bunch of things I didn’t have time for last semester.
From left to right, beginning with the top row:
1. Read my first graphic novel, Watchmen. I’ve just finished reading it for the first time, and it surpassed all my expectations. I need to read it again, then read Dash’s thesis on it and see the movie.
2. Watch the entirety of Firefly.
3. Go camping.
4. Make various DIY crafts. I have in mind an earring organizer and a wallet woven from paint samples.
5. Learn how to decorate cupcakes using marzipan.
6. Play my first game of D&D. See what all the fuss is about.
7. Attend BFD 2009, with The Offspring and MC Lars.
8. Pick up guitar again. I’m not very good, but Davin is super patient. Perhaps this summer I will vanquish my foe, the bar chord.
9. Keep running and swimming so that I don’t lapse back out of shape before I resume swim class in the fall.
What else should I do? And what’s on your list?
I’ve decided to start blogging again this month only, during my brief reprieve between spring semester and summer classes. I will admit that this is mainly because I’m jealous of all the fun Jack and Dash are having with their new blogs, Chopped and Skewered and Red Car, Good Point, respectively.
Example: pomegranate boba from Jack's travels in Taiwan. Semiviolent name aside, how could you not want to read "Chopped and Skewered"?
If you followed me in exploringberkeley’s heyday, you know that I originally began this blog as part of my marketing internship at TigerLogic to promote their search tool, ChunkIt!, to college students. My bosses were great, and I had a pretty sweet job while it lasted — getting paid to blog about whatever as long as I threw in a bit of ChunkIt! here and there — but understandably, these days, experimental Web 2.0 marketing of a free product is kind of … not a top priority.
Thus, today’s post, while lacking in its usual snark and pompousness, is momentous. It is my declaration of independence from corporate ties.
The Dead Kennedys, as you may recall from my most previous post, are an emblem of anti-corporate trailblazing. I know, I already used this picture of DK at the 1980 Bay Area Music Awards making a statement against the mainstream music industry itself and the commercialism of New Wave in their usual controversial manner (Wikipedia article). Sorry! I just think they're awesome.
I am now blogging for you, and me, and nobody else. (Of course, I’m going to choose to write about much the same as I did before. But the point is, I have the choice.) For instance, instead of posting a nice family-friendly photo of the Dead Kennedys at the 1890 Bay Area Music Awards just now, I could have illustrated my point with a photo of Rage Against the Machine at Lollapalooza in 1993 during their protest against censorship by the Parents Music Resource Center (Wikipedia article). But you can use Google Images to do that for yourself.
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