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You get the Todorovian implications, right?2 comments »
Cal to Protestors: "Yeah, We're Gonna Need Those Trees Back"
By tallblonde (07/24/2008 3:14 PM) Bye!
Over a year and a half after taking to the trees, Save the Oaks, a group protesting the University's plans to build a "Student Athlete High Performance Center" on what is now a grove playing host to 150-year-old oaks, may soon no longer have a branch
... MORE »Latest comment by tallblonde: First, I'm glad that someone is still reading what I'm writing, even if it is only monthly at this point.
Second, I completely agree with you. I know that athlet... MORE »
Second, I completely agree with you. I know that athlet... MORE »
This Summer's Thirstiest Fashion Statement
By tallblonde (06/21/2008 8:47 PM) Tags: beer belly, bra, partying, wine, beer
And you thought it didn't get any classier than boxed wine.
New Berkeley Website
By tallblonde (06/19/2008 8:56 PM) Tags: website, campus
Thoughts on the new design? I think it's kind of neat. Not as yellow. That always made me a little nauseous.
Get Ready, Hot Chilean President Visiting Berkeley
By tallblonde (06/12/2008 09:31 AM) Tags: Chile, President Michele Bachelet, International House
Chilean president Michele Bachelet will be visiting the great state of California today! Bachelet will be meeting with Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger (it still hurts to call him that) in Sacramento this morning, then taking a tour of a vineyard at UC Davis (Davis has a vi
... MORE »It's a Big Week for Former Cal Players
By tallblonde (06/09/2008 12:10 AM) Tags: basketball, nba, leon powe, celtics, lakers
He hasn't played at Cal for two years, but hey, a girl can dream.
... MORE » If you pay attention to sports, you know the Celtics beat the Lakers tonight, 108-102, in Boston to take a 2-0 lead in the NBA Finals. If you watched, you witnessed the Lakers' near-comeback from a 24-point deficit i
Latest comment by Anonymous: I am a Laker fan. Having said that I predicted not
to underestimated this great celtic squad.
Celtics will win this series.
to underestimated this great celtic squad.
Celtics will win this series.
Allston Shut Down by Police, Cause Unknown
By tallblonde (06/08/2008 02:23 AM) Tags: crime, police, allston
Spotted: Special Kids
By tallblonde (06/08/2008 02:06 AM) Tags: special olympics, uc berkeley
Former Cal Footballer Marshawn Lynch Involved in Hit-and-Run
By tallblonde (06/07/2008 12:19 PM) Tags: football, marshawn lynch
Oh, those were the days.
... MORE » Former Cal football star Marshawn Lynch, now a member of the NFL's Buffalo Bills, was involved in a hit-and-run accident in Buffalo May 31st. He is thought to have been driving the car involved when he hit a woman crossing an intersec
The Marine Protests Appear to Have Reached an Epilogue
tallblonde says,
"If the Democrats had their way at that time we would have let the South go."
Oh, if only. I fault Democrats for this every day.
Anonymous, if you're a U.S. historian and you haven't yet noticed the complete role reversal of the Republican and Democratic parties in the last decades, you are on some seriously crazy shit, because it is distorting your entire view of reality. Could I possibly get my hands on some? It sounds like fun.
I will not call you son or daughter, because I hope no son or daughter of mine would troll the internets looking for inflaming posts on college blogs to write essays about the injustices of Code Pink. I'd like to think they'd go to a reputable news source or, at the very least, one that capitalizes with some regularity.
Oh, if only. I fault Democrats for this every day.
Anonymous, if you're a U.S. historian and you haven't yet noticed the complete role reversal of the Republican and Democratic parties in the last decades, you are on some seriously crazy shit, because it is distorting your entire view of reality. Could I possibly get my hands on some? It sounds like fun.
I will not call you son or daughter, because I hope no son or daughter of mine would troll the internets looking for inflaming posts on college blogs to write essays about the injustices of Code Pink. I'd like to think they'd go to a reputable news source or, at the very least, one that capitalizes with some regularity.
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Cal to Protestors: "Yeah, We're Gonna Need Those Trees Back"
Second, I completely agree with you. I know that athletics are important to a well-rounded university; I know that lots of people need this gym--not just athletes, but their trainers and masseuses, too; and, while I did not personally know that the oaks were planted after the university was built, I appreciate you having the journalistic integrity to do some research before posting anonymously on this anonymous blog. What I'm trying to give here is a different perspective, one that doesn't take all this bullsh*t so seriously. It's been nothing but "those goddamn mangy hippie tree-sitters" and "If I Were A Tree I'd Die For Cal Football" for the past 2 years, almost, and I think that's ridiculous. People are more up-in-arms about building a gym (and, I guess, office space) than they are about things that really matter--like, I don't know, the war? I'm putting aside reason, for example, the fact that none of the protesters were affiliated with the university, that they were all crazy, that the stadium needs to be seismically retrofitted, and that those women's lacrosse players need to have a gym to change in, so that it looks more like it really should: A squabble between two opposing viewpoints that, while costing everyone and their mother millions of dollars, isn't really going to mean that much in the long run.