Dunlap Dabbles

Today was a day like any other for a lot of people out “there.” It was, however, an unusual day for me. For one thing, instead of waking up at 7:55 and running outside to move my car in a state of undress I arose at precisely 7:00 A.M. and avoided the long [...]

It is my birthday, and so far it has been awesome. Technically my birthday has consisted of: twenty minutes standing on a train platform, forty minutes riding that train, one hour watching t.v., six hours sleeping, fourteen minutes and twenty seconds talking to my mother, one minute and forty seconds talking to my father [...]

A few days ago a friend of mine was telling me about this Hasil Adkins who people generally identify as being a pre-cursor to The Cramps.  The Documentary clocks in at around a half hour and is well worth a watch; full of stuff like comical shootouts, a dance that no one can properly identify, [...]

I was first introduced the concept of critical mass through the 100th monkey effect/phenomenon.  For those of you who don’t know and are too lazy to click the link, the 100th monkey effect refers to a report that while monkeys were transmitting knowledge by normal means of education, there was a specific point (the 100th monkey [...]

I’ve abstained from Facebook for much of this last week because the only things changing on there are statuses keeping me abreast of how many finals or papers everyone has, how “over school” they are or if they are actually done with school (”yay.”)  Don’t get me wrong, I empathize with those still working and [...]