Dylan Sent Me This. Not Sure What's Going On. Good Luck Everyone.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCuUnTJgD9M

My Stars

Deary me! I bitch a little in my own indirect, passiveaggressive way, and suddenly here are 6 new posts poppin' up on Google Reader. Hot damn. Anyway:

Why I am not going into (print) journalism and why I am a bad person and why David Byrne is God and you should worship him or at least subscribe to his blog.

Now, over a Chicago breakfast burrito reheated.

When was the last time you watched The Peanuts Christmas Special? Very surreal New Yorker jokes put through a Midwest Flanger pedal made by Boss. And then set to Charlie Mingus.

"Who me? I'm nobody. I don't even have a dog."

-Rerun

BANANA PEEL DEFEATS MOCK-MAN IN HALL BRAWL

THIS IS RECORDED HISTORY:



YOU CANNOT UNSEE THE DEFEAT OF THE CONFOUNDED CONFEDERATE CONUMBSKULL!

SAVAGE MAN FIGHTS

DARE NOT TO QUELL YOUR SPIRIT FOR HERE RESIDE THE MAN FIGHTS

Truths (1-3)

1. My Mom blogs more than you jerks.
2. ?
3. What (to come)
   

Your Names.

It's only in recent years that I've come to appreciate how obnoxious I was as a teenager. This is due in large part to meeting people younger than me who share my same interests. There really isn't anything more tedious than listening to someone elaborate on the history of their surname or to tell history jokes in any context other than a seminar or a class.
I think this makes me a self-loathing historian. Today I've googled and wikipedia-ed the origins of my surnames and ethnic backgrounds for around half an hour again. The industry based around this shit is completely bogus-- especially for Scottish surnames. Users looking for family history are hurriedly shuffled towards crude mock ups of heraldry, sept lists, and famous ancestors. Very little of it is real and what is real is completely superficial. White people are grasping desperately at ethnic straws and spending a lot of money to do it. That being said:

Geary
Irish: reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Gadhra ‘descendant of Gadhra’ (see O’Gara)
English: nickname for a wayward or capricious person, from Middle English ge(a)ry ‘fickle’, ‘changeable’, ‘passionate’ (a derivative of gere ‘fit of passion’, apparently a Scandinavian borrowing).

Meiners
Dutch variant on:
German: from the Germanic personal name Meinhard(t), composed of the elements magin ‘might’, ‘strength’ + hard ‘hardy’, ‘brave’, ‘strong’.

Schwartz
Black, Swarthy, German.

Nee
Irish or Scottish: reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Niadh ‘descendant of Nia’ or Ó Niadh ‘son of Nia’. With "Nia" meaning "champion."

Guide to the Fall(s)

I've decided to start leading by example, for better or worse. Meaning: from now on, I have no secrets, and you shouldn't either. I have this theory that you should have something interesting to say everyday by noon. There were 16 posts on this blog during the month of December last year. Maybe next year?

Alex Schwartz is a lower case D devil.

Steve Harrison recently told Alex and I that he's planning on us coming to Beloit to perform at the C-Haus sometime after mid-February. This means Alex and I (and all of you if you'd like) need to come up with some sort of show to put on, be it a play, an off-color talent show, or anything else. Submit your ideas if you want to get on board for the big win. So far my only idea is some kind of circus, talent show, and vaudville thing. I would be the Ringmaster.


edit: In fact, it's going to be a circus. I've got a few acts in mind already.