Just looking around

Aug 2003

Kirksville, MO

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BA, Yale '03. PhD, Stanford 2003-???

French Historian

The city of New York, 19th Century French novels, Liberal activist judges, Tennis, Celebrity, cute girls who give me the time of day (perhaps there's one in the entire world), that insidious conspiracy among the Pope, the Tsar, Metternich, Francois Guizot, French radicals, and German police spies to exorcise the spector of communisim from Europe.

Fin-de-Siecle Vienna, Moveable Feast, The Age of Innocence, Portait of a Lady, Less than Zero.

Even though I have yet to see it, I am convinced, as are all of my friends (except Harris), that Brokeback Mountain is the best movie ever. But I do like other movies too: Everyone Says I Love You, 8 1/2, Annie Hall, and Anchorman to name a few...

Al Green is one soulful cat.

Anything trashy

Taurus

Over the summer, I lived in New York and every monday night I would go to a bar called Pianos on the lower east side and sing karaoke with my cousin and his friends. Through a process of trial and error, I discovered that I have a singing range almost perfect for Otis Redding's "Sittin' on the Dock of the Bay," but unfortunately very little else (If you would like to see a picture of me singing karaoke, you can find one on my cousin's website www.kareemblack.com).

This weekend, I went back to New York and tried to expand my repertoire to include the classic "A Change is Gonna Come." My experiment did not turn out so well, and I ended up clearing the room. As a graduate student in 19th (and increasingly 18th) century French Intellectual History, I apparently do not possess the prerequisite soul. My cousin, on the other hand, killed with a cover of "Smells Like Teen Spirit." He possesses the angst of a 15 year old white suburban teen.

Most people.