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- Semiotics: The Basics by Daniel Chandler
- Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip with David Foster Wallace by David Lipsky
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- At Home: A Short History of Domestic Life by Bill Bryson
- In Search of Time: The History, Physics, and Philosophy of Time by Dan Falk
- Alexander of Macedon 356-323 B.C.: A Historical Biography by Peter Green
- The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes
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- The Magicians: A Novel by Lev Grossman
- Hitch-22: A Memoir by Christopher Hitchens
- Notes From a Small Island by Bill Bryson
- Solaris by Stanislaw Lem
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/ Friday, October 6th, 2006Ha!
Amanda
/ Friday, October 6th, 2006I agree.
Pants are the real terrorists.
ffanatic
/ Friday, October 6th, 2006oh, awesome! I remember that picture.
Ben
/ Saturday, October 7th, 2006The things you find when you go through site archives.
Aleksandersen
/ Friday, October 13th, 2006May I ask why?
Ben
/ Friday, October 13th, 2006From the obvious sexual context of nakedness to something as innocent as the “little boy pee” (the phenomenon where young boys will insist on pulling their pants down to their ankles or even taking them off entirely when they go to a urinal), there’s a primordial appeal to pantslessness. Or nakedness in general—whatever.
My rejection of pants stems from my insistence that they are a bourgeois convention, inherently limiting to the members, and entirely socionormative.
(Hint: the second paragraph is me joking)