April 2011
2 posts
New Tumblr!
Mental Fodder of a Secular Fish
portfolio
I started a journalism portfolio here: www.susandu.com.
I’m probably leaving this blog, however. Might come back to Tumblr under a different name at some point though, at which point I will let you know. I’ll just need to find something compelling/dramatic/marketable to write about.
Peace.
January 2011
3 posts
Back to Twitter
Follow Me
December 2010
2 posts
Back to DeviantArt
Orandaberries.deviantart.com!
“The whole universe or the structure that perceives it is a worthy opponent, but...”
– Julian Assange
November 2010
11 posts
3 tags
Intro to Asian Art Final Paper
Tantric Art: Finding Enlightenment though Ecstasy
At first glance, Tantric Deities Hevajra and Nairatmya in Ritual Embrace (Yah-Yum) is a chaotic vortex of entwined bodies, satellite limbs, and ornate details which overwhelm the eye with visual information. Furthermore, its monochromatic color scheme and repetitive visual motifs do little to alleviate the sense of confusion viewers may...
Medill Innocence Project on the Case of Anthony... →
2 tags
Chicago from NU
1st Soc. of Revolutions Paper
Susan Du
Professor Derluguian
Revolutions and Social Change
October 14, 2010
Revolutions and the Ladder of Human Progress
Though the father of the most radical political and economic model of the modern era will maintain that all human history is the “history of class struggles”, the essential implication of Marx’s major premise is in fact that all great changes in the history of civilization...
“Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.”
– Mark Twain
(via whisperingwillow)
Ethics Lecture
In journalism today, we discussed the Iran-Contra Affair.
Basically, the White House went behind Congress’s back to sell weapons to Iranian moderates for a sum of money which was then spent illegally to support Nicaraguan rebels. Oliver North of the National Security Council lied in regards to the White House’s involvement in this scandal, and when it was later revealed that he had...
1 tag
Northwestern App for Smartphones
This doesn’t absolve the fact that I still have no signal in most of the buildings on campus. Like I have no signal in my dorm as of this very moment.
College in a nutshell if you think about it.
1 tag
I can't get enough of this face
1 tag
Illustrations
1. Mankitty saves the day
2. Phineas and the pooping harpies (see Jason and the Argonauts)
2 tags
Illinois Senate Race 2010
According to Politico, it’ll be a close race between a liar and a thief.
On the one hand, Giannoulias’ family bank collapsed earlier this year, despite his current role as State Treasurer. Also, apparently the bank made loans to certain crime figures—the issue is not even one of “did it happen?” but rather “when did Giannoulias know about it?” and...
2 tags
North Beach
Study, get a life, stay in love
October 2010
23 posts
Bond set for suspect charged in NIU homicide →
Have you ever felt immense hatred for a stranger just by looking at his picture?
“When Pilate asked: ‘What is truth?’ he expressed the eternal...”
– Will Irwin
2 tags
Brainfluke #8
Math is just a subliminal conspiracy on the part of our robot oppressors to subdue the literati revolutionaries.
Nikki Giovanni's
Beautiful Black Men (with compliments and apologies to all not mentioned by name) i wanta say just gotta say something bout those beautiful beautiful beautiful outasight black men with they afros walking down the street is the same ol danger but a brand new pleasure sitting on stoops, in bars, going to offices running numbers, watching for their whores preaching in churches, driving their hogs...
NIU Today Update on Toni →
includes flyer
1 tag
Toni
http://today.niu.edu/2010/10/16/student-reported-missing/
I really wish I had taken her in when she needed a place to stay. How am I supposed to tell her now that she can come find me if she ever needs help?
1 tag
In Chile, Poetry in Bedrock and Blood →
My Brother is a Beat Poet
Gmail Chat:
kevin: hello
going to a concert later
type bak
what is wrong with you
arhhhhhhhhhhhhhh….sniff…..man my feet do stink
me: ew
what concert
kevin: anyway……
hihyrfvancgiuewigf that meant that i have all a’s
me: you’re not making logical sense
kevin: mmmmmmmmm… i think you are right
but
wait
there
must
be
a
chicken
...
“I come from far away, where the angels live in misery, dress themselves with...”
– Jose Gutierrez, first “green-card soldier” to die in Iraq (by friendly fire), an illegal immigrant until he was granted citizenship posthumously; also a poet and architect-aspirant
(Glauber and Simon, CBS 60 Minutes)
1 tag
Postsecret
www.postsecret.com
It’s so true. I’ve become one of those.
3 tags
the school paper is just an excuse to take...
Edzo’s Burgers’ veggie burger: for an article about “green” restaurants in Evanston.
http://www.dailynorthwestern.com/northwestern-students-spend-green-to-eat-green-1.2357761
1 tag
Fact: people online are dumber than they appear in...
Why is it that the free forums under all CNN.com articles are constantly filled with the ignorant trash comments of people who never actually read the news? Are the vast majority of people out there simply stupid as fuck? Or—and I suspect this is the case—are all the informed citizens simply in hiding? I call for an intellectual coup of online forums.
…
Don’t laugh at...
Conversations - Roadtrip Nation →
“Shit happens, there is a revolution.”
– Professor Derlugian (sociology)
2 tags
Michael Oren at Northwestern
Michael Oren’s super secret visit to NU yesterday caused a bit of stir among those who did get the memo about his appearance. There were protesters on the street of both pro-Israel and pro-Palestine camps who were at various points at each other’s necks (right off the bat) and more diplomatically discussing issues (once they realized they would be protesting more or less right next to...
1 tag
Sean
Summer writing assignment for Medill. Obviously my understanding of certain things have changed since then.
***
With only a thick layer of glass and 156 feet of open air between us and the sheer Wyoming Valley over which the famed architect Alex Jordan’s tremendous “Infinity Room” extended, we stopped to admire the view before setting out further toward the vanishing point.
Visiting The House on...
“It’s so hard to forget pain, but it’s even harder to remember sweetness.
We...”
– Chuck Palahnuik (via xoxoab)
ARTstor →
digital image library
September 2010
17 posts
1 tag
Rocks
lining the North shore of Northwestern’s Evanston campus. It’s pretty cold out there in various senses of the word.
Doodles
in black on a dark shoe. Doesn’t make for the best effect, but it kept my hands busy and off the streets.
Happy Mid-Autumn Festival
It would be nice to see my friends and family tonight.
I’m happy about where I am in relation to where he is. Just not physically. In that regard, I don’t like where we are at all.
ferruginouspygmy:
i don’t know how to put this into words. but. you know those first 2 weeks to a month of a new relationship, and you’re all sunshine and tea-cakes and have this constant shit-eating-grin, and you can’t stand being away from each other so...
1 tag
Fish House
A house in San Francisco, artist unknown.
Just one of the coolest things I’ve ever seen.
Grasping Reality with Both Hands →
Brad DeLong’s blog on economics and politics
Talking Points Memo →
left-wing
Rooms
I always packed light when I travel, much in the same way as I always preferred to look toward the places and people I knew to be only transient elements in the greater scheme of my life. A room is just a room, after all, and I figured I’d know many of them all over the world by the time I ever got too tired to travel again. I always tried to overlook size and disregard comfort, knowing that...
WatchShot last winter by Mike Krumlauf