God, I am a complete blogging and emailing failure. These past weeks have been madness. Firstly, we saw Super Furry Animals in Austin. More on that later. Then there was that whole 'grading finals' thing, and finally we went to Dallas to visit Fabulously Gay David (he and Scott now have *three* chihuahuas) and see Paul McCartney. Again, more on that later. However, I want to give you some fun outtakes from this semester's batch of exams. These are culled from various TAs - we drunkenly recounted them last night at the end of semester gathering:

Betty Friedan wrote 'The Feminine Mystic'. Watch out, Miss Cleo... especially because several students thought that women during the second wave were fighting for the right to *vote*. Moreover, Roe. v. Wade *freed the slaves* and the 'freedom trashcan' was where all the old slaves were thrown away. [???] Oh, and we can give the feminist movement credit for the *rise of exotic dancing*. Yeah, when I go to Heartbreakers I certainly thank the women's libbers...

But enough of the chicks and their wacky feminist bullshit. Let's talk about civil rights! New best opening line of an essay ever: 'Fuck Jim Crow. Separate but equal my ass!' Oh, and when MLK and Malcolm X were assassinated, that made JFK really sit up and take notice of the civil rights movement. Wow, those assassinations must have been really impressive to raise the erstwhile president from the dead. Or the Vietnam war... well, one poor soul was labouring under the delusion that Vietnam was filled with Japanese people (um, OK. Because there are only 400,000 people of Vietnamese descent in Houston, so she wouldn't have noticed them or anything...), and the war in Vietnam ended when the US *dropped the atomic bomb* on Vietnam and killed all the Japanese that lived there. God, it's almost wilfully retarded, isn't it? Sigh. And next time any of you feel like visiting Canada, keep in mind that it's a Communist country. Has been since the Cold War started.