tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6452068Thu, 24 Oct 2024 21:43:05 +0000Power RankingsRu Paul's Drag Race1930sBest Original SongsHappy ReturnsOscarscarousingnew pseudonymsrunninghttp://worldofdennis.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (Dennis)Blogger84125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6452068.post-5656007211403178119Fri, 01 May 2015 04:45:00 +00002015-05-01T00:45:05.407-04:00Power RankingsRu Paul's Drag RaceI was nervous at the start of the challenge.  I thought this would be another performance disaster for this crop of drag queens who have no exactly impressed when it comes to putting on theatrical productions.  The Shakesqueer episode a few weeks ago was disastrous and I was anticipating a repeat of that carnage.  Fortunately, two of the three teams put on something of a good show.http://worldofdennis.blogspot.com/2015/05/rupauls-drag-race-power-rankings-week-9.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Dennis)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6452068.post-7711888097491988465Fri, 24 Apr 2015 03:58:00 +00002015-04-23T23:58:51.461-04:00Power RankingsRu Paul's Drag RaceWell, I thought that episode was great.  It was quite a surprise to see all the old queens come back simultaneously to interact with the new queens, and it retrospectively changed a my opinion of a bunch of them.  I think Ms. Kasha Davis showed more than she ever had during the competition, and it's a shame we didn't get to see more of this side of her.  I also thought that Max http://worldofdennis.blogspot.com/2015/04/rupauls-drag-race-power-rankings-week-8.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Dennis)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6452068.post-9008349729053950468Fri, 17 Apr 2015 04:35:00 +00002015-04-17T00:35:58.311-04:00Power RankingsRu Paul's Drag RaceWellity wellity wellity, this was certainly an eventful week.  I will get to the shocking news in a paragraph or two, but there are two items of note that may be interesting to fans of Drag Race.  First, RuPaul came out with an app call RuPaul's Drag Race Keyboard that allows you to insert Drag Race emoji's, stickers, and gifs into your texts.  If you are friends with me in real http://worldofdennis.blogspot.com/2015/04/rupauls-drag-race-power-rankings-week-6.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Dennis)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6452068.post-5625557025407410589Fri, 10 Apr 2015 03:13:00 +00002015-04-09T23:22:30.849-04:00Power RankingsRu Paul's Drag RaceWell no Snatch Game this week.  I officially give up predicting which episodes come next! Anyway, speaking of predictions, I hope that the readers of this blog noticed that the bottom three in the challenge this week exactly matched my bottom three after last week's episode, and the top three matched positions 2-4 with Max being stuck on an island by himself (more on that later).  I http://worldofdennis.blogspot.com/2015/04/ru-pauls-drag-race-power-rankings-week-6.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Dennis)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6452068.post-6683178179481569211Fri, 03 Apr 2015 04:29:00 +00002015-04-04T11:50:44.135-04:00Power RankingsRu Paul's Drag RaceWell I wrong about this week being the Snatch Game episode.  I guess Ru decided to hold it off for another week.  I wonder if Ru decided that perhaps this years players were as deep improvisationally as last year and so they couldn't be trusted with a 10 person Snatch Game.  I had the chance to check back in on last year's Snatch Game and it was more excellent than I had rememberedhttp://worldofdennis.blogspot.com/2015/04/ru-pauls-drag-race-power-ranking.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Dennis)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6452068.post-5880093763593746518Thu, 26 Mar 2015 06:24:00 +00002015-03-26T02:24:02.656-04:00Some days ago Right Wing Watch posted a clip of a speech that had been made by a certain Duck Dynasty star on atheists and morality.  For those that haven't heard the speech itself was outrageous and more akin to a revenge fantasy than a philosophical argument.  If you care to listen to it, it is here.  He set up a hypothetical scenario where an atheist's family is raped and http://worldofdennis.blogspot.com/2015/03/duck-dynasty-morality-and-truth.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Dennis)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6452068.post-8087397807614237574Wed, 25 Mar 2015 04:39:00 +00002015-03-25T11:06:00.564-04:00Power RankingsRu Paul's Drag RaceWell folks, that was a pretty good week 4.  This is the last week of the preliminary rounds, "the end of the beginning" as Winston Churchill might have said after we revived him with smelling salts.  Next week comes The Snatch Game, which is when things start to get really interesting.  So it's a good time to take stock. The first thing to note about the first four weeks is how http://worldofdennis.blogspot.com/2015/03/rupauls-drag-race-power-rankings-week-4.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Dennis)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6452068.post-3976644720841797082Fri, 20 Mar 2015 04:08:00 +00002015-03-20T09:33:35.104-04:00Power RankingsRu Paul's Drag RaceSorry for the late entry here, friends, but there were extenuating circumstances, I promise.  Next Monday I will make it up to you by getting it up as soon as possible.  Anyway, I found this one difficult to write soon after watching the episode, as it was one of the more poorly executed challenges in the show's herstory. 12.) Jasmine Masters (-3)(OUT)- This was my biggest Drag Race http://worldofdennis.blogspot.com/2015/03/ru-paul-drag-race-power-rankings-week-3.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Dennis)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6452068.post-86834846364325173Fri, 13 Mar 2015 03:50:00 +00002015-03-13T09:11:34.437-04:001930sBest Original SongsOscars Friends, there are very few injustices that can be cured by blog but I think the Oscars is one of them. In this ongoing many-part series I will re-do the Oscars such that the appropriate people are recognized for their categories.  You might ask me, why? Well, good question, but excuse me if I ask you a question: why not? EH?  Anyway, I was inspired to begin with the Best Originalhttp://worldofdennis.blogspot.com/2015/03/dennis-re-does-oscars-part-1-best.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Dennis)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6452068.post-2403466644276453331Wed, 11 Mar 2015 03:36:00 +00002015-03-11T12:44:49.652-04:00Power RankingsRu Paul's Drag RaceWell, it's nice to see them follow up a rather lackluster first episode with a really good one this week.  We got to see a lot more of all of the queens, and I am a lot more excited for this season than I was a week ago.  First of all, does anyone have a time machine so I can show 1979 Olivia Newton John a tape of this episode? "First, Olivia, the bad news, when people watch Grease&nbsphttp://worldofdennis.blogspot.com/2015/03/ru-pauls-drag-race-power-rankings-week-2.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Dennis)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6452068.post-5486270071779373381Wed, 04 Mar 2015 02:43:00 +00002015-03-11T15:51:53.841-04:00Power RankingsRu Paul's Drag RaceHi all, I'm excited to be back to be your personal chronicler of Drag Race.  I'm like a gay basic cable version of Venerable Bede or whoever it was that was writing Theophilus.  I don't know that I've ever done a week one power ranking, but since we're on a new platform (welcome back to those of you who followed World of Dennis in the early aughts) I thought I'd show my determination tohttp://worldofdennis.blogspot.com/2015/03/rupaul-drag-race-power-rankings-week-1.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Dennis)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6452068.post-1145501235055613002Fri, 29 Oct 2010 21:17:00 +00002010-10-29T17:17:10.682-04:00I suppose the reason I'm annoyed at the upcoming Rally to Restore Sanity is a comment I overheard by an unknown girl 7 and a half years ago.   It was February of 2003 and the United States and its allies had issued an ultimatum to the dreaded Sadaam Hussein that he destroy weapons of mass destruction he did not have or else face destruction himself.  The rationale for this was that, if http://worldofdennis.blogspot.com/2010/10/spectre-is-haunting-america-and-that.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Dennis)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6452068.post-1366964985565927983Sat, 23 Oct 2010 20:02:00 +00002010-10-23T16:02:44.826-04:00carousingnew pseudonymsrunningI know, I know, I broke my promise to post yesterday, but really you are the better for it.  I had punched out a few paragraphs that seemed, upon further review, to be too stupid to see the light of day.  It was something about how the whole nightlife industry was based around hope and fear and how depressing it all is.  It was the kind of thing an obnoxious straight edge kid wouldhttp://worldofdennis.blogspot.com/2010/10/fairly-typical-18-hours.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Dennis)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6452068.post-3637299430826886374Fri, 22 Oct 2010 01:51:00 +00002010-10-21T23:39:08.897-04:00Happy ReturnsEver since the blog's heyday in 2004/05, when the world was young and things lacked names such that it was necessary to point, I have vowed several times to restore this space to its rightful place of honor, with each attempt being an abortive failure. For those that weren't with me during those heady days in January 2004 when I established the World of Dennis, let me tell you that it was quite http://worldofdennis.blogspot.com/2010/10/another-attempt-at-restarting-blog.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Dennis)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6452068.post-116685584308707346Sat, 23 Dec 2006 03:53:00 +00002006-12-23T01:38:48.486-05:00Libertarians and those on the left today enjoy a happy camaraderie. We find ourselves in coalition in a long twilight struggle against right wing authoritarianism. We are usually in agreement on most of the big issues from torture, to hefty farm subsidies to big business, to useless pork, to obvious corruption, to a startlingly hawkish foreign policy, and, most importantly, to government http://worldofdennis.blogspot.com/2006/12/libertarianism-is-unfortunate-fadbut.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Dennis)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6452068.post-116554447335051558Fri, 08 Dec 2006 01:24:00 +00002006-12-07T22:38:11.190-05:00Christ! When are we getting out of Iraq? How many people have to die before we realize that our objectives can't be achieved by keeping more Americans around and getting them slaughtered?I just don't understand what everyone is thinking. The Iraq Study Group talks about how we need to help the Iraqi government and train the Iraqi army, but neither even exists in any meaningful sense. Oh sure, http://worldofdennis.blogspot.com/2006/12/iraq-study-group-report.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Dennis)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6452068.post-115682498033809372Tue, 29 Aug 2006 03:22:00 +00002006-08-29T22:53:41.680-04:00It sometimes seems that my dislike of Fox News has prompted me to see flaws in it that don't exist. Whenever I watch it , I usually can pick out some underlying message that supports some conservative agenda. I wonder if this is actually the case or if I am just imagining things. Last night, for example, Fox ran a groundbreaking story on the subject "college is expensive." Now, I do forgive http://worldofdennis.blogspot.com/2006/08/fox-news-and-other-items.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Dennis)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6452068.post-115541772263787683Sat, 12 Aug 2006 20:44:00 +00002006-08-12T17:22:02.676-04:00Hey all,I've decided to restart the blog, as forshadowed by the recent post and the return of my blog to the links on my profile. I'm restarting World of Dennis because I once again feel the need to talk about my life. For a while I felt as if I didn't really have anything new to add to the body of thoughts already posted, but now I once again feel as if I do. This was spurred on both by my http://worldofdennis.blogspot.com/2006/08/new-beginning.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Dennis)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6452068.post-115457099374555601Thu, 03 Aug 2006 02:06:00 +00002006-08-02T22:15:11.140-04:00The problem of evil is an age old paradox which has haunted human beings who believe in an all knowing, all loving, and all powerful God for centuries. For even the most faithful of us it can be a source of doubt and despair, and can make us wonder if our fears that a.) we are all alone in the universe or b.) God might be a bastard are true. The paradox, in question form, goes something like thishttp://worldofdennis.blogspot.com/2006/08/problem-of-evil-revisited.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Dennis)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6452068.post-113391284878109576Tue, 06 Dec 2005 23:47:00 +00002005-12-06T18:47:28.793-05:00Thanks to everyone who helped me compile this with their opinions, especially Rebecca Sivitz. These rankings for the first time feature all APDA debaters as I decided to ditch the Brits. If you are curious how I compiled them, they are mostly my opinion, but I also took others into account. For example if I felt someone deserved to be at the top of the list, but others were disgusted they werehttp://worldofdennis.blogspot.com/2005/12/thanks-to-everyone-who-helped-me.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Dennis)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6452068.post-111933044555090993Tue, 21 Jun 2005 04:31:00 +00002005-06-21T01:07:25.556-04:00I was sitting on the river today with a strange thought. I actually wondered when Boston would be invaded next. I mean, the last time it happened was in the 1770s, but it is bound to happen again at some point. What will the city be like when it happens, and under what circumstances will it occur?We usually think of such things as being impossible. After all the United States is at the heighthttp://worldofdennis.blogspot.com/2005/06/i-was-sitting-on-river-today-with.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Dennis)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6452068.post-111803349875040940Mon, 06 Jun 2005 04:30:00 +00002005-06-06T00:51:38.756-04:00Short funny note: After seeing Richard Nixon on TV in the 90s me and Nick wondered what the strangest job Nixon could hold after leaving the White House. I think the clear winner is Conan O'Brien's side kick on the early years of Late Night with Conan O'Brien.Conan: Yeah this show is really terrible right now, but at least I wasn't impeached!Nixon: I wasn't impeached!Conan: Tell THAT to http://worldofdennis.blogspot.com/2005/06/short-funny-note-after-seeing-richard.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Dennis)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6452068.post-111510948007238602Tue, 03 May 2005 08:20:00 +00002005-05-03T04:38:00.073-04:00I should be in bed right now, but after being on an all night paper binge, you really are a little too wired to sleep, so I decided to update my blog. My comment system appears to be down, so if you want to give me feedback, just send an Email to dennisr@bu.edu until I get a new comment system up.So, I just stopped by the IT lab at around 4am to get my paper printed, and the place was packed. Ihttp://worldofdennis.blogspot.com/2005/05/i-should-be-in-bed-right-now-but-after.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Dennis)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6452068.post-111432605914026164Sun, 24 Apr 2005 06:59:00 +00002005-04-24T03:01:07.056-04:00So I talked about this last night in a drunken stupor, so I think it deserves some intelligent or at least coherent analysis. What few people know about me is that several times when I was younger, I seriously considered becoming a priest. Now, when I say seriously considered, I mean as seriously as a 9 or 10 year old can consider things. It was sort of on the same level as wanting to be an http://worldofdennis.blogspot.com/2005/04/so-i-talked-about-this-last-night-in.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Dennis)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6452068.post-111406946158715546Thu, 21 Apr 2005 06:53:00 +00002005-04-21T03:44:21.590-04:00So, we left off with P-ton, either overconfident or afraid of our craziness. They ran a case about the draft, and we won it in a toss up. This lead to our semis round, which was about education taxation, which we lost in a toss up.When it was all over we were the 8th place team, not half bad. After we watched Blenkinpov win Nats in a case about Harvard, and then we recieved our awards. To be http://worldofdennis.blogspot.com/2005/04/so-we-left-off-with-p-ton-either.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Dennis)0