April 2012
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Apr 30th
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Yeah, I mean everything’s hard. Michael Bay is our John the Baptist of excitement. (When the JC of rapt attention actually comes, I’m very sure I’ll kill myself) This landscape of unbearably easy diversion makes me think of the Dark Ages, where you had the reservoir of Western culture being transmitted through a straw for what, six hundred years? Learned monks muling it across...
Apr 29th
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The Martians riffled through Moby-Dick at top speed. Then they consulted translate.google.com™ for an expression that would best convey their reaction. “Holy crap!” they said. “Does this mean what we think it means?” they said. “What do you think it means?” I said. “I’ll do the popcorn myself: you might get the wavelength wrong.” “ ‘Moby-Dick’ is about the oil industry,” they said. “And the Ship...
Apr 29th
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Apr 26th
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Apr 24th
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reitschul asked: Is (low) self-esteem a real problem? How does it work, and can it disappear or does it just get higher?
Apr 23rd
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Apr 19th
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Apr 19th
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As to the other worry, I think anyone can become an historical waystation for evil (Einstein’s letter to FDR saying ‘Pretty please build nuclear weapons.’) To avoid being picked up as a tool, while remaining clear enough to have an impact isn’t an easy thing. You can be needle-like and attempt to puncture previously unseen nonsense (Wittgenstein, Bolaño, Jane Austen.) Or...
Apr 18th
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I think it’s helpful to think of the Hilary Rosen/Ann Romney thing from last week. Rosen saddles up and says that a housewife isn’t a tenable advisor on macroeconomics for her husband, the presidential candidate. Now obviously, a shitstorm. But as ever, read between the lines. What the furor was precisely not about is anyone giving two dry farts about Ann Romney’s dignity. Republicans were...
Apr 18th
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Anonymous asked: stop making those stupid boring movies you pretentious fag
Apr 18th
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Apr 18th
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COCTEAU Yes. That’s right. It was Satie who said, later, the great thing is not to refuse the Legion of Honor—the great thing is not to have deserved it. Everything was turning about. All the old traditional order was reversing. Satie said Ravel may have refused the Legion of Honor but that all his work accepted it! If you receive honors you must do so with lowered head—as punishment. You...
Apr 13th
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Apr 12th
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Apr 11th
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Apr 10th
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Apr 8th
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Apr 7th
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Anonymous asked: is this surreal
Apr 5th
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that’s the most unashamed I’ve ever seen anyone be of a hat fetish In one of his essays, Davenport claimed to “live almost exclusively off fried baloney, Campbell’s soup, and Snickers bars”. skull with a blue eye frangible evening an evening of fragmentation As the taxi sped into a freeway tunnel, he spotted a homeless couple at the side of the road, caught between the...
Apr 5th
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Anonymous asked: Who am I?
Apr 4th
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Anonymous asked: Who are you? What do you do?
Apr 3rd
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Apr 1st
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Apr 1st
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