December 2009
There is virtually no way for me to take a picture...
Verbal Cartoonist (failed)
An Insanity Wolf dressed up like Gregor Mendel
Fruit Flies (Drosophila melanogaster)
Maybe some sort of Greek visual pun about Bacchus and quickly iterative species?
Different plants, garden shearses
Oh yeah, run-on sentences without commas.
‘GENES AREN’T
THE ONLY THINGS I SPLICE’
The joke being about comma splices and how if there aren’t any commas then you...
So my work gave me off from middle a last week to...
J&B and soap operas!!!
“I longed with all my soul to be good, but I was young.”
– Tolstoy
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Confidential to Lenore Beadsman. You know what I'm... →
“As the corrupt Alcibiades followed Socrates, unable and unwilling to change his...”
– Susan Sontag being uncharacteristically lucid, on Simone Weil.
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The primary points of Zadie Smith's amazing essay...
Wallace is an unAmerican writer in that he supports the Weil-ian ideas of truth and virtue rather than individual rights.
The self is the primary product of postmodernism and it needs to be stamped out.
Self reference and involution were cool and then they weren’t cool and now we think they’re cool but they’re really pernicious.
Really, stop bitching about things and try to...
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Looking for a Garde of Which to be Avant: An...
[From the .pdf, which was graciously provided by Whiskey Island Magazine.]
At thirty, David Foster Wallace has been called the best of his generation of American writers. His novel, The Broom of the System, and his collection of short stories and novella, Girl With Curious Hair, have earned him wide critical acclaim, a prestigious Whiting Writers Award, and an intensely devoted readership....
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G FUCKING D! (short for 'god fucking damnit.')
FUCK YOU COLTS! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU COLTS!
My Randian lust for excellence is being killed slowly by this fucking game.
“It’s got something to do with love. With having the discipline to talk out of...”
– Dfw on Good Writing via zadie smith. Discipline indeed. (via meaghano)
Oh my G_d. It’s catching.
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I have just now four times to four different...
suggeted she read Zadie Smith’s essay on David Foster Wallace. It is so important.
Question. Answers appreciated.
Is H Murakami worth reading? Is he a ‘serious’ or ‘challenging’ writer? Do his novels speak the ‘truth?’
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“Being a nerd, which is to say going too far and caring too much about a subject,...”
– -Sarah Vowell (via baitandswitch)
I sure would like to make friends Sarah Vowell knows.
I made a Nigerian bank fraud spam joke on Twitter...
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“One day, u will make something of urself. You will prove to the people who...”
– hr
In 2010 I wont write on the Internet about music anymore because the finest piece of Internet-era music crit has already been macbookpro chiclet keyboarded.
“Let me go on the record by saying that I ‘openly dislike Radiohead’, mainly...”
– Apple + Alt + Geniusbro
“Music for people who you are better than. The poor people who shop at Walmart...”
– on Wal*Mart Rock
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“Sometimes u just need songs that girls with gifted bodies can ’shake their...”
– I’m just trying to give you the best lines of the epic Carlsebro post.
“I think bands like DP are indicative of new markets of ‘people who have listened...”
– Carles on Tier 12 band Dirty Projectors.
Carles is an upperlevel mgmt bro. Not like the band but like people who ‘run this town.’ I would be friendbros with Carless if he didnt live in the fucking dreamworld L A.
Vic Chesnutt “Philip Guston”
November...
Liz Phair “H.W.C.”
The image says it...
This just in.
Twenty two year old Brian taunts twenty six year old Brian. The latter’s head esploded this morning from too much drink last night. Eighty seven year old Brian shakes his fist at both of them. More at eleven.
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“Music has always been a matter of Energy to me, a question of Fuel. Sentimental...”
– Hunter S. Thompson (via poortaste)
Stereotyping People by Their Favorite Author →
James Joyce
People who do not like John Cusack movies.
That Is So True!
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They wouldn't sell it by the bottle if they didn't...
“Put the chocolate in the peanut butter, you guys.”
– Sadybusiness: All Of Which Is A Way of Saying:
What the heck is this crazy person talking about? Chocolate in the peanut butter? There’s nothing behind the wallpaper…
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Kneejerkingly hating on Nickleback is the music...
Rage Against The Machine “Guerrilla...
“The term “Guerilla Marketing” is a little bit of an oxymoron.”
– Synaptic Burble Baubles & Infinite Ammo:
Everything is redolent of Rage Against the Machine, these days.
“Schoolhouse Rock really undersold the insanity in how a bill becomes a law.”
– Ezra Klein (via hellofriend)
That’s so funny. People should reblog this and talk to their friends about how awesome Schoolhouse Rock was.
Definitely always listen to what people on the...
“I’m particularly happy not being a music critic right now, during Top Ten...”
– Yancey don’t seem to have a way to be others’ reblogging his posts. But this entire post is worth reading! CRITICS!? Am I right?!
Saying something's a "guilty pleasure" is just a...
Man, Mr. Show is such a guilty pleasure of mine…
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Critics are the worst - or - Your tastemaking...
My basis for saying the below is this line from some Onion AV thing I’m reading while I graze on Doritos instead of whatever sleeping,
When Creed announced its breakup in 2004, it looked like another shitty, wrongfully popular band would be swept into the dustbin of history.
Who is [hold on a sec] Erik Adams, Steven Hyden, Josh Modell, Noel Murray, Sean O’Neal, Keith Phipps,...
I don't love how critics can casually tell you how...
They’re like the people who tell you not to casually split your infinitives.