November 2010
Reviews of drinks I've had lately: The Gasoline...
8.7 Best New Drink
Forget experimenting by drinking one, two, or three Four Lokos. (Really? You’re going to drink some malt beverages and then consider yourself, what, experienced in some interesting way? That’s the most insulting form of downsized class shaming/bougie warfare I’ve seen in a long while.)1
I invented a new drink tonight. It’s a variation on the Old...
Yo La Tengo “You Can Have It All
I...
“Hundreds of Americans, nicknamed
the “Amazon Gypsies,” arrived in...”
– From the Harper’s Weekly. All I can say is, =(
“‘Each newcomer feels obliged to do something else, forgetting that if he...”
– Some thoughts of Richard Hugo’s on Roethke as a teacher of poetry.1 I’ve been thinking about this a bit, lately, off and on. It for one speaks truth to idiocy, thereby reinforcing conventional thinking about appearances. Sometimes I wonder why, you know, group thought tends to go against...
Reviews of drinks I've had lately
Old Fashioned made with a bit too much Johnny Walker Red
9.2 Best New Drink
I love Johnny Walker Red. I don’t know what that’s supposed to say about me. I like kind of dry, peaty-flavored alcohol that doesn’t cost that much. I wasn’t sure about using this scotch to make an Old Fashioned, though. I had been banging pretty hard on the Sazerac Rye for my Old...
808s is your favorite Kanye album? What. Did you vote for Nader (2000), too?
UGH I'm so fucking boring on my vyous. Give me... →
Within the Library of Babel, there is a perfect...
You guys, I’m worried about logic. Ever since I read that stupid New Yorker piece on the pi brothers, I’ve been turning over this “Library of Babel” question. It’s mad screwed up.
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A wrap-up of every year of this decade!
2010
Haiti wouldn’t let Kanye West on its earthquake telethon. The Deepwater Oil Horizon platform disaster reminded everyone of Kanye West’s critical remarks on George W Bush. Nude Green Leaves and Bust, a painting by Pablo Picasso, sold for $106.500003 million more than the greatest piece of art made in the calendar year (perhaps of all-time?), My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy,...
Kanye West's Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
It’s about dinner time, and it’s also crunch time. I need to continue to get a lot of work done, but I’m nearing the end of an intermission. So I thought I’d be kind of douchey and put down my thoughts about this heady day.
To begin the doucheyness, here are links to two things I’d this fall written about West on my Tumblr.
One on his “Runaway”...
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The Kanye album scored ten points lower than I predicted. That rating is a sham. I’m off the Internet today because I have a ton of work to do. Just wanted to “weigh in.”
Spiral of Silence →
The Spiral of Silence is some theory about people not piping up for fear of social ostracism or reprisal. It sounds badass and has twelve conditions:
People have a fear of being rejected by those in their social environment, which is called “fear of isolation.”
People are constantly observing the behaviors of those around them, and seeing which gain approval and disapproval from...
WatchSince me and Hektor adopted laser technology, we’ve been really busy up at HQ.
If you removed a bit of the context,
“99 Problems” could also be called “Pedantic Law Student Gets Arrested and Beaten Up In a Small, Rural Town.”
phiLOLZophy: Trivia: Philosophy Quote or Hip-Hop... →
Hah hah hah.
Quote of a Post to a Link to a SEIZURE OF RAGE →
God damnit Leah why did you post this because I was having such a productive day. And now I’m just reading comments and my heart keeps exploding through the corpuscles around my eyes and ears.
The article itself makes some reasonable philosophical points. I disagree with it, clearly, but there’s a there there as they say. The commenters, though, that’s why you read these...
Listen to Girl Talk's All Day with the sampled... →
This is for better/worse our generation’s Ulysses Annotated.
(Via: doree:msg:@af.)
BMichael (slightly pissily) answered my question... →
B, FYI, it is probably in my top 5,000 things so…I don’t know what says about me. (nerdshares)
I did realize it was kind of pissy after I started in, but I don’t believe in revising these video replies. If you ask me another question, I will think more about it before I start to answer it. The problem was that I got to thinking about it, and I realize I think what your intent was, but...
I've like 'always' had a vyou, by the way. →
WatchI’m just shaving the dog.
On buying Beatles records on, ahem, "vinyl"
I dont have literally any skin in this game.
Though for what it’s worth, I used to be the sort of person who ordered tone arms and cartridges off those esoteric websites that are just about as shameful to shop at as the drive-through porno store.
So, my thoughts: If you’re listening to Salvation Army-bought LPs on your parents’ old turntable, then you are most definitely not...
Silver Jews “Old New York”
This Tom...
“Of course, being raped and murdered for simply being a woman may not be an...”
– Where I guess the conclusion is that it’s everyone’s fault about Odd Future
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CAMRON SUCKS LOL
The people who got you to like Cam’ron also admit now that he sucks.
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“The avant-garde need not be moral.”
– Jon Caramanica via screwrocknroll.
jakec asked: Just finished listening to your rap mix, couldn't help but notice the glaring omission of Odd Future. Think you should update it, B.
Verbal cartoon
Panel 1: Start a post on Tumblr. Panel 2: Get distracted and click on the Tumblr logo above the post body. Panel 3. “You have an unsaved post!” never goes away. Panel 4: FFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
“And in that categorical way, it makes Odd Future the perfect rap crew for our...”
– I’m not sure why you would want to listen to the rap equivalent of blog commenters. To each his own. (Except not, since live and let live only applies to the people we let live.)
As well, I’m not sure why writers trot out Syd, the one female member of the group—as if having a 9:1...
One of the more disconcerting things about drug use is this.
You know what it’s like when you’re sitting around the coffee table at a party and someone’s making lines of coke? (I’ll assume: Yes.) The look on other peoples’ faces. That looks is the exact same look that my dog has when I’m scooping dry dog food into his bowl. Wide open eyes, eyebrows up and...
“The flow of Four Loko into New York is finally being shut off.”
– Aww hell no.
This rectangular-shaped object has in it Four...
What is my refrigerator?
That’s correct! We would have also accepted, ‘Your stomach, in eighteen hours.’
Kronos Quartet Already It is Dusk, Quartet No.1,...
“Instead of hitting home runs, sometimes we’re going to hit singles. But...”
– President Obama, on the Seoul G20 jawn.
I feel like there’s some sort of ‘clogging the bases’ FJM type joke to make here. At the very least, maybe he should have said, “Instead of throwing the long bomb, sometimes we’re going to check down. But they’re really...
perpetua asked: I was looking over your list of your top 100 favorite albums, and noticed that almost everything was from the 90s and 00s. Have you spent much time with music from the 60s - 80s?
