October 2010
“Queens Boulevard. Kierkegaard. Hustle hard. Hustle bustle. OMG. Ah ma guard. Oh...”
– DAS RACIST NUTMEG
Summer’s over, Megadeath.
September 2010
“Our manager said something about how she spoke with someone from Yum! Brands who...”
– Viktor Vazquez of That’s Racist, from an Internet-ancient piece in The Village Voice.
morefunthanbeingsad asked: to me it sounds like 'chase evasion papers, like with twitter get, sick of arguing with white dudes on the internet'
'evasion' is the word i'm really not sure on because it doesn't make much sense, but thats the word I use when I'm singing along because it definitely sounds right.
This probably wasn't much help. Awesome song...
'evasion' is the word i'm really not sure on because it doesn't make much sense, but thats the word I use when I'm singing along because it definitely sounds right.
This probably wasn't much help. Awesome song...
Does anyone know what the first line of Das...
Amoral Fable
An old man in Suriname, a recent widower, walks to the market. In the middle of the road he finds in a red velvet sack $1,000, a relatively large sum for the country. His low spirits are buoyed by this piece of good fortune, and he decides to treat himself to something nice. When he reaches the market, he goes to the fishmonger and draws $25 from the sack. The man wants to purchase the freshest,...
Not Kanye West's New Album →
I had a few minutes open today to think about what Kanye’s new album is going to look like. Now, granted, I haven’t had time to read all his tweets or the new XXL, so I don’t know if he mentioned which, if any, Good Friday tracks will be on the new album. I’m guessing “Power” is going to be on there since it was a real single. I think “Runaway” will...
“The best thing about a picture is that it never changes, even when the people in...”
– Andy Warhol (via ohbabyitsnatalie)
Really? That’s the best thing about a picture? This sort of thinking is why Warhol was a hack as an artist. To me, at least.
Download Pavement's final Central Park show →
In which Pavement became Phish…
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“A few words, first, on the question of money. Opera is expensive, yes, but in...”
– Alex Ross has a great op-ed on Wagner and the upcoming Met staging of the Ring cycle.
Just picture Mel Gibson saying the title, and then...
katiebakes replied to your quote: But the critics who have been celebrating this…
i haven’t read freedom (and i have unread corrections on shelf, assuming i should read that first anyway) but have you read that atlantic article? it was pretty burny!
I read the Atlantic piece a few times, and I found its essence bland. The Franklin review was a lot more nuanced and interesting. I mean, I...
“But the critics who have been celebrating this long-awaited return to the...”
– Ruth Franklin, in The New Republic, which is by far the best piece on Freedom I’ve read. It summarizes the plot, so it may not be good reading for people who haven’t finished the book, yet.
I’m finding Franzen’s two latest novels to be really really funny and light. I...
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“I do not Tweet. Writing is work, and I take it seriously, and I don’t...”
– Tina Fey on TODAY (via today)
Tina, you’re breaking my heart. Not for not tweeting, but for using lazy, crotchety, inaccurate cliches I genuinely thought you were above. My Great Aunt Sally called and she wants her technophobic, small-minded worldview back. I mean, the sandwich line? Really, Tina...
Stockhausen Syndrome
noun
feelings of pleasure or sympathy caused by listening continuously to conceptually challenging, not-particularly-interesting music.
“Only the diffuse New Age movement, inspired by nature-keyed Asian practices, has...”
– Paglia
Ooof! I disagree. Anyway, B Michael Tumblr is as on most Thursdays, now devoted to snippets of things that won’t make it into what I’m writing, but which shape how it’s coming.
On the other hand… Wallace’s appreciation of Enya is really starting to warp my...
abbyjean:
bmichael replied to your link: Jon Stewart’s Rally to Restore Sanity
If you look into ableist discourse, well, you will find that under the many overlapping (sometimes at-odds) ways of thinking about it, you can’t in fact say anything. It’s like anti-anti-early-Wittgenstein.
you know what, i’m pretty sick of thinking about this ableist language issue as a fun linguistic and semantic...
“It’s not just that women who are having sex are simply happier, but instead...”
– Cum is the new Prozac. (via cajunboy)(via sarahchristine)
Well. Damn. I covered this guy for a Week In Patriarchy at Tiger Beatdown this summer. He wrote this foolish reply to a perhaps overreacting Emily Enagoski, basically short story. In article 1, he said vaginal mucus was yucky, which,...
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The dog is chewing up all the lighters on the...
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Look, say what you want about Freedom--and I'm not...
Let Them Eat Meat: How the Ethical Argument for... →
A quite long post examining two arguments for veganism.
“The Audioengine product line starts at $199 with the A2, a competent powered...”
– Gizmodo doesn’t know shit about dick. This thread on Head-Fi (really, madly, deeply audio geekery that I’ve been frequenting since my plunge into spending a bit of money on gear) it breaks down the differences really well.
I own a pair of black A5s, and they’re superior computer...
Even Hektor. He's barking now to agree.
The most dangerous pet: The Sapigrwolf.
So the other night because she was looking up fatal dog attacks in Wikipedia, I got to thinking and we talked about it falling asleep, my girlfriend me. What would be the most fatal dog? Lots of people seemingly had been killed by pit bulls (but I think it was a little overreported or something). Also, wolf-dog hybrids are apparently good at killing people. So I thought, how about this for a...
“When I was 11, we went [to Nashville] during spring break. I had been singing...”
– Taylor Swift
I don’t know if Swift would be amazing or simply all right as a karaoke singer. I don’t think she has a good voice as far as being a professional (and amazingly hugely popular) singer goes. There are different expectations for karaoke, so she’d obviously be better...
a grammar: offended by rank OBJECTIFICATION of... →
agrammar:
There is this thing currently going around tumblr about why dating a writer is good. I think it’s nice that this thing is going around, because I like writers, and lots of us could use more dates. As a writer who has dated people, though — including other writers — I would like to offer correctives to this list.
I was actually going to do this. Damn you, Nitsuh. As a person...
Kanye West “Runaway” (feat. Pusha T)
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Bethlehem Shoals has a music blog. →
“Connie had a wry, compact intelligence, a firm little clitoris of discernment...”
– Which of course doesn’t preclude Franzen from occasionally comparing a woman’s brain to a clitoris.
“On the face of it, this doesn’t make sense: Pets take up resources that we would...”
– The Boston Globe dives into a well that I’ve fallen into today as well. Dog’s taken all my energy today, and I’ve had to bag up his shit like six times.
Douglas Wolk on Ke$ha and Alex Chilton →
While I’m linking back to Fuse, let me also please link to Douglas Wolk’s column, “Parallel Tracks,” in which he compares to tracks that have to him a sort of parallelism. Wolk’s a good writer, so you should check this out, too.
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Good As Gold: Me on Pavement →
My editor thinks the title refers to that “Gold Soundz” song, but it really refers to Robbie Gould, the Bears’ kicker. (Why Martz didn’t let Gould kick the go-ahead field goal last Sunday I dunno. He got bailed out by Forte, for sure.)
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