February 2013
3 posts
“A woman from the audience asks: ‘Why were there so few women among the Beat...”
– Stephen Scobie, on the Naropa Institute’s 1994 tribute to Allen Ginsberg (via fuckyeahbeatniks)
“If you put a Cheeto on a big white plate in a formal restaurant and serve it...”
– Jeb Boniakowksi (via austinkleon)
January 2013
4 posts
“How about, ‘feminine identified...
https://www.aprweb.org/poem/translations-hafiz →
Glad to know going to bars hasn’t really changed much in 650 some odd years.
December 2012
2 posts
“Millions of kids are walking the streets who have no vested interest in living.”
– Waiting for Superman
Really? They have no corporeal form? Capital ≠ Life
Internet, stop telling me what Slavoz Zizek says about shit because I do not fucking care.
December 2011
1 post
1 tag
mystic mayan power cloak →
This + snuggie = set for life.
November 2011
4 posts
2 tags
1 tag
Can you tell what kind of mood I’m in...
1 tag
“Alone with the apocalypse! The only thing for it is to drink. Luckily we have a...”
– Lars Iyer, Spurious
The Visible Man →
If you haven’t read Chuck Klosterman you probably should. While reading Chuck Klosterman I frequently exclaim, “Goddamn you, Klosterman!” at the top of my lungs, often when he does something simultaneously so brilliant and yet so douchey that I can no longer stand it. His brief Daniel Johnston aside in his newest book is a good example of this phenomenon. Completely predictable,...
August 2011
1 post
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“Modern style dictates the need for imperfection. Take a luxury garment and wreck...”
– Robin Givhan, on the fashion industry’s fascination with Amy Winehouse
July 2011
3 posts
1 tag
“We must read if we want to live, W. says. We may have forgotten how to live, but...”
– Lars Iyer, Spurious
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“Here was a new generation… a new generation dedicated more than the last...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, <This Side of Paradise>
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“Sing them low,
or say them soft.
Such a little while is left
To counterpoint...”
– Rolfe Humphries
June 2011
3 posts
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by Rebecca Mead →
Dober dan, world of microblogging.
I must admit I’d never heard of Žižek until I was in Ljubljana (where he is ubiquitous) but now I can’t stop seeing him everywhere. After much intake I have determined that he just kind of says shit; he’s a living academic random phrase generator.
As an aside, I’m not much into playing grammar police, but the lack of carons in this...
