January 2012
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December 2011
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“Now once more the belt is tight and we summon the proper expression of horror as...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, Echoes of the Jazz Age
“Once there were brook trout in the streams in the mountains. You could see them...”
– Cormac McCarthy, The Road
I'm new here.
Is this the place where we all live vicariously through stunning photography of places we’ve never been and inspirational quotes from people we’ve never known about struggles we’ve never experienced?
How is this platform both a crude simulacrum of life and a pristine mirror of the same?
There’s a haunting science fiction film begging to be made from simply aggregating...
November 2011
3 posts
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“Twenty years after my own graduation, I have come gradually to understand that...”
– David Foster Wallace
Yelping with Cormac: The Apple Store →
yelpingwithcormac:
Union Square - San Francisco, CA
Cormac M. | Author | Lost in the chaparral, NM
Two stars.
Given the way my uncle died havin a drink directly after his funeral just didnt seem right so I went for a walk instead. One of them downtowns where all there is is stores. Came across a store was a big…
October 2011
8 posts
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Excerpts from a feminism thread on Facebook with...
“feminism isnt about equality anymore. its more sexist than anything. girls hate it when people say the kitchen jokes but i hate it when im expected to walk 5 miles in the middle of winter with a gas can because im a male”
“its like saying a football team has home field advantage so no matter what the outcome the other team deserves more”
“feminism to me now days is...
“Petroleum societies are lazy everywhere. People are used to having more money...”
– Muammar El-Qaddafi
Listen: Hemingway’s Short, Moving Nobel Prize... →
September 2011
5 posts
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August 2011
29 posts
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Flickr: The Library of Congress' Photostream →
istillshootfilm:
I cannot believe I am just now discovering the Flickr of the Library of Congress. Between the Civil War faces, jazz photos and photochrom “travel views” I think I just lost the rest of my evening. Also worth checking out are the 1930’s and 40’s in color and popular images from the Farm Security Administration.
Novelist Has Whole Shitty World Plotted Out | The... →
WatchDJ Shadow Ft. Afrikan Boy - I’m Excited (by Ian Pons Jewell)
Ron English Revelations →
This interview dissipates some of the Exit Through the Gift Shop mystique.
“College: two hundred people reading the same book. An obvious mistake. Two...”
– John Cage
“People often ask me if I have any words of advice for young people.
Well here...”
– William S. Burroughs, Words of Advice for Young People
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Chainsaw-Wielding, Fish-Kissing Man Is America's... →
I love Florida. The video of this guy is priceless.
“To speak more generally, the ultimate goal of technology, the telos of techne,...”
– Jonathan Franzen
“I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or...”
– Carl Sagan
“I’m forever near a stereo saying, ‘What the fuck is this garbage?’ And the...”
– Nick Cave
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“The person in whom its invisible agony reaches a certain unendurable level will...”
– David Foster Wallace
“How to read ‘Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone’? Why, very quickly, to begin...”
– Harold Bloom
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This joint: Massive Attack on the London riots →
slychedelic:
“In context with the complicit support of the government, the banks looted the nation’s wealth while destroying countless small businesses and brought the whole economy to its knees in a covert, clean manner, rather like organised crime. Our reaction was to march and wave banners and then bail…
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Neo-Nazis tricked by T-shirt that changed message... →
“The t-shirts originally read “hardcore rebels” and sported a skull and nationalist flags. However, once the garment had been washed, the shirt revealed a new message that offered to help far-right extremists break away from the neo-Nazi scene.”
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Dylan Ratigan, Mad as Hell: His Epic 'Network'...
megrobertson:
We’ve got a real problem…this is a mathematical fact. Tens of trillions of dollars are being extracted from the United States of America. Democrats aren’t fixing it, Republicans aren’t stopping it — an entire integrated system, banking, trade and taxation, created by both parties over a period of two decades is at work decimating our entire country right now. MSNBC’s Dylan...
“The child, like a sailor cast forth by the cruel waves, lies naked upon the...”
– Lucretius, On the Nature of Things
