This marks my first entry of the New Year, and so I feel I should express some forward-thinking ideas. I do, after all, work for a science fiction publisher. Shouldnt I aspire to be a futurist?
Alas, I am quite prone to nostalgia. When I ride trains and buses, I like to sit looking backward at what weve passed rather than what were going toward....
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Alas, I am quite prone to nostalgia. When I ride trains and buses, I like to sit looking backward at what weve passed rather than what were going toward....
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This past weekend I saw Enter the Dragon for the first time. Some of you may believe this is long overdue, but every thing has to happen a first time.
For those of you who have seen it, I hope to entertain you with my addled perception of the movie. For those who havent, you must do so at the earliest opportunity.
It seemed to...
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For those of you who have seen it, I hope to entertain you with my addled perception of the movie. For those who havent, you must do so at the earliest opportunity.
It seemed to...
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flux:
i did, and i really loved it!
bathory:
good quote! some chilly jogging, hey? ill race you!
A deliniated response to life rich pagentry.
Many of you (I'm really only talking to me, because who else is out there?) may be aware that James Brown was recently (try months ago) pardoned by the State of South Carolina on the 20th for the 1988 antics that made so many headlines. As reported by his publicist and the Washington Post, Brown sang God Bless...
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Many of you (I'm really only talking to me, because who else is out there?) may be aware that James Brown was recently (try months ago) pardoned by the State of South Carolina on the 20th for the 1988 antics that made so many headlines. As reported by his publicist and the Washington Post, Brown sang God Bless...
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I get really fucking tired of work. I also get tired of the media/propaganda machine in this country.
I work in PR.
Fucking ironic.
I work in PR.
Fucking ironic.
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flux:
popped the psychological cherry=destroyed the virgin purity image of the white knights of Christianity bringing goodness and righteousness upon the heathens. sure, not everybody was shocked, but some were.
the treatise: well, i haven't decided yet. i'm going to write and see what happens.
and, when you've just been dumped, a movie devoid of emotion but full of energy can be very, very appealing. though i wouldn't agree that it's totally vacant posture. but a great deal of it is.
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the treatise: well, i haven't decided yet. i'm going to write and see what happens.
and, when you've just been dumped, a movie devoid of emotion but full of energy can be very, very appealing. though i wouldn't agree that it's totally vacant posture. but a great deal of it is.
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strangeattractor:
no engineering company...i'm preparing to build utopia. twenty years from now i will be the shaman in a semi-self-sufficient community.
hey, quitting would give you even more time to pursue out-of-work activities, right?
hey, quitting would give you even more time to pursue out-of-work activities, right?
Its all about timing, I just think I was brought in at the right time, the right time frame and now that it has come, its just all set for me now. I cant explain it. I dont know if any of you all can explain it, why this is happening now, but Im very excited Im in this show.
LeBron James, the 18-year-old basketball...
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flux:
"Suppose, finally, we succeeded in explaining our entire instinctive life as the development and ramification of one basic form of the willnamely, of the will to power, as my proposition has it. "
sure, Freddy here isn't talking about a collective/divine will, but i'll de-contextualize him to serve my own twisted endsperhaps more of a Will to Flower than a Will to Power.
and, you know, the World Cup and New York's Fashion Week do the same thing to me.
are you a fatalist?
sure, Freddy here isn't talking about a collective/divine will, but i'll de-contextualize him to serve my own twisted endsperhaps more of a Will to Flower than a Will to Power.
and, you know, the World Cup and New York's Fashion Week do the same thing to me.
are you a fatalist?
flux:
i was leaning away from invention-oriented answers, though that seems to be what i got.
but when a culture (15th century Europe) sees the sum of knowledge perfected by the Greeks, a discovery of something that they HADN'T found leads to a drive for newness rather than classical imitation (this is, of course, a huge oversimplification of the Renaissance->Enlightenment thrust). i am by no means implying that the contributions of the Greeks were not monumental; they were. but discovering something new made them look less omnipotent, not a fault by any means. it changes not the Greeks but, rather, the intellectual perception of them during the time in question.
and perhaps i oversimplified in other respects.
republicanism- i meant the advent of large, corporate-acting Empire (rather than feudally-aligned nation-states) more than Plato's Republic, which doesn't put forth as much politic as it should to make an argument that it actually births republicanism. but i was vague.
the same sort of couldn't-find-the-perfect-word logic applies to deism.
i suppose i meant both as popular movements rather than as actual births of concepts.
thanks for actually having it out with me. i respect and cherish you for this.
but when a culture (15th century Europe) sees the sum of knowledge perfected by the Greeks, a discovery of something that they HADN'T found leads to a drive for newness rather than classical imitation (this is, of course, a huge oversimplification of the Renaissance->Enlightenment thrust). i am by no means implying that the contributions of the Greeks were not monumental; they were. but discovering something new made them look less omnipotent, not a fault by any means. it changes not the Greeks but, rather, the intellectual perception of them during the time in question.
and perhaps i oversimplified in other respects.
republicanism- i meant the advent of large, corporate-acting Empire (rather than feudally-aligned nation-states) more than Plato's Republic, which doesn't put forth as much politic as it should to make an argument that it actually births republicanism. but i was vague.
the same sort of couldn't-find-the-perfect-word logic applies to deism.
i suppose i meant both as popular movements rather than as actual births of concepts.
thanks for actually having it out with me. i respect and cherish you for this.
I know its late. This is old news, but I just got around to doing something about a date long past.
Greetings from New York, wish you were here. That is the message I flashed into the dark night sky using Morse code with my Maglite on August 14, 2003. I figured if anyone were watching, that would be the best time to be seen....
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Greetings from New York, wish you were here. That is the message I flashed into the dark night sky using Morse code with my Maglite on August 14, 2003. I figured if anyone were watching, that would be the best time to be seen....
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flux:
thank you.
llona:
wow. i can't imagine what that must've been like.
and
wow. what a lovely comment you left in my set. i don't think i and decadent southern aristocracy have ever been used in the same sentence together.
thank you.
xoxo
and
wow. what a lovely comment you left in my set. i don't think i and decadent southern aristocracy have ever been used in the same sentence together.
thank you.
xoxo
So many questions go unanswered these days, Im not sure that I can go much longer with out an answer to mine. At least, that was the case until last night.
Before last night, I was intent on finding out the relevance of the spleen when reading the future in the entrails of birds. Was it an inflamed spleen that told Julius Caesars haruspicator that...
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Before last night, I was intent on finding out the relevance of the spleen when reading the future in the entrails of birds. Was it an inflamed spleen that told Julius Caesars haruspicator that...
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fuckmeraw:
Yes, the crotch shot.
Kind of resembles a peeled but unwashed potato. Quite disturbing.
Kind of resembles a peeled but unwashed potato. Quite disturbing.
flux:
haruspicy, eh? i like you already. and, of course, the spleen may be removed without the complications of the extraction of other organsit gives me hope to cut out the tumor of mental block.
and twenty-three times more desirable? even your choiceness of numerology gashes at my viscera.
in conclusion, i have an overbite.
and twenty-three times more desirable? even your choiceness of numerology gashes at my viscera.
in conclusion, i have an overbite.
Have you read No Country for Old Men, yet? I'm going to start it today.
I suppose my favorite is Suttree or Blood.
Funny thing, I was skimming through it again the other day, hadn't read it in 10 years, and was amazed at the prose...it's hard to describe...def. leaves you with a sense of something mighty and tragic and brilliant..