January 2011
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“Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings...”
– Rainer Maria Rilke (via human-voices)
October 2010
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“The prestige accorded to the churchmen, lawyers and scholars who used Latin was...”
– My old prof., quoted on wikipedia
I really am standing on the shoulders of giants!
July 2010
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“The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to...”
– Kerouac - On the Road
“If we can create philosophies, art and science, then this tells us that thought...”
– Gilles Deleuze (tnx montycantsin) (via amiquote) (via iamnothingami)
April 2010
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“Oscar Wilde’s admission that “[a]ll art is quite useless”...”
– me … and possibly my flatmate’s essay. I am thinking so much about commodity fetishism.
March 2010
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July 2009
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June 2009
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A joke
Armando Iannucci: What's big and small at the same time?
Armando Iannucci: A big egg.
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TOADY
Taking place right now is an event to which I have an invitation. However, I’m sitting on my folded-out couch under a duvet with my unopened linguistics textbook mentally emotionally preparing for my exam tomorrow.
One Tuesday night relatively recently, I sent the following text to a special friend:
Is it bad if I can’t eat without having a glass of wine?
(I’d just baked a...
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An update
Me: yes
Me: I painted a kettle and I made my Patrick Dempsey doll into a black man
Me: it's very handsome
Ollie: i can imagine
Ollie: he was handsome enough already
Me: nobody ever has black dolls
Me: or black action figures
Ollie: now you are the trendsetter
Me: (blaction figures)
Me: (blaction figures)
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“Lecteur or Lectured?”
– The title of my possibly-objectionable essay on Coleridge, focussing on This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison and The Eolian Harp. I claim that he abuses his role as poet to turn his poetic world into a platform for didactic wankery. A pretty untenable position, really.
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“Always eat grapes downwards–that is, always eat the best grape first; in this...”
– -Samuel Butler, Notebooks, 1912.
How is he, so unassuming, the cleverest man of all?
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I’m inclined to say that Chet Baker is the...
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Unhidden
Lee Gainer - the conceptual artist we all love to, er, love - has brought out a new series called Unhidden. The works in this series take advertisements and paint over all but one of their elements. They end up being quite clear images of cultural stereotypes - “expert”, “mother”/”wife”, “family” …
Check out the nails on the kind of hand...
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Chastity and Sex
CELEBRITY UPDATE: Chastity Bono is now Chaz Bono! Cher’s child is undergoing FTM gender transition and has announced this publicly.
Predictably, the Daily Mail have written an abusive and most likely defamatory article on him.
Referring to his client as a ‘he[‘], Chastity’s publicist Howard Bragman said …
The AP’s article (via stuff) is only a little less...
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“[Venezuelan] Health Minister Jesus Mantilla said the zero-calorie Coke Zero...”
– BEST NAME EVER:
Jesus Mantilla
It’s like two of the best things in the world.
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The GARDEN of LOVE
I WENT to the Garden of Love, And saw what I never had seen: A Chapel was built in the midst, Where I used to play on the green.
And the gates of this Chapel were shut, And ‘Thou shalt not’ writ over the door; So I turn’d to the Garden of Love That so many sweet flowers bore;
And I saw it was filled with graves, And tomb-stones where flowers should be; And Priests in black...
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Show me the way to go home
Laura: tis freezing. where has the train gone?
Asher: up
Asher: upstairs.
Laura: oh
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“Prison unit manager on drugs charges”
– -Dominion Post headline
First reading this headline, I parsed it thus:
Prison unit manager, on drugs, charges.
I was imagining some sort of last straw situation where this manager person pawed at the ground, snorted, then ran at their opponents.
Then I realised the folly of my ways. Surely the...
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Fain would I wed
Some amusing arguments against gay marriage…
If you have a cognitively-challenged underclass, as every large nation has, you need some anchoring institutions for them to aspire to; and those institutions should have some continuity and stability. Heterosexual marriage is a key such institution. In a society in which nobody had an IQ below 120, homosexual marriage might be plausible. In the...
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“They are pressing forward, here, there and everywhere, in all the zones that...”
– What … happened … ?
This seems to still be happening, right? “Here, there and everywhere” … but without such fervour. Maybe there’s an eclipse or something, something to keep their faces from being “all aglow with the light of the coming day”....
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“I hope Susan Boyle is OK because she is a really, really nice person and I think...”
– -Gordon Brown.
Such a relief the British PM can use logic.
Susan Boyle is a really, really nice person.
I think Susan Boyle will do well.
Therefore, I hope Susan Boyle is OK.
Why doesn’t he just hope she’s OK because she’s a person? Or, more pertinently, because he’s a...
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May 2009
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… moi non plus …
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