December 2010
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and I quote:
“If Lacan were the Rolling Stone’s he’d have slightly rewritten the famous refrain by saying ‘you can never get what you want, but sometimes, if you try’ - and you’ve gotta try even for what you need, you can’t just sit there - ‘if you try, you can get what you need.’ And so I’m sure that Mick Jagger had many sticky fingers in the pages...
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I’m not too big on baseball, but I do enjoy… um, animation?
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and I quote:
Twas the Night before Christmas (Postmodern Version)
Bryan Stone, Boston University School of Theology
12/10/2010
Twas a Postmodern Christmas, when all through the regime Not a concept was stirring, not even a meme. Essentialist dogmas were nurtured with care, And imperialist ambitions still hung in the air
The children were nestled all snug in their beds, While grand narratives of progress...
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I hated this book. Hated hated hated hated hated...
I just finished The Portrait of a Lady and Henry James can go fuck himself.
I tried/was supposed to read The Bostonians a few years ago and couldn’t get even a quarter of the way through it.
I can see how these novels would be interesting if you were interested in Victorian-era feminism (albeit from a male perspective). I can see how you could like them if all you need is the proper and...
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and I quote:
“What does Christmas have to do with the class struggle? In a word - everything.”
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and I quote:
“Here’s a star who really chews up the scenery!
“A Tokyo terrorizing turtle takes Hollywood by storm in his screen debut. This born-again prehistoric monster only has a few lines - but can anything stop him before he steals the entire picture? Playing a fire-breathing dragon one minute, a fearsome flying saucer the next, it’s a performance that even scared the 1965 Oscar...
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store review(s) (?)
I went to Borders today to do some Christmas shopping and that store has changed a lot. I used to go there ten years ago and be able to get all kinds of cool old culty sci-fi and horror movies and good music. Now where they used to have Zombie Skulls of Horror Island or Corpse Grinders they have nothing but a handful of Something-Weird titles that are probably still there, unsold since I was in...
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Something about wolves and Jacques Lacan just does...
The 2010 remake of the horror classic The Wolf Man (1941) turns a relatively straightforward monster movie into a surprisingly complex psychodrama of father-son conflict and incestuous desire. The film represents a regression to the childhood of its protagonist, Lawrence Talbot. Returning to his father’s home following the death of his brother Ben, Lawrence experiences a reenactment of many of...
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time to get a camera phone?
It’s not going to happen, but I did see something picture worthy. There were a bunch of birds, perched on the edge of a building. Below the perch (against the wall of the building) were tall pointy trees (I don’t know what they’re called). The birds were making lots of noise, and flying down from the ledge and into the trees, or into the trees on the other side of the street. I...
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creepy coincidences:
using the facebooks, I found a person I went to elementary school with. Everyone used to be really terrible to him (I don’t know why).
the creepy coincidences part: he has a lot in common with serial killer Ted Bundy.
They:
were both tormented as kids (although I suspect Bundy more so)
both have a creepy stare in photographs (although Bundy was much more attractive)
went to the same...
procrastinating
I am so unenthusiastic about the work I’m supposed to be doing right now that I’ve decided to spend the next twenty minutes looking at bongs on the internet for some reason. No, I’m not high - I just find composition & rhetoric incredibly boring, and I feel like browsing bong websites is just about the most banal time wasting activity available, so browsing bong websites it...
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been getting really into message boards lately
just kidding.
But occasionally I find some amusing stuff by accident*. Like a bunch of assholes engaged in an extremely serious philosophical debate over the relative merits of Jean Paul Sartre and Jacques Derrida on a youtube comment board (“Derrida, what’s wrong with making mistakes?? that foo swears he was mr. perfect.”). Or a nine hundred page thread (what’s that,...
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more evidence that I'm a bad person:
I think that the “Wehrmacht Bitches At?” t-shirt is pretty funny.
Is there something inappropriate about my recent enjoyment of German military humor? Is this going to turn into one of several Peep Show jokes?
Is there something wrong with the fact that I think it’s pretty funny that shortly after being acquitted of war crimes charges for misusing American Army uniforms during...
I am insensitive:
This was the first line of an email I just received: “My name is ***** ***** and I am currently working on my senior project with 5 other students in which we are starting a depression, suicide, and self-injury prevention campaign.”
I thought that they meant that they were starting a depression, suicide, and self-injury campaign for themselves to help cope with their senior...
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Nuclear weapons:
“What if it turns out you’re an invading alien, from the future?” - Star Trek episode about the dangers of orbital nuclear weapons systems.
During WWII, Germany was attempting to develop an orbital weapons system called the Sun Gun.
The Soviets tested a “self-defense gun” on their Almaz space station in 1975. They used it to blow up a target space station.
There...
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"it's a wonder that you still know how to...
Madonna explaining Kabbalah:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhoM9xfoTAg
recent notes:
- Three women cried the other day (one because she was moved by a Descartes quote that had been written on the wall, one because she was moved by the first one’s crying, and one because she was in a traffic jam (or maybe something happened to her mom. It was unclear.)).
- Been enjoying the anticommunist message on old Star Trek (they leave a utopia planet on one because it doesn’t...