September 2011
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Notes From the Reading List
So it took me longer to finish up Infinite Jest than I anticipated, but I did get it wrapped up over vacation. I need to make a pretty serious retraction on some of the things I was intimating about DFW and his writing. I shall do that in longer form at a future date. I can’t rank Infinite Jest in my pantheon of immortal literature, but it is a very narrow miss, and there is every...
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Sam Harris, Please Shut the Fuck Up.
“A three-day-old human embryo is a collection of 150 cells called a blastocyst. There are, for the sake of comparison, more than 100,000 cells in the brain of a fly. If our concern is about suffering in this universe, it is rather obvious that we should be more concerned about killing flies than about killing three-day-old human embryos… Many people will argue that the difference between a fly...
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Public Service Announcement to White People Who...
When you send your little girls to the Katy Perry show at the KFC Yum! Center, keep in mind that special guest DJ “Skeet Skeet” is named after the semi-onomatopoeic description of the act of male ejaculation. That would also probably explain the little paisley-like splashes around his name (try blowing up the photo).
That is all.
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Note to the Bosses
Hey, it’s me. I know you’re not paying attention … I mean, I know on some computer somewhere you’ve tabulated my various rantings, verbal and otherwise, and neatly cataloged them by occurrence of certain suspect keywords, but it’s not like you’re really paying attention … but I’m going to go on and say this anyway, with you just sitting there...
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The Vacation Reading List
Not that I’ll get to all of them, and not that I won’t find another cheap, tawdry little book to distract me …
Jean Baudrillard - The Transparency of Evil: Essays on Extreme Phenomena; Slajov Zizek - The Fragile Absolute and Living in the End Times; Thaddeus Russell - A Renegade History of the United States; Sigmund Freud - Civilization and Its Discontents; the Riverside...
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In Rotation
Glenn Gould - Beethoven Piano Sonatas; Black to Comm - Alphabet 1968; Tim Hecker - Ravedeath 1972; Glen Branca - Symphony No. 5; Howe Gelb and A Band of Gypsies - Alegrias; Boris - Heavy Rocks 2011; Pram - Perambulations; Lou Reed - custom playlist; Mussorgsky - Pictures at an Exhibition; Pavement - Stray Slack; Jimi Hendrix - Live at Berkely; Jim Ford - Harlan County; Death Grips - Exmilitary;...
