So Mark Baumer had this idea I won’t bother explaining, but in the context of sharing it with me he asked me how much I would pay to see Spider-Man 5. I started thinking about some snarky way to answer his question and realized that my appreciation of various elements that all fall under the umbrella-term “spider-man stuff” really has no correlation to the amount of money I have spent (or would theoretically spend) appreciating them. I realize that thinking about this was a waste of my time, and reading about this is a waste of yours, but indulge me. I . . . → Read More: The Value of Spider-Man
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I stumbled upon a recent internet reposting of a 2003 article originally published in the Secular-Humanist magazine Free Inquiry titled: “The 14 Defining Characteristics of Fascism”, which seems (after briefly researching) to be a summary of or excerpt from something written by “Dr. Lawrence Britt” a “political scientist”- whoever/whatever the fuck that is. This little list/essay packs a powerful punch when one compares the titular characteristics to say, post-9/11 America, or whatever country s/he’s in at whatever time s/he reads it. Why? Because the arguments presented by Dr. Britt (or whatever high-school drop-out actually wrote this piece) are mostly bullshit. I’m not a . . . → Read More: “14 Defining Characteristics of Fascism” OR “Affirming the Consequent” I’ve been trying to better keep up with recording/writing down my initial reactions to the films I watch. Unfortunately, I saw all of these films at least 8 months ago (and have probably seen at least a hundred+ others since). The ratings and comments were based on initial reactions, but I admit to editing the grammar and syntax as I transferred these evaluations from the scraps of paper cluttering my desk. Buffalo 66 Introduction - Holidays are intellectually problematic (for me) for a number of reasons: 1. Religion (almost exclusively Christian religions) and/or Politics (and the negligent rewriting of history) have played, and continue to play, major roles in inventing and popularizing holidays as well as encouraging their observance by subject-populations; i.e. an idea is being crammed down my throat (however oversimplified and sugar-glazed the idea might be) by structures of power that I have hundreds/thousands of years of history fueling my mistrust of*. 2. Historically speaking, our culture of capitalism/materialism/consumerism has allowed the systematic rape/bastardization/commercialization of almost every single exploitable day that any culture (at least . . . → Read More: Halloween 2011 so like not 2 b a a$hole or wuteva, but the new insta-feed in faye’s book is like the krystle meth of this soshul network here me out tho i got tuns of raisins to back it up (like that funny song on youtube hide ur kids hide ur wife i no right?!) hearz the proof number(0 or zed like they say in grate britan PS i bet u didnt no i new randem trivia like that sumtimes gurlz r smarter then we look n u shuldnt’ judge a book by it’s cover like MLK2KJR sed in that famious speach that . . . → Read More: OMG1111! how is this ova twitter and facboks word limmit? I’ve been thinking about this all day (I’m not sure why): How to survive a bear attack. Let me rephrase that, how to win a fight with a bear (no weapons). There are obviously plenty of places that will tell you all the tricks to live through the unlikely case of a wild animal attack. That stuff’s important, definitely. Curl into a ball to protect your head and vitals, I get that. Play dead so the animal becomes disinterested, I get that too. Worst case scenario go for the most vulnerable bits (eyes, nose, in the ears, whatever), I get that . . . → Read More: A bit of advice… So I started this project (which will probably go nowhere like most of my projects) in which I find random net-lit/blog-posts/what-have-you from the internet and edit them as if I were readying them for the author’s final adjustments before publication. This involves copying and pasting the post/story/whatever into googledocs, highlighting problem areas/words/sentences/etc., and commenting (to the side) on changes that need to be made and the reasons for these changes. I think of it almost like a crossword puzzle for my whole brain. It exercises a skill that I have cultivated over the past six or seven years and helps my . . . → Read More: Tao Lin – The Best Worst Writer of Our Time Last week I was graced with a few days off– in a row. We planned a sort of last-minute camping trip because it’s always fun to spend a respite from work sleeping on the ground. Here’s where we stopped (in order): Little Pine State Park in the Tiadaghton State Forest, PA; Jersey Shore, PA; and Centralia, PA. Because of Erika’s work schedule, we had to arrive and set up camp in the dark of the night and pack up the site two days later in the dark of the early morning. It was a test of our camping abilities and comfort levels, but we . . . → Read More: Camping June 2011 – Susquehanna River The scenario: New Year’s Eve 1999 (which was five years in the future when the film was made in 1994), in Los Angeles, an ex-cop (who distributes smutty virtual-reality/memories on the black market) teams up with Angela Bassett (limo-driver and bodyguard for Japanese businessmen and other wealthy visitors to LA) to solve a murder (or three or four), expose police corruption, and usher in a new era for downtrodden racial minorities. Why wouldn’t you watch a movie with such a mind-blowing synopsis? Because Netflix didn’t describe it like that, I assure you. Hmmm… A soft-sci-fi cyberpunk action-thriller co-written by James Cameron, directed . . . → Read More: “Strange Days” – Review Buy a decent fucking dictionary. I don’t care how many times the intellectuals mispronounce this fucking word. If we’re using the english word “homage” there are two and only two ways to say it: 1. HOM-ij 2. OM-ij Both are correct. Both have the exact same definition. Both are the exact same part of speech. Both have the exact same fucking usage. They are not “interchangeable”. They are the same fucking word. Both have a short “O”, short “I”, and a fucking regular “J” sound at the end. All we are choosing is whether or not to aspirate the fucking “H”. Why? Because H-O-M-A-G-E . . . → Read More: Homage |
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