May 2013
21 posts
Anonymous asked: are you gonna send people the new url?
i’m going to stop using this blog. i think it’s gone of in a direction i don’t want it to. i’m starting over.
thanks for your support; i really do mean that.
but bye.
im always the person who fills out the course evaluation drunk
sorry not sorry
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more aware of the history of the history than what...
angelo mozilo might have said “the 30 year fixed mortgage is/was america’s greatest invention”; him or someone like him. it was said is the point. no one ever cites a cessation as something’s greatest contribution, at least no one in the west: who started what when, as if those are worthy of some timeless praise, and there’s a long line of universities to provide it.
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monetize that
a revolution is missing; look for who isn’t in the trenches to find its starting point. Take out a cameraphone for a selfie, so future historians will know when this revolution was recognized like the Popular Front at the Communards’ Wall.
$$$$$
everything before WWII seems like a cause of the war; i can’t celebrate any of it, and everything after seems like unfinished...
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just a reminder that the recent israeli airstrike in syria wasn’t the first israeli airstrike in syria
we are? Most importantly, if
— Horse ebooks (@Horse_ebooks) May 5, 2013
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a statistic of everyone who’s said ‘i don’t want to be a statistic.’
on the 75th floor and the polar bear people are charging the ford people fresh off their recent win over the chevy people. the chevy people didn’t want to be statistics, neither did ayn rand, isaiah berlin who were leading the free masons on the 77th floor against the mathletes, who wanted to make...
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the view eclipses conversation above the 50th floor, so no one talks; they fight with clubs, swords, guns, wwi charges, gulf war ‘precision’…. It’s all that seems appropriate surveying such a vast and miniaturized cityscape.
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US & European Youth Unemployment
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“In most professions, salaries below the poverty line would be cause for alarm....”
– Sarah Kendzior
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barely connected
everyone wearing their sunday best but it’s monday morning my time. never see them except in church: does he dress that way all the time?
the food after services looks as photogenic as the people who eat it and as photogenic as the ideas that we came to ignore so we could do this arms race
and then go home and watch tv in our underwear and eat processed food alone with processed cheese...
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“The biggest source of corruption in Afghanistan was the United States”
– Since corrupt is the new backwards, does this make the US the most backwards?
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i had two towers stacks of money, actually. i painted one blue and the other red.
the street vendor asked -‘why’d you paint your money red?’ and i said, -‘is that even a legal copy of the Matrix?’ and i paid him a dollar for it after i threatened to call the cops, but the red flaked off while we were arguing.
my parent asked -‘why’d you paint that money...
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decadence
oops don’t read this
I like things that make me feel wealthier like cardigans, mad men, and laptops. I hate knowing how to rewire a lamp; it’s boring and unartistic. (Even that lamp by the armchair.) This is what electricians are for.
I hate knowledge too; someone else knows it, or, at least it’s written down somewhere.
I don’t want to know where anything is, so I can...
April 2013
33 posts
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“The cables indicate that the American government has been fighting a pitched...”
– ‘personal use’ - so he was watching porn?
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follow the money
If you control for income, education, race…. results are whitewashed.
is it a poem if it’s a haiku? or did I just write a thesis?
I tried to sound beautiful and virtuous in poems, but what world would they belong to?
I over imagine my aspirations until they become farces, decadent. I see Oscar Wilde, legs open, omniscient mocking.
I should hire Nicholas Cage to look through these...
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“I felt better but now I don’t.”
– Megan Draper
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i wish my daydreams could smash things they could...
i’ve never seen the aurora borealis; i’m not sure it exists. i think it’s what i want to see in the sky when i’m in class thinking about those future moments when beauty occurs that distract from the fact that i am surviving but don’t know why. it exists in a different time, not on school time, maybe on my swiss watch time; the watch my dad gave me in my imagination...
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meanwhile, in germany
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“It’s legal for everyone to wear it [our merchandise], although we’d...”
– andy zaltzman
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someone should stop me from #writing
andre breton puts me to sleep he’s shooting my spontaneity
maybe it’s dreams/reality blurring
idc i don’t have a microwave and all i have is microwave food i’m tried because microsoft excel didn’t exist until 2002
some bad reading of freud on microwaves (pleasure principle? idk i always burn myself taking shit out of the microwave) maybe like marcuse or someone...
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trigger discipline
why i go to law school don’t think about montmartre hate working around last question posed jon stewart’s smart sounding voice so limiting no word thinking beyond these points: …………….. squirrel squirrel squirrel squirrel squirrel if i type it enough maybe it’ll blend in like a squirrel only see it when it changes, moves delta X -> delta Y? pistol...
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he spoke in revolver and would fire freely at the sky raining death into another world not his own.
eating quinoa with his girl who was studying olaudah equiano and the atlantic world where some of his bullets fell but she never knew because bullets don’t travel back in time only forwards like the ones that came from his mouth fired from muskets centuries before their time aimed at her...
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“Economic progress has implications far beyond us as individuals and profits...”
– sorel
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on margaret thatcher's funeral
John Oliver: It's almost the only thing that made it over here: 19 year old Amanda Thatcher, new Pippa Middleton...I just don't know how comfortable I am with that at all. It's borderline OK for a nation to lust after a 28 year bridesmaid at her sister's wedding. It is a significantly greyer area to do the same with a 19 year old mourning at her grandmother's funeral. That is really creepy.
Andy Zaltzman: Particularly when most of the press doing this lusting were saying we must mark this occasion with a depth of seriousness it deserves.
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Kool AD: I actually tried to sell a print-out of that long ass email with your response at an art show in Northampton, Massachussetts. Nobody bought it. I was trying to sell it for ten bucks, I think. If it sold I would have mailed you half of the profits. I didn't want to ask you if I could cause I thought you might say no. Was that OK? Would you have said no?
Tao Lin: I would've said yes. I give you permission to sell or share anything I ever "emit" in your presence. Wanting to send me half the profits seems nice of you. Thank you. I feel excited by things like this.
Kool AD: How tall would you say Moby is?
Tao Lin: I think he's 5'6".
Kool AD: Did you know that Moby is related to Herman Melville (which apparently is why he called himself Moby)? Does that come up at all/a lot in most conversations you have about or even peripherally involving Moby?
Tao Lin: Yes, I have heard that. It has come up maybe in 20% of my conversations about Moby.
Kool AD: How many conversations, by your estimate, do you think you've had in your life that have even just mentioned Moby even once?
Tao Lin: Probably over 200 conversations. I like this interview.
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“Definitely though we seemed like the only people who could memorize entire...”
– from an interview with mike finito who produced heems’ nehru jackets
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attempting to write about the marathon bombing: i...
Attempt 1: (The first attempt is intentionally left blank)
Attempt 2: Adidas brand blankets bombing™ on the ‘news.’ WBUR couldn’t even reach it’s sources, and I couldn’t stop looking at a text on my phone:
COME TO MARATHON DAYYY
but that’s a human interest story. it should be on the ‘news.’ This isn’t ‘news,’ though. It’s...
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9/11: The View From the Midwest | Politics News |... →
Suddenly everybody has flags out big flags, small flags, regular flag-size flags.
I’ve actually been thinking a lot about this essay lately, and it seems kind of appropriate today.
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Every time I shower I get shampoo in my eyes; I never look cleaner, only blurrier. The shampoo is usually made in Mexico; I’ve even tried to google it to know what factory life is like. Wikipedia didn’t say (it’s a capitalist plot), so I called my brother
tearing up; he muttered, quickly to get back to work, “stop crying or I will napalm the factories,” starting an...
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“The restaurant had half-circle-shaped tables where ten people sat facing a chef...”
– from richard yates by tao lin
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“AFTER HIS RELEASE, REYES BECAME ONE OF THE LEADERS OF THE NOVEMBER 27, 1992, AIR...”
– A wikileaks cable about the 2nd coup attempt in venezuela in 1992.
definite style points here
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<a href=”http://jaipaul.bandcamp.com/track/track-13” data-mce-href=”http://jaipaul.bandcamp.com/track/track-13”>Track 13 by Jai Paul</a>
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Someone changed the rotation of the earth who’re they, who’d they buy, who’d they sell out. It’s always sunny now to make it grow faster. I should always be working.
It needs twice the sunlight, but offers 4x the return. It’s math that no one knew beforehand… was it even better initially?
No one asked if I had dreams at night, at home, out of sight in the...
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“What would you have done in World War II they always say,
as if the past solved...”
– Alice Notley in “Sun is Very Near Hot and Buttockslike”
i want to change the words of ‘i don’t want to wait’ to make it about leninism
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academic cowboy etc
business school thought keeps trickling down, if ‘thought’ trickles down. i don’t know that it does; i read a thing in the nytimes, i think it was the times, about how when a crossword is solved by one person a lot more people solve it like some kind of common knowledge/brain thing.
i think i saw another piece in the times about zoning laws being unconstitutional in new york...
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In 1842, [Lemuel] Shaw enclosed the new personal ‘accident risk’ of the modern industrial workplace. Just as Farwell could sell his productive labor to a boss, so could he sell his accident risk to an insurance corporation. Farwell’s employment implicated two commodities which existed in tandem - his productive labor and now the “risk” attendant to its hire. Farwell perfectly captured the...
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“How did NPR end up repackaging extreme right-wing talking points into a...”
– unfit to air (via azspot)
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