tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5828905401214154457.comments2023-06-18T11:25:31.044-04:00belᴀtɘdpupilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12085197110139248913noreply@blogger.comBlogger285125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5828905401214154457.post-88866373129420330022023-06-04T21:28:07.607-04:002023-06-04T21:28:07.607-04:00It was time. I took it down.It was time. I took it down.pupilhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12085197110139248913noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5828905401214154457.post-27891777588658452192023-06-04T20:58:57.770-04:002023-06-04T20:58:57.770-04:00"In the theater as in the plague there is a k..."In the theater as in the plague there is a kind of strange sun, a light of abnormal intensity by which it seems that the difficult and even the impossible suddenly become our normal element." -AApupilhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12085197110139248913noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5828905401214154457.post-23379038258494214602023-06-04T20:45:54.655-04:002023-06-04T20:45:54.655-04:00Muttley laughing, "Arch arx ark..."
i’m...Muttley laughing, "Arch arx ark..."<br /><br />i’m told the etymology of “malarkey” is a mystery, which is silly<br />because everyone knows it’s just a fender bender involving the latin ‘mal’, speeding home from the liquor store, and the greek ‘arch’, pulling out of its blind driveway<br /><br />getting ready for this community board meeting by listening to tony conrad's "four violins" (1964) straight through at top volume<br /><br />"Oh, wie schön ist Panama" (4/7/16) / "So is there no way to escape the will of Zeus" (10/4/21)<br /><br />lol 2 electric boogaloo https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/product/2021/goodbye-fleets<br /><br />babies love Kraftwerk<br /><br />Special Counsel Robert Musil<br /><br />"Liberalism is now no longer anything but a residual justification, an alibi for the everyday crimes committed by cybernetics." -Tiqqun<br /><br />Dr. Matthew O'Connor: "Youth is cause, effect is age; so with the thickening of the neck we get data."<br /><br />Move fast and break things. Not too much. Mostly plants.<br /><br />...the angel would have liked to stay.<br /><br />pupilhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12085197110139248913noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5828905401214154457.post-64922737566402667552023-06-04T20:12:25.642-04:002023-06-04T20:12:25.642-04:005 years: https://twitter.com/autresy/status/148984...5 years: https://twitter.com/autresy/status/1489841215214276608Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5828905401214154457.post-51668318833561970292022-11-30T15:35:02.619-05:002022-11-30T15:35:02.619-05:00Welp. Yes. Lucy Ives on "The Weak Novel."...Welp. Yes. <a href="https://thebaffler.com/latest/the-weak-novel-ives" rel="nofollow">Lucy Ives on "The Weak Novel."</a>pupilhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12085197110139248913noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5828905401214154457.post-18757720685927538802022-09-04T22:44:53.480-04:002022-09-04T22:44:53.480-04:00Turns out this post is about Leaving the Atocha St...Turns out this post is about <em>Leaving the Atocha Station</em>, and the summer of 2022.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5828905401214154457.post-6157032306018121552021-12-17T11:25:56.901-05:002021-12-17T11:25:56.901-05:00getting ready for this community board meeting by ...<a href="https://twitter.com/autresy/status/1471623242687287303" rel="nofollow">getting ready for this community board meeting by listening to tony conrad's "four violins" (1964) straight through at top volume</a>pupilhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12085197110139248913noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5828905401214154457.post-57693193368465363472021-10-19T21:45:59.571-04:002021-10-19T21:45:59.571-04:00Further to I, above, "Settlements, in other w...Further to I, above, "Settlements, in other words, preceded agriculture—not, as we’ve thought, the reverse" (<a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/11/graeber-wengrow-dawn-of-everything-history-humanity/620177/" rel="nofollow">Deresiewicz reviews Graeber and Wengrow</a>).pupilhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12085197110139248913noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5828905401214154457.post-69308907773168646562021-09-29T17:05:02.462-04:002021-09-29T17:05:02.462-04:00Counterpoint: The entire line of the horizon is bu...Counterpoint: <a href="https://youtu.be/ptfvxYslATQ" rel="nofollow">The entire line of the horizon is burnin', fires as far as the eyes can see</a>.pupilhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12085197110139248913noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5828905401214154457.post-72169197680257625732021-09-29T16:43:14.882-04:002021-09-29T16:43:14.882-04:00This year Fall is returned — and once more its odo...This year Fall is returned — and once more its odor is intensely Fall. Also, <a href="https://youtu.be/GjknLEWLfEM" rel="nofollow">Leaves Fall Again</a>.pupilhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12085197110139248913noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5828905401214154457.post-69555723068663595642021-03-07T10:31:10.226-05:002021-03-07T10:31:10.226-05:00"Because we speak to each other only through ..."Because we speak to each other only through a wire grille and our time is up" -Adam Cornford, Psalm (V) of the Angerpupilhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12085197110139248913noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5828905401214154457.post-23809969225178535142021-03-05T19:34:04.535-05:002021-03-05T19:34:04.535-05:00non-broken link: http://digmeoutpodcast.com/episod...non-broken link: <a href="http://digmeoutpodcast.com/episode/009-inside-yours-by-gruntruck" rel="nofollow">http://digmeoutpodcast.com/episode/009-inside-yours-by-gruntruck</a>pupilhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12085197110139248913noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5828905401214154457.post-59552575178744147252021-03-02T12:28:29.604-05:002021-03-02T12:28:29.604-05:00What's more, Fist Remixed is a revelation, as ...What's more, <a href="https://www.discogs.com/Skin-Yard-Fist-Remixed/release/4809791" rel="nofollow">Fist Remixed</a> is a revelation, as They say.pupilhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12085197110139248913noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5828905401214154457.post-81056301323367788562021-02-22T13:50:02.299-05:002021-02-22T13:50:02.299-05:00Ben McMillan passed away at the age I am now. So d...Ben McMillan passed away at the age I am now. So did Anne Sexton -- or, rather, just short of her 46th -- and in the year I was born, too.pupilhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12085197110139248913noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5828905401214154457.post-92022618131089607232020-11-19T11:12:35.665-05:002020-11-19T11:12:35.665-05:00They cheered each other on to draw the ships into ...They cheered each other on to draw the ships into the sea; they cleared the channels in front of them; they began taking away the stays from underneath them, and the welkin rang with their glad cries, so eager were they to easily join the conversation in a new way.pupilhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12085197110139248913noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5828905401214154457.post-58546657293585078472020-08-27T20:16:10.297-04:002020-08-27T20:16:10.297-04:00"Fun fact: Hannah Arendt attended Kojève’s le..."<a href="https://twitter.com/Samantharhill/status/1298997764727037954" rel="nofollow">Fun fact: Hannah Arendt attended Kojève’s lectures on Hegel at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes in Paris, with George Bataille, Jean-Paul Sartre, Raymond Aron, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Alexandre Koyré, André Breton, Jacques Lacan, & others.</a>"pupilhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12085197110139248913noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5828905401214154457.post-47402570540366171472020-01-31T11:42:25.889-05:002020-01-31T11:42:25.889-05:00I start watching an espionage thriller, Möbius, an...I start watching an espionage thriller, <i>Möbius,</i> and within a few minutes, I notice that, in a nice apartment in Monaco, a suave FSB agent is reclined upon the same Ikea sofa that I was stretched out on when I wrote "goyle," above, in 2013.pupilhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12085197110139248913noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5828905401214154457.post-81077070310203902562020-01-08T10:33:47.746-05:002020-01-08T10:33:47.746-05:00Being belated is about the same thing as being too...Being belated is about the same thing as <a href="http://www.openculture.com/2020/01/the-strange-spiritual-origins-of-the-ouija-board.html" rel="nofollow">being too early</a>.pupilhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12085197110139248913noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5828905401214154457.post-62957524084012073922019-11-03T10:44:13.413-05:002019-11-03T10:44:13.413-05:00It has happened three times now this fall that I h...It has happened three times now this fall that I have woken up with an urge to listen to a specific album, started playing it, and discovered (thanks to the magik of digital media player stats) that the last time I listened to it was a year ago, give or take only a day or two. Today it is Sonic Youth's <i>Evol.</i>pupilhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12085197110139248913noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5828905401214154457.post-28283999439344660712019-10-10T12:13:33.511-04:002019-10-10T12:13:33.511-04:00(FWIW the now-missing photo was sourced from http:...(FWIW the now-missing photo was sourced from <a href="http://www.digitalinberlin.de/come-bleached-festsaal-berlin-2013/" rel="nofollow">http://www.digitalinberlin.de/come-bleached-festsaal-berlin-2013/</a>)pupilhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12085197110139248913noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5828905401214154457.post-8177918068237047162019-09-09T14:29:40.638-04:002019-09-09T14:29:40.638-04:00And here is Amanda Holmes reading Szymborska's...And here is <a href="https://theamericanscholar.org/any-case-by-wislawa-szymborska/" rel="nofollow">Amanda Holmes reading Szymborska's poem</a>.pupilhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12085197110139248913noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5828905401214154457.post-13032397128453286512019-09-03T17:58:54.225-04:002019-09-03T17:58:54.225-04:00A reminder. About metaphors. And not-metaphors. &q...A reminder. About metaphors. And not-metaphors. "<a href="https://griffithreview.com/articles/not-another-diversity-panel-tumarkin/" rel="nofollow">The word 'exile' is no florid metaphor when it comes out of Mammad's mouth. 'I am into categories when it comes to displacement', he says. 'I have been forced into the position, for the sake of my sanity and integrity if there’s any meaning in either still, to be almost defiant when it comes to the meaning of exile. Exile is the uncompromising distance between where I am and the home to which I cannot return. Whoever can go home is not an exile.'</a>"pupilhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12085197110139248913noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5828905401214154457.post-80167406445039348612019-07-29T19:02:14.532-04:002019-07-29T19:02:14.532-04:00With reference to Open City, I had written above, ...With reference to <i>Open City,</i> I had written above, "Now I fret that there is something equally despicable in my past that I have secreted away, even from myself, and that the therapist will uncover soon." That was incorrect, for the something despicable in my past is not a thing after all; it lacks event-ness. The despicable thing in my past <i>is</i> my past, in all of its terrible accumulation of harms meted out to others, sometimes willfully but more often: a thoughtless cruelty.pupilhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12085197110139248913noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5828905401214154457.post-74337244143146290862019-07-29T18:47:24.509-04:002019-07-29T18:47:24.509-04:00Rather, the central spring of my life is a related...Rather, the central spring of my life is a related but different contradiction: I long for solitude but cannot bear being by myself.pupilhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12085197110139248913noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5828905401214154457.post-64926023472597597102019-07-29T12:28:54.015-04:002019-07-29T12:28:54.015-04:00I am walking under an elevated freeway not unlike ...I am walking under an elevated freeway not unlike the Alaskan Way Viaduct (which, IRL, is currently being demolished). There is a chainlink fence to my left, running along a grassy field. I freeze in fear, for I have looked ahead and spotted a tiger in the distance, up a slight incline in the road running under the freeway. What I learned about tigers in John Vaillant's book floods my brain. I somehow manage to unfreeze and scramble up and balance myself on top the chainlink fence, though I can see that it is not high enough to protect me. But now the extra height allows me to see that there are scores…no…hundreds of tigers (impossible! they are solitary predators!) streaming toward me. Because...they are men wearing tiger costumes. But I feel certain that one of them is still a real tiger; I'm sure of what I saw. The tiger is cleverly using this parade of men in tiger suits to conceal itself. The crowd has nearly reached me. I manage to leap from the chainlink fence to a kind of cement branch angling off one of the freeway columns, just as the crowd engulfs it. I am a bit higher now, contemplating the sea of tiger-men flowing around the base of the column. In a blink, one of them has also leapt onto my perch. I’m startled. He seems menacing, but I’m not sure? No words will come out, and I am desperate to warn him that there is a real tiger down there — or is it that I am trying to confirm, in that pedantic way one speaks to children, “You do know that there is real tiger down there, right?” Perhaps I doubt what I have seen after all? When the words finally come, the tiger-man cannot understand me, cocks his head. He responds in French. I try in French, but I don’t know the words. I wake up.<br /><br />Many days later, when I reported this dream to my mom, she asked why I didn’t go over the fence into the grassy field in order to escape. I don’t know.pupilhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12085197110139248913noreply@blogger.com