March 2012
82 posts
”I wish all who had a hand in this blighted production the very best in their professional and personal lives, but speaking as a woman who spent several years as a stripper (and a brief fraction of her life as a lesbian, though those two periods didn’t overlap), I have to admit that this play was pretty awful.”
February 2012
66 posts
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The Last Awards Show
Louis C.K., in the episode of his show where he rules Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer prima facie racists, made another significant social breakthrough by deciding to no longer romanticize the past to his children. The bygone world of his ancient aunt, with its institutionalized oppressions and no internet, isn’t something an eight-year-old should care about.
I kept this episode running on silent...
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Mixtape City: Dean Blunt of Hype Williams, The...
Mixtape City is a new irregular feature about mixtapes, proper or otherwise, brand new and otherwise, up to and including regular old internet-style mixes made for or posted by radio, blogs, and underground clubs. Mixtapes/mixes will be posted INPO, but all of them are important and either diverted me from or further informed things I was listening to already. Download/streams will be included.
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No, Not A Single Stalgia
No, Not A Single Stalgia is a new irregular feature, storing old information in a new way. Trivia is the water & power of the internet, and I am bringing you to it.
Amy Grant’s Heart In Motion
It’s hard to believe Christian music ever had a moment, but it lasted a decade, roughly 1988-1999, piggybacking the giant of arena country like a space shuttle on a 747. It was no oddity...
What Purpose The Bloody Footprints Emoji Serves
Worried about my friends who are getting suddenly married tomorrow even though she’s been pregnant now for six months. Is she re-pregnant by Ryan Murphy’s Plot Handbook?
-Fleetwood Mac’s “I Don’t Wanna Know” is good,... →
lovestampede:
“things my landlord (who lives in the apt below me) is probably thinking”
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Favorite movies, INPO, runtime only.
1. 102 minutes
2. 99 minutes
3. 94 minutes
4. 95 minutes
5. 117 minutes
6. 110 minutes
7. 352 minutes
8. 107 minutes
9. 138 minutes
10. 172 minutes
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Stories: Little Expressionless Animals
Stories is a new irregular feature about classic short fiction, or just short fiction I really like. Additionally, fifty years ago today is the birthdate of the greatest writer since Nabokov.
Little Expressionless Animals, from Girl With Curious Hair by David Foster Wallace
If the Girl With Curious Hair period was Wallace carelessly perfecting the “pomo-eroticism” he carefully...
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“Grantham is something very different than this. Rather than an aristocrat trying to cope with a modern world of industrial capitalism, he’s the author of a fantasy, using a wealth stream from America to recreate a “traditional” world that never really existed. “Downton Abbey” – the house – is a museum and a show-piece, a theme-park for a single American tourist, and Downton Abbey – the show...
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The Greatest Whitney Funeral Recap Of All
In The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn there’s a surreal etymological aside in which the king and the duke disagree on the definition of orgy. As the king inveighs to a crowd of country jakes, the duke passes him a note that reads “obsequies you old fool”. The king then walks it back by saying “orgy” actually means “an open er public funeral.” Well yer...
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Mixtape City: Total Freedom's OC Mix
Mixtape City is a new irregular feature about mixtapes, proper or otherwise, up to and including regular old internet-style mixes made for or posted by radio, blogs, and underground clubs. Mixtapes/mixes will be posted INPO, but all of them are important and either diverted me from or further informed things I was listening to already. Download/streams will be included.
Mixtapes/mixes are still...
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The DeLillo Bootlegs
I assign my favorite writers other professions, each to his own ability. Wallace is a mechanic, in grease-daubed coveralls, obsessed with wheel-wells, monkeying around with the insides of things, memorizing data and never bothering to check pertinent or impertinent.
Thomas Mann is a composer, archly tormented by the creative storm, like a lot of the bedeviled snobs he wrote. Nabokov is Pilcher...
“What they didn’t realize is that a lot of their readers felt guilty because they really thought that no one else was masturbating to the pictures, that they were the only ones, that it was shameful … One of the first things I did with Leg Show was to acknowledge that it was for the purposes of masturbation, and that we were happy with that. It was a big part of the attitude. We said that...
WAX IDOLS: HIP CLOTHING BROUGHT TO YOU BY BIGOTS! →
waxidols:
Today I posted a link on my facebook page regarding a law that was passed in Oklahoma that effectively BANS abortion. One of the first people to comment was a young woman named Suzanne Ford Carafano, owner of SPANISH MOSS VINTAGE. In reference to rape victims she said: “..cry me a river & take the…
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up where they:
a) walk
b) run
c) stay all day in the sun
d) all of the above
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Saddest Song In The World Ever
So identified by Total Freedom in the tracklist for his OC mixtape.
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Rating The DeLillo Bootlegs
The Angel Esmeralda: Nine Stories
The latest ones are the best, which is the EXACT OPPOSITE of what I expected.
1. The Angel Esmeralda
2. Hammer And Sickle
3. Human Moments In World War III
4. The Starveling
5. Midnight In Dostoevsky
6. The Ivory Acrobat
7. Baader-Meinhof
8. Creation
9. The Runner
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Moving to Los Angeles Summer 2012
a) God willing
b) the creek don’t rise
c) both a and b
Slutever & The Least Likely Presidential Candidate →
commenter Micah: “im not sure becky would make a very good president. VP, maybe.”
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Please tell me why:
a) my car is in the front yard
b) I’m sleeping with my clothes on
c) I came in through the window last night
d) you’re gone
e) all of the above