April 2010
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November 2009
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yessssss.
I have finally reached a tumblr rating of one (1). Honestly, it was not a surprise. I’d not been feeling particularly sanguine about my chances of hitting the zeniths I glanced last May after I posted this picture of a sandwich I once consumed lovingly and with some regularity when I lived in Miraflores, LIma.
Last week, I went to a conference in New Orleans — my first trip there...
September 2009
2 posts
August 2009
4 posts
July 2009
8 posts
Learned a joke today...
Q: What is the capital of Iceland?
A: Twenty-five dollars.
Bada-Bam
Alton Ellis “If I Could Rule The...
June 2009
32 posts
The Eternal Return
“Foucault’s experience in Iran contributed to a turning point in his thought. In the late 1970s, he was moving from a preoccupation with technologies of domination to a new interest in what he termed the technologies of the self, as the foundation for a new form of spirituality and resistance to power. We argue that the Iranian Revolution had a lasting impact on his late writing in...
Götenburg post-punk//Love is All//Sea Sick
Tony Oursler's Synesthesia: Alan Vega and Genesis...
ubuweb:
Two portraits by Tony Oursler of two fascinating cultural figures. I can’t stress how riveting and hypnotic these pieces are: by doing so little, Tony is doing so much. The camera simply is focused on the interviewee’s head and they talk for an hour and a half, candidly and openly about how they got to be who they are. Occasionally off screen Oursler and friends are heard asking just the...
Here is some spacey dub, circa 1976.
dennis...
words wholly unrelated*
ragbag:
genius & ingenious
the former from gignere (to be born). the latter from ingenium (clever (and also where the word engine comes from)).
previously.
*etymologically speaking, duh.
Here, I will join in the fun and refer to a post I made, in a similar spirit:
Wysteries of the World
The word ‘obsequies’ (from the Latin obsequiae meaning ‘funeral rites’) has only a...
