December 2011
Any of you pro players ever read Homo Ludens. Should I read Homo Ludens. I’m reading Ron Padgett and he quotes it. Seems like a cool fun thing.
counter-resolutionary
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“Women cannot be expected to struggle alone against the forces of discrimination...”
– Benazir Bhutto in a 1995 speech in Beijing at the World Conference of Women. This is a beautiful speech, go read all of it. (via thepoliticalnotebook)
Waiting for someone on Tumblr to write a scathing response to this because Dante’s a total Nice Guy (TM) or whatever, and/or because HE BELIEVES IN...
"Trapeze Heartist"? Really?
sonofapritch:
Come on, academia, Kenneth Koch is like explicitly political all over the place, have you even read Ko or The Duplications or 1000 Avant-Garde Plays or ANY OF HIS POEMS which are heavily contingent upon sustained engagements with history that correspond nicely with the work of Walter Benjamin?
Dr. Fun: Marxist.
Joe Brainard’s I DISMEMBER
THAT'S WHAT I NEED TO DO
sonofapritch:
Ted Berrigan’s poetry is missing in my life I should have known this would happen This time every year I want to do nothing Except read Ted Berrigan and sigh and laugh And—like that one time—cry.
When I was moving some of our housemate’s mail into his room I noticed that he has the Collected Ted Berrigan. Can’t wait until he’s back so I can ask to borrow it.
I really do think John Berryman is...
sonofapritch:
Not just because his poetry is more oblique and difficult and aesthetically a far cry from Lowell et al, but because I think he fundamentally conceives of the project of poetry differently. He’s not trying to “express himself” so much as solve a problem, which I think the dream songs demonstrate to varying degrees. Read as a whole they certainly are very different from something...
The End of Comedy - Kenneth Koch
sonofapritch:
JOE: You should do a vaudeville revue! BILL: But there are no stand-up comics like Mighty Head any more! (Enter MIGHTY HEAD.)
MIGHTY HEAD: Give me a light boys, for I wants to smoke. Hey bobareebob, fellas, how’s about a little joke? JOE: Okay, Mighty Head, will you act in a play for us? MIGHTY HEAD: No, I’m too old for that and famous for that— I’m just my whole life one big...
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I wish the phrase "iambic arousal" itself was more...
iambicarousal:
I mean it follows a general duh DAH duh, duh DAH duh. Which is not TOO far off but it would just be perfect if it actually followed a completely iambic pattern.
And amphibrachic arousal isn’t even amphibrachic.
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dagseoul replied to your video: Actually this is probably the version I was…
the best cover ever. i was such a huge fan of this band. and still listen to them all the time. thanks.
I saw Dean Wareham’s “Dean Wareham plays Galaxie 500” act in Boston in 2010 and he played “Ceremony,” it wasn’t quite the same but it was still amazing.
If you ever need to tie a tie and feel like sobbing while doing it, ‘Ceremony’ is a good song to pick as a soundtrack. Tenderly I pack this blog post into a time capsule bullet and shoot it from my magic blog sniper rifle back in time into 2006, 2007, and 2009.
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mohandasgandhi:
metamorphoseandbodhi replied to your post: metamorphoseandbodhi replied to your post:…
That’s what I said when I heard about it. blog.amandapalmer.net/p… Look under the photo of Amanda Palmer with a ukulele being kissed by a black dude.
“at occupy boston, i was followed by a girl after my set who suggested that i always issue a trigger warning before playing my parody of ...
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sonofapritch:
fearandwar:
mohandasgandhi:
fearandwar:
sonofapritch:
mohandasgandhi replied to your post: Wondering why there isn’t already a piece by Zizek about this funeral
TRIGGER WARNING: Wondering why there aren’t people masturbating to Zizek’s piece about this funeral yet.
“In the firsht playsh we can clearly shee Hegel’s insight into the funkshuning of the dialectic remains...
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While you were being dramatic
sonofapritch:
I was attending Donald Food’s memorial service and pouring coffee on his grave in solemn salute.
Bob Perelman presiding.
Met sonofapritch in University City today. Since we’re both strangers from the internet we murdered each other. Currently engaging in praxis hauntology. Bought some Ron Padgett, some Hejinian, some Osman. As it turns out, you can take it with you.
OK so χώρις is a variant of khora
sonofapritch:
so it has to do with “clearing”? or being between things?
Actually I think it’s just a regular old preposition meaning “without.” Or “differently.” Who’s using it?
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LIBERTARIANISM: A NOVEL →
sonofapritch:
I am, within the confines of reason, elated to announce to you that Libertarianism: A Novel has finally been completed and may be found at the above link. This long-awaited aesthetic treatise on the philosophy of FREEDOM and LIBERTY, with a special introduction by none other than Ludwig von Mises, should serve to clarify the various misgivings of those who would seek to castigate...
Poetry is like Sex.
Nobody in America cares when I do it.
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“And one day I was musing in this vein when the idea came to me. What, I thought,...”
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academic Léopold Sfax, on the murder of his collaborationist past, personified by his then penname Hermes (G. Adair, The Death of the Author, 1992)
Death to Donald Food. Death to Glenn Francoise.
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sonofapritch:
harunwasagoon replied to your post: Poem - Frank O’Hara
i lol in bed
Yeah I think this every time I read it/typed it up this way and caught it at the last second
Sam Barber is from my hometown, how’s that for a lol in bed.
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sonofapritch:
nodamncatnodamncradle replied to your post: algolenguaje replied to your post: And why the…
I’m willing to bet that 90% of those that like Carl Sagan on tumblr don’t actually like Sagan, they like weed and quotes about space and mortality and atheism pasted on images
These are literally all the things I hate about Carl Sagan, also he bores me
You hate space?
Is Legal Theory always-already subsumed under the category of rhetoric? Don’t think I’m asking a smart question, I’m just trying to figure out if I wasted all morning writing something for no reason.
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Greek woes drive up suicide rate to highest in... →
golehyas:
At first glance I read this as “Greek woes drive up suicide to highest since Euripides.” I sat back and began to try and wrack my brain for suicides in Euripides before I looked back at my screen.
Couldn’t think of any. Almost Herakles?
I forgot how dismal I am at writing succinct abstracts for conferences. Guys, really, I had a hard time trimming 80 pages of material into 20 pages of seminar paper, how am I supposed to convince anybody of anything in 100 words?
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Hey I got A’s in all my classes. Grad school, guys. It’s easy if you write about stuff nobody else cares to. Also, Boardwalk Empire spoilers under the cut. Spoilers about their grades.
I guess the only two gay characters just got killed off in this episode I watched (I’m catching up on the second season). Sometimes this show is really well written, sometimes it slips back into...
metempsych:
jesus i was writing a lot of garbage a year ago doing a 12-month retrospective on my work is probably not good for my health
Same I’m looking at these things from spring and going uhg ugh argh.
Burning the cat-piss smell out of our oven after the property handy-man guy came in and cleaned everything possible and found that, yeah, this smell is metaphysical in origin and reflects our original sin. Wandering out into the night to drink sullen beers instead of smelling burnt ghoul urine while reading Carl Fucking Schmitt. Jesus.
golehyas:
In other news, an NYU professor was fired after giving James Franco a D.
James Franco, what a piece of shit.
bbcity:
mistah-kurtz:
LULZ
bbcity:
mistah-kurtz:
bbcity:
We have countless (literally) philosophers in America. Their not being “public” intellectuals is a cultural problem.
but you and I both know that it’s more or less the same as saying there aren’t any. socrates wasn’t a philosopher until plato invented him
No, actually, it’s not the same thing. I’ve met so many of them who have...
Gotta figure out what to get my parents for...
sonofapritch:
Definitely a theology book for my dad, but I’m stumped when it comes to my mom because a bust of Jacques Derrida for some reason doesn’t appeal to her.
Give me the bust, I’ll face it off with Borges.
Going to the AIrport at 5:00
Feelin’ so fresh and clean. Sorry if I accidentally drive into an overpass.
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dagseoul:
spacebaw:
svartdod replied to your post: Me and Catcher in the Rye, a short tale
if catchr in the rye is your favorite book and you are older than 18 yrs of age you need to reevaluate your life
its not my favorite, and its not even really that good
i think for a lot of people, its a nostalgic/cathartic book
people who hate it are much more annoying than those who like it too much...
Hey I’m curious why you guys all think My Life is boring, it’s not my favorite Lynn Hejinian collection but it isn’t as bad/normative as I heard it would be?
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sonofapritch:
dagseoul replied to your quote: It is more important that a proposition be…
the positivists won’t like this.
The positivists don’t like anything.
Be nice to Moritz Schlick he suffered died and was buried.
I’m thinking of Steve Benson’s As Is, which I read a few weeks ago, and feeling a little disarmed by how little I remember of it. Ever since I’d heard of Benson, the elusiveness of his books and his kind of liminal, fleeting membership in various avant-garde group made him really intriguing to me, and Kathleen Fraser’s responses to him in Each Next suggested a really lushly...
I’m reading this book by Gary Indiana about Salo, I’m not liking it very much and I’ve never even seen Salo. I don’t know what my problem is. Rockin’ Friday adventures.
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Can’t believe it’s been almost a year since I’ve read any Proust. Gotta get back into that Guermentes shit.