January 2012
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Burroughs _____slaps In Cold Blood
“You have written a dull and unreadable book which could have been written by any staff writer on The New Yorker (an undercover reactionary periodical dedicated to the interests of vested American wealth.) You have placed your services at the disposal of interests who are turning American into a police state by the simple device of deliberately fostering the conditions that give rise to...
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Kickstarter - Simon Joyner Double Album →
Given the current environment, I feel this could be my last opportunity to do a grand song cycle in the spirit of double album favorites. It will be released vinyl-only (with a download) and we are aiming for a Summer 2012 release date. Right now the expenses are all on battered and bruised credit cards and this project can’t move forward without real assistance.
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Carnival shares tumble after cruise ship tragedy →
Deutsche Bank analyst Simon Champion said that the loss of consumer confidence in cruise travel following the Costa Concordia’s crash is likely to hurt Carnival more than the financial penalties. “Reduced demand for cruise holidays — this will be by far the most significant issue for investors in our view,” Champion said in a note.
The tragedy could not have come at a worse...
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The world would be better off
The world would be better off
if people tried to become better,
and people would become better,
if they stopped trying to become better off.
For when everyone tries to become
better off
nobody is better off.
But when everyone tries to become better
everybody is better off.
Everyone would be rich
if nobody tried to become richer,
and nobody would be poor
if everybody tried to...
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“Cats yawn because they realize there’s nothing to do.”
– Kerouac
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He strikes me as one of the last public... →
There have been ‘last public intellectuals’ for a long time now.
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Occupy the Table
We entered an immense low-ceiled room and followed a vista of dead swine, upon their backs, their paws stretching mutely toward heaven. Walking down to the vanishing point, we found there a sort of human chopping machine where the hogs were converted into commercial pork. A plank table, two men to lift and turn, two to wield the cleavers, were its component parts. No iron cog-wheels could work...
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Black Friday back then
[In the 1880s] Armour and Company sold meat to all comers at whatever price it took to gain a foothold in the market. A butcher in Akron, Ohio ruefully described it:
‘Upon opening these markets they were supplied in enormous quantities with the best the country produced in everything that was made out of meats and all the finest appliances of the markets of our largest cities. These markets...
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The Ascended Black for Condoleezza Rice
And it’s hard to feel sorry for her because she’s so public: stoic preceding the even kick: fingering the pimply ball, selecting a handful of shiny words from his stinking mouth. Like an executive out for a run, this ascended black tours the wishes of water-fallen niggers with feigned disinterest. Good luck. Now move along, senators! she prods, chuckling....
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Most Loathsome People of India: 2011 #1: You →
1. You
Charges: You are loathsome. You are lazy, unthinking, uncritical, and insensitive to the crap happening out there to your own country. Your idea of an intellectual conversation is talking about the sexy, super-powerful engine of Lexus or whatever other car and discussing the latest gizmo that further hastens the decline of your near-zero intellectual ability. Your idea of participating...
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Primates and Above in the Witches Brew
Witches’ mummy
Liver of blaspheming Jew
Nose of Turk
Tartar’s lips
Finger of birth-strangled babe
Baboon’s blood
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“It was a clear and eyeblue day, that day, as was the first day of this story, a...”
– Dave Eggers - mandatory January Chicago sentence no matter how unseasonable.
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“The oft-repeated view that Macbeth was written as a compliment to King James...”
– William Farina
December 2011
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Reviews of Chicago's #1 Car Washes
I have driven past Chicago’s #1 Car Washes (I don’t know why it is plural, but ok) about 10 million times, but never stopped.
Friendly staff, if not exactly fluent in English.
This car wash is so ghetto, i live in Jersey and have traveled thru out US but never seen anything like this!!
About once every year I get the urge to clean my car.
It got every part of Her really clean.
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In 2008 you had surgery for lung cancer but were...
The lung grew back. And it wasn’t caused from smoking. It was probably asbestos. They said it was a type of cancer that’s usually found in Asian women. And I’ve never had no Asian woman.
Merle Haggard
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Official Matters
If I were an official, either a minor or a major official… the mere thought of it stirs my blood. I want to say, honestly, I would only want to be a corrupt official. Life as a corrupt official holds many pleasures. Treated as an equal among your fellow officials, welcomed in and sent off amid illustrious gatherings of distingushed guests, your macro-control would display great leaps of...
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A lot of the time it's just a difference of... →
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Underlined in her books
“What good is knowledge if it just floats in the air? It goes from computer to computer. It changes and grows every second of every day. But nobody actually knows anything.”
14 year old Heinrich in White Noise (1985)
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chicagopubliclibrary:
“Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend. Inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read.”
— Groucho Marx
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And yeah, "I blew six million on myself and it... →
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In my opinion, they've turned the NYU graduate... →
No one has been able to stop laughing at this quote for the last 2 weeks.
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Endnote: 2011 will go down as the year I got sick... →
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Hark, the Herald Angels Sing
“The so-called “harmony of the spheres” led a drummer I once had beers with to say that if the harmony of the spheres ever came near him he’d ‘pop it upside the jaw.’ In this town you don’t have to listen long to realize that the music coming from on high can’t be heard for the noise the police helicopters make.”
Nathaniel Mackey, from Bedouin...
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Executive Hotel Vintage Court Guest Reviews
Run down hotel but in very good location.
The only bad comment about the hotel is that the room smelled like humidity.
Terrific service, location, and price. If they just took care of the mildew problem, this would be a jewel of a hotel.
Vintage or Just Plain Old?
The Hotel is on a one way street so there would be many times where drivers would have to...
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