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 