I hate my new job. I hate the working conditions, I hate the tasks required of me, I hate the people I work with, I hate having to wake up at 4am to go into work for 5am, I hate everything about it. My immediate superior asked me the other day what I enjoyed about the job and my response was "I don't enjoy anything about it ( Read more... )

The Perfect Crime is the best book of Baudrillard's I've read yet. I find with B. that people focus too much on the idea of simulation, and particularly, its recursive character. It's a constant refrain in Baudrillard studies of "the simulation cannibalises the real" or "Look at how simulations are just like reality, but even moreso." Eco for ( Read more... )

Gary Gygax is dead ( Read more... )

I realised a week or two ago that I'd become a passive, will-less fuck. As long-time readers will recall, I resolved to become a nicer person, to be more considerate and sympathetic, etc. I spent the past two years trying to do this, but all it did was cause me to utterly renounce agency in this world. That's pretty fucking pathetic. No more of ( Read more... )

I'm back ( Read more... )

The end ( Read more... )

I am no longer in love. It started two weeks ago, and the process of falling out of love is pretty much finished at this point. It was prompted when a friend informed me that the girl in question had made a comparison between me and a fictional character. The comparison wasn't insulting (though I will admit it's to a character I don't like, but am ( Read more... )

The 300 is a fascist movie. It advocates the violent extermination of non-whites by a professional warrior caste of whites bred for the purpose. If you like the movie, you like a film that makes being a fascist look cool, and if you like the characters in 300, you like fascists. If the Nazis had won World War 2, we would be watching these kinds of ( Read more... )

I drive now. My father has a 1998 silver Ford Taurus SE which I get at night time. He is capable of driving at night, but only just due to iriditis, which is some sort of congenital inflammation of the iris, and because one of his retinas briefly detached itself from his eye, and because he has cataracts. None of this is sufficient to get his ( Read more... )

Comrades, be on guard against false enlightenments. This topic is fresh in my mind because I recently got over one. This false enlightenment took place on New Year's Day, in the early morning, as Bryan and I stood outside a house where a party was going on. We were smoking cigarettes, and the door to the house was closing, but not yet closed. There ( Read more... )