The unexamined life is not only not worth living; it is an ethical crime of the highest order.

( The Interior )

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The annoying dialog box is offering me what?

Apparently in the increasingly pathological desire to surveil everything as an (wholly illusory) mastery over chaos and existential insecurity, people want to know who clicks by their journal, want to know about everyone who comes and goes without commenting.  Naturally I will not be participating in ( Read more... )

While it's true that I don't "do" cultcrit anymore, I simply could not allow this one to go by unremarked.  My reaction (and immediately, with this single word, we know we have left the arena of the ontopolitically useful) to seeing a Latisse advert has been on a small post-it in my brain since last month.  I did not bother moving it from Inside to ( Read more... )

A television commercial on an airport screen mid-week treated me to some of the boldest and most unapologetic classism in recent memory:



Quickly now, run along and fetch yourself one of these devices.   Surely you're not some fat, greasy, lumpen who does not possess The Very Latest Electronics.   What are you, some kind of animal?

( on the anniversary of Paul Celan's death )

There is a case to be made that any form of "competition" is radically inimical to the spirit of my life and work.   That said, here it is:

http://www.lastwavecinema.org/

There's another "contest" coming, something much more arbitrary and personal.    Highly unusual.    But then, isn't Usual rather a bore?    Details shall be posted soon.    Or at ( Read more... )

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Wal-Mart Employee Trampled to Death

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/29/business/29walmart.html

who wonder at the vehemence of the misanthropy of this age's iconoclasts.