Meant it for the last post, but it stands alone.

Celebrities: eternally 25 for a handful of years, disappear for fifteen and return in their late 60s. Die within a decade.

Politicians: Either 'young up-and-comers' at 45 or perpetually 68, and NEVER. FUCKING. DIE.

--DiB

I had to spend some time thinking and now my thoughts are starting to coalesce. I'm not great on the public face of activism. Ever since I went to an Iraq War protest and found pro-marijuana legalization and other issues signs, I didn't like going for the mixed messaging. Ever since I learned people can't tell the difference between the Iraq and ( Read more... )

This is what I posted to Facebook on Nov. 7th, 2012, courtesy of the Memories app:

"I actually enjoyed myself this election. I did get caught up on some of the partisan debates and stress but I'm still riding high on living in the Land Of Do As You Please after living in an actual theocratic monarchy for two years, and for the most part I didn't ( Read more... )

Some government bureaucrat: "Hey, I just discovered an email from Hillary Clinton she sent in, like, 2006. I had asked her for her frittata recipe ( Read more... )

Man, I love Crüxshadow's music, but their music videos are absolute shit quality and also sell every bad cliché about goths you can come up with.

--DiB

PS: I hope the next < 30 days of the election is just increasingly shrill Republicans arguing with each other.

Was Donald Trump's pussy grabbing of binders full of women not a legitimate rape?

Otherwise I can't imagine why Republicans are shocked by this clearly unprecedented situation.

--DiB

I just watched The Face of Another by Hiroshi Teshigahara, written by Kobo Abe. It's a movie about plastic surgery, like Eyes Without a Face and Face / Off and Under the Skin, and within Japanese cinema, Onibaba. Like those other movies, it's a horror / science fiction, about how fluid identity runs the risk of dehumanization and the swapping of ( Read more... )

As I watch the car cross the intersection I'm confused as to how wonderful the moment is ( Read more... )

1) The difference between 'decadence' and 'wealth' in Western historian lingo is whether or not the Republic collapsed shortly afterward ( Read more... )

An interesting sort of cognitive glitch can be found in the general mainstream recognition of "the decadence of the Weimar Republic." More or less, you can use the concept to explain how republics begin to collapse without controversy ( Read more... )