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Low and Beheld
We'd been walking for hours and were getting no closer to a solution. To call them corridors or canyons misses the point, he insisted. Corridors presuppose walls, canyons cliffs. In this way, in each case, something bigger, something greater defines the emptiness between it. He looked upward curiously, like something new to being earthbound. What ( Read more... ) -
40 Days and 40 Nights
He was a sad man. A man of many faults, cracks. We knew this. We all knew this. But watching him now, watching those furtive first steps, the genesis of our rapture, we mourn him. He is still beautiful. He was beautiful once. He is frozen in his beauty: a snapshot, a shockwave, a reflective disc. We know this. We forgive him because he is beautiful ( Read more... ) -
The Stunning Azure Mace of Pomo Electoral Fragmentation (+1d12 v. Incredulity)
Discuss: The internet (which creates the illusion that anyone can easily express themselves in a worthwhile manner and be instantly heard by a teeming mass of equally engaged, content-producing netizens) + election year(s) (wherein experts and technicians of all ideological stripes pore endlessly over demographic and polling data, searching ( Read more... ) -
An Embarassment, re: Riches
Because this journal has become essentially useless, i may as well use it to point out that the first 10 minutes of Predator has an awesome homoerotic vibe.
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Fall
Inspiration is in short supply these days, like all things another commodity but a precious one. Hunted but elusive, something from the bowels of the earth, secret and inviting, hidden: rare ore, sacred mineral, fabled gem. Something precious for the crafting of other somethings. Something we dig for. Something we get our hands dirty with. ( Read more... ) -
weeeee i got a jeep
Because today was nowhere near as bad as i thought it would be, here's the Second World War in an animated GIF, as re-enacted by 13 year old Starcraft obsessives.
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phrasing not yet specified
Remember J.G. Ballard's 'surgical fictions', where he pasted a celebrity name into the text of a medical journal article? Jane Fonda's Augmentation Mammoplasty, Princess Margaret's Facelift, Queen Elizabeth's Rhinoplasty, etc. These pieces succeeded on two levels, namely satirizing the cult of celebrity by reducing larger than life figures to the ( Read more... ) -
In the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
NEW CONCENTRATED INTERNETS*
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* - Background-level Internets (TM) exposure has been linked to increased risk of heart attack, birth defects, erectile dysfunction, urinary tract infections, glossolalia, cancer of the esophagus, hemorrhagic fevers, face blindness and hikikomori; do not exceed daily recommended dosage. If swallowed, take a fucking ( Read more... ) -
For a Friend
I had, at one point in time, considered my atheism a point of strength: i did not waste time with the addled myths and flimsy ritual that occupied others. No, i knew (or as close as one can come in these matters) that we are alone, unbounded, a thing apart. I still know this. I do. But what strength can be drawn from the random cruelty of a mute, ( Read more... )
