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Away we go!
Mon Sep 07 23:09:12 +0000 2009
"Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing." tr (redacted by 'honest tea')
Tue Sep 08 00:16:10 +0000 2009
"He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." 'chinese proverb' (as redacted by 'honest tea')
Tue Sep 08 00:19:59 +0000 2009
'On the clear understanding that this kind of thing can happen...'
Tue Sep 08 01:47:33 +0000 2009
'avance, avec l'espair dans ton coeur et jamais tu ne marcheras seul. . .'
Tue Sep 08 02:02:28 +0000 2009
http://pic.gd/7e74be
Tue Sep 08 11:02:08 +0000 2009
http://twitpic.com/gygdx - Let's see how this one goes. . .
Tue Sep 08 11:08:02 +0000 2009
'It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.' darwin via h/t
Tue Sep 08 19:00:58 +0000 2009
'so overwhelming, it becomes banal'
Tue Sep 08 23:21:26 +0000 2009
'I regard Geoffrey as the first American causalty of Paul and of Jacques.'
Wed Sep 09 02:21:35 +0000 2009
neither; both. (what else?)
Wed Sep 09 02:23:37 +0000 2009
Or neither: both. What else!
Wed Sep 09 02:24:19 +0000 2009
elo'hai - worship, fear? naked and trembling?
Wed Sep 09 02:54:05 +0000 2009
People who liked it didn't care, and the people who cared didn't like it.
Thu Sep 10 23:18:35 +0000 2009
the one, the good, and the true
Fri Sep 11 21:29:43 +0000 2009
'bad news doesn't get better with time'
Mon Sep 14 23:58:31 +0000 2009
'it's never as good as you think it's going to be'
Mon Sep 14 23:59:12 +0000 2009
'in a bureaucracy, like any organization, you have your responsibilities - or to use the bureaucratic word: equities -
Tue Sep 15 00:06:58 +0000 2009
you've got to discharge your responsibilities, and you can't be doing other peoples' work.
Tue Sep 15 00:08:04 +0000 2009
I mean, that's what gets you in trouble, right?'
Tue Sep 15 01:31:27 +0000 2009
'people who are funny and smart and return phone calls
Tue Sep 15 01:32:52 +0000 2009
get much better press than people who are just funny and smart.' howard simons
Tue Sep 15 01:33:43 +0000 2009
He's a politician, a kind of person - it's interesting: are there any other kind? - who will disappoint you.
Tue Sep 15 16:10:58 +0000 2009
That being the case, he's 'sacrificed' the 'principle' for the sake of 'preservation'
Tue Sep 15 16:12:13 +0000 2009
Thus: he has secured, basically, re-election. At the cost of the principle (here, 'the public option').
Tue Sep 15 16:13:49 +0000 2009
So what do we have in the end? The politics of identity, or, to use less charged terms, the politics of self
Tue Sep 15 16:14:57 +0000 2009
'let the Afghans bring security to their own country' - the smallness of liberalism is very dismaying
Tue Sep 15 16:31:34 +0000 2009
'unemployment' - the 'dirty little secret' of the U.S. economy. Well, not quite.
Tue Sep 15 16:46:01 +0000 2009
The 'secret' is still not speakable, because it frightens the 'foundations' of her/his own job:
Tue Sep 15 16:47:08 +0000 2009
in the 'information' economy, or whatever it's called, people do not actually do anything
Tue Sep 15 16:47:59 +0000 2009
That is, no work at 'work'
Tue Sep 15 16:48:32 +0000 2009
I think this explains some of mad men's popularity, besides the styling and the ambiguities (of 'life'?) it highlights,
Tue Sep 15 16:50:11 +0000 2009
is that here's a show that shows that there is very little 'work' to do
Tue Sep 15 16:51:03 +0000 2009
There are some creative types - whose ideas are 'inspiration' that is not possible to 'place' or 'show' -
Tue Sep 15 16:51:59 +0000 2009
'and the rest is commentary,' as hillel said. But that's not being fair to hillel or his topic -
Tue Sep 15 16:53:40 +0000 2009
the rest is gossip.
Tue Sep 15 16:53:44 +0000 2009
in such a situation, how does on 'transcend,' or set aside, gossip?
Tue Sep 15 16:55:34 +0000 2009
When all 'politics' is gossip, and all work is gossip -
Tue Sep 15 17:03:46 +0000 2009
not manufacturing widgets but creaing and selling, or trying to sell, 'information'
Tue Sep 15 17:04:32 +0000 2009
(for the difficulties thus inherent, see the stock of nyt co.)
Tue Sep 15 17:05:31 +0000 2009
What is a (viable) refuge from gossip, 'that is, from history'?
Tue Sep 15 17:06:23 +0000 2009
Philosophy: from God, to metaphysics, to aesthetics
Tue Sep 15 17:07:16 +0000 2009
to deconstruction, to the 'critique of aeshtetic ideology,'
Tue Sep 15 17:08:35 +0000 2009
to ethics ('the ethics of the Other as first philosophy)
Tue Sep 15 17:09:31 +0000 2009
to what? Noise?
Tue Sep 15 17:15:05 +0000 2009
That is, 'music as refuge'?
Tue Sep 15 17:15:40 +0000 2009
'mahler as first philosophy'?
Tue Sep 15 17:16:05 +0000 2009
'ive never seen an ad for hummus'
Wed Sep 23 21:16:58 +0000 2009
'this is terrorism. Appeasement'
Wed Sep 23 21:17:18 +0000 2009
'The rome conference event was an all boys event'
Wed Sep 23 21:17:39 +0000 2009
'the meals that I paid for were pretty awful. The others were even worse.'
Wed Sep 23 21:18:21 +0000 2009
'the heart was long. But my problem is that nobody asks questions.'
Wed Sep 23 21:21:43 +0000 2009
Other person: I always ask the first question, to get things going. Used to call it a tummler
Wed Sep 23 21:22:52 +0000 2009