Editorial
the Trackstand
Trackstand is a misnomer. It creates confusion by implying that there is a single point on which a cyclist can stand on the bicycle that will allow him to balance in perfect harmony.
True, there is a “sweet spot” that he will come upon, but will quickly lose it, and then find it, and then lose [...]
5 Albums of 2009
The five following albums were released this year.
Girls – Album
Cass McCombs – Catacombs
Woods – Songs of Shame
Dirty Projectors – Bitte Orca
Smith Westerns – Smith Westerns
For a more comprehensive, but by no means anywhere close to complete, list of albums released in 2009 I direct your attention toward Wikipedia.
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ps. nye
Re:Re: Anarchist Living
I invite you to reflect with me on symmetry. To be more specific, i invite you to think about a tonal-temporal-spacial-economic-politcal symmetry that has one side (there are usually, but not necessarily, two phenomena involved in symmetrical relationships) effacing itself and the other side premising itself on the existence of the relationship that is being [...]
Foppish Dandyism [CanonCanonCanonCanon]
Foppish Dandyism is going to be the next comprehensive youth trend. It is going to wash away hipsters, emos, goths, and jocks in a sea of frills, guffaws, port, prancing, and unflattering quatrains about the inordinately large waist sizes of other American youths. Call it Wandervogel or Post-Ultra-Romanticism, but either way prepare thyself. This guy [...]
ks_command, No More: My Disembracement of The Greyface
Hate waking up early. Hate driving a car. Hate buying gasoline. Hate bad coffee. Hate having to shower every day. Hate morning internet routine. Hate earnings spreadsheets. Hate weekly reports. Hate 401k. Hate industry journals. Hate dry cleaning. Hate sports bets. Hate working out. Hate marathons. Hate bed time. Hate bourgeois sensibility. Hate credit cards. [...]
my friend donnie
My new friend Donnie says he doesn’t read too good. Says he’s read two books, but he can’t remember the titles because sometimes his mind goes into a fog. He knows they were mystery books though. When he tries to read he gets bored, but he heard that the most important part of any writing [...]
(FIB – DIY)
A. “Hey bro, what _________ are you associated with?” “Oh, I’m actually not associated with a _______.” “Ooookayy.”
B. “I really like the people from ___________, but their stuff is just okay.” “Yeah its like the opposite of those people at __________ who have awesome stuff, but they all know it and are, like, total assholes [...]
static age
First the skin has to be removed. No, wait. First, you fill the feed trough. Next you walk quietly from behind, hug the body tightly as the feed is happily eaten, place the gun to the head and pull the trigger. You use bullets that make smaller holes leaving than entering otherwise you end up [...]
please don’t go
Mal,
Please don’t go. Really, I’d be lost without you. I’m sorry, so sorry.
Okay, I know I’m not the best at expressing my emotions/thoughts in words (I realize now, “how were you to know he was inbred?” was just about inexcusable), but I’m going to try my best because I sincerely cannot say what I will [...]
a love letter to wernicke
Calvin came into my room this morning. Calvin and I have been friends since we were 12. First drink I had was with him. We took some gin from his dad’s liquor cabinet and drank some on ice? We pretended to be drunk and wandered around the neighbor.
Calvin comes by a lot these days.
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night blindness
Russell Robinson, 1369, Massachusetts Avenue:
He would say, I’ve been to Hell, and I, or anyone else for that matter, couldn’t tell him otherwise. I’d ask him, Where’s your proof? To which he would respond in slight disbelief, What do you mean? I’ve been there, I’ve seen it. Of course conversations like this get no one [...]
Evil Eye/Video Unrelated
Talk of the “evil eye” dates as far back as Hesiod and has been included in the work of Plato, Tgheocritus, Aristophanes, Plutarch and Plithy the Elder. It is also found in Islamic and Talmudic sources, albeit in a more theologically sinister form. Talismans featuring the eye of fatima have been used by a number [...]
