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I am reliably informed that it has all, this grand experiment of a federated, democratic republic, the only country in the history of anything to have twice elected Donald John Trump to lead it, it’s all boiled down to this: Oregon (in the form of Cascadia) vs. Minnesota (become Megasota). Vote wisely .
“I knew that I wanted it to be a little wrong. I’d like to make this, like, a little bit funny. Take this a little too far. So I did the tie-dye, which was pink and purple on the pants, and I went a little further with the Home Depot chains. There’s gotta be something wrong about anything that you do, otherwise it’s just plain old cliché.” — Tim Capello
(Which, incidentally, raises the delirious spectre of the converse of a p-zombie : a being that shows all the properties of being aware, except awareness—wait. No. Strike that. Reverse it.)
I’ve always been fond of the phrase “loop the lupine.” —As I recall(ed), I’d first seen it in a blurb on the cover of a Gene Wolfe paperback: “Gene Wolfe is the master of loop-the-lupine writing,” or some such, from Philip José Farmer, I was pretty sure. It caught my eye, and my imagination, as you might expect of someone so drawn to the practice of talking outside the glass . Some time ago, I…
It is, as noted by Benjanun with characteristic acerbity , a “ silly vacuous article ,” but even the silly and the vacuous can lead you down productive paths, I mean, I ended up here , a translation of this , which is, yes, also silly? Closer to the metal, when it comes to discussing various and sundry aspects of this rather niche subculture, these male-identified individuals with an abdiding…
Oh this I m afraid will not do, I m sorry, but it s all manner of much too respectfully not at all right about this , which is just plain muddled and wrong, to the extent I ve been able to read it—apologies to any affiliate links out there, but thirty-five bucks is just too much for an ebook, and the library doesn t have it (yet?), and I m not about to wait out an interlibrary loan and make space…
Oh, hey, it’s the 24th anniversary of this here blogging megillah . Favored gifts include opals, lavenders, and tanzanite, which, apparently, is the blue to purple variety of zoisite. —What went on last year? Let’s see: I tore up empathy , I wrote about what I’ve done with AI , I discovered some poetry from my grandfather , I didn’t so much like a very good book , and I was rather a bit more…