I kinda remember being mad like twenty years ago that every other move needed to be considered with an “in my experience, __” prefix and this is how long it took me to connect it? wild
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a move I’ve noticed cool hip with-it conflict-avoidant people do which I’ve decided to try to do is to make more claims about my own experience than I normally would because it feels redundant or just a lot of work to do all the time
so instead of “you should __" or “people should __” I try to go with with “I have __ and here’s how it worked out for me, to me.”
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I picked up the inferno (this hollander one https://archive.org/details/dante-dantes-the-divine-comedy-the-inferno-2012-dante-alighieri-robert-hollander-jean-hollander ) off my now two-shelf long to-read, half-read, and probably dnfing pile because I’m about to get to it in the Berkeley philosophy lectures I I’m listening to on walks anymore (Dreyfus mentioned previously, https://archive.org/details/ucberkeley_webcast_itunesu_461120619) and it’s in the form canto, commentary on canto, canto 2, commentary on canto 2, and so on
ffs
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pale_Fire#Interpretations fascinating takes.
The Botkin theory is very plausible, and these critical essays from Boyd on the Nabokov mailing list is also a fun read (i’m on 3 of 9, made possible by reader mode in my browser, the archive newlines are a little weird).
(you know you are reading some real lore when you see the old “name-l” listserve decorator)
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“Brother, can you spare securing the existence of our people and a future for wh—“
“Sorry friend, I don’t carry cash.”
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I never have any urge to post what I think about people like stephen miller on here because it would feel like bad smalltalk, just casual observations of a shared banality.
for some insane reason I instead am constantly not posting the same nonsense on linkedin, a website I don’t understand and dislike the need for, because “they” (??) need to hear it.
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sun ra’s nuclear war is a form of if it sucks hit da bricks with a better refrain:
oh what you gonna do (oh what you gonna do)
without your ass (without your ass)
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working on learning to play Pancho and Lefty this with thumb and fingerpicks like Townes turned into "I wonder if there’s any Townes stuff on bandcamp?” (there is, including this Live at the Old Quarter release) turned into falling in love w/ the label, Fat Possum Records,’s ( https://fatpossum.com) motto (p good merch too):
“We’re Trying our Best."
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took my DSLR to junior’s graduation, was annoyed at myself for not changing my speedlight batteries while trying to get piñata shots under the shade of a tree so I changed them when I got home.
the batteries I took out were dated 2011
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a few of the people I follow are on a years-long usually dormant thread with a few dozen people that just post the most wild schematics and infographics at each other and if I could follow a thread I would follow that thread and if I could find it I would break my usual “don’t be a reply guy” lurker mentality and post this amazing graphic at it even though I don’t know any of them and don’t know what the thread is for so i’m just gonna post it here and maybe start a new one for myself and you
