“Among other things, you’ll find that you’re not the first person who was ever confused and frightened and even sickened by human behavior. You’re by no means alone on that score, you’ll be excited and stimulated to know. Many, many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right [...]
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Viggo Mortensen reads Howard Zinn’s essay “Empire or Humanity? What the Classroom Didn’t Teach Me about the American Empire,” explaining Zinn’s political awakening. Didn’t want to mention this yesterday because of all the happy happy joy joy. Vic Chesnutt decided he’d had enough. Here’s his rendition of “Flirted With You All My Life” recorded this summer. It’s disappointing that the NYT obit by Bruce Weber refers to Bea Arthur’s television characters as “battle-axes.” Arthur had a long, successful, and storied career which Weber immediately diminishes in the opening sentence of his obit. Bea Arthur made her name in television playing Maude in the eponymous series from 1972 to 1978. Created by [...] One of the great intellectual inspirations of my life has died. By weird coincidence, when I was browsing at Mojo books this afternoon, I thought “It’s been a long time since I read any Ballard, I should keep him in mind as I browse.” Bettie Page had more fame in the late 1980s and 1990s than in her 1950s heyday. She perfectly captured the retro-cad nostalgia embraced by hipsters learning to love bachelor pad music of the era, a sort of easy-listening avante-garde best represented in the music of Esquivel, and recaptured in the 90s by acts like Combustible [...] So long Jerry. Unless you’re deeply into contemporary poetry, or know your New Wave science fiction writers, you probably never heard of Thomas Disch. Some of you might recognize his name as the author of The Brave Little Toaster, and The Brave Little Toaster Goes to Mars. I read a ton of Disch’s work as a teen and I’m [...] Here’s Carlin on why education in the US is fucked: Here he is doing a brief rendition of “Make the World Go Away.” |
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