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January 2003
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Which is worse?
01.07.03 | Permalink | Comments Off on Which is worse?US-led global imperialism or corporation-led global corporation feudalism? The first, a new pax americana, seems the aim of the current Bush administration, and its shape seems fairly obvious: US unilateralism on the way to US hegemony. But the feudal option is more ambiguous as of yet. The basic ingredients are a collection of fiefs–in our […]
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Jesus was a pothead?
01.06.03 | Permalink | Comments Off on Jesus was a pothead?The Guardian reports that a mary jane fan magazine thinks Jesus used pot-laced annointing oil. As one Plastic submitter puts it, “Other possible evidence not cited in the studies, is a tendacy to tell long rambling stories with no apparent point, a marked aversion to paid employment and donkey riding.” Long live hippy Jesus!
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I want Pat Robertson in a cage in Cuba!
01.06.03 | Permalink | Comments Off on I want Pat Robertson in a cage in Cuba!Strange bedfellows, indeed. Tom Tomorrow thinks CBN’s Pat Robertson might be in bed with Al Qaeda. Now who was he blaming 9/11 on a couple of years ago..?
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Gollum, gollum
01.05.03 | Permalink | Comments Off on Gollum, gollumEssay idea on The Two Towers: “The effect of small cruelties (and graces) on the subject in moral transition.” The effect of Frodo’s kindness upon Smeagol/Gollum. Sam’s self-fulfilling prophecy that Gollum/Smeagol is “all deceit and lies.” How Frodo’s decision to help Boromir capture Smeagol provides a re-entry point for Gollum. Smeagol’s siding with Gollum from […]
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So that’s who does that song. . .
01.04.03 | Permalink | Comments Off on So that’s who does that song. . .Wish you knew who did that song on that one VW commercial? It’s your lucky day. (And the music for the New Beetle convertible is a remix of ELO’s “Mr. Blue Sky.)
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“I just didn’t want to get wound up in any systems anymore. . .”
01.04.03 | Permalink | Comments Off on “I just didn’t want to get wound up in any systems anymore. . .”A new addition to my list of things I wish I had written. This time from Sam Delaney’s Dhalgren. She looked at him. “It was years ago.” Her face was greyed in the grey dawn. “It was.” She turned away, and continued. “But I realized something. About art. About philosophy. And psychiatry. They’re both self-perpetuating […]
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