November 2011
4 posts
Why not give Chancellor Linda P. B. Katehi the...
You can reach her here. Here’s what I wrote.
Like many thousands of others around the world today, I watched in horror as students of UC Davis were pepper-sprayed by police brought in to ‘facilitate their removal’ at the request of your university. That the police should behave this way hardly warrants any attempt at surprise from the viewer; we now have countless examples from...
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“Portents of winter and the toothless chatter of flag-draped traitors vies with a...”
– Clusterfuck Nation: Critical State
“Fear of death replaces fear of God. But fear of God - an entirely sane early...”
– Julian Barnes, Nothing to be Frightened Of
October 2011
10 posts
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“When Philip gets pissed off with death
He turns all prophetic and saith,...”
– Philip Larkin would condense his poems into limericks for his friend Robert Conquest. This is Aubade.
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Assessment
When completing a self-assessment questionnaire as part of a job application, how aware of the Dunning-Kruger effect are you when selecting the answer that you believe most accurately describes your level of ability?
I am not aware of the Dunning-Kruger effect.
I slightly aware of the Dunning-Kruger effect.
I am acutely aware of the Dunning-Kruger effect because I am brilliant and will vastly...
“I am not a Labor Leader; I do not want you to follow me or anyone else; if you...”
– Eugene V. Debs
Haiku
Autumn is the best
Season. Girls dress like they’re in
The French Resistance.
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“I bloody give you up when it comes to women. It’s not that I meet...”
– An exasperated Kingsley Amis to Philip Larkin, as remembered by Martin Amis during a discussion at the University of Manchester. The younger Amis has an interesting take on the Eeyorish Larkin, who maintained an unlikely three affairs concurrently before circumstance forced his hand and he finally...
“I feel honored to have a rebuttal from Error Gorilla, certainly one of the two...”
– It’s official folks: Mills Baker’s father endorses yours truly.
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“With such a long history of attacks on the BBC from the reactionary right, it is...”
– New Left Project: The BBC is, and Always Has Been, Part of the Problem
September 2011
4 posts
“I seem to be having tremendous difficulty with my lifestyle.”
– Arthur Dent
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Press Release
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Q magazine to retire REM album review
Following the announcement that REM are to split, Q Magazine today confirmed the retirement of the review it has used for every REM album since 2001.
The review promises “a return to form for the Athens trio” and was first employed for Reveal, after the disappointment of 1998’s Up.
It was used again for Around The...
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Hope to see you soon!
We live here.
Why not visit? Previous passers-by have enjoyed the following activities:
Fucking the woman he picked up previously that evening underneath our bedroom window. Sure, it might be the middle of summer and that means we’ll have the window open slightly but, hey, we really don’t mind hearing your thrusting and slurping and moaning and “oh, yeah, that’s right,...
Foolishly deleting your old Tumblr in the process of setting up a new one is the new going upstairs and forgetting what you went there for.