Solecism

Time Magazine: The Last Of The Big Newsweeklies (NPR)
The decision by the corporate owner of Newsweek to put the magazine up for sale has once more raised the question in journalism circles as to whether there’s a role — or any future at all — for newsweekly magazines. Yet over at the historic Time-Life Building, [...]

Queer sexuality

Thus spake Joshua Corey:
I meditate on the value of queer sexuality as a mode of consciousness that plays with the manufactories of desire rather than simply accepting their products unquestioningly off the assembly line.

Like the boys

from my notebook: receipts

“Money is the external common medium and faculty for transforming appearing into reality and reality into appearance” —Marx
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Section 511.15 applies.

Please note attached

status report. Thanks!
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The goal of psychoanalysis is to become comfortable wasting money.
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$10,261.10

$15,083.94

$17,106.72

$12,130.77
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Ten inspirations

that I want to distill into my next writing project:

Guy Hocquenghem’s The Screwball Asses
Claudia Rankine’s Don’t Let Me Be Lonely
The Situationists and the City
Google Maps API
Ann Hamilton’s video, abc
Christian Marclay’s Memento
Palare
Charles Bernstein and Emma Bernstein reading “War”
Steve Reich’s Come Out
Tino Seghal at the Guggenheim museum

Links to come. Below, a still from Hamilton’s abc:

Holy Fucking Moley

[Audio clip: view full post to listen]
The “Random House Historical Dictionary of American Slang, Volume 1, H-O” by J.E. Lighter, Random House, New York, 1994, has this entry: “moley n. (pop. As a characteristic exclamation of ‘Captain Marvel,’ hero of a series of comic books begun 1940, first written by C.C. Beck; perh. reflecting ‘moly’ [...]

from my notebook (Marjorie Welish review)

The reporter says, “That’s journalism, not
a cultural event.”
Definition is extinction.

trademark

Epistrophy

“entitlement and its rhetoric”
“categorical start”
“template for affidavit”

such delicacies of wit [...]

Meta-commentary: “Twitter is…

Meta-commentary: “Twitter is looking more & more like plumbing & plumbing is eternal.” —stevenbjohnson.

Spot-on parody of HuffPost. Ho…

Spot-on parody of HuffPost. How pandering to sex and search algorithms undermine journalism: http://comedy.com/files/2010/01/HuffPoFinal.jpg

“What Nabokov said about art i…

“What Nabokov said about art is true of stamp collecting, fans, and every other compulsion: ‘It’s a relief from the itch of being.’”

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