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Mother of Quarterback Brees Dies after Getting Subpoenaed
SurfPuppy, did he forge prescriptions or checks?— August 9, 2009 6:14 p.m.
Driving Drunk Is Not Easy
"Great for those romantic evenings." Ha, ha! Actually, one of my students presented this film once in a class, analyzing the construction of specific scenes. Unfortunately, some of his less openminded colleagues asked me if they could leave the room. Their loss. Pasolini had a fabulous way with light and color, as well as narrative, didn't he? A senseless death...— August 9, 2009 6:12 p.m.
The Loss of "Cool"
We miss you.— August 9, 2009 2:58 p.m.
Driving Drunk Is Not Easy
PS: Looking forward to your fave quote from Swift, russl :)— August 9, 2009 2:51 p.m.
Driving Drunk Is Not Easy
russl, de Sade was imprisoned long enough to compose soliloquies with, to, about, and upon feces. See the 29th day or so onward of "120 Days of Sodom"--if you dare. It's pretty disturbing, but necessary to understanding the mechanist desires and conceptions of the universe of his era.— August 9, 2009 2:49 p.m.
Driving Drunk Is Not Easy
rickey, thanks for the recommend, though I would caution against resting your own world-view on one view from a primatologist. We need multiple fields of study--would you not agree? Or is that me spouting off with no rationality again? It's funny how quickly you accuse me of a lack of rationality, when my 'world-view' is so much more expansive, and contains so much more than yours. The day I hang my 'world-view' on a single text, I'll have gone senile.— August 9, 2009 2:01 p.m.
Driving Drunk Is Not Easy
I don't really consider myself an academic anymore, rickeysays, so you aren't hurting my feelings. It is interesting that you seem to have an outdated idea of what philosophy "is" today, and what fields (from which you have been drawing copiously, albeit from third-hand media, and often without discernible pattern) intersect with it. If brain science does not interest a person who constantly reduces human nature to that of apes, welp, I tried to help. Btw, philosopher/artist Antonin Artaud threw crap at a wall; so did de Sade. As gringo might say, "This is what happens." Doesn't mean all branches of philosophy can be again reduced to small brown piles. Your disdain is a bit 'striking' in itself, no? Perhaps because you content yourself with throwing randomly culled crap at a page, and feel you've convinced enough people to buy it?— August 9, 2009 1:50 p.m.
Cultural Desperation
Hey Micsquared, you are on your way as a writer. My unsolicited advice (from someone still with a long way to go herself but lots of study) would be: a: "As a child, it never particularly struck me that not only my aesthetic features, but my overall tendencies towards iconoclasm, were remarkably individual in nature in comparison to my peers" ...Avoid pumping up your intellectual image as a child. It has not gone over well with readers since the 19th century, is hackneyed as hell, and a form of public masturbation. b: "this generation has been raised from a very early age to believe that a blind synergy with the shallow image of their place of residence is the road to overall fruition.: Avoid overloading your sentences with words. I know, there are so many juicy ones, but you'll end up sounding like a frilly- collared hack--a bad writer cannot revise or edit. One might say 'anal,' because one has to retain all one's s***. ust say it straight and powerfully, letting one of those ripe juicy words in. Let me see if I understand this sentence: "My generation has been raised to believe that a reverence of the idea of the neighborhood will carry one out of it." Is this what you meant? Good luck, and keep writing!— August 9, 2009 1:31 p.m.
You Must Keep Reading
Well, I understand your point, Mr. Blair; it appears we are arguing at cross purposes. But truly, aside from a few "fun" analyses buried in a couple of journals on pop culture, where you also will find more deserving pop icons such as Madonna or Michael Jackson, writers like Collins (never heard of Cussler, but assume it's about the airport novel) do not receive any treatment or appreciation qua literature as art. A great writer might cop an attitude about writing for pay--and many have taken this hackneyed route--but s/he knows how much work and talent it really takes.— August 9, 2009 1:35 a.m.
The Fetishist
Geez, refried, did we not notice our pun--"getting off" on the right foot? *insert collective groan here* :)— August 8, 2009 8:13 p.m.