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Category Archive: philosophy
Sep 20
Prisons Built By Corpses
pic nicked from here It’s a habit of youth and one that too few people ever grow out of: Building oneself a box and getting stuck inside it. A human will assign themselves a category and then play that role out. I’m a punk, they’ll decide. I like this and hate that. I’m a …
Sep 09
The World Stays The Same; The Mind Changes
pic nicked from here Give me a shovel and a piece of earth and I’ll happily dig a rut until you bury me in it. Adventure is for bored people just as fucking is for horny ones. I find the careful maintenance of my routines to be adventure enough. Yet change does occur because change …
Jun 03
You Say "Contrarian": I Say "Potato"
People call me names in spurts. Last week, I was dubbed a contrarian about three different times by three different people. It struck me as peculiar. I knew the term but only ever heard it applied to stock brokers – those who look at what everyone is doing and invest in the opposite. But it …
Aug 12
All Mediums Are All Lies All the Time
I just wanted to point out an example of how lies are built into any medium. There is always a process of editing and editing is a lie. Here is my photo of Amie Scott at The Phelp’s protest: And here is one that appeared on Flickr: So what’s true? They both are. But they …
Jan 21
Some Thoughts on Bespoke
Having a suit built specifically for me has been a dream for a long time. The experience has, to date, exceeded expectations and taught me things I did not expect to learn. I’ve decided to spend a few posts sorting through some of these reflections. I could be called shallow and I have been called …
Jan 20
Porn to Switch to Blu-Ray: Kill, Fuck, Search
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKYALsp-sIg&rel=1] It looks like the porn industry is switching over to blu-ray. This, of course, means that HD is dead. You can just forget all about it. If porn goes blu-ray, HD is beta. Porn has always been a driving force behind technology. It’s the reason VHS and the Internet succeeded. Combined with the army …
Jan 05
Edge Asks "What Have You Changed Your Mind About?"
This year “Edge” asked some of the sharpest tools in the box what they’ve changed their mind about. It’s interesting reading. Although I recommend that you peruse the essays for yourself, here’s a few of my favorites. Sam Harris: Mother Nature is Not Our Friend. Rupert Sheldrake: The Skepticism of Believers. Paul Davies: I Used …
Dec 30
Celebrity is a Virus; Is Microcelebrity the Vaccine?
The only thing I hate more than celebrities is the concept of celebrity. As far as I can tell, the whole thing is designed to sell soda pop and running shoes. It revolts me. This may be an odd thing for a waiter with a fanclub to say. If I understood myself better, I would …
Dec 21
Roses in Shit: A Philosophy of Clothes
I know a lot of people who hate each other. Artists who hate bankers who hate musicians who hate fashion people who hate scientists who hate writers who hate hippies who hate scientists until all the Whos in Whoville are just a hateful mess who just want to defend their Whos from the other Whos …
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- Futurist (The weather will be . . .)
- Husband (Over two years now.)
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