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jeremiadist
| Main blog: | ThisCityShallFall | | Age: | 40 | | Birthday: | July 10th 1968 | | Gender: | Male | | Occupation: | Teacher / Professor | | Education: | Graduate degree, School of life | | Religion: | Other | | Race/lineage: | White / Caucasian | | Location: | Antarctica |
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| Body Size: | Average | | Eyes: | Gray | | Hair Color: | Light Brown | | Hair Style: | Straight - Short | | Facial Hair: | Beard - short | | Skin Tone: | Light | | Undies: | Briefs - Short Leg Boxer |
| Relationship Status: | Single - Involved | | Family Info: | They're all dead. | | Sexual Preference: | Often | | Astrological Sign: | Cancer (June 22 - July 22) | | Existing as: | Extraterrestrial | | Smoking: | No. But not bothered by it | | Liquor: | Social drinker. One or two | | Exercise: | Walking to the car only | | Your Home: | Live with another |
| Books: | History of Luminous Motion - Scott Bradfield, Bliss and Bluster - Janwillem van de Wetering | | Authors: | Harlan Ellison, Gene Wolfe, Robert Anton Wilson, Plato, Spinoza, Nietzsche, Your Mom | | Music Genres: | Noise, Jazz, Experimental, Outsider, Indie, Old Soul | | Bands/Artists: | Sonic Youth, Robyn Hitchcock, Soft Boys, Fall, Nurse with Wound, Iving Klaw Trio, Son Gun | | Games: | Go, Bridge, Chess, Dalmuti, Scrabble, 52 Pick-up, Whaddaya Got? | | Sports: | no | | Colors: | Green, Gray. | | Pets/Animals: | Cats, Rats | | Season: | Spring. | | Food: | Thai, Middle Eastern, Mexican, Indian | | Drink: | Port, Bourbon, Absinthe |
Still God After All These Years
There may actually be nothing more persistently compelling than Shane Watson's various endeavors on these here tubes. His whole Oeuvre is almost like an ARG whose goal turns out to be finding the meaning of life. Or, perhaps, he's simply a tremendous artist pioneering a new art form previously impossible, working off of the tattered remnants of performance art, non-commodifiable art of the Fluxus type, mail art, corpse-humping killer robot art and f-art. Perhaps he is a utopian driving toward a sort of situationist redemption through an upheaval of mind and of everyday life. Or,...
Quote of the Day
Today's sobering thought comes courtesy of the Teafaerie - one of the good folks over at the Vaults of Erowid: Really stop and think about this: it has been absolutely impossible to get elected president of the United States without at least professing to believe that intelligent demons are out to corrupt your soul. Truth hurts...
Oh, and by the way...
America is Killer
There was recently a lucid think piece in, of all places,the New Yorker, reviewing several current books touching on crime and violence in America - the place what I am in. Many of these try to devise a plausible story about why our badness quotient is so murderously high. As the author, Jill Lepore, points out: The United States has the highest homicide rate of any affluent democracy, nearly four times that of France and the United Kingdom, and six times that of Germany. That's right - we're more murderous than the Germans and the English put together. ...
The Last Lecture
Or, what I should have said on the last day of my last class: Never stop. Philosophy is a discipline, and it is imperative that you keep it up, and deepen the discipline. Otherwise, as the saying goes, your life, unexamined, will not be truly worth living. Indeed, a life with no philosophy in it is only half-led. Keep studying; and learn some logic, if you dare. It's a hard master, and it will make you harder. Keep reading - with a skeptical eye! - the best authors you can understand; and keep reading the impossible ones until you begin to understand them as well. Above all,...
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