I don't get angry about people shooting off fireworks but, if you are a Chicago resident with fireworks this July, consider that you're contributing to this little dog having a terrible time.
I think I get the second novel after this onen. The series is about nature's great indifference - to us or anything else - and the second one is, I think, looking at the apparatuses we've set up, tasking pencil pushers with banging heads against the wall, asking nature "why?"
This was the first philosophical text I ever read so I thought I'd return to it. Some parts were kind of a slog and there are some needlessly crude jokes but Z was still writing interesting, fun, clear stuff in the 90s. Shame about the turn he made.
What a fucking slog. I know we're awash in Erowid trip reports and this is all people had to chew on at the time, but I don't understand how this became such a huge book.
This was fun. Some interesting thoughts - particularly when Peel is speaking on the form rather than the content of black metal - but I'm not sure the genre actually gave my man enough to chew on.
Didn't feel like anything was simplified too much when I was confident in the material being addressed but also never felt lost when it was material outside my wheelhouse. A very compelling (and fun!) read.
Me (two months ago): I can't imagine anything more dull than reading about cybernetics
Me (today): How can anyone expect to the youth of today to make any sense of the world they're living in if we aren't teaching them about The Cybernetic Turn in high school history classes
I have this problem where almost all my socks have holes in them so I've been at work a bunch of days where you can see my bare toe through my shoe so anyways I'm finally saying goodbye to these. 🫡
Carl Allen (Jim Carrey) recalls Zarathustra’s donkey from Thus Spoke Zarathustra. Constitutionally incapable of saying no, it says “yea” to everything, and is commanded by its own compulsive demand for affirmation. “He who cannot obey himself will be commanded”, Zarathustra says.
"Crew of actionists report they visited a Zionist-owned business in Bushwick last night, only to discover another crew had ALREADY glued the building's locks."
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Chicago this morning! Pro-Palestinian protesters block traffic into O'Hare Airport -- "All lanes are blocked on I-190 west between Bessie Coleman Drive and the airport." abc7chicago.com/ohare-airpor...
