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some older things

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the overpass, a song

I think I understand J.G. Ballard now Changing routes is an auto-hypnotic state I wish I could stare at the curvilinear safety wall forever Landscape projects, double fine zones When I hit the top of the interchange I can see forever on either side But I don’t bother looking over the divider I only have eyes for the car in front of [...]
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Weekend summary

Balloon Boy turns out to be a hoax. Barack Obama weighs his options in Afghanistan…yawn. Hilary Mantel wins the Man Booker award for her historical novel Wolf Hall. Public Organ gets a new home.
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update

Sorry for the extreme quiet around here, folks. It’s not like it was really bothering you anyway. I took the LSAT last week, and with my parents gone this past week I’ve been taking care of the house and trying to relax before the next spate of applications, letters of recommendation, transcript requests, etc. Which is [...]
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a really great moment

a really great moment, originally uploaded by SW▲MPY. sorry for the drought folks. I’ve been in a bit of a dry period lately. Here’s a list of the things I’ve been seeing and reading: Swampdonkey’s excellent set of medium format photos taken whilst hitching rides on freight trains across America. The New York Times manages to turn Swine [...]
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the plantar insurgency

Sometime in the middle of high school, I received two plantar warts. I say “receive” because there is no better way to explain their spontaneous appearance on the bottoms of my two feet. Their appearance on my feet presaged a wider presence in my life, all the way from sophomore year of high school to [...]
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who knows where we’ll go?

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of course, we could be wrong about everything leading up to this point…

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saturday

long, but interesting review of slavoj zizek’s magnum opus. the 50 best songs of 2009, thus far (I agree with a sizable majority of the entries, so up it goes). the new york review of books tackles money. Theodore Kaczynski‘s manifesto: industrial society and its future discontents.
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daily gristle

for the mind, of course. Israel still looks good, warts and all. Diego Garcia, rendition waypoint, neocolonialist outpost, and giant fuck-off runway. Will anyone ever grow tired of punking the media by editing wikipedia? Arsenal fan hangs himself after tuesday’s miserable defeat at the hands of Manchester United. Did he really expect the gunners to win? Part of being [...]
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