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Monthly Archives: March 2013
2013.03.28: “Emotion is also nature, and the rule of decency is something artificial”
“Wrath of the Titans” is not actually any good. It has a large (enough) budget, it has a(n over-)qualified cast, and its plot is (moderately) coherent. It is not, however, any good. It’s not even mediocre; it is inanely mundane … Continue reading
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Tagged aesthetic experience, dissertation, mythology, overacting, Schiller
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2013.03.27: Sugar Rush!
Oh. My. It’s like Feb. 14th all over again … but better! Milk chocolate? Check. Dark chocolate? Check.
2013.03.26: Fun, not quite in the sun!
I cooked and cleaned today in anticipation of a pre-Easter dinner with Ms. S.’s parents, and I found it glorious.
2013.03.25: “Goopta… is god.”
… quoth Ratfinkovich. “In 1979, Onan Goopta molted his earthly encumbrance to pursue his Selfisophical research in another dimension. That means, he died of prostate cancer.”
Posted in Various and Sundry
Tagged Budapest, Millennium, pseudosc, Scientology, The X-Files, trilogies
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2013.03.24: My day off
I’ll consider this my day of rest. I have little to report, to communicate, or to reflect upon at the moment.
2013.03.23: March Madness … indeed!
And it rained today. And rained and rained. We got in some quality tv-together-time (T3).
2013.03.22: A Day Off, or finally immanentizing the Eschaton.
Some reading, little work, some pain. The day in review.
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Tagged exercise, food, math, Oscar Wilde, reading, right-wing nutjobs
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2013.03.21: 3-2-1-Contact!
… is the secret … the moment when everything happens … is the answer … the reason why everything happens. Let’s make contact.
Posted in Various and Sundry
Tagged cooking, Elfriede Jelinek, food, Millennium, noisy neighbors, The X-Files
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2013.03.20: “The Pathetic is Only Aesthetic Insofar As It is Sublime”
— Fr. Schiller, “On the Pathetic” We rewatched all but the last twenty minutes of “Kontroll” last night after our rotation (we finished it today). Thereafter I put on “Clerks”, silently, in the background while sitting in the office and … Continue reading
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Tagged Budapest, dissertation, food, Millennium, movies, sardines, Schiller, The X-Files
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2013.03.19: “You got a call from her, she must have dialed 1-800-THE-GREAT-BEYOND.”
Completing and beginning, summing up, and miscellany. Inside: exercises, “math”, and the day in {re|pre}view.