Fopling

"Be enriched!" I beg my voice cracking as I drag a string across the floor.

The cat continues to watch impassively, my cries falling on deaf ears.

It took me far too long to come to appreciate:

• Marx
• Beans
• Heidegger
• Modern Art
• Cardio
• Contemporary Poetry

I'm sure there are others

"(the script) is too light to support the weight of everything critics have decided to retroactively attach to it so they can feel more comfortable liking it."
I've been shot. @raxkingisdead.bsky.social perfectly summarized my Letterboxd account in a couple brutal sentences. Tacky is a great book

That was my immediate guess as well.

Watching Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992), and I think I'm the first person to recognize this fact, but this Francis Ford Coppola guy is a pretty good director.

Messed up that Michael Moore has retroactively acquired the gift of prophecy.

Do you have any wildlife photography tips that translate to phone cameras?
I always feel like my animal pictures are terrible, especially birds in (even fairly low) tree branches

Yes, I think Adorno and Horkheimer did good work with it. Although there is more work to be done, I know current academics are tinkering with their framework.

I'm also thinking about the Corey Robin book The Reactionary Mind. It's not perfect but he makes some very interesting points.

This sort of thing is why I'm working with the idea that "conservative" is more of a psychological type than a political orientation. Most psychological conservatives fall in with reactionary movements, but a few people with that personality type end up across the board in liberal and leftist ones.

YouTube video by Milo Edwards The MILF Economy

I'm sorry if you were already referencing this clip but, but it's all I can think of when I hear the phrase "the milf economy" so it feels appropriate to post here.

I am perhaps guilty of this. I especially like seeing your posts where truth and beauty commingle as in all good poetry and I am left with a stronger feeling than experiencing either alone. They are oases in the desert of endless news and events. This is a good example that has stuck in my head:

It's incredible to be reading Rosa Luxemburg's "Reform or Revolution" and recognize arguments about the definition of capitalist, vis-a-vis stock ownership, I had on the Internet as a college student. I suppose some things never change, and combating bad pseudo Marxist analysis is one of them.

"Hey catcher, what are you doing in my rye? The baseball diamond is that way!"

I've been making my own seitan sausages for a while now. They are excellent both by themselves in sandwiches and chopped up in soups and stews.

I think about his interaction with legendary exploitation director Doris Wishman where he asked her why her actress Chesty Morgan was so often clothed on screen when the attraction of the film was seeing her shirtless. Horny in a missing the point kind of way.

“Crash” is about characters entranced by a sexual fetish that, in fact, no one has. Cronenberg has made a movie that is pornographic in form, but not in result. Take out the cars, the scars, the crutches and scabs and wounds, and substitute the usual props of sex films, and you’d have a porno movie. But “Crash” is anything but pornographic: It’s about the human mind, about the way we grow enslaved by the particular things that turn us on, and forgive ourselves our trespasses.

Roger Ebert both loved sex and had little to no imagination for it. In a way we all now have a trace of the cyborg sexuality of Crash, even Ebert himself in his mediated experience of it through film.

Crash (1996) should have won best picture instead of Crash (2004). I don't care that it came out 8 years earlier

Cronenberg in the 90s had a weird habit of adapting books about ecstatic and sexual experiences then directing his actors to play it extremely cold and still. It's clearly an artistic decision, but not one I fully understand.

I think it works better for Crash than Naked Lunch.

Buns are out of the oven. I just sprinkled some chia seeds onto the pumpkin ones to mark them.

Lots of people are talking about oats and beans. I have a recommendation to combine them! One of my favorite prepared lunches was a bed of oats cooked in broth topped with a chickpea, kale, and butternut squash curry! I used coconut milk in the curry and mixed a little extra into the oats, delicious

Both! Salad comes from the vulgar Latin (by way of French) herba salata meaning salted herbs. The Roman salad dressing of choice was a salty brine, often combined with oil.

Making curry buns and pumpkin pie buns. Now I need to figure out how to differentiate them from the outside or have a surprising lunch in the future.

Tetsuo the Iron Man and Crash (the novel) are so close to being identical thematically. The difference is that Crash is about the sublime cyborg state only reachable through death. Tetsuo pushes beyond death into embracing the living cyborg as a new entity.

When people say this I always like to imagine it means they have strong views about the teleology of nature and flaws of Aristotelian logic, rather than what they invariably actually mean.

I'm just getting started, I think I'll be reading a few more Ballard books in the coming weeks

Crash is a very French novel about being American. Confusing (but perhaps appropriate) then that J. G. Ballard is English.

Of course, it's our job to make sure no one else ever beats him for that spot.

It's nice of Trump to be doing everything in his power to cement his spot as the worst US president in history. It makes the job of present and future historians much easier.

A woman in a grey suit (skirt suit not pants suit) aims an assault rifle at the tower of a very old computer. Looks like a 90s model. The caption reads "Woman pointing a gun at a computer for some reason, 1998"

My reaction to seeing stupid discourse on my feed

Nothing makes me feel like I can't do math quite like playing Slay the Spire. I keep dying when I think I'll live and then yelling "I'm innumerate" at the screen.