One Thin Tumbl

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Interrupting your focus on your own work, family, and friends in order to harvest anonymous compliments or deflect anonymous dumbassery does a disservice to everyone involved and is, in my opinion, an utterly depressing and unscalable way to slouch through life.

kung fu grippe (via texburgher)

(this post was reblogged from texburgher)

Dec 05

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All I am is the trick of words writing themselves.

Anne Sexton

Dec 04

NYS Senator Diane Savino speaks on the Marriage Equality bill (via NYSenate)

Brilliant.

Dec 01

The Bitch is Back

Andrew Corsello’s delicious deconstruction of Ayn Rand for GQ.

It’s the damnedest thing. One day you’ve got a bright young kid dutifully connecting the dots of his liberal-arts education; the next, he’s got Roark and Galt in the marrow and has become…an insufferable asshole.

I was deep in it back in the day, myself, and call it personal bitterness at what Rand’s keening opinions did to close me off from the world, but I still don’t think she and her philosophy — better, the broader selfish barbarism of which hers, maybe after fascism, was the most shamelessly bloodless expression —have gotten quite the demolishing they deserve.

Nov 28

(this post was reblogged from nerdgasms)

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My films are intended as polemical statements against the American ‘barrel down’ cinema and its dis-empowerment of the spectator. They are an appeal for a cinema of insistent questions instead of false (because too quick) answers, for clarifying distance in place of violating closeness, for provocation and dialogue instead of consumption and consensus.

Michael Haneke

Nov 25