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• Unmentionable lessons of the midterm aftermath - By Diane McWhorter - Slate Magazine
  (tags: politics war media iraq)
• Calvin & Hobbes from today in 1995
  (tags: funny)

• Non-Format
  My favorite
  (tags: design designer poster typography)
• The Porn Myth - Naomi Wolf - New York Magazine
  (tags: culture porn)

• Comments on the Society of the Spectacle - Guy Debord
  (tags: situationist debord philosophy france read)

• Why do people live in cities?
  Is it for casual sex?
  (tags: read)

If you recall, the film Broken Flowers is ostensibly one man’s search for his son.  It ends seeming not to have been wrapped up much at all, but oh how it is.  You may recall after the conversation with the kid who reminds him of his son (”So are you a buddhist?”  “No, are you?”  “I don’t now yet” then “I know you think I’m your father” “Man, you’re fucked up” and runs away) Bob Johnston (Bill Murray) is left totally alone.  Now there is a slow motion drive-by where the guy in the car looks directly into the camera.  It’s Bill Murray’s real-life son, Homer Murray.

• Mr. Understood: The Willy Terry Story Part 1
  (tags: atlanta funny people weird video)
• Mr. Understood: The Willy Terry Story Part 2
  (tags: atlanta funny video people)
• Willy Terry Crossing Sign
  (tags: funny atlanta photo)
• Best Bands in America
  Every one of these bands fucking sucks (except Sonic Youth)
  (tags: music list)
• Malachi Ritscher, 1954-2006 | Pitchfork Media
  (tags: news obit jazz iraq)

“On the one hand, as a digital reordering transforms artifacts into information, it seems to fragment the object and to dissolve its aura absolutely. On the other hand, any dissolution of aura only increases our demand for it, or fabrication of it, in a compensatory projection that is now very familiar. As new aura is difficult to produce, established aura skyrockets in value (as Rem Koolhaas once remarked, there is just not enough past to go around). Thus, in an electronic continuation of the Mona Lisa Syndrome whereby the cliché only heightens the cult, the art work might become more auratic, not less, as it becomes more simulacral in the electronic archive. A version of this compensatory projection is now part of the common rhetoric of the art museum: the electronic archive does not deflect from the museal object, we are told, much less supplant it; it is pledged to lead us back to the art work and to enhance its aura.”
-From Design and Crime by Hal Foster

• The Executive Coloring Book
  (tags: funny)

Films should be literature.

Magazines should read like literature.

Philosophy is literature.

Commodities have rising action, a climax and falling action; literature has done away with them.

A computer program should tell a story.

So should breakfast.

TV could be literature (but never has been).

Statistics tell a story.

Architecture is literature.

I want to see inspired speech.
Or life worth remembering.

• David Lynch (and a cow) on the Street
  (tags: movies weird advertising)