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"You will, by allowing yourself to be annoyed by passing aromas, tasteless ring tones, loud phone voices, talk radio, ugly sweaters, cretinous political opinions, weird and reverberating laughs, ill-timed sneezing, enthusiastic sports fandom, the..." [
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MeFi comment:
"Tucker Carlson says Obama... "seems like kind of a wuss"...
Tucker's complete lack of self-awareness is downright endearing. I imagine him standing in front of the mirror, straightening his bow tie, running a hand through his hair,..." [
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"Is there a snappy Dutch phrase for "initial impulses of mockery and pity for another person's exorbitantly artificial fashion choices giving way to reflection that one's own conventional fashion choices are simply normalized artificialities,..." [
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MeFi comment:
"MIA. From Amsterdam Marsellus says you sailed.
VINCENT. 'Tis true. And thou hast taken to the stage?
MIA. My one brief moment in the sun.
VINCENT. What play?
MIA. A farce on spies, and women, "Fox Force..." [
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MeTa comment:
"Some kids are just different, and there is no quick fix. Nurture them, care for them, and they'll probably be the next Einstein or Newton.
And some kids are so deeply sad, twenty-four hours a day, that they think of little besides their desire to..." [
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MeFi comment:
"I've gone to experimental transgressive novelists for all of my medical needs ever since Hubert Selby Jr. cured my eczema with a pound of unsalted butter and a Chinese throwing star...." [
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MeFi comment:
"This has to be better than the unbelievably shitty Waiting for Godot with werewolves I once sat through:
A country road. A tree.
Evening.
Estragon, sitting on a low mound, is trying to chew off his foot. He pulls at it with his teeth,..." [
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MeFi comment:
"In 1610, thinking he had discovered two moons orbiting Saturn, Galileo composed a message: ALTISSIMUM PLANETAM TERGEMINUM OBSERVAVI ("I have observed the most distant planet to have a triple form") … and sent it to Kepler as an anagram:..." [
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MeFi comment:
"This story is, largely, a description of American society writ small. The bullies, be it physical or otherwise, are generally rewarded, promoted, worshipped and generally seen as "ah he's a good ol boy, sometimes he's just a little...edgy......" [
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MeFi comment:
"Lee Smolin is smart. Lee Smolin has some neat ideas. Lee Smolin would be all, like, "Your idea shows incredible promise and may yet revolutionize physics!" when presented with a precocious three-year-old's reasoned opinion that the cosmos..." [
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MeFi comment:
"I'm not a big fan - too much of his writing is philosophically soggy and discombobulated and laughably macho - but those same qualities made his persona, that amalgam of bile and arrogance and offkilter sympathies, all but irresistible. He always,..." [
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MeFi comment:
"It's not exactly diplomatic. I told it I had rice vinegar, three pomegranates, chocolate chips, sriracha, oyster crackers, half a tub of I Can't Believe It's Not Butter, and a case of beer, and it told me to get a girlfriend already...." [
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MeFi comment:
"When I first got Google Earth, I zoomed in as far as I could, tilted the horizon so that it approximated the perspective from the ground, or maybe from a mid-rise building, and surveyed my pixelated kingdom: Chicago, City of Big Shoulders! What great..." [
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MeFi comment:
"Muddler typed "...but I have to say I'm with the crowd of people that doesn't find the meaning of life in a toilet on a pedastal in the middle of an installation."
"Must you people take over every discussion on MetaFilter?..." [
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MeTa comment:
"When I recently discovered that nasreddin is, in fact, 20 years old, my bewildered middle-aged mind was forced into a series of increasingly preposterous conjectures about how he's maybe a feral child who found shelter in the bowels of the British..." [
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MeTa comment:
"I slept right through it; thanks, alcohol!
notsnot's account pretty pithily shows how, at least in my experience, People Who Know It's An Earthquake have wildly different reactions from People Who Don't. I left the geologically underachieving..." [
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MeFi comment:
"I have the inescapable feeling that Ezra Pound and his inscrutable missives would most likely be communicated today on the intertubes with pages in flashing 72 point text.
Nah. He'd end up where his kind always does.
John Maynard Keynes..." [
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MeFi comment:
"I was just talking to a co-worker of mine about this. "Joe," I said, "Do you not agree that the placement of commercial products in such culturally essential British television programmes as '8 Out of 10 Cats', which airs on Channel 4..." [
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MeFi comment:
""Once, when I proposed to teach a junior seminar entitled 'Anarchist cultural criticism in America', I was instructed to go ahead only if I first changed the title to 'America and its critics'. Here was the same method of cultural hygiene that..." [
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MeFi comment:
"Fodor's academic preening is ghastly and only serves to provide creationists with greater fodder in their endeavors to discredit modern evolutionary theory.
Oh, for fuck's sake. Darwin provides creationists with fodder in their endeavors to..." [
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