May 2009
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Magic is not Wonderment
Posted elsewhere months ago, reposted re: Italian nostalgia guy
When we see a face we think we recognize, why do we say “Oh that person looks just like so-and-so?” Why don’t we say “it’s funny how the mind desperately tries to fit stimuli into patterns”? When we have deja-vu, why do we think we’ve actually seen something before, instead of wondering how the mind can produce such a powerful...
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“What is news? Novelty without change.”
– Prime Time Activism by E. Barbara Phillips
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Have you ever met a person whose very face made you feel nostalgic? I know an Italian student here who for reasons unknown to me fits this description. I don’t know what it is about him (the way he trims his beard? his elegant style of dress?) or what he reminds me of (an uncle? 70s japanese anime?)… nor have I even spoken to him. But seeing him again tonight on my way back home...
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Ignorance
by Peter Larkin
Strange to know nothing, never to be sure Of what is true or right or real, But forced to qualify or so I feel, Or Well, it does seem so: Someone must know.
Strange to be ignorant of the way things work: Their skill at finding what they need, Their sense of shape, and punctual spread of seed, And willingness to change; Yes, it is strange,
Even to wear such knowledge -...
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“Truly, a velluminous history! - which it’s my present intent not merely to...”
– Yorick by Salman Rushdie (in East, West)
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Smog - Rock Bottom Riser
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“Using examples from modern Japan, Germany and the Soviet Union, Ohnuki-Tierney will explore how different traditions use symbols in creating and expressing political, religious, and symbolic power. For example, the Meiji emperor of Japan (1868-1912) never appeared in person or in photos, and the populace never heard his voice. In contrast, the photos and other images of modern dictators,...
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just cz you're paranoid...
…doesn’t mean the patterns aren’t out to get you.
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U2 & The Lebanon
Posted elsewhere February, 2009. Reposted for @ramadanovic. I heard the song eventually, and wasn’t that impressed.
I always wondered why U2 has Middle East Airlines in their Beautiful Day video… I used to think that maybe MEA was the only one that let them display their logo for free, or something like that, but with the imminent release of their new album, No Line on the Horizon,...
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A: a lot of things...
We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the...
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Hipsters Must Die
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Q: C'est quoi, le maximalisme?
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“sorry, but you are looking for something that isn’t here.”
– WordPress.com 404 error page
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Travis - Friends
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“Accelerate!”
– R.E.M
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“No time to question the choices I make; I’ve got to follow another...”
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“Where is the ripcord, the trapdoor, the key? Where is the cartoon escape-hatch...”
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“I’m telling you stories. Trust me.”
– The Passion by Jeanette Winterson
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“Ah control! ALT-deleted; reset my memory!”
– Billy Talent - Perfect World
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Amusing Ourselves to Death as a comic: Orwell vs... →
via @SMEXbeirut
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“In every headline we are reminded, that this is not home for us.”
– Bloc Party - Where is Home?
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Sidabitball - L’Aventurier [8bit Indochine...
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Ska-P - Intifada
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Zionist Dialectics
re: @syria’s RT of @Elizrael:
The longer U demand sthg we won’t give(refugees’right of return),the longer Pals misery remain
“The dialectics of Zoinism is this: as years pass, Zionist crimes ensure that every Arab generation has its supply of materials to continue and persevere in fierce opposition to Zionism. Zionist crimes guarantee the deep Arab opposition to Zionism,...
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Monday the Fourtheenth. A few days after the...
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Sunday the Thirteenth. re: Hariri-Hezbolla...
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“At the beginning of the twentieth century, before the First World War up-ended the foundations of the European state system, Europe was still the center of the world. This was true not only in political but also in geographical terms, as expressed without any trace of self-doubt in the sixth edition of Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon (1908):
“That this small continent is able to...
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Green Faction
Originally published elsewhere, months ago:
A friend of mine on facebook joined the Lebanese Green Party’s group, and I couldn’t help but notice the strange graphic they had used for the group picture. Thinking that it may have been some unofficial design, I visited the official website to check, and confirmed that it’s quite legit.
I haven’t been following Lebanese news...
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Algebra
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“I try to sing it funny like Beck but...