Not weird at all. When JFK was shot, there was no internet, and no meme culture/meme communication.
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― ♫ very clever with maracas.jpg ♫ (Le Bateau Ivre), Sunday, 7 January 2018 03:46 (six years ago) link
What does that have to do with it being acceptable to question the warren report? there are plenty of other contemporary conspiracy theories that are not widely accepted or known
― flappy bird, Sunday, 7 January 2018 03:48 (six years ago) link
Just saying I'm p sure 9/11 will be the same re: most people questioning the official story
― flappy bird, Sunday, 7 January 2018 03:50 (six years ago) link
Guys wtf I left you alone for hours where is the goddamn pretzel baguette hybrid that’s going to disrupt my lunch forever
― El Tomboto, Sunday, 7 January 2018 05:06 (six years ago) link
will my aunt in law someday eschew david "avocado" wolfe memes in favor of tao lin memes?
― Scatperson (ski-ba-bop-ba-dop-whore.) (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 8 January 2018 04:10 (six years ago) link
I just finished Trip, it was really good. Definitely my favorite book of his and probably his best work. I like that it was non-fiction and functioned almost as a companion piece/semi-sequel to Taipei, as that book (like almost all of his work) is very thinly veiled autobiography/memoir. I appreciated the fact that it's not a judgmental book, there's no anti-vaxxer stuff in it, and it's not gloomy or soul-crushing. One can find and access happiness without going off the grid and living in the woods or the jungle drinking ayahuasca. I think it works best as a book about addiction and recovery, and I found the whole journey and particularly the ending very moving. Probably won't sway anyone that doesn't like him or his writing, but who knows. It's certainly the most unfettered and least pretentious of his books by a long shot.
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 9 May 2018 19:38 (five years ago) link
Attn: flappy bird. I take back the stuff I said before. The drug book is good.
― Trϵϵship, Tuesday, 30 October 2018 01:36 (five years ago) link
It’s not making me into a terrence mckenna supporter but as a work of nonfiction literature—part memoir, part biography, part speculative philosophy book but structured according to his own journey back from nihilism— it’s very good. Every formal choice comes from a place of authenticity, just like taipei
― Trϵϵship, Tuesday, 30 October 2018 01:41 (five years ago) link
yeah I loved how the book is really about recovery. glad you got around to it and stuck with it.
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 30 October 2018 02:38 (five years ago) link
have read everything of his but could not go to bat for him until Trip. thankfully he's become a writer beyond his disaffected early style. it's a beautiful, sincere book. related; anyone reading Liveblog by megan o'boyle?
― Yelploaf, Tuesday, 30 October 2018 04:07 (five years ago) link
Didn't know it was finally out. Will check out asap
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 30 October 2018 04:37 (five years ago) link
I wonder how pissed/sad he is when he sees Virgil Abloh “doing” “scare quotes” as an “aesthetic.”
― ... (Eazy), Tuesday, 30 October 2018 04:54 (five years ago) link