ASK TREESHIP whats your favorite gilmore girls episode

harbl: i don't have a cat but i have a dog, a 2 year old golden retriever named georgie.

nakh: 1.) thanks. 2.) i think class identities -- which may be invisible, and different from the familiar marxist categories, but still play a role in structuring social reality -- are fundamentally different from "subnational" identities like irishness is for white americans in 2013, because the latter really are insignificant, not "overlooked". none of my grandparents were from ireland. but to answer your question, yeah, being irish-american for me has nothing to do with being a colonial or poscolonial subject so i don't personally relate to joyce's politial preoccupations. i understand that stuff is key to understanding the man and his work though.

also harbl, if i had a cat it would be named bartleby. you can get away with more syllables in cat names than dog names because you don't have to call them all the time.

yeah i just call my cat buddy or cat. she doesn't even know her name.

From the 'Ask Nilmar/Nakh' thread:

Is the Nilmar I Facebook friended actually you?

― Treeship, Monday, August 12, 2013 2:57 AM (2 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I would like to hear more about how this panned out.

I mean, I'm assuming the answer was 'no', but who was it you Facebook friended?

I think I remember someone telling a story on ilx about how they set up a fake James Franco Facebook account and the real Tao Lin messaged then asking if they were still meeting up for lunch as planned? I would like to hear the story of how Treeship befriended the real Nilmar Honorato da Silva through a series of comic misunderstandings, if such a story exists.

Unforch that is the real nakh

Or else nakh ilx verzh is the real nilmar

lynchian switch . Swyntch.

treesh have you read 'remainder' by tom mccarthy

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2008/nov/20/two-paths-for-the-novel/

no but i read that article when it was first published. it argues that the opposition between "postmodern" fiction that takes liberty with both form and narrative plausibility and more conventional "realist" fiction is a false choice, right?

is remainder worth picking up?

also, semi-related, i just woke up from a dream where a hot new novel was getting lots of critical buzz but the novel was just a chocolate cake that readers were instructed to eat. it was sold in bookstores, however, which distinguished it from cakes sold in bakeries. there was a lot of discussion about whether this was "really" a novel just because the author said it was and in the course of the dream i at first passionately defended it but then was convinced to change my mind and denounced it.

treesh you should absolutely read remainder

was the author of the chocolate cake novel tao lin?

I think it was jonathan franzen even though irl i think he hates anything that could be perceived as a "stunt"

treesh what do you think of this assertion by brian eno

I’m becoming increasingly anti-sport. I think sport is encouraged by governments to channel what would be male revolutionary energy into totally pointless activities. Sport is a great technique of social control.

disclaimer: i think treesh is the best ilx nom de plume (i believe it was hoos first used the contracted form) and it is possible that i ask you more questions than i otherwise would in order to able to say 'treesh', i would probably name a cat or a housing development treesh

i don't think there's much need of "distraction" from revolutionary politics as there aren't really any major emancipatory movements in britain and america for angry young men to become involved with. certainly nothing for governments to worry about. the left is dead as two of my marxist friends are always saying. one of the great advantages of our phase of capitalism -- from the perspective of those for whom the system works best -- is that everything is so complex and intertwined it's never really clear who the enemies are. anger wouldn't be useful right now, when the parameters of the conflict are so hazy.

or at least not that kind of anger that demands immediate, cathartic release of the sort people find watching sports.

how's your workout program going?

as if a nation of rioting angry disaffected young ppl is better than a nation of tv-sports-watching-couch-zombies

not so good dylann. need to get back to asap as i am still paying for a gym membership.

describe your gym

it's amazing and i can't really afford it. there's a pool, for one, which i appreciate. personal trainer appointment is included every six weeks to tweak your program according to your progress and goals. every four months a cute nurse will take your body composition using a machine so you can get a more nuanced sense of your progress than just height and weight would provide. or at least the one i had for my initial consultation was cute. there are all kinds of fitness classes that i should take advantage of but don't because i've just been coming straight home after work and drinking beer the past few weeks.

exercise for me requires a certain mindset -- being "pumped up", or in the moment enough to be able to push through difficult patches -- which feels really unnatural for me most of the time. that's the biggest hurdle.

describe the nurse

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hVZZZQAqnM

give me your thoughts on that

i find the element of masculine competition in the gym helps me. like that broscience canard about prisoners gaining muscle in spite of poor diet and poor training because of elevated testosterone due to being surrounded by men + masculine competition. i'm definitely looking at who else is lifting what, trying not to make it obvious.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2rpqubbGt4

watch frank yang videos before going to gym

i find it useful to meditate on the failure & destruction of my enemies during a workout

Note to self: make enemies.

happy birthday Treeship and Hitler

sparking one up for treesh

HOLY SHIT CRUT AINT LYIN HAPPY BIRTHDAY HOMIE

breithlá sona duit a treesh

Somethin like that

The emergence of christ from the tomb
While handled no doubt with aplomb
Is less cause for noise
Than that of my boys
Adolf H & treesh from the womb

it's a banner day for christians
their fave magician's up again
but hereabouts we rather fete
one treezy (live) and adolf (late)
judge not these books tho by their covers
both vegetarian dog lovers
one's just a naif blogger patsy
the other guy's a full-on nazi
so tho the day it somewhat crosses
with catholic and stasi bosses
let's make this one about tao lin
to please our second favourite finn

happy bday smoke a fattie

now some things, if they're rotten
they leave traces (like burnt toast)
adolf with his waffen
eric harris' let-down ghost
these things aren't merely memories
they're powerful for reezy
that's why every year on this day i
thank god for weed and treezy

Thanks for the bday wishes and poems y'all.

Treeship, what is your favourite situation comedy?

The US Office, definitely. Michael Scott is a very rich, very convincing character IMO.

good answer treezy

Interesting! I like it, but I'm always a bit surprised by the extent of ppl's love for it.

treezy do you ever feel you are too earnest for this jaded world?

^

isn't the 'new sincerity' a thing now?

what's between it and the old emo

clear-eyed no romanticism can't lose?

new sincerity has BEEN a thing & we had enough convos about treezy's level of sincerity last year, ilx 2013 kinda embarrassed itself with endless earnest debate about whether t was too earnest

new earnest debate was 2013?