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faleristics: The alchemist who has achieved illumination. from...

Mon, 28 May 2012 12:35:51 -0400

faleristics:

The alchemist who has achieved illumination.

from Andrea de Pascalis, Alchemy: The Golden Art.

Sometimes when I tell people what I do for a living they respond with “Alchemist???” and I say, “yeah. That.”

never. not once.

Fri, 25 May 2012 22:16:24 -0400

never. not once.

WHO’S READY FOR THE WEEKENDENDENDENDENDENDENDENDEND!??!?!?

Fri, 25 May 2012 09:53:41 -0400

WHO’S READY FOR THE WEEKENDENDENDENDENDENDENDENDEND!??!?!?

"There was just one problem. The televisions lining Rasmussen’s entrance path were turned to CNN and..."

Thu, 24 May 2012 16:39:06 -0400

“There was just one problem. The televisions lining Rasmussen’s entrance path were turned to CNN and looping fresh footage of Chicago police raining nightsticks down on the skulls of protesters. The waiting press was glued to the screens, pointing and murmuring about the violence in a dozen languages. Also drawing attention was a very public huddle by NATO staff. “Shut off the damn TVs!” one of them said. “The optics might be worse if we shut them off now,” said another. But it was too late. Before a decision on the TVs could be reached, Rassmussen entered the hall trailed by a gaggle of attaches and military men. The world’s cameras snapped away.”

- “Nato-Industrial Complex”

Interesting little para there… too bad the rest of the article is this dumb ass horseshit that seems to assume that the “defense industry” is the problem as if that weren’t inextricable from NATO and the Pentagon itself, both of which need to die. You’re telling me you can make the connection between the police brutality and NATO, but not the defense industry and NATO?

Cerce - tour sampler sushigoat: Fucking sweet. oh yes,...

Thu, 24 May 2012 12:52:30 -0400

Cerce - tour sampler

sushigoat:

Fucking sweet.

oh yes, that’ll do nicely.

distorte: If you start trying to read this at the top, once you...

Thu, 24 May 2012 11:23:17 -0400

distorte:

If you start trying to read this at the top, once you reach the bottom you will have forgotten your own name.

Who needs names when you’re gettin’ that ghost paper - Hungryghoast

Thursday Thorsday - We are building a religion and etc…

Thu, 24 May 2012 10:27:44 -0400

Thursday Thorsday - We are building a religion and etc…

citywingtsun: As Assistant Instructor Pete so famously put it:...

Thu, 24 May 2012 09:35:28 -0400

citywingtsun:

As Assistant Instructor Pete so famously put it: “Sifu’s kicks don’t tickle.”

love that comment from Jersey Pete.

I’m enjoying AskTheRangers Yeah, it’s obnoxiously...

Wed, 23 May 2012 12:19:14 -0400

I’m enjoying AskTheRangers

Yeah, it’s obnoxiously “cutesy” but it’s pretty funny if you’re a fan. Someone should ask if they’re gonna show up in the first period this game…

OK, Let’s do this.

GPOYW blackandwtf: Mid 1950s Note the cat on his lap. From...

Wed, 23 May 2012 10:01:05 -0400

GPOYW

blackandwtf:

Mid 1950s

Note the cat on his lap.

From the submitter: “I hooked a coat hanger over his collar to form shoulders, and newspaper stuffed into his trousers.”

El-P - “The Full Retard” this thing exists and is...

Tue, 22 May 2012 14:11:34 -0400

El-P - “The Full Retard”

this thing exists and is available now and I’ve been listening all day and it’s really good and I’m not just saying that cuz has a melody from Metroid on one track.

"Workers’ struggles determine the course of capitalist development; but capitalist development will..."

Tue, 22 May 2012 10:29:15 -0400

“Workers’ struggles determine the course of capitalist development; but capitalist development will use those struggles for its own ends if no organized revolutionary process opens up, capable of changing that balance of forces. It is easy to see this in the case of social struggles in which the entire systemic apparatus of domination repositions itself, reforms, democratizes and stabilizes itself anew.”

- Mario Tronti, “Our Operaismo” (via quotemarx)

mmm, more Italian Autonomists.

villagedog: Totem animal #137 Scott Alario, Rupee and...

Tue, 22 May 2012 10:10:56 -0400

villagedog:

Totem animal #137

Scott Alario, Rupee and Stars

http://www.scottalario.com/

True For Tuesday: Dogs are full of stars.

I watched this fight about 7 times in a row. Especially this...

Tue, 22 May 2012 01:57:15 -0400

I watched this fight about 7 times in a row.

Especially this sequence. Dang.

On "Literally"

Mon, 21 May 2012 23:21:00 -0400

distorte:

I’m wrong because people have been misusing the word for a couple of hundred years instead of a couple of years?

No, NOT misusing but using one of the established meanings of the word.

By the late 17th century, though, literally was being used as an intensifier for true statements. The Oxford English Dictionary cites Dryden and Pope for this sense; Jane Austen, in Sanditon, wrote of a stormy night that, “We had been literally rocked in our bed.” In these examples, literally is used for the sake of emphasis alone. Eventually, though, literally began to be used to intensify statements that were themselves figurative or metaphorical. The earliest examples I know of are from the late 18th century, and though there are examples throughout the 19th century—often in prominent works; to my earlier examples could be added choice quotations from James Fenimore Cooper, Thackeray, Dickens, and Thoreau, among many others—no one seems to have objected to the usage until the early 20th century.

AND MORE ON THAT HERE.

It goes on to explain some grief over not misuse, but ABUSE of one of the actual understood (!) meanings of “literally” and then classifies the word with several similar ones meaning two opposite things:

There are many such words, and they arise through various means. Called “Janus words,” “contranyms,” or “auto-antonyms,”

And how, for some reason, people never criticize “really” when it’s often used the same two ways as “literally”

and of course examples are always fun:

such “abuses” have a long and esteemed history in English. The ground was not especially sticky in Little Women when Louisa May Alcott wrote that “the land literally flowed with milk and honey,”nor was Tom Sawyer turning somersaults on piles of money when Twain described him as “literally rolling in wealth,” nor was Jay Gatsby shining when Fitzgerald wrote that “he literally glowed,” nor were Bach and Beethoven squeezed into a fedora when Joyce wrote in Ulysses that a Mozart piece was “the acme of first class music as such, literally knocking everything else into a cocked hat.” Such examples are easily come by, even in the works of the authors we are often told to emulate.

Please do click and read and come. the fuck. off it. so that yknow, let’s lay this debate to rest finally and all you strict grammar whiners can go cry about something else that makes you feel superior I guess.

"You want to reappropriate life for yourselves? In the meantime, destroy the bosses that are in you,..."

Mon, 21 May 2012 17:07:01 -0400

“

You want to reappropriate life for yourselves?

In the meantime, destroy the bosses that are in you, destroy the capitalistic characteristics within you. Destroy yourselves as our bosses. Destroy yourselves as the inexhaustible vacuums of our domestic labor.†

”

- from «Le operaie della casa», June-July, ‘76

†Yes, vaccuums. Vacuum cleaners. Aspiratori. (As in, that which gobbles up without limit.) A remarkable line, as it figures men both as the endless void that swallows up unpaid labor and as the very tool – the industrially produced machine – that’s part of that labor, which allegedly “lightens the load” and “makes housework a breeze!” No, not a breeze. A tremendous sucking of time.

(via e-schatology)

oh love those Italian Autonomistas.

citywingtsun: Joseph gears up for Lat Sau. love this photo of...

Mon, 21 May 2012 14:33:49 -0400

citywingtsun:

Joseph gears up for Lat Sau.

love this photo of my sidai Joseph. We have a habit of making each other bleed on each others’ shirts on Saturdays….

petersheik: peterwknox: rachelfershleiser: barackobama: Clear...

Mon, 21 May 2012 14:30:46 -0400

petersheik: peterwknox: rachelfershleiser: barackobama:

Clear eyes, full hearts.

I want to make out with Barack Obama’s social media director.

Yup.

Strategically cropped photo of the President playing catch with a Predator drone.

Obama drops back to pass. Fakes left. Fakes left. Fakes left. Fakes left. Fakes left. Fakes left. Fakes left. Fakes left. Fakes left. (joke originally by @homework_liker on Twitter. I think).
And all you “Oooh the Obama social media!” people make me wanna fucking vomit.

In Prust We Trust Prust got suspended a game… I...

Mon, 21 May 2012 14:12:48 -0400

In Prust We Trust

Prust got suspended a game… I don’t necessarily object to the decision as much as I object to the apparent extra scrutiny the Rangers have received. Many other hits this playoffs have been about as borderline as Prust’s (Ovechkin’s from last round immediately springs to mind…). A little consistency would be nice.

OK, Let’s Do This.

Chris Kreider’s goal celebrations are easily my favorite...

Sat, 19 May 2012 09:33:00 -0400

Chris Kreider’s goal celebrations are easily my favorite so far this post-season.

OK, Let’s do this.