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Angelo Puglisi at 11, at 41
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Aron Silverman at 17, at 31
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Brian Page at 17, at 49
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Christopher Temple at 18, at 35
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Edward Nye at 15, at 43
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Eugene Martin at 14, at 36
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Gabriel Minarcin at 11, at 35
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Jamie Lusher at 16, at 30
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John Katsilieris at 17, at 39
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Louis Mackerley at 7, at 30
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Mark Wilson at 13, at 52
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Mitchel Weiser at 17, at 50
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Nicholas Plaza at 5, at 11
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Norman Prater at 17, at 50
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Randy Pascale at 10, at 38
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Reagen Uden at 10, at 22
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Samuel Rawls at 17, at 36
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Scott C. Fandel at 13, at 42
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Taj Narbonne at 10, at 35
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Thomas Roberts at 13, at 24
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Christopher Daigle at 17, at 22
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Kevin Hicks at 16, at 33
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Zachary Bernhardt at 10, at 17
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Damien Nettles at 17, at 35
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Lucius Holt at 7, at 14
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Chris Dorley-Brown at 6, at 16
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Christian Glen Hall at 15, at 25
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Russell Mort at 2 1/2, at 34
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John Haynes at 19, at 43
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Jonathan Camacho at 12, at 26
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Ruben Humberto at 14, at 27
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Johnny Gosch at 12, at 42
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Ben Needham at 21 months, at 22
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Joe Pilcher at 19, at 27
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Sky Metalwala at 2, at 5
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Scott Kleeschulte at 9, at 24
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Steven Carter at 1, at 26
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p.s. Hey. I guess you know what happened over here yesterday. I guess I'll say whatever there is to say about that in the course of the p.s. ** David Ehrenstein, Hi. Ha ha, nice Bernhard quote, yeah. Baraka worked at the 8th Street Bookshop? Wow. ** Cobaltfram, Hi, John. It was definitely weird here yesterday, and yet life went on almost as usual, which was weird too, but with an edge. Bernhard is one the absolute super greats, I think. No, I think 'Inherent Vice' opens here in about a week and a half? ** Keaton, Did he? Did not know that. It makes me like him more. I don't know why. Writing while having the freakies works for me sometimes, or the right kind of freakies. I bet yours are the right kind. ** Tosh Berman, Ha ha, Blogger's spellcheck just corrected your name to Tosh Bermuda. I've met writers who don't like Bernhard, but they weren't interesting writers. Yeah, Benjamin was and still must be a huge Bernhard loving guy. You can feel the love in his prose. I see the rightward swing too, yeah, but I also see the resistance to that rising steadily and intensely. It's going to be scary for a while until we see. ** Dooflow, Hi, dooflow! Really awesome to see you! So good, that paragraph, right? Like paranormally good. How are you? ** Steevee, I'm guessing you respected the reasons that Cineaste had for asking you for the rewrite? Mm, I can see why you'd reference 'South Park', but ... only in a way. There's no equivalent in the States to Charlie Hebdo. Well, absolutely zero surprise that people are leaping to accusations of racism, etc. against the victims. That's the easy, trendily PC way to not have to actually think about it and to have an opinion at the same time, and, of course, most people insist on having a very strong opinion/take on everything within minutes of a thing happening. It blows my mind always that people can't spend even an hour or several accepting that they don't understand something and doing the work of investigating it, its context, etc., and contemplating the thing's complexity before spouting off in public about it as if stating an opinion were a time-based contest or something. I've never read Charlie Hebdo. It's a leftist satirical magazine that's been around since the late 60s. Its targets have always been power figures who want to restrict freedom of expression, and religious leaders of all stripes who push and proselytize for that restriction are frequent subjects of its satire. Its satire is quite crude and intended to bite/ provoke/ shock. They're very well known for that here. Its editorial stance is anti-racism and against the anti-immigrant sentiment. I haven't read David Peace, no. I don't know why. I guess I always had this idea that his thing wouldn't interest me, I don't know exactly. I'll check him out.** Dan, Hi, Dan! HNY to you! Oh, shit, I'll write to Carrie. Sorry, the film editing I'm doing has eaten my attention span. I'll write to her before I head off today. Sorry. ** Sypha, Hi, James. I don't know Ligotti's stuff very well at all, but, from what I do know, it makes sense to me that he would be a Bernhard fan. Mm, yeah, I see what you mean about your work's relationship to genre, but you have such a unique and personal and original take, view, style, and way of writing that I think you totally transcend that category even when you're working in some way closely with a genre's strictures. ** Bill, Hi. Yeah, You should see my screen. Hm, entry point to Bernhard ... mine was 'Concrete' and then 'Correction'. They sold me big time, so maybe one of them? I've always been very curious, no surprise, to know what the Chinese translation of 'Frisk' is like. You never looked at that, did you? Only one person I've come across read it, and they said it was strangely quite good. ** Etc etc etc, Hi. That's funny 'cos I came to Gaddis via Bernhard. Interesting. I've never been headlong fascinated by Glenn Gould's work, although I think he's very interesting, obviously. The editing progresses. Paris is pretty weird but functioning normally as of this morning anyway. ** Gregoryedwin, Cool, yeah, Bernhard, whoa. Yeah, I'm perfectly fine. I was ... well, I'll tell my little tale in my day report to Kier. What happened is extremely shocking and very complicated. Oh, do take me up on the offer. I would love to do the blog's little part in ushering the book into the public. ** Misanthrope, Wait and seem, eh? Okay, gotcha, makes sense. I do the Zinc/Vitamin C thing when I get sick and, when I'm lucky, as I feel sickness coming on too. I don't get sick very much, so I guess you could say I'm sold on that method. You're still warmer than Paris is right now if that comforts. ** Rewritedept, Hi. No, Paris is going on as usual on the surface at least. The metro was shut down for a while right after it happened. A bunch of public events were cancelled. There were giant rallies here last night in support of Charlie Hebdo and pro-freedom of expression in general. But I haven't been out yet today, so we'll see. My week has been work-filled but fine. Yesterday was weird, obviously. That's cool about the Lizzy Mercier reissues. She was such a strange, unique artist. Hope your Thursday ...what do they say ... rules the roost. ** Kier, Hi. When I was doing my regular hunt on the master/slave sites for slaves today, I came across a slave whose name was Kierfan. I don't like sweet teas either, yuck. Definitely, if the drawing isn't happening, switch mediums. I do that all the time when my writing fails me. Those pastries were very yum. The green is macha, very delicious. Mostly, I'm sort of meh about birthdays, but now that my age is scarily in the higher numbers, all a birthday means to me is that I have one year less ahead of me, and I really hate that. Yesterday, well, ... So, I took the metro to Zac's. It appears that I exited at metro station near Zac's at the very moment the murders were happening. The Charlie Hebdo offices are literally a few blocks from where I exited. But everything seemed normal. I walked two blocks in the opposite direction to Zac's. We had a coffee and got to work editing. Then he got a text from his cousin asking if he was okay, and we paused editing and opened the Le Monde website to see what was up, and we saw what had happened. So we spent the day partly editing and partly watching the event unfold online. It was weird. The metro was shut down for a while, and I thought I might have to walk home, but it was up and running by the time I left, and everything seemed normal but tense. Then, really, the rest of the day was pretty involved in following what was happening. There was a really giant demonstration/show of support rally a few blocks from the Recollets, but I didn't go. Gisele did. She said it was pretty intense. So, yeah, that was my day. Back to editing and seeing what happens about the murders today. Your Thursday was presumably a little less dramatic and ... ? Love, me. ** Okay. Another formerly dead post today that doesn't seem to need any introduction. See you tomorrow.
Angelo Puglisi at 11, at 41
Aron Silverman at 17, at 31
Brian Page at 17, at 49
Christopher Temple at 18, at 35
Edward Nye at 15, at 43
Eugene Martin at 14, at 36
Gabriel Minarcin at 11, at 35
Jamie Lusher at 16, at 30
John Katsilieris at 17, at 39
Louis Mackerley at 7, at 30
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Mark Wilson at 13, at 52
Mitchel Weiser at 17, at 50
Nicholas Plaza at 5, at 11
Norman Prater at 17, at 50
Randy Pascale at 10, at 38
Reagen Uden at 10, at 22
Samuel Rawls at 17, at 36
Scott C. Fandel at 13, at 42
Taj Narbonne at 10, at 35
Thomas Roberts at 13, at 24
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Christopher Daigle at 17, at 22
Kevin Hicks at 16, at 33
Zachary Bernhardt at 10, at 17
Damien Nettles at 17, at 35
Lucius Holt at 7, at 14
Chris Dorley-Brown at 6, at 16
Christian Glen Hall at 15, at 25
Russell Mort at 2 1/2, at 34
John Haynes at 19, at 43
Jonathan Camacho at 12, at 26
Ruben Humberto at 14, at 27
Johnny Gosch at 12, at 42
Ben Needham at 21 months, at 22
Joe Pilcher at 19, at 27
Sky Metalwala at 2, at 5
Scott Kleeschulte at 9, at 24
Steven Carter at 1, at 26
*
p.s. Hey. I guess you know what happened over here yesterday. I guess I'll say whatever there is to say about that in the course of the p.s. ** David Ehrenstein, Hi. Ha ha, nice Bernhard quote, yeah. Baraka worked at the 8th Street Bookshop? Wow. ** Cobaltfram, Hi, John. It was definitely weird here yesterday, and yet life went on almost as usual, which was weird too, but with an edge. Bernhard is one the absolute super greats, I think. No, I think 'Inherent Vice' opens here in about a week and a half? ** Keaton, Did he? Did not know that. It makes me like him more. I don't know why. Writing while having the freakies works for me sometimes, or the right kind of freakies. I bet yours are the right kind. ** Tosh Berman, Ha ha, Blogger's spellcheck just corrected your name to Tosh Bermuda. I've met writers who don't like Bernhard, but they weren't interesting writers. Yeah, Benjamin was and still must be a huge Bernhard loving guy. You can feel the love in his prose. I see the rightward swing too, yeah, but I also see the resistance to that rising steadily and intensely. It's going to be scary for a while until we see. ** Dooflow, Hi, dooflow! Really awesome to see you! So good, that paragraph, right? Like paranormally good. How are you? ** Steevee, I'm guessing you respected the reasons that Cineaste had for asking you for the rewrite? Mm, I can see why you'd reference 'South Park', but ... only in a way. There's no equivalent in the States to Charlie Hebdo. Well, absolutely zero surprise that people are leaping to accusations of racism, etc. against the victims. That's the easy, trendily PC way to not have to actually think about it and to have an opinion at the same time, and, of course, most people insist on having a very strong opinion/take on everything within minutes of a thing happening. It blows my mind always that people can't spend even an hour or several accepting that they don't understand something and doing the work of investigating it, its context, etc., and contemplating the thing's complexity before spouting off in public about it as if stating an opinion were a time-based contest or something. I've never read Charlie Hebdo. It's a leftist satirical magazine that's been around since the late 60s. Its targets have always been power figures who want to restrict freedom of expression, and religious leaders of all stripes who push and proselytize for that restriction are frequent subjects of its satire. Its satire is quite crude and intended to bite/ provoke/ shock. They're very well known for that here. Its editorial stance is anti-racism and against the anti-immigrant sentiment. I haven't read David Peace, no. I don't know why. I guess I always had this idea that his thing wouldn't interest me, I don't know exactly. I'll check him out.** Dan, Hi, Dan! HNY to you! Oh, shit, I'll write to Carrie. Sorry, the film editing I'm doing has eaten my attention span. I'll write to her before I head off today. Sorry. ** Sypha, Hi, James. I don't know Ligotti's stuff very well at all, but, from what I do know, it makes sense to me that he would be a Bernhard fan. Mm, yeah, I see what you mean about your work's relationship to genre, but you have such a unique and personal and original take, view, style, and way of writing that I think you totally transcend that category even when you're working in some way closely with a genre's strictures. ** Bill, Hi. Yeah, You should see my screen. Hm, entry point to Bernhard ... mine was 'Concrete' and then 'Correction'. They sold me big time, so maybe one of them? I've always been very curious, no surprise, to know what the Chinese translation of 'Frisk' is like. You never looked at that, did you? Only one person I've come across read it, and they said it was strangely quite good. ** Etc etc etc, Hi. That's funny 'cos I came to Gaddis via Bernhard. Interesting. I've never been headlong fascinated by Glenn Gould's work, although I think he's very interesting, obviously. The editing progresses. Paris is pretty weird but functioning normally as of this morning anyway. ** Gregoryedwin, Cool, yeah, Bernhard, whoa. Yeah, I'm perfectly fine. I was ... well, I'll tell my little tale in my day report to Kier. What happened is extremely shocking and very complicated. Oh, do take me up on the offer. I would love to do the blog's little part in ushering the book into the public. ** Misanthrope, Wait and seem, eh? Okay, gotcha, makes sense. I do the Zinc/Vitamin C thing when I get sick and, when I'm lucky, as I feel sickness coming on too. I don't get sick very much, so I guess you could say I'm sold on that method. You're still warmer than Paris is right now if that comforts. ** Rewritedept, Hi. No, Paris is going on as usual on the surface at least. The metro was shut down for a while right after it happened. A bunch of public events were cancelled. There were giant rallies here last night in support of Charlie Hebdo and pro-freedom of expression in general. But I haven't been out yet today, so we'll see. My week has been work-filled but fine. Yesterday was weird, obviously. That's cool about the Lizzy Mercier reissues. She was such a strange, unique artist. Hope your Thursday ...what do they say ... rules the roost. ** Kier, Hi. When I was doing my regular hunt on the master/slave sites for slaves today, I came across a slave whose name was Kierfan. I don't like sweet teas either, yuck. Definitely, if the drawing isn't happening, switch mediums. I do that all the time when my writing fails me. Those pastries were very yum. The green is macha, very delicious. Mostly, I'm sort of meh about birthdays, but now that my age is scarily in the higher numbers, all a birthday means to me is that I have one year less ahead of me, and I really hate that. Yesterday, well, ... So, I took the metro to Zac's. It appears that I exited at metro station near Zac's at the very moment the murders were happening. The Charlie Hebdo offices are literally a few blocks from where I exited. But everything seemed normal. I walked two blocks in the opposite direction to Zac's. We had a coffee and got to work editing. Then he got a text from his cousin asking if he was okay, and we paused editing and opened the Le Monde website to see what was up, and we saw what had happened. So we spent the day partly editing and partly watching the event unfold online. It was weird. The metro was shut down for a while, and I thought I might have to walk home, but it was up and running by the time I left, and everything seemed normal but tense. Then, really, the rest of the day was pretty involved in following what was happening. There was a really giant demonstration/show of support rally a few blocks from the Recollets, but I didn't go. Gisele did. She said it was pretty intense. So, yeah, that was my day. Back to editing and seeing what happens about the murders today. Your Thursday was presumably a little less dramatic and ... ? Love, me. ** Okay. Another formerly dead post today that doesn't seem to need any introduction. See you tomorrow.