We make Granite "Affordable"
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I guess "affordable" is a moving target. Thanks Genevieve and Eric.
3 hours ago
So in 1998 this movie The Last Days of Disco came out and I thought, I'd like to see that. Twelve years later I got around to it. So good. It's the third movie in Whit Stillman's unofficial "yuppie trilogy". The other two are Metropolitan and Barcelona. These are the only movies he's made. Last night I watched Metropolitan. The writing is so great in these movies. Both also include the very funny Chris Eigeman, whom you might remember from Gilmore Girls and Malcolm in the Middle.
Yr another pussy Gallagher. Don't you have some watermelons to smash, or firehose to spray? rules of conduct will do for slate. or salon. or yr favorite lesbian democrat site. Not beat lit.
You think this is like about civility and appeasing the cafe-ahhtistes? Its not, puto. Its about like rage, and glory and not going gently into that not-so-good night, punk. Kerouac on a flatbed. Jack London in alaska. Conrad on a steamer. Dostoyevsky in prison.
Literature not merely for spinsters, or drama queens, haiku-weavers or Sylvia Plath basketcases. If it is, fuck the shit. Capichay?
John: I would have said yes, you are being a little deliberately over-sensitive, except that I note, for instance, that you've posted a picture of a condom applicator on your site. In my book, that's in very poor taste.
—Curtis Faville
I just received an email from Ron Silliman. The situation appears to be more disconcerting than I’d imagined.
In regards to the disappearance of the archive of tens of thousands of comments sent to his blog over the past eight years, many of them grouped in extensive and sometimes insightful discussions around various themes and authors, and many of them contributions polemical, anecdotal, bibliographical, idiosyncratical, etc., from dozens of poets and critics of note, and many others of them from dozens of poets likely to be of greater note down the road:
That he hasn’t “thought about saving them.”
This is truly, breathtakingly, extraordinary.
Kent [Johnson]