July 12, 2010
"In the end, glorification of splendid underdogs is nothing other than glorification of the splendid system that makes them so."

— Theodor Adorno

2:59pm  |   URL: http://easilydistracted.org/post/803003207/in-the-end-glorification-of-splendid-underdogs-is
May 28, 2010
"This loss of historical continuity in values and beliefs, taken together with the reduction of the work of art to a text stressing discontinuity and allegory, poses all kinds of problems for aesthetic and critical judgment. Refusing (and actively ‘deconstructing’) all authoritative or supposedly immutable standards of aesthetic judgment, postmodernism can only judge the spectacle in terms of how spectacular it is."

— David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity, p. 56-57

8:44am  |   URL: http://easilydistracted.org/post/640644611/this-loss-of-historical-continuity-in-values-and
(Notes: 8)
  
May 20, 2010
"In other words, [Rand Paul] prioritizes the property rights of whites who only had their property in the first place because of generations of government intervention on their behalf, over the human rights of people of color to be given equal opportunity."

— Tim Wise (via newleft)

4:45pm  |   URL: http://easilydistracted.org/post/617064242/in-other-words-rand-paul-prioritizes-the
(Notes: 28)
  
March 24, 2010

I, like an usurp’d town, to another due,
Labour to admit you, but O, to no end.
Reason, your viceroy in me, me should defend,
But is captived, and proves weak or untrue.
Yet dearly I love you, and would be loved fain,
But am betroth’d unto your enemy;
Divorce me, untie, or break that knot again,
Take me to you, imprison me, for I,
Except you enthrall me, never shall be free,
Nor ever chaste, except you ravish me.

11:54pm  |   URL: http://easilydistracted.org/post/471721240/i-like-an-usurpd-town-to-another-due-labour
February 9, 2010
Better Late Than Never

Well, somehow I missed my traditional winter quoting of Ezra Pound with the first nasty storm of the season, but as we’re heading into round 12839 of SnOMG 2010, the lack has become painfully glaring. Sing:

Winter is icumen in, 
Lhude sing Goddamm, 
Raineth drop and staineth slop, 
And how the wind doth ramm!
Sing: Goddamm. 
Skiddeth bus and sloppeth us, 
Freezeth river, turneth liver, 
An ague hath my ham. 
Damm you; Sing: Goddamm.
Goddamm, Goddamm, ‘tis why I am, Goddamm,
So ‘gainst the winter’s balm.
Sing goddamm, damm, sing goddamm, 
Sing goddamm, sing goddamm, DAMM.

7:55pm  |   URL: http://easilydistracted.org/post/380857184/better-late-than-never
February 9, 2010

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February 7, 2010
Famous Directors Direct the Superbowl.

1:42pm  |   URL: http://easilydistracted.org/post/376438571/famous-directors-direct-the-superbowl
January 31, 2010
"On Broadway ticket prices are continually rising and, ironically, as each season grows more disastrous, each season’s hit makes more money. As fewer and fewer people go through the doors, larger and larger sums cross the ticket office counter, until eventually one last millionaire will be paying a fortune for one private performance for himself alone."

— Peter Brook, The Empty Space

1:05pm  |   URL: http://easilydistracted.org/post/363490350/on-broadway-ticket-prices-are-continually-rising
January 27, 2010
thedailywhat: SOTU: Joe the Eagle. [twitpic.]

thedailywhat:

SOTU: Joe the Eagle.

[twitpic.]

10:57pm  |   URL: http://easilydistracted.org/post/357264511/thedailywhat-sotu-joe-the-eagle-twitpic
(Notes: 454)
  
January 22, 2010
"Under the majority’s view, I suppose it may be a First Amendment problem that corporations are not permitted to vote, given that voting is, among other things, a form of speech."

—

  • Justice Stevens

9:48am  |   URL: http://easilydistracted.org/post/347451008/under-the-majoritys-view-i-suppose-it-may-be-a