66% of THE JO-TEL is “losing it Scalia style”

#24
This plate exists at my new apartment:
[Dear Readers,
I have delayed this post for about one month because I keep postponing figuring out how to transfer the photo that I took of the plate that is the subject of this post, which is somehow contained on my new camera, to my computer. I just […]

Inasmuch as you, Shark, and you, Patsy, have committed yourselves to each other in marriage, and have joined hands and exchanged sacred vows in the presence of these witnesses; by the authority vested in me - and more importantly by the strength of your love - I now pronounce you Husband and Wife. You […]

I had my last day of Spanish class last night, and after an hour, saying “lo siento pero tengo que irme,” I left and went to Trader Sam’s to meet up w/ Patsy and her teacher school friends. I had a couple margaritas, a couple shots, and a beer or two, and consequently I […]

Give me matter, and I will construct a world out of it!
-Kant
#24
Last weekend Patsy and I were supposed […]

If a lion could talk, we could not understand him.
-Wittgenstein.
#21
The key to Albain Renais’ 1962 existential skull-fuck Last Weekend at Marienbad is, I believe, the strange stick game that the hotel’s gaming dealer plays with the movie’s characters. Renais depicts the game in painstaking detail (even if it only shows up only three […]

I am not a man, I am dynamite.                                  -Nietzsche
#18
You know how the Buddhists talked about lust for material possessions being the root of all pain?  Well, they were obviously right, but also obviously too quick to formulate a holistic philosophy on this true but incomplete surmisal of everything.  What they forget […]

Germany has declared war on Russia. -Swimming in the afternoon.
-Kafka, journal entry August 2, 1914
#14
This odds-and-ends feature of mine used to be called “Varietals” on the old jo-tel. I am changing the name from “Varietals”, which is a word that yuppies use to describe different types of wine, to “Transvaluation of All Values”, which […]

For once to pose questions here with a hammer and perhaps to receive for answer that famous hollow sound which speaks of inflated bowels. […]

Re-read The Metamorphosis upon returning home and find it bad.
-Kafka

#5
So turns out that the words “going forward”, as used liberally by HR personnel, are two of the most pointless words you’ll ever hear. “The new TPS report cover page will greatly help us to improve administrative efficiency going forward.” Oh! Going forward! […]

Only a male intellect clouded by the sexual drive could call the stunted, narrow-shouldered, broad-hipped and short-legged sex the fair sex … More fittingly than the fair sex, women could be called the unaesthetic sex. Neither for music, nor poetry, nor the plastic arts do they possess any real feeling or receptivity; if they […]