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I’m not even going to get started. Another day, perhaps, but not today.
Aw, honey, why not? Why don’t you leave a link to one of your articles the way doggie make doo on paper?
Then, why even comment? You already started but you typed you weren’t even going to start.
Because there are people who expect me to comment on this.
who expects you to comment on this? Come on man…why don’t you just beg the editor to let you in?
I actually suspected FMA would do something like this. Believing that he would be expected to comment, his first impulse would obviously be to refrain from doing so. But this would not allow everyone to know that he knew that they knew he would do this. So he would then come to the realization that he should comment only to say that he is commenting, and is aware that people expected him to do so, which he in fact is, but on his own terms, not theres. A brilliant maneuver, really. Genius, when you think about it, as I have, at great length, as I’m sure most of us have, lying in bed at night fucking sweating with longing for just one more motherfucking comment from this Godbrain among puny manbrains.
sort of a roundabout way of saying “first” I guess
If you want to look at it that way, I suppose. I meant it as more of a “I know you guys expect me to start this discussion, but I’m sorry to disappoint.”
We’re off to Never Never Land Ohhhhhh!
best thing you could’ve done was to type nothing. turn the other cheek, as the good book says.
“best thing you could’ve done was to type nothing”
You’re probably right.
“turn the other cheek, as the good book says.”
Not really what that means, but I get your point.
Anyway, unless there’s an interesting post later today, then I wish you all a fine weekend.
yeah, I know, but I’ve had the flu all week and can’t be bothered with thinking.
enjoy the weekend and don’t get the flu.
This got me into metal: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVehcCuwZeA
No links today?
Well, I’ll jump in, then, and say hurray for the godless! Metal provides a nice community where we can be out and proud.
Indeed. I don’t think my Fall from Grace (hahahaha) would of happened quite the same way without Metal.
oh come on FMA don’t disappoint yr public
My admiration for McSorely and Cobalt only increases after reading this: Anatole France is superb; after Thais, be sure to give Penguin Island- about Antarctic penguins who anthropomorphise after a senile monk baptizes them- a look.
The Mediocre Man is a text I’ve been meaning to track down, and so Archaios gets added to my list of bands to check up on.
Met Daniel Ekeroth @ MDF in 2010. Dude probably has the best early 90’s longsleeve collection ever.
I too am interested in metal fashion. collections what have you.
Anatole France is little known? He wrote some of the best selling books of his time and I think he was even won the Nobel Prize, if not just nominated for one.
Ask the next 5,000 people you meet if they’ve heard of him. Famous in 1912 isn’t the same as famous in 2012.
He’s still famous among Francophones and here and there in the rest of Europe. But most Americans haven’t even heard of him.
I love this article series. The second instalment was probably the best (as in, had the most artists I’m into/interestingly written pieces), but the Cobalt guy certainly makes Thais sound interesting. Going to order that and Powderhouse, Dave Hunt’s recommendation from the previous one, soon.
Hitchens and Hawking are kind of obvious choices, but not bad at all anyways.
RIP, HITCH. If you guys aren’t familiar, I highly recommend Hitchens’ “Arguably:Essays by C. Hitchens”. It gives him a springboard into all sorts of topics and is laugh out loud funny. Also “Collision”, his DVD, but I’m sure you’re all aware. I will check out Anatole France, looks good.
@FMA: I’m not a believer, but I respect a dude willing to lay it down for his beliefs, so “Illegitimi non carborundum”. Enjoy your blog.
“This is a book that forces you to think . . .” Well put, man. Nothing like being coerced into your beliefs to steer you away from Christianity. Seriously, one of my favorite things in the world is when people have no sense of irony about the fact that they’ve got real, true FAITH, talking the very same stuff Ned Flanders has, except the people who make me laugh’s faith lies in the belief that there is no god. Of course, god is just an institution created by humans that has pervaded as long, and as mysteriously, as man has; and of course “god” is nothing more than an hodgepodge of different religions and rituals, going all the way back to Plato’s Cavemen and even further, back when people would only pray when they went on dangerous sea expeditions, but never when they were just taking a stroll down to the stream for a couple of fish (sound familiar?), which in those days were probably of such an abundance that one could catch a fish with merely her hands; I mean of course there is no god. That’s obvious, right? No one believes in god anymore. Think the most recent Harper’s Index said that atheism is up to like 27% in America. (Israel is one of the most atheistic countries in the world. Yeah, think about that.) But anyway, of course there’s no god. But why go around proselytizing it like it’s great news?
Nah, unfortunately only 8% of people in the USA say that they are atheists or agnostic. Compare that with the least religious country in the world, Sweden: 92% atheism and agnosticism.
Besides, the point isn’t to convince people there’s no god. It’s convince them that ideals like rationality, objectivity, and evidence are a better foundation for a civilized society than primitive folklore. Especially folklore that condones slavery, killing children for backtalk, and blood sacrifice.
If you need an example of why it’s worthwhile to continue to promote reason and logic, yesterday I read about legislation under debate in Georgia that would require some women to carry stillborn or dying fetuses to term, despite the risk of death it would pose to the mother. If someone can present a rational defense of this horrific, unconscionable proposal without invoking the Bible, I’d love to hear it.