The unrinsed soap on society's taint
Brooklyn, Atl, various brinks
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Who cares what I think about the way young people be dressing?
The New York Times, apparently.
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Having worked for Canadians for two decades, I was much less scandalized to hear the FBI trying to crack down on dog fuckers in its ranks.
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Probably pareidolia but it’s hard to not read Oedipa Maas in Crying of Lot 49 as a direct caricature of Anais Nin circa Spy in the House of Love, just bumped back one Freudian stage of psychosexual development from ana(i)l to oral, same wayward wifeness, similar moon-thing.
Both exemplary portraits of that micro-decade after the 50s stopped being “The Fifties” & before the 60s became “The Sixties.”
Somewhere I have a list of all the reckless news items reported on 9/11 morning, when broadcast news was basically putting every phoned-in tip straight on the anchor’s desk. They include:
Other funny media memory from that day besides al Qaeda being shortlisted behind ETA, the PLO, & whichever IRA was still active post-Good Friday (C?) was the common sentiment that “that pussy Bush better not do nothing.” You can hear this in Stern’s 9/11 ep but it was everywhere.
Ties in with a thing I’ve tried to explain to friends under 40 that the biggest difference in America pre-9/11 was that basically no one worshipped cops or soldiers.
Or to regurgitate a point from an old substack:
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I wrote a meandering thing about “walking as spellcraft” & bailing on your life on substack.
Don’t worry, it’s as fruity as it sounds.
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My favorite memory of 9/11 was 2-3 hours in when a “terrorism expert” on one of the major networks claimed that the most credible perpetrator of the attacks was the Basque separatist group ETA.