A REFLECTION, HARVEY. A REFLECTION.
EVERYBODY RUN, IT'S AN OPEN THREAD!!!!!!!
Speaking of the abyss, I just booked a cross country (half of it anyway) train trip for myself and a ten-year-old boy. I was figuring on saving hundreds over flying, but honestly I'm not sure it will be worth it.
Is x. trapnel about? We'll be in Vienna April 21-23. And londoners April 15-19, based v near Liverpool street station. Meet ups, perhaps?
Also this can help ward off despair: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3xJFuZD5CvA
enjoy!
Rule 34 is more comprehensive than I had thought.
Butterfly WITH A BOMB https://youtu.be/HAaFUoiOM-Y
Face your inevitable doom! Doom I say!
James Howard Kunstler is still alive? I thought he'd gone to a farm upstate with Stirling Newberry, that Kos guy and the other prophets of the Internet, when it was going to save us from George W. Bush.
This is dynamite. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/mar/30/wealth-banks-google-facebook-society-economy-parasites?CMP=share_btn_tw
In my mind, I'm seeing those kitten tattoos!
Kunstler! Truly we're living through the Third Bush Administration. We're young again!
15: better than that; not only Kunstler but also Orlov, Clutcher of Kittens!
Moronic or not, I encourage the sentiment as a necessary counter to all the shit flung about poor people getting a free ride.
And anyway, if you're going to read op-ed pieces, you're signing up for moronic drivel. It seems unfair to single that one out.
This piece was a good concept, but Bannon should have been the groundskeeper.
20: well, that's why I don't tend to read op-ed pieces. I didn't single that one out for criticism - roger did.
And londoners April 15-19, based v near Liverpool street station. Meet ups, perhaps?
Not likely for me, I'm afraid. I'm going to be out of town for most of that time-frame. Maybe if it's relatively early on the Monday.
Somebody should do a book club on
this book so I can learn what it says without having to read it. Apparently, the creative class is assholes so urban revitalization will be patchy.
The guy lived in Pittsburgh and wrote optimistic stuff about the future of cities, then moved to Canada and now writes depressing stuff about the future of cities. Possibly Canada is worse than I figured.
It seems really unlikely that somehow the Pittsburgh creative class is nicer than whatever exists in Toronto.
15 Who needs democracy this time around anyway? As long as I get me my whisky and sexy I'm set.
I see the term crucesignatus.
You need to sew it on your shoulder.
Has anyone read 26 or the author's previous? It sounds kind of trite. "Inequality and segregation are problems". No shit.
Is it wrong of me to admit I'm totally crushing on Saffiyah Khan?
33: I have not, but you hear a lot about it.
You know who else you hear about? James C.Scott. Turns out everything he has to say is in the introduction.
I thought Edge City was quite good.
Anyway, cities really take a lot of getting used to, but it's really hard to go back to the farm once you do.
The Waiting City was so bad I quit in under 10 minutes.
16th is Easter Day right? I am working then, next to Kings Cross, but would happily meet for a drink in the evening
A thing about Roc North (and I assume Roc Elsewhere, but haven't seen much of it) is that bits of farm pop up everywhere. Vacant lots always have plots planted on them, a lot of rooftops the same.
Some of the rooftop stuff is just weeds growing in gutters, or fig trees growing in cracks, but most of it is vegetable garden. I think someone two buildings down has actual maize growing.
I think "bits of farm" are called "gardens."
Corn is only $3.60/bushel. You'd need a really big gutter to make any money at it.
Most of the flat land here has cities on it.
If the KMT had applied themselves, they would have had more room to spread out.
Probably a majority of the old people I see sitting around or picking up kids grew up on farms.
But then they might not have seen the potential in microelectronics.
I don't think the majority of old people I see grew up on farms. Quite a few people still own farmland, but only one guy really farms.
Do they grow stuff in their gutters?
I remember Dark City as being good, but might despise it today. Except that I still have a crush on Jennifer Connelly.
Modern blogs are grown in the cloud. I bet kids today don't even know how to run a cable down a drainpipe.
56 isn't the best Moby, so I'm going to ignore it.
The important thing is that when the poor rebel and eat the rich, they only eat the super rich and not the modern kulak as that includes too many people I'm related to.
I don't think the kulaks live in Manhattan.
I doubt the super-rich have the numbers to defend the entire shoreline.
42: I can come into London on Sunday evening.
My timetable has firmed up a bit. It's basically Monday daytime/early evening for me, unless you fancy watching the Tall Ships parade with my family at 5pm on Sunday in Deptford.
re: London
I'll see what I can do. Liverpool Street is easy enough from my office, but I'm in the low countries 19th/20th so may have childcare commitments on the Monday.
But if I can make it, I will.
Won't somebody think of the children? Oh. Nevermind.
I mailed you at the sig address, DQ, but it bounced.
special guest appearance of functional email address in this sig line! here's the dairy queen et entourage rough itinerary - - -
arrive london saturday, staying near the hawksmoor church. saturday pretty loose right now. sunday have tix to white devil at sam wannamaker am soooooo excited! stabbings! poisoning! betrayal all over the damn place!!! woo hooo! sunday daytime pretty free. monday have tix to royal academy show of commie art in morning and then contemplating visit to dennis server house in evening - opinions??? tuesday no set plans then taking the train-boat-train to amsterday overnight, so leaving liverpool street station in evening. there will be shopping tho, have you seen the exchange rate? definitely getting a very small gentleman of my acquaintance a flamboyant liberty shirt, at which point there may be a diversion towards the perfume counter ...
In amsterdam wed and thur ttaM! we could buy you a drink or some such if your low countries trip includes amsterdam, altho would be hilarious to put your presumably small kid next to my gigantic one in london ... at any rate, there's the amsterdam leg.
then in vienna the end of the week and weekend, sig other has meeting with schoenberg people that i will not be attending sorry sweetie don't share same level of commitment to arnold, and we have tix to die zauberflote at the volks oper saturday (also immensely exciting, and have ridiculous new dress to wear although suitably absurd shoes still stubbornly elusive), otherwise as-yet-unscheduled mooching about, so would be nice to meet up with trapnel and perhaps others if poss - ?
next up is an insane dash to cornwall involving two overnight trains at which point i put up my feet in one of mother in law's chintz armchairs and collapse into recuperative knitting for a few days. then home.
Oh, weird. I'm in Amsterdam Wednesday too. I'll be at a conference all day, unfortunately.
Also, the Hawksmoor church? The Spitalfields one, I guess?
Yes, near Liverpool st station, the other's aren't near there don't think, but we are reasonably gadaboutable.
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