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This project is an informal discussion of modernism and postmodernism, ultimately to be applied to the larger Gothic Funk debate. A more detailed description of the project is available here. PLEASE ADD YOUR COMMENTS AND JOIN THE DEBATE:

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Thus Eliot’s The Waste Land makes the failure to integrate the multiple layers within Western culture the poem’s access to strange psychic states in which neurotic obsession borders on giving the mind access to the emotional conditions at the core of all self-transcending rituals.

– WEATHER – Today is beautiful and blue almost everywhere. Granted, the gulf coast is being drenched with a mild low moving over Florida, bringing rain all the way to Texas. And the relief is temporary; by Monday the eastern half of the nation will be hot, muggy, and stormy as ever this year.

Sorry guys, I’ve really just needed a little time to unwind. I’ll be back on stride soon.

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This project is an informal discussion of modernism and postmodernism, ultimately to be applied to the larger Gothic Funk debate. A more detailed description of the project is available here. PLEASE ADD YOUR COMMENTS AND JOIN THE DEBATE:

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Second, the poets develop collage techniques for intensifying that sense of productive immediacy: it becomes the spaces between images that offer the audience its access to the mode of spirit defined by the work.

– TOMORROW – is Canada Day.
– HAPPY BIRTHDAY – Yesterday – Reinhardt! Today – Aashish. Tomorrow – Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Dan Aykroyd, Missy Elliott, Sufjan Stevens, Liv Tyler. It’s a big day for people Connor admires…

– LINK OF THE WEEK –
Davey D’s Hip-Hop Corner: The New Source for the Hip-Hop Generation.

Gah! I hated this move! I hate it. Hate, hate, hate, hate, hate, hate, hate.

As in, I want to wash my eyes with soap for having taken the dumb thing in.

Spoiler: If the movie had just been the final shot of the kid, then it would’ve been a decent flick.

At the beginning of 2006, General Motors employed 10,400 workers in Flint (it’s all time high was around 80,000 in the 1970s).
At the end of 2006, that number will be 7,222.
Likewise, Delphi will fall from 2,550 to 1,050.

As you may have noticed, I haven’t been posting about personal life stuff this week (even though it’s been an above-average interesting week). So here’s the deal: Jess was understandably concerned that the minutae of our daily routine was floating around on the web, and I was understandably concerned that I had to edit out all the juicy stuff.

Hey guys.

So as you’ve probably guessed, I don’t have my encyclopedia with me today, meaning I am unable to post a sentence. Sorry that this has been more of a problem recently, and I’m also sorry that I haven’t posted a link to the full article yet.

– TODAY – is Stonewall day?
– HAPPY BIRTHDAY – The comic Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the political theorist Mel Brooks. And, why not?: John Cusack.

– PICTURE OF THE WEEK –
Finland Holiday Cottages – Sunset at Midsummer.

– QUESTION OF THE DAY –
What is your story of excruciating physical pain?