What we talk about when we talk about...
Conner: Dad? Did you hear that?
Me: Hear what?
Conner: That siren with the ringing sound. Like an alarm.
Me: Uhh, no.
Conner: I'm serious, Dad. I wonder where it came from.
Me: If you're suggesting it came from the spider in the shower...
Conner: I'm serious, Dad. It's the most likely explanation for a sound like that. Monkey spiders always shriek just before they attack.
Dad, I'm serious. I reeaaaallly don't think I should go in there.
You don't want me to DIE, do you? What do you think will happen to me if I invade the territory of an angry monkey spider!?
...Well???
Me: (disinterested silence)
Conner: Dad, I can tell you're going to Twitter this. You're going to Twitter me dying in the shower from a monkey spider attack.
Me: It's awfully tempting, kiddo.
Jan 31st
How much are them boots again?
larry:
What about warped quotations?
joe:
things are commonplace, pictured often and generic
larry:
ah
joe:
my thesis is that by american standards i am a "regular"
i forgot why i am supposed to not like starbucks
or walmart
larry:
Their success, and the success of capitalism (in destroying democracy, critical judgement, and literacy) is in *everyone* forgetting why we were supposed not to like them.
joe:
"their" being the "administration"?
larry:
Well, substitutes thereof.
I just think it's natural - intended and foretold - that even those who originally knew THAT and WHY they didn't like corporate hegemony would eventually develop the amnesia of ubiquity and would acquiesce.
THE AMNESIA HAS YOU.
joe:
you think?
maybe
larry:
I do.
joe:
i am just saying i am going to shop where i can get the most for the money
i mean i dont mind paying $200 for a pair of boots but for half than that i can get a whole lot of groceries at the superwalmart
larry:
...as well you should. And we all do. But that pursuit has become central to what it means to be an American - and in America central to what it means to be alive.
How tragic that such is the landscape of options for thought now prevalent among us.
joe:
and in the summer the farmstands are plentiful but for right now 100 goes a long way at walmart
and we all do what we need to
Jan 30th