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And if the man's not on time?

Watch. Listen. Feel. Attend carefully. What else is worth doing?

I wanna say thanks for this, too, http://www.monthlyreview.org/1207amin.htm Absorbing stuff.

Shite, yeah, sorry. That'll be the one. Should've got my reading off to a good start with a bit of name-checking. Yes, and no. I'm with Turtles on this one: access to information and the actual ability/nous to find the data is another. And I recall the presenting prof briefly discusses at the...

Glad it was appreciated, and yeah the tone is definitely don't worry, be happy. Though, the fundamental project of making info available/accessible can't be a bad thing despite the inevitable co-option - sponsered by BMW/Google tool bar et al. And out of thread, I know, but I wanna say...

This is interesting. Not sure about some of the conclusions along the way (albeit only suggested/nascent) but very worthwhile project - making public data available - and some rad graphics...

Yeh, I think its interesting too. The original piece I read gave a better account of how mortified the bouncer was. That bit of humiliation turned me off.

I've always had a bit of soft spot in my heart for a no real damage punch up, and I like the movies of Harmony Korine, but this is just fuckin whack - so to speak.. http://beebo.org/smackerels/fight-club.html My sympathies totally with the bouncer here. Korines' a moron to goad him in this way.

Ah, I get it now. Holy shit. Thanks for that. Here's a different sort of wave that I can't resist posting for sheer wtfness:

Hmm, all of what you say makes sense until you try and think just exactly what it means. 'The entire Pacific Ocean is behind that wave': So too the Haiwaian waves build their size and strength by being able to travel vast distances unimpeded across the Pacific. And are you sure about that right...

And thus does history repeat itself. (the 'talking to myself', that is) Anyway this post is what my ??? above was all about. Its all to do with the break innit? Meaning there's something particularly dangerous about this one that makes a wave dangerous. But what??? Give me a few more days...

Oh sure, hence the 'benign' ;) but it wouldn't hurt to give Swears some serious suggestions if the poor man really feels he has to work his way through the history of philosophy. Such as this... I expect that, like its predecessor, the writing will be somewhat stodgier than its subjects...

Interesting that wave looks very solid and powerful but nothing like the size of some of the Hawaian waves. What's so special about it? "Laird's anger management whisper' et al?

Theres a little bit of benign posturing going on with this list don ya think. Who is really going to read the canon without real pressure and support, not to mention aptitude. Moreover Neitzsche's own railing against attempts at mastery are particularly germane here. Here too... To which...

Bouvard and Pecuchet yes indeed, great book. Myself its: 'The Shia Revival' by Vali Nasr. A most fascinating primer on the Sunni/Shia divide that runs through Islam. The Shia's I have to say sound the more attractive with their emphasis on heart rather than legalism. (I simplify grossly). This...

Thats fucking hilarious. (Not to mention a turn of phrase I don't employ nearly enough in my daily round) Back to the book club: I will have a go at the chosen title, though, must confess, Mao ll would have been my stand out choice. Thank god it wasn't the Brothers Karamzov.

Mysteries of Austerlitz solved. Thank you Mr Tea. It was all a bad dream after a dust up and a bad kebab. What of the missing final scene: narrator wakes up, feels very grim. Vows never again to drink so much/eat crap kebabs/hang out with Austerlitz - 'who never stops going on, and only ever...

Great to see that some are going on to read Camera Lucida. Be warned you will not find it entirely seamless in its logic. Enjoy. I too have run out of steam on Austerlitz, for the moment, but it has inspired me to want to read Benjamin's, Berlin Childhood Around 1900 And in a nod to those...

Yes, and at the risk of more 'name dropping', albeit, the same name, this is exactly the ground of Camera Lucida. Rationality gives out in the search for the 'truth' of another/history/love, yet nonetheless this 'truth' emerges. Hence the 'impossible science', whose object of enquiry is...

Oh sorry, my bad, must be more pithier :D