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What I'm reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Borlaug https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/12/23/the-intelligent-plant This is a thread to talk about: - The myth of homo sapien supremacy - The thesis that plants colonized humans, and use us to achieve reproduction at a massive...

Happy Birthday @nomos

History is just nature, so this is the proper board I think.

Have you heard it? It's a great song.

Important to have a list for posterity, that we can reference or make playlists from. This thread is NOT the place to list bands like: - The Beatles - Pink Floyd - Nirvana - Radiohead - The Velvet Underground This thread is MAYBE a place to list a band like: - Led Zeppelin Examples of a band...

Late hours real hours; mods asleep; let's go get em. The stuff I've really liked the last few years is vaguely doo-wop'y, vaguely Phil Spector Wall Of Sound, vaguely Ray Orbison. Great all-gal harmonies, slide guitars, really lush beautiful production, maybe an arpeggiator in there.

Most people who play Tetris have experienced the Tetris Effect: the blocks coming down before sleep sets in, a little micro-simulation of gamespace in closed-eye visuals And those who seriously game may have experienced other, similar “game transfer phenomena”—mild closed- or open-eye...

Not the book, the concept. You see thoughts about this in: Schelling, Goffman, Garfinkel; Gossip Girl, Jane Austen; Eric Berne, @Woebot's Retreat (has a chapter on games), Timothy Leary, Leonard Cohen's Favourite Game. Wittgenstein's & Lyotard's language games. Sontag, in "Aesthetics of...

What did I miss?

Does anyone know Richard Welsh?

Who's in?

It's March Madness boys. The world is our oyster.

One of the beautiful things about the American country tradition is its obsession with dreams—lost, thwarted, abandoned, foreclosed. You get this a bit in American singer-songwriters—Harry Chapin's the quintessential example—but it comes from country. Relatives, friends, town recluses who tried...

Together, we'll travel back in time to solve one of the greatest mysteries of the modern world: what the fuck happened in 1972? Bobby Fischer beats Boris Spassky at the Match of the Century, ending Soviet domination in chess. Richard Nixon is Time's Man of the Year. On August 4, one of the...

Customers demand Emotion Recollected in Tranquility. But that's a recipe for Dirty Bathwater Consommé, and, come the health inspectors, what's the chef gonna say? Canny neurotics long ago learned the value of (a pretense of) depersonalization, from Yeats's Hallowe'en masks and Eliot's "It's...

Are you happy you have them? Ok don't lie now, you're probably not happy, they take all your time, you resent them terribly. Tell it to Spendy now so he never wastes his time with those dreadful little creatures

Christian Bale as Alfred Borden & Fallon Hugh Jackman as Angiers, Lord Caldlow, the Great Danton, Root Michael Caine as John Cutter Scarlett Johansson as Olivia Rebecca Hall (Vicki Christina Barcelona) as Sarah Borden David Bowie as Nikola Tesla This is to Batman Begins (Bale/Caine) as Runaway...