Eleanor Rigby

All the lonely people, where do they all come from?It just struck me today, they come from T.S. Eliot. He's the source of inspiration for this song. Never put that together before.

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Reagan as Race-baiter

The Conscience of a Liberal (Paul Krugman)– Clipping Loc. 1158-63 | Added on Sunday, December 30, 2007, 01:44 PM movement inevitably brought itself a much wider range of enemies. Enterprising politicians took notice. Ronald Reagan, who had opposed the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Act—calling the latter "humiliating to the South"—ran for governor of…

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Sportif

the thing about people being "kept"; the sportif clothes of Blaike Hairen (sp subverted) playing soccer that belied his martial arts bravado_ andd this in so many other spheres – the key to seeing the thing that is mediating experience , keeping us from an apprehension of reality in a country hijacked by a rapacious…

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very very smart

so say the associates of himbut one who at the false summitcould go no highercalled the mountain as veryvery highit's a bit meaningless, isn't itas if to claim the birdseyefor onesself.the claim should merelybe "smarter than me,as far as I can tell"

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Dream for Candy

Had a dream in which Sevi was begging to buy candy at a store, two kinds: Buzzies & Oyster Gods

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Movie: There Will Be Blood

Kind of good, kind of grows on me 24 hrs later. A feast of recognitions, from the manner of titles and opening chords right out the Shining as homage to Kubrick, to Murnau, to Sherwood Anderson to Terrence Malick to Cormac McCarthy, to Altman to I don't know, even Beckett toward the end. It was…

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