Gabriel Orozco, Cats and Watermelons (1992)

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Scorsese Friday Leftovers

"I don't believe that someone should devote himself to morbid self-attention; I believe that someone should become a person, like other people." -Travis Bickle

"What does that mean?"

(Raging Bull, 1980)

Facebook Authoritarian

Consider the Lobster

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City of Dreadful Night

"Right—frugal brainwashed Obamabots, then? Not so, fast, our reporter cautions: “Paradoxically, they are also more cynical about public institutions and, arguably, about life, embracing the European notion that success is more about luck than effort.” Good Lord—it’s worse than we feared; the recession’s bred a generation of Europeans on our own shores! If nothing else, that explains the disturbing weakness among today’s youth for crappy club music."

[Chris Lehmann, on a budding generation--The Awl]

McGurty

"Everybody gets pitchforks"

"The possibility of gay abandonment"

Very much still alive. Details to come on the nature of my whereabouts or whatever, but probably post my journey back to the Burgh, aka Monday. For now, something I just can't contain a minute longer lest I might explode: my megacrush on Rachel Maddow, but only when she wears the sexy blue glasses she wore on Letterman the other night. I'm talkin' to you, Rachel Maddow.