(M) Chris Lott 2023-03-04 09:30:00
Or the consensus is just a lot of people around my age who became the Ben Stiller character and are trying to pretend it, and that bland role, doesn’t suck.
(M) Chris Lott 2023-03-04 09:22:45
Is there really a consensus that Winona Ryder ended up with the wrong person in Reality Bites? That is *such* a wrong take…and/or succinctly represents my wrongness in the world. Your choice. This deserves an essay, but this is all I got.
(M) Chris Lott 2023-03-04 07:45:05
Shameful. And it figures that (Alaskan) Jim Minnery, a cancerous societal cyst who I can’t share my full thoughts about due to server and community policies, with help from his fondler Gov. Dunceleavy, is at the rotten heart of it.
(M) Chris Lott 2023-03-02 17:24:54
Great article by @stancarey on "double negatives":
> Negative concord is not a flaw in the countless varieties of English that use it. It’s a systematic, age-old grammatical feature with pragmatic or expressive purpose. Double negatives generally only ‘cancel out’ in contexts where that intent is obvious, or in dubious fantasies of a more orderly tongue.
Check it out: https://stancarey.wordpress.com/2023/02/27/dont-never-tell-nobody-not-to-use-no-double-negatives/
(M) Chris Lott 2023-03-02 11:38:31
In this age of #entertainment abundance, why bother with negative #criticism (unless one has the chops to elevate it to a withering art form)? There's so much out there, I have no need to be told what *not* to take in. Just share the good stuff. I also find the fact that #critics believe (and thus make) themselves impervious to changing their minds, which is intrinsic to the wares they purvey, more than a little questionable. #music #tv
(M) Chris Lott 2023-03-02 10:06:59
Patriotism is distasteful to me. It's hard---maybe impossible---for me to embrace it. Yet I see people pushing for #liberals and #Democrats to enthusiastically voice their #patriotism there's going to be any hope of fighting the impending Republican theocracy. I get the #poltics of it as a strategy, but I'd be lying if I did so myself. Why does "patriotism" feel this way? Am I wrong?
(M) Chris Lott 2023-03-02 09:27:31
A recent USENET trawl revealed some of my earliest poems to be committed to public pixels. November 1990. Until I get my boxes of notebooks and papers from Alaska, these are likely the earliest writings I have access to. You have been warned. #poetry
(M) Chris Lott 2023-03-02 09:22:18
Just found some of my earliest USENET posts. Among them, in late 1990, was my effort to get a reading group started in the (already) chaotic climes of rec.arts.books -- my approach to the social net has at least had a few consistent threads from the beginning.
(M) Chris Lott 2023-03-01 15:24:56
The name "pork rinds" is kind of horrific when I think about it.