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Post by Sanziana on Nov 30, 2017 3:30:08 GMT -5
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Post by Sanziana on Nov 30, 2017 3:32:01 GMT -5
 If these two make a movie together, it'll be a dream come true. |
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Post by songstarliner on Nov 30, 2017 20:57:23 GMT -5
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Post by Meth Lab Shenanigans on Nov 30, 2017 21:31:52 GMT -5
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Post by Lord Lucan on Dec 1, 2017 10:59:34 GMT -5
Meth Lab Shenanigans . That was the brief time Romney thought he could get something from Trump shortly after having made a very solemn, high-minded speech denouncing Trump’s indecency during the campaign and shortly before making another denouncing Trump’s indecency as president.
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Post by Lord Lucan on Dec 1, 2017 12:16:39 GMT -5
What I find a little psychologically curious about those who pursue high position pathologically is that they must do so at least in large part for the anticipated approbation they’ll command, and yet such craven and highly public self-abasement doesn’t thereby vitiate the value of the position if received in their estimation. I suppose they could expect the memory of it to recede in people overtime, but it still seems incoherent.
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Post by LazBro on Dec 1, 2017 13:00:36 GMT -5
What I find a little psychologically curious about those who pursue high position pathologically is that they must do so at least in large part for the anticipated approbation they’ll command, and yet such craven and highly public self-abasement doesn’t thereby vitiate the value of the position if received in their estimation. I suppose they could expect the memory of it to recede in people overtime, but it still seems incoherent. This has always been especially curious to me in the case of officeholders like Trump. That is, the super well-off. I recognize that this is thunderously naive, but I still am amazed that someone who needn't have a care in the world, who is fabulously wealthy, who is famous, who is actually pretty well liked (like it or not, The Apprentice was a hit and people did respect Donald Trump), who could take the world for an oyster, would throw it all away and go into politics. And into the highest position in the land. Look at Trump now. His life must suck. Everybody hates him, he's constantly on the defense, constantly embattled, everyone watching every little thing he does, questioning every thing he says, having to work long hours on shit that never would have affected his life. Yeah, his wallet might have gone up and down, but he'd still be a billionaire. The only explanation is pure ego. |
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Post by songstarliner on Dec 1, 2017 22:41:56 GMT -5
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Post by Lord Lucan on Dec 2, 2017 13:31:02 GMT -5
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Post by Lord Lucan on Dec 4, 2017 0:16:53 GMT -5
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Post by Jean-Luc Lemur on Dec 4, 2017 15:00:34 GMT -5
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Post by Jean-Luc Lemur on Dec 4, 2017 15:07:54 GMT -5
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Post by Lord Lucan on Dec 4, 2017 19:18:34 GMT -5
Could probably go here as well as elsewhere if anyone else is interested. T. J. Clark’s interesting reflection on The Royal Academy’s recent exhibit, Revolution: Russian Art, 1917-1932, with emphasis on Malevich and Deineka. I remember, I think correctly, his study of Courbet as the first book on painting I ever read. |
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Post by Jean-Luc Lemur on Dec 5, 2017 1:47:27 GMT -5
Lord Lucan When I returned to my parents’ house at Thanksgiving my dad pulled out his copy of LRB and asked if I’d read it and I then pulled out my copy from my brief and said “Not yet.” Did eventually, though, and can vouch that it’s a great article. Interesting too that they have a reconstruction of Malevich’s 1932 exhibition—they redid the 1915 one, the Black Square’s premier, at the Stedelijk a couple of years ago: 
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Post by haysoos on Dec 5, 2017 8:13:13 GMT -5
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Post by Lord Lucan on Dec 5, 2017 15:26:22 GMT -5
Jean-Luc Lemur What do you make of the very strange photograph of the Red Army soldiers with Black Square as vexillum? Striking the incongruity of the soldiers of Bolshevism, the deeply self-conscious enemy of mystification of all kinds, holding aloft so singularly mystical a symbol, and an intended symbol of Bolshevism itself at that. I wonder quite how Malevich conceived the relation. I appreciate the appreciation, however qualified on political-ideological grounds, accorded the Socialist Realism of Deineka (and of Brodsky, if within or near to that rubric). So often it seems to me used as a derogation without the slightest attempt at actual aesthetic evaluation.
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Post by Pastafarian on Dec 5, 2017 23:44:08 GMT -5
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Post by Nudeviking on Dec 7, 2017 3:31:23 GMT -5
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Post by Trurl on Dec 7, 2017 13:23:12 GMT -5
EXTREME CLIPPER SHIP! IT'S TOTALLY GNARLY! |
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Post by Lord Lucan on Dec 9, 2017 21:40:27 GMT -5
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Post by Mr. Greene's October Surprise on Dec 10, 2017 5:08:01 GMT -5
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Post by Pastafarian on Dec 10, 2017 10:10:51 GMT -5
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Post by Sanziana on Dec 10, 2017 10:54:53 GMT -5
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Post by Lord Lucan on Dec 11, 2017 0:01:12 GMT -5
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Post by Crash Test Dumbass on Dec 11, 2017 19:30:26 GMT -5
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Post by Tellyfier on Dec 12, 2017 6:46:38 GMT -5
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Post by Mr. Greene's October Surprise on Dec 13, 2017 3:06:29 GMT -5
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Post by Lord Lucan on Dec 14, 2017 19:19:37 GMT -5
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Post by Jean-Luc Lemur on Dec 18, 2017 10:11:42 GMT -5
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Post by Lord Lucan on Dec 18, 2017 14:54:31 GMT -5
 Ladies and Gentlemen, Trump's America Consider the sublime and ennobling process whereby a wayward soul, after the deep self-reflection impelled by unexpectedly seeing this bowhunting t-shirt and feeling the implicit spur of sexual insecurity it imposes, comes to an eventual acceptance of Jesus Christ and escapes the eternal damnation that would have otherwise been its fate. |
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