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With rue my heart is laden
For golden friends I had,
For many a rose-lipt maiden
And many a lightfoot lad.
By brooks too broad for leaping
The lightfoot boys are laid;
The rose-lipt girls are sleeping
In fields where roses fade.
-- AE Housman
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ΟΣΟΝ ΖΗΣ ΦΑΙΝΟΥ
so-long-as you-may-live shine/appear
ΜΗΔΕΝ ΟΛΩΣ ΣΥ
neither at-all you
ΛΥΠΟΥ ΠΡΟΣ ΟΛΙ
grieve. unto small-
ΓΟΝ ΕΣΤΙ ΤΟ ΖΗΝ
it-is the life
ΤΟ ΤΕΛΟΣ Ο ΧΡΟ
the end the time
ΝΟΣ ΑΠΑΙΤΕΙ
it-demands-payment
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The Panopticon, Calhoun’s behavioral experiments, modernist public housing, and digital platforms share a governing principle: organize the environment to make behavior observable. Observation produces metrics.
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Shootout to @JoshuaCitarella having @CLiuAnon. I LOVE HER!
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I’ve been thinking about how we’re gonna get people on the Epstein list to be held accountable for the crimes that they committed two decades ago. I think I have the answer. But I’m not sure how we’re gonna get all of them to become stand-up comedians.
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I'll concede that it had several peaks:
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I think there was an overcorrection sometime in the late 90s early 2000s involving young boys who were literate and verbose, maybe creative. Not all of us were gay. The culture’s ability to recognize literate, intelligent and witty straight male is a diminishing thing in my social circles such that a middle aged single man who reads widely and doesn’t have the typical three hobbies as his peers is pretty much assumed to be sliding around the Kinsey scale.
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Florida is the most anti-goth state on the surface, but you dig in…Ybor city after sunset when the dumpster dwellers hinge open their lairs…deep in a 3rd generation Haitian neighborhood in Miami under the buzz of reptile lights an illegal specimen blinks one eye Toto Bissainthe plays on an AM station that occasionally broadcasts strings of random numbers from somewhere way out in the islands…the throaty splash of a weighted package being tossed off a causeway.
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Recorded in London I see. Now for the real stuff.
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"Impossible"? Or impossibly good youtube.com/watch?v=E4Gqbb_i…
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This is fascinating in that the Joyce copy refers to Cohen's experimental novel Beautiful Losers, which sold so poorly he was forced to record some of his decidedly non-Joycean early work with guitar accompaniment to become the commercially successful Leonard Cohen we know and love, and whose one Joycean book still sells poorly 50 years later.
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I feel like the proper approach is to seek a balance, rather than eschew one or the other.
It reminds me of Star Trek: TOS S01E05, The Enemy Within, where Light Kirk is separated from Dark Kirk, to disastrous results.
He needs both halves of himself, to make him the man he is.
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Mel Gibson paid Robert Downey Jr.'s insurance bond when no insurer would cover him. Eight years later, with Gibson's own career in ruins, Downey asked Hollywood to forgive him.
In 2003, Downey was coming off years of drug arrests, and no insurance company would cover him on a film set. Gibson, a producer on The Singing Detective, covered the insurance bond himself so Downey could play the lead.
Downey has said Gibson also told him not to give up hope and urged him to find his faith.
The only thing Gibson asked in return was that someday Downey help the next guy.
In 2006, Gibson was arrested in Malibu, and his own career collapsed.
In October 2011, Downey received the American Cinematheque Award and asked Gibson to present it. In the video below, Downey tells the room why he chose him. About that old favor, he says Gibson "didn't imagine the next guy would be him."
Then he urged Hollywood to forgive his friend.
Gibson later told Esquire it was "a bold and generous and kind gesture."
Did Downey owe Gibson that speech, or was it a risk nobody else in Hollywood was willing to take?
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And what if French and English Courtly Love really was the product of a sexually relatively equal society, which was defeated by the male dominated Italian republics and Hapsburg-Fugger-Lutheran Germany, what then
