me neither, good lookin outDr. Medulla wrote: ↑29 May 2018, 3:46pm
edit: Perhaps I'm just in the dark on this, but Richard Berry lifted the basics for "Louie Louie" from this.
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Started this audiobook today:
A comparative history of an American town in the Northwest and a Soviet one in Ukraine, each dedicated during the Cold War to plutonium production. Hold onto your monocles, but the residents weren't told about the negative health consequences.
A comparative history of an American town in the Northwest and a Soviet one in Ukraine, each dedicated during the Cold War to plutonium production. Hold onto your monocles, but the residents weren't told about the negative health consequences.
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That's funky.tepista wrote: ↑03 Jun 2018, 1:22pmme neither, good lookin outDr. Medulla wrote: ↑29 May 2018, 3:46pm
edit: Perhaps I'm just in the dark on this, but Richard Berry lifted the basics for "Louie Louie" from this.
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Enigma: A New Life of Charles Stewart Parnell. By Paul Bew. A concise biography of the nineteenth century protestant landowner who became the so-called "uncrowned king of Ireland" via land agitation, his part in a rent strike, and got as close as one possibly could to home rule before his affair with the married Kitty O'Shea came to light and ruined him, with his death shortly after. Parnell was a member of the elite who electrified his country by being in the right place and the right time. His attitudes reflected those of his class. This was the era of Joseph Chamberlain (who appears in Marx's Capital as an example of a fairly enlightened factory owner and would spawn appeasing Neville), Randolph Churchill (whose own offspring would beat the Nazis and starve India) and Gladstone. Great book. First one I've ever completed on a Kindle.
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The Third Policeman - Flann O'Brien. Audiobook read by Jim Norton. Funny, spooky, unsettling story that's lots of fun and fantastically written. It's a descent through hell and purgatory in the manner of a comic shaggy dog story. It's heavy with symbolism of some kind or another, naturalistic Irish, absurd dialogue, and a fixation on bicycles. My kind of novel.
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The Third Policeman - Flann O'Brien. Audiobook read by Jim Norton. Funny, spooky, unsettling story that's lots of fun and fantastically written. It's a descent through hell and purgatory in the manner of a comic shaggy dog story. It's heavy with symbolism of some kind or another, naturalistic Irish, absurd dialogue, and a fixation on bicycles. My kind of novel.
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In the Ravine & Other Stories - Anton Chekhov. Some of the stories are miserably funny and others are miserably sad. Thanks, Anton.
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Tub:
When I conceived of my diss, I thought I'd use Starkweather, but at best he got a mention along the way. Still, I acquired a bunch of books I never cracked. So I figured I'd actually read one of them.
Bedtime:
The premise, as I gather, is that liberalism contains numerous contradictions—equality before the law that results in inequality in practice; representative govt but selfish, anti-civic behaviour—that has allowed anti-liberal ideologies to return. I'm much better versed in the mid-century version of this story, so I'm keen on this analysis of current events.
When I conceived of my diss, I thought I'd use Starkweather, but at best he got a mention along the way. Still, I acquired a bunch of books I never cracked. So I figured I'd actually read one of them.
Bedtime:
The premise, as I gather, is that liberalism contains numerous contradictions—equality before the law that results in inequality in practice; representative govt but selfish, anti-civic behaviour—that has allowed anti-liberal ideologies to return. I'm much better versed in the mid-century version of this story, so I'm keen on this analysis of current events.
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While listening to Plutopia on my ride this morning, I was amused to learn that when the Soviets set up their nuclear research sites, their model wasn't their gulags, which were designed for punishment, but American factory towns, which they saw as ideals of production and surveillance. Beria in particular was impressed with how American workers were so controlled yet still productive.
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Monthly Review is having a huge sale:
https://monthlyreview.org/press/warehou ... ance-sale/
https://monthlyreview.org/press/warehou ... ance-sale/
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Three Lives of James Madison by Noah Feldman. Slave owning hypocrite sulks in his paranoia, is very slightly better for his country than Hamilton.
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Sacked off The President Is Missing. Too much of a turkey to even hate-read. Neither of these old perverts can write.
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I don't blame you, based on this: https://slate.com/culture/2018/06/bill- ... -life.htmlSilent Majority wrote: ↑19 Jun 2018, 8:48amSacked off The President Is Missing. Too much of a turkey to even hate-read. Neither of these old perverts can write.
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Yeah, that's an accurate review.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑19 Jun 2018, 9:06amI don't blame you, based on this: https://slate.com/culture/2018/06/bill- ... -life.htmlSilent Majority wrote: ↑19 Jun 2018, 8:48amSacked off The President Is Missing. Too much of a turkey to even hate-read. Neither of these old perverts can write.
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Gross.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑19 Jun 2018, 9:06amI don't blame you, based on this: https://slate.com/culture/2018/06/bill- ... -life.htmlSilent Majority wrote: ↑19 Jun 2018, 8:48amSacked off The President Is Missing. Too much of a turkey to even hate-read. Neither of these old perverts can write.
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Reading this for possible inclusion in my class this fall. A few students have pointed out that my reading list is almost exclusively American—true, because I'm better equipped to contextualize the work better—but It's a fair critique so I'm seeing whether this might work.
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Recommend it?Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑23 Jun 2018, 6:12pm
Reading this for possible inclusion in my class this fall. A few students have pointed out that my reading list is almost exclusively American—true, because I'm better equipped to contextualize the work better—but It's a fair critique so I'm seeing whether this might work.