looking for a thread (yes, i'm going to post here occasionally)
my company moved its boston office over the long weekend. as i've unpacked my shit, i came across an old piece of paper covered by 3 little sticky notes with the names of different movies scrawled in my wretched printing:
sticky one: 'the longest yard,' 'charley varrick,' 'night of the living dead (90),' 'logan's run,' 'the gauntlet'
sticky two: 'gator,' 'death wish 4,' 'hercules in ny'
sticky three: 'cabin boy,' 'color of money,' 'disorganized crime,' 'serpico,' 'rosemary's baby'
that's it. no other context.
fire
complacence: just good enough; whimsy; the deliberate promulgation of symbols (ribbons a-plenty) and -isms as substitute for exercised human decency; rationalization of "me" and "my needs" (the reason that self-awareness is so important culturally now is that it's a slick way to break with the baby-boomers; somehow, the implicit logic is that self-knowledge makes naked self-interest more ok); marginalizing anything that threatens dandyism by deeming it too serious or angry (fear), or dismissing it with a roll of the eyes or a twirled finger at the side of the head; obscurantism as a substitute for substance.
funny that "purging" and "purgatory" are knotted together at the latin root.
meditation is its own kind of purging.
exercising is a whole lot of fat burning.
fire is a symbol of revolution. purification written on the grand social scale.
that's all preface to a change that's relevant to the blog, and while i'm shooting myself in the foot a bit by being vague, it's unintentional, and i can assure you that when i have a name for this new thing i've got, i'll let you know what it is.
