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Shades of Ballard’s Crash. The author is a good storyteller. I was immediately drawn in and read to the end. The unremittingly arch tone and ironical ...

Yes, the word we use is dreich.

Picnics where I grew up: /uploads/resized/files/a1/6xyz1mexnzr4g4ct.jpeg

Is it the baked beans that make this dish distinctively American, or are you saying that this combination of disparate ingredients from different coun...

I lived with a chihuahua for a while. She was called Tequila and alone among all creatures human and otherwise, she loved my hairy feet and massive bi...

I don't know what you mean.

Streetlight did not ask to be banned. That was someone else.

He certainly made the most of the tone of the Grafton plastic sax, and I can understand why people dislike it. I really hated it myself when I first h...

I can confirm that this member asked to be banned.

But isn't Collingwood saying that we admire a work product as art precisely because we are so far removed from the practical use of the object? In any...

That sheep is smiling, blissfully unaware that it could be torn to pieces in a matter of minutes.

Yes, I agree. I suppose I meant rather that the separation is not the way it has to be.

Damien Hirst. Now, I know he has changed over the years but some time around 10 or 15 years ago he was asked (I can't find it online so I'm going from...

I'm trying to suggest that skill and creativity cannot be separated, that this is what some conceptual artists have tried to do.

I didn't want to suggest that an artist is not, or should not be, a creator. Rather, I meant that artists might have been artificially elevated as pra...

Answering myself here... What it might say is that conceptual art is a mistaken or ill-conceived separation of the two, that it's the exemplar of a be...

Many restaurants and homes have what I consider to be badly designed forks. I was in an Italian restaurant yesterday and ordered tagliatelle, but was ...

Hey ND, don't derail the discussion. Agent Smith just likes to get involved in every discussion even when he doesn't have anything to say. His comment...

Craft, as an activity separate from art, aims to produce useful objects, which are more or less fit for purpose and more or less beautiful. Art aims t...

Controversial

I don't have much experience, but I think I tend to start with something more concrete. Not an idea, but a first line, a phrase, or a situation.

You win.

He's my trump card.

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I had root beer at A&W once, so I'm quite culturally sophisticated.

Cool. Note that at TPF, General Secretary is outranked by Supreme Leader. The former organizes the catering, that sort of thing.

So long as I can get my daily coke float, I'm on board.

I like Coca-Cola, especially with a scoop of ice cream floating on top. I have that every day just after breakfast.

There are smooth and inoffensive Scottish whiskies. An uncle of mine said here, try some of this Dalwhinnie, it's a good starter whisky. I said fuck y...

To be fair, I failed to properly represent your beatnik confederate by taking him out of context after quickly googling "william s burroughs quotes". ...

Except that Burroughs seems to think that stories go all the way down rather than being imposed after the fact. Anyway, here's another one I like:

Indeed, you could almost say that living itself is the effort to create a story from the disparate accidents that happen to you.

The song "Holy Are You" is from their 1968 album Release of an Oath and it was composed by the composer David Axelrod. Around that time, he was writin...

Stick them together! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fix-up For example, create a first-person frame narrative that pretends to introduce two stories fo...

One of my favourite cottage cheese dishes is from Georgia, the country: https://georgiaabout.files.wordpress.com/2014/05/cottage-cheese-with-mint-wrap...

It's a real groove Daddy-O.

It’s probably just in the US that it’s classified in that way, so I don’t know. I eat plenty of tvorog, as I mentioned. Whether corned or grained tvor...

Yes

I can recommend “From the Oasthouse”, which is a fictional podcast released as if it were a real one. Alan Partridge is one of the best comic creation...

Better than being a hippie. I haven’t read any Burroughs or Kerouac, though I do know that Burroughs used the cut-up technique, which can be referred ...

That would be a very niche restaurant.

A venerable literary technique made famous by William S. Burroughs.

No, I think you misunderstood. I did not mean to suggest that children are being produced by Marxists merely as tools to bring on the new society. I w...

What you're missing is that many Marxists enjoy life, thinking it's worthwhile despite the general lack of human emancipation. So it depends on the te...

Suspiciously similar.

Get to work. Good luck!

I seem to recall you did Visitations in about that time, whereas I took 10 weeks, mostly obssessive redrafting and editing.

Wait, I thought I was Debussy.