"I'm wearing khakis and a sweater"

i'm watching the state right now and i just want you guys to know that i'm moving my blog to wordpress, mostlyyy because there's an iphone/ipod touch app (bus blogging? i think so). smd/keep reading at:

if i remember i'm a liar

it's been real, blogger

stuff i'm reading: a new series

$ jean baudrillard, the transparency of evil: essays on extreme phenomena
$ the august 2009 issue of bon appétit
$ the july/august 2009 issue of poetry
$ the summer 2009 issue of the american scholar
$ bret easton ellis, the informers
$ the july 11th-17th issue of the economist
$ the summer 2009 issue of artforum
$ adam smith, the wealth of nations (until the day i die, probably)

i read a lot of magazines and journals, smd

p.s. i think my mom is watching golden girls. the fuck?

i'd give you everything i got for a little piece of mind

why can't i have completely good weekends anymore? why do they have to be so mixed in terms of quality? it's emotionally and physically exhausting, and i don't need either of those happening right now.

the nipple nazi of northampton

eating a bowl of cherries and drinking slushy ginger ale while lying on my bed reading july/august's poetry: summer.

love you

can i marry a ~body butter? is it wrong that i want to?

"...except maybe if it fails."

robert mcnamara, former defense secretary under kennedy and johnson, is dead at age 93. so i offer you some excerpts from noam chomsky's class warfare that i've posted here before i deleted all of my entries before 2009:

QUESTION: Just a couple more things on McNamara and his mea culpa. He's sort of taken the Nazi Nuremberg defense, following orders, allegiance to the Fuhrer, that's why he didn't speak out while he was Secretary of Defense.

CHOMSKY: I don't agree. He does not recognize that anything wrong was done. So there's no question of a defense.

QUESTION: On Macneil-Lehrer, he now says he had misgivings about the policies.

CHOMSKY: What were the misgivings? The misgivings were that it might not succeed. Suppose that some Nazi general came around after Stalingrad and said, "I realized after Stalingrad it was a mistake to fight a two-front war, but I did it anyway." That's not the Nuremberg defense. That's not even recognizing that a crime was committed. You've got to recognize that a crime was committed before you give a defense. McNamara can't perceive that. Furthermore, I don't say that as a criticism of McNamara. He is a dull, narrow technocrat who questioned nothing. He simply accepted the framework of beliefs of the people around him. And that's their framework. That's the Kennedy liberals. We cannot commit a crime. It's contradiction in terms. Anything we do is by necessity not only right, but noble. Therefore, there can't be a crime.

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QUESTION: Long before McNamara wrote this book you had compared him to Lenin. What did you mean by that?

CHOMSKY: I compared some passages of articles of his in the late 1960s, speeches, on management and the necessity of management, how a well-managed society controlled from above was the ultimate in freedom. The reason is if you have really good management and everything's under control and people are told what to do, under those conditions, he said, man can maximize his potential. I just compared that with standard Leninist views on vanguard parties, which are about the same. About the only difference is that McNamara brought God in, and I suppose Lenin didn't bring God in. He brought Marx in.

r.i.p., i guess.

nah

okay i'm taking time out of my having a shitty week to let you know that lil' kim has a new song called "download" featuring t-pain and not only is it about the fucking internet, she sings using auto-tune. wtf? i used to like lil' kim but now she's just a black amanda lepore doing the same stupid trendy shit as everyone else.

i am fucking tired.