As of today, I've lost 60 lbs since I started in early February.

Turns out, dark matter's real.

Oh and just by the by, a dude from U of A proved it.

Lars buy other shirt?

It seems sad that the best acting job of Ben Affleck's career is going to be as that douche-nozzle from "Mallrats."

And by "sad," I mean "appropriate."

More specifically: Football Pundit Talk

Sir Turley:
I hope they keep Chris Berman the fuck away from MNF

italisizy:
Nope. He does the whole fucking hour before it. Because, quite simply, ESPN hates me.

Sir Turley:
Does anyone like him?
He's awful

italisizy:
Oh! And Joe Buck is now taking over for James Brown.

Sir Turley:
what does he have on the head of ESPN
WHAT!\
WHAT!

italisizy:
Because with no job and no girl, my life doesn't suck enough.

Sir Turley:
there is no way

italisizy: So there's more airtime for Joe Buck now.
OH! And the best part!

Sir Turley:
I want to see some fucking documentation

italisizy:
He'll still be in the booth, too!

Sir Turley:
I am going to need to see proof

italisizy:
I like how this is so bad you literally cannot believe it.

Sir Turley:
MOTHERFUCKER

italisizy:
I COMPLETELY AGREE.

Sir Turley:
What the hell am I supposed to do now?

italisizy:
Stab self in eyes?

Sir Turley:
I am a social worker with no girl, my life didn't suck enough?

italisizy:
Apparently not, so FOX has decided to punish you.

Sir Turley:
I am writing a letter
this is jack ass

italisizy:
I know that Rupert Murdoch has done some bad shit in his time, but this is easily the worst.
It's just fucking over the line.

Sir Turley: I hope China bans this
that will get him in line

Lars buy shirt?

Early in my life and then later again and again I was perplexed by people's rigid inaccessibility and their failure to listen to reasons, their disregard of facts, their indifference which prohibited discussion, their defensive attitude which kept you at a distance and at the decisive moment buried any possibility of a close approach, and finally their shamelessness, that bares its own soul with out reserve, as though no one were present. When ready assent occurred I remained unsatisfied, because it was not based on true insight but on yielding to persuasion; because was the consequence of friendly cooperation, not a meeting of two selves. [...] [We are successful if willing to communicate and if] grief is felt whenever communication fails. Not merely an exchange of words, nor friendliness and sociability, but only the constant urge towards total revelation that reaches the path of communication.

The painful stimulus that was philosophically decisive was the question of how I was myself to blame for the insufficiency of communication. The insufficiency was indubitable fact. But the fault could not lie only with others. I, too, am human like them. The same sources of inhibition of communication exist in me as in them. The inner action, by which I train myself, had to illumine my self-concealement, arbitrariness and obstinacy. [...] We can only recognize that [insufficiency] which is in ourselves. What we cannot be at all, we cannot understand either.

--Karl Jaspers, excerpted from "On My Philosophy," 1941, tr. Felix Kaufmann

Read Repair / Replace.

Read (about) Accretion and my latest poemetric troubles.

Sorry there's not been more in depth commentary here lately. Between having a terrible time finding a non-terrible job and the fact that I'm reading a lot of/about Heidegger (and his relation to Ortega!) doesn't make for very fruitful posting material. Unless you guy's'd like to hear about Heidegger (and his relation to Ortega). If you do, just let me know, I guess.

Read (a much improved new version of) Near Fourth and Fourth.

AINSLEY HAYES: I said I feel a sense of duty.

LIONEL TRIBBEY: What, did you just walk out of The Pirates of Penzance?

AINSLEY HAYES: Sir?

LIONEL TRIBBEY: [in a bad accent] "Why, he's an Englishman."

AINSLEY HAYES: "He is an Englishman" is from H.M.S. Pinafore.

LIONEL TRIBBEY: It's from Penzance. Don't tell me about Gilbert and Sullivan.
[beat] It's from Penzance or Iolanthe... one of the ones about duty.

AINSLEY HAYES: They're all about duty. And it's from Pinafore.

[Later]

TOBY: "He is an Englishman" is from Pinafore. Tribbey says it's from Penzance, by the way.

LEO: It's from Pinafore.

TOBY: He says it's the one about duty.

LEO: They're all about duty.

--"The West Wing," ep. 2.05 "And It's Surely to Their Credit"

Wikisource has the entire liberetto of H.M.S. Pinafore.

Get yourself a copy of it and sing along. You won't regret it.

Read Near Fourth and Fourth.

VH1's Flavor of Love 2: beyond the bottom of the barrel.

Seriously, though, calling the one that crapped on the floor Bachelorette Number Two? Hilarious.

Junkiness: "When Mother Nature Attacks!"

Read 12 Oct. 1969.

Read While Visiting East Egg, Long Island.