“J. G. Ballard was sent to cover the Fyre Festival.” That is all. [boing]
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“J. G. Ballard was sent to cover the Fyre Festival.” That is all. [boing]
There’s an in-depth profile of Steve Bannon over at The New Yorker, [newyorker] which refrains from the “ooh, he’s a genius of strategic darkness” meme, and goes into some depth about his history as a Hollywood Big Shot (spoiler: not much big)
I always love it when the weird get going, and turn something that ought to be everyday into something special and funny and strange.
Now, you can show your foes your courageous trollishness with a few mouse-clicks over the internet:
More playing with UV dye.
I’m going to give you a spoiler under the bar; if you were going to see La Haine [imdb] without my telling you to, go ahead and do so then come back and comment on this posting.
UV Dye + water, video.
I’m going to be on the road the next couple days so my availability through thursday will be spotty. My laptop died this afternoon and I don’t think I’ll be doing any long text production using an iOs keyboard.
Various links of weirdness led me to this collection of wonders:
I was fortunate to grow up almost completely irreligious; I’ve never felt a need to replace some “lost” faith or to seek my meaning in the gift of the gods. Reading a lot of history as a kid teaches you that the gods elevate and destroy everyone more or less randomly. Epicurus was right – if they exist, their affairs are complex and elevated enough that they’re more or less irrelevant to us.