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Posted on 28th December 2005
Physicalism in the World of Words
A recent letter from the physicalists asked me, “Do you think it’s time for a movement like physicalism in the world of words?”
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Posted on 19th December 2005
Hip-Hop’s Oral Traditions
These things are all common oral traditions in today’s hip-hop:
- the introduction,
- call-and-response,
- the boast,
- the dance-call.
- There are probably others.
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Posted on 18th December 2005
Physicalism
In short, Physicalism is pro-beauty and anti-bullshit.
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Posted on 18th December 2005
The Word
“Each thing has its word, but the word has become a thing by itself. Why shouldn’t I find it? … The word, the word, the word outside your domain, your stuffiness, this laughable impotence, your stupendous smugness, outside all the parrotry of your self-evident limitedness. The word, gentlemen, is a public concern of the first importance.”
:: Hugo Ball
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Posted on 15th December 2005
MetaxuCafé
I’m now a member of MetaxuCafé, a website devoted to highlighting the best content from the community of bloggers who write about books.
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Posted on 11th December 2005
Spoken Word, Recorded Poetry, and Hip-Hop
The creative challenge here is to find a way to take my favorite elements of each of these groups, and go my own way with them.
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Posted on 8th December 2005
The Doors of Perception
The ancient tradition that the world will be consumed in fire at the end of six thousand years is true, as I have heard from Hell. This will come to pass by an improvement of sensual enjoyment. But first the notion that man has a body distinct from his soul is to be expunged; this [...]
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Posted on 5th December 2005
An Old Journal
Finding an old journal can be an awkward experience. Opening it, reading, in your own words, about, for example, how much you’re in love with someone. You know more than those words do, about the pages that follow, but no words are as convincing as your own.
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Posted on 4th December 2005
An English Teacher
I met a Baltimore City English teacher today. She said :
“I have seen Dead Poet’s Society and that is me, but kids are different. They just want to have sex and get drunk and go to the mall and carry around $300 purses with $200 cell phones. These kids make their weather and stand in [...] -
Posted on 4th December 2005
clowns
Everyone I talk to about them is afriad of the clowns. What kind of world is this?

