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Tåß

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About Me

Part of the: Digerati, Literati, Glitterati, Illuminati, Congnoscienti; Academista, Anthropologista, Word-i-nista.
I also like crepuscular light.

My Interests

sports and animal architects, like beavers

I'd like to meet:

gilt strawberries and fleurs-de-lis.

Music:

Alexander Robotnik

Movies:

Lessons of Darkness (Herzog), Beaver Trilogy (Harris), Dead Man (Jarmusch), The Passenger (Antonioni), Chris Marker

You know that scene in Blowup where the kids are rocking out to the Yardbirds and it was, like, year zero for guitar smashings on stage? I would've died to have been there.

Television:

anything with a Gervais

Books:

Purity and Danger

Heroes:

Mostly a coupla Germans: KLAUS NOMI, WALTER BENJAMIN, and WERNER HERZOG 4-evah.

My Blog

"putting the camp back in campus"

Back in 1993, Larissa MacFarquhar published a short, snarky article about a fanzine devoted to Cal-Berkeley rhetorician Judith Butler called "Judy!" I came across this article again recently -- I'd or...
Posted by Tåß on Fri, 30 Nov 2007 07:35:00 PST

A mosteth modest and gentil diatribe: against the Bloop Show

There is no such thing as paying bills online in Peru. You go to the bank or to the local Wong "hipermercado" (supermarket) to stand in line. The lines are invariably long, winding outside most banks ...
Posted by Tåß on Tue, 13 Nov 2007 06:55:00 PST

Bloggy Eno

An Ascent: ...
Posted by Tåß on Tue, 13 Nov 2007 06:16:00 PST

Home

Herman Miller Redline desk and Eames aluminum frame chair. That Redline is, sadly, defunct. Fortunately, I have two matching desks, in case one expires....
Posted by Tåß on Mon, 12 Nov 2007 12:23:00 PST

This American Life.

When I get nostalgic, especially for Chicago, I listen to the home-grown Chicago Public Radio Program "This American Life" hosted by Brown Semiotics department trained Ira Glass.There are some real tr...
Posted by Tåß on Sun, 11 Nov 2007 03:40:00 PST

Dour-lin

Long walks in the cold are perhaps the only respite from the occasionally deadening anomie that inevitably appears after long spates of being alone in my mind.Losing the rhythm of writing, the communi...
Posted by Tåß on Fri, 02 Nov 2007 02:57:00 PST

tas at symbol binaryclub dot com

As soon as I figure out how to archive what's been written in this etherspace, I'm going to peace the eff outta here.So take my email address: tas at binaryclub dot com.Though neither email nor phone ...
Posted by Tåß on Wed, 24 Oct 2007 05:06:00 PST

From n+1: Against Email (true dat)

From occasionally sublime, sometimes under-realized, and always smugly confident boys club -- er -- mag n+1. Against Email [From The Intellectual Situation, Issue 5]August 16, 2007In the early da...
Posted by Tåß on Sat, 29 Sep 2007 10:24:00 PST

For the record

my childhood was not harsh, just unimaginative, provincial hell. culturally devoid,torture for someone as curious as i.no victimization, just rampant wildness, playing on active train tracks, picking ...
Posted by Tåß on Tue, 25 Sep 2007 11:22:00 PST

structures of the conjuncture (exchange, notes to self)

Dear xxx.,So you have to read this because it is one of the most fascinating things I've read aboutJapan in quite a while:http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/15/magazine/15japanese. html?pagewanted=allA col...
Posted by Tåß on Tue, 25 Sep 2007 09:08:00 PST