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The Contender Laine: No, not my personal life. It’s just nobody’s business. Webster: That’s not what the people will tell you: the people will tell you it is their business…that you’re setting standards of morality for their children. Especially their girls. Laine: Have you ever heard of Isaac Lamm...

God “If there is a God he's a great loathsome spider in the darkness.” John Fowles Next up: yu're a pantheist. “'All true believers have good reasons for disbelieving in every god except their own,' said Birbal, 'and so it is they who, between them, give me all the reasons for believing in none.'” ...

Phil Ochs: Love me, love me, love me, I’m a liberal. Here is a narrative bursting at the seams – oozing – with self-righteous indignation. Those fucking conservatives! Thank God the Rachel Maddows are out there exposing them! And, sure, up to a point I’m oozing to. But I have no illusions about the ...

Existentialism edited by Robert C. Solomon John Shand enjoys a collection of essays about existentialism. This is an eclectic collection of extracts, as befits the decision of the editor, Robert C. Solomon, not to define ‘existentialism’ tightly. Tightly defined? What does that mean? For many, I sus...

The Color of Money Carmen: How you doing? Vincent: Hmm? Carmen, I’m playing here now. Carmen: I know. Vincent, you win one more game and you’re gonna be humping your fist for a long time. The allure just keeps on shrinking. Eddie: Are you a hustler, Amos? Amos: Come on, Eddie, man. Luck. Eddie: Are...

The Color of Money Eddie: You’re hooked on Carmen, aren’t you? Vincent: Yeah. Eddie: Crazy about her? Vincent: You’re getting a little personal here. What? Eddie: You’re losing her, kiddo. Vincent: What do you mean? Eddie: She don’t get the allure of this place. Hustle, hustle, hustle. Eddie: This ...

Time “The first step to the knowledge of the wonder and mystery of life is the recognition of the monstrous nature of the earthly human realm as well as its glory, the realization that this is just how it is and that it cannot and will not be changed. Those who think they know how the universe coul...

Walter Wolfman Washington
Even Now
https://youtu.be/iWK26gta9Pc?si=BrVWQeHa2dNJrBce

Dolbro Dan
The Ballad of Hollis Brown cover
https://youtu.be/CWnLV1DBZMo?si=XU-FKmVmeDWpyV3-

Siobhan Miller
one too many mornings cover
https://youtu.be/UXMbjwQiRvo?si=Gsy23Dp0oDG3vEQg

Evren Ozan
twilight
https://youtu.be/N0Kakwp5wzw?si=rxHKLeVNB3drmrOA

Conrad Schnitzler
Ballet Statique
https://youtu.be/NJa7v17kqqA?si=nQUveDCUjYwAuWgd

I like movies that take me into a world I know little about. How successful is this one? I don’t know. But surely I know more about it now than I did before. What this is mostly about is the male ego. In particular one willing to take a dive. There are men who just can’t bring themselves to do it. E...

Slavoj Žižek Ideology is not a conceptual frame externally imposed on the wealth of reality, it is our experience of reality itself. On the other hand, whatever that means? God was a lazy programmer. He still is. Without you I cannot live, with you I am alone. Actually, this is a real thing. ...in ...

Julia Dashiell [after reading Lillian’s play]: You wanted to be a serious writer. That’s what I liked. That’s what we worked for. I don’t know what happened but you better tear this up. It’s not that it’s bad, it’s just not good enough. Not for you. Like this can all be calculated...objectively? Th...

Our Morality: A Defense of Moral Objectivism After our recent ‘Death of Morality’ issue, Mitchell Silver replies to the amoralists. If you accept, or stand ready to accept either implicitly or explicitly, a set of permissibility rules as determining the correctness of all possible actions, then you ...