Category: BITS and BLOBS

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AND ANOTHER THING…

Steven Augustine

  THE RACE/ GENDER/ BODY/ BELIEF SYSTEM VICTIMOLOGICAL STANLEY CUP   What nobody really talks about is the stiffly vicious competition, in America, to be the biggest, most glorious victim in history. For a very long time, it was a neck-and-neck race between Black Men, Black Women and (a close second) White Women (with Asians traditionally keeping quiet on the topic, Jews weaving in and out of the picture as both discriminated-against and entitled and Native Americans remaining largely ignored). Then Gays, and various “disabled” people, entered the race: each felt his/her group could lay special claim to the Grand Prize … Continue reading AND ANOTHER THING…

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CANNIBALIZED NOTEBOOKS (2015-2018)

Steven Augustine

A) Putney Swope vs Tropic Thunder …has anyone made the connection?   B) Writing exercises: Describe the difference between the flavor of a lemon and the flavor of a lime. Compare the stilted, grandiloquent, pseudo-British English of mid-20th century American motion picture Space Aliens to the strikingly similar language spoken by Roman Senators in films of the same era (with special emphasis on the tic of the avoidance of the use of contractions) and use this Alien/Roman  dialect of English in a short story with a contemporary setting (without resorting to satire). Everyone remembers their “First time” but how many … Continue reading CANNIBALIZED NOTEBOOKS (2015-2018)

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LO the MIGHTY BULWARK of EPHEMERA vs the GRAFFITI of the COMMENTARY DESPOILING ITS PRISTINE SURFACES

Steven Augustine

Around the World in 35 Minutes with my Occasional (and occasionally well-argued) commentary on YouTube threads (edited for length)… 1. How this Transgender… …. TED speaker, Paula, who started Life as a man,  speaks on the experience of Womanity and is not pilloried as Mansplaining on Steroids (or Estrogen), is beyond my understanding. My comment: “She’s sharing her experience of what it’s like to be TREATED as a female.” I think it’s more that Paula is being treated as Transgender, unless Paula is spending all her time in provincial backwaters where they haven’t heard of such a thing. Paula doesn’t read as … Continue reading LO the MIGHTY BULWARK of EPHEMERA vs the GRAFFITI of the COMMENTARY DESPOILING ITS PRISTINE SURFACES

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IMPERIALIST NOTES: a ZINE within the ZINE

Steven Augustine

1. FEARLESS = THOUGHTLESS (or, as Joyce puts it, more judgmentally, in Ulysses: “No fear: no brains.”) Recently, one late afternoon, I took the U-Bahn to a stop in a neighborhood far enough away (Kreuzberg, near the border between Kreuzberg and Friedrichshain, demarcated by the river) that walking from the stop would give me a good two-hour walk home. I always take an mp3 player and my best outdoor-headphones and listen to music. It was a cold, cloudy and windy day, which worked well with the epic music I was listening to. It was only about four thirty when I … Continue reading IMPERIALIST NOTES: a ZINE within the ZINE

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SUNDRY CASUAL DEMOLITIONS

Steven Augustine

1. Two days ago I was on a 2-hour expedition with a very real friend (who displays, however, many of the properties of an imaginary being), C. My friend C and I have covered more than a thousand kilometers of Berlin since we started these walks late last year. She is one of my most intelligent chums: nothing I say goes over her head, and nothing I say is softened or simplified to reach her. She’s had a full, bizarre, busy and cinematic life already, and passes easily, back and forth,  between the Exotic and Mainstream worlds that I thread … Continue reading SUNDRY CASUAL DEMOLITIONS

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BITS AND BLOBS [updated]

Steven Augustine

MEDITATIONS ON “LUCK” IN WHITE & BLACK Check out this Orgy of Oblivious Privilege filmed in Capetown (linked below) vs the Voice-in-the-Wilderness comment in the video’s comment thread: “Namibia1 month ago I fully support you and your videos but there can and will never be a greater embarrassment for the black race than the country of south Africa, which is nothing more than crony capitalism and central banking on steroids and can never happen in reverse. There would be race riots in Europe/America if the white people were poor and a bunch of black people lived in mansions and own … Continue reading BITS AND BLOBS [updated]

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NET FIRSTS #2: VLADIMIR NABOKOV INVENTS THE SMILEY EMOTICON

Steven Augustine

“I often think there should exist a special typographical sign for a smile-some sort of concave mark, a supine round bracket, which I would now like to trace in reply to your question.”- April 19, 1969 The Nabokov “Smiley Face” invention (as cited above) was a response to this question, posed to him by Alden Whitman in an interview that was published in The New York Times: “How do you rank yourself among writers (living) and of the immediate past?” Continue reading NET FIRSTS #2: VLADIMIR NABOKOV INVENTS THE SMILEY EMOTICON