tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-944516208447810948.post3913349705150575109..comments2024-01-16T06:14:42.330-05:00Comments on Bryn Oh: Thinking out loudBryn Ohhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10649767662883786382noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-944516208447810948.post-10223928188312073922008-10-22T06:23:00.000-04:002008-10-22T06:23:00.000-04:00Give me a cigarette, said Jean-Paul Sartre to Simo...<I>Give me a cigarette, said Jean-Paul Sartre to Simone de Beauvoir in the Deux Magots. "You smoke too much", said de Beauvoir. Sartre said, you have contracted with me never to say a petty-bourgeois thing, nor to hold me to the dreary and suburban expectations of small minds. Are we not as gods, who must tragically, and in the absence of god, determine our lifespan by acting as committed members of a self-conscious vanguard? I know that Heidegger would call upon us to acknowledge the mystery of Being (Sein) in Time (Zeit) but we refuse the mysterious and peer into a desacrilized world in which sacrifice of short-term instinct must be examined, not for its utility to be sure, in a petty bourgeois spirit which again, I refuse, but for its worth as a gesture of defiance. Therefore give me a cigarette, ho. </I><BR/><BR/>I have an avatar and I smoke :P <BR/><BR/>I'd also like to add to this list : Orhalla Zander the Hobo King (if such a thing can exist), the incomparable Strangie Ornitz, the mysterious Bones Deadlights who spent a week at the hobo village as a quietly quizzical but not quite human fembot <B>without breaking character once</B>, Mis Chav Paderbourn for her seemingly reluctant and fatalistic approach to fashion, and countless others. <BR/><BR/>SL presents us a unique mode of self expression where we can be our own selves as well as our own ideals. In the words Stewart Brand used to launch the Whole Earth Catalog in 1968: <I>“We are as gods and might as well get good at it.”</I>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-944516208447810948.post-76422761978770841872008-10-22T03:47:00.000-04:002008-10-22T03:47:00.000-04:00my buddy Patchouli Woollahrahttp://woolysquared.bl...my buddy Patchouli Woollahra<BR/>http://woolysquared.blogspot.com/2008/02/dangers-of-massive-pocky-ingestion.html<BR/>is one of my favs :)Dizzy Banjohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08145785030996513348noreply@blogger.com