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The Raw Story | Descendants of Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse break away from US

«“We are no longer citizens of the United States of America and all those who live in the five-state area that encompasses our country are free to join us”»

«is basically what a chines p…

«is basically what a chines person on LSD would sound like»

Evolução

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Human evolution is ’speeding up’

Status

In front of the fireplace, discussing zizekian philosophy.

dixit

«If they substitute ‘conservatism’ for ‘political forms’, I’ll join their secret organization».

Christmas

For all Kitty fans:

Merry Christmas!

dixit

«Strange memories on this nervous night in Las Vegas. Five years later? Six? It seems like a lifetime, or at least a Main Era—the kind of peak that never comes again. San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time and place to be a part of. Maybe it meant something. Maybe not, in the long run . . . but no explanation, no mix of words or music or memories can touch that sense of knowing that you were there and alive in that corner of time and the world. Whatever it meant. . . .

History is hard to know, because of all the hired bullshit, but even without being sure of “history” it seems entirely reasonable to think that every now and then the energy of a whole generation comes to a head in a long fine flash, for reasons that nobody really understands at the time—and which never explain, in retrospect, what actually happened.

My central memory of that time seems to hang on one or five or maybe forty nights—or very early mornings—when I left the Fillmore half-crazy and, instead of going home, aimed the big 650 Lightning across the Bay Bridge at a hundred miles an hour wearing L. L. Bean shorts and a Butte sheepherder’s jacket . . . booming through the Treasure Island tunnel at the lights of Oakland and Berkeley and Richmond, not quite sure which turn-off to take when I got to the other end (always stalling at the toll-gate, too twisted to find neutral while I fumbled for change) . . . but being absolutely certain that no matter which way I went I would come to a place where people were just as high and wild as I was: No doubt at all about that. . . .

There was madness in any direction, at any hour. If not across the Bay, then up the Golden Gate or down 101 to Los Altos or La Honda. . . . You could strike sparks anywhere. There was a fantastic universal sense that whatever we were doing was right, that we were winning. . . .

And that, I think, was the handle—that sense of inevitable victory over the forces of Old and Evil. Not in any mean or military sense; we didn’t need that. Our energy would simply prevail. There was no point in fighting—on our side or theirs. We had all the momentum; we were riding the crest of a high and beautiful wave. . . .

So now, less than five years later, you can go up on a steep hill in Las Vegas and look West, and with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high-water mark—that place where the wave finally broke and rolled back.»

Geek fetish

It’s time to update mine.

ectoplasmosis » Attack of the One-Eyed Japanese Lolita Mummies

Absence

The absence of the last few days is due to a near-zombie-coma.

And I don’t mean this: Zombies

Or this: The Return of the Puppet Masters

Nothing that strange.