Oct 2, 2020
Most of those who tried to be the best failed. So I tried to be the second-best, and sometimes I succeeded.
Sarah Manguso, from 300 Arguments
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Most of those who tried to be the best failed. So I tried to be the second-best, and sometimes I succeeded.
Sarah Manguso, from 300 Arguments
Just got out of Venom, and it was fun. I mean, it wasn’t like High Art, and it’s not redefining the genre or anything, but it was funny, and a little campy at spots, and a fair amount of it was essentially a buddy comedy.
Plus I’m just going to come out and say it: it’s occasionally nice to be able to just go see a fucking comic book movie that doesn’t try to make you watch twenty other movies first.
Aside from the obligatory Stan Lee cameo, you can completely follow everything about Venom without having seen a single other Marvel movie. Its goals are modest, but it’s hardly apolitical--the driving force behind the action is a Musk-style CEO whose personal solution to resource collapse and climate change is to find a way for a limited few to leave the planet and live somewhere else. (Spoiler alert: this turns out about as well for everyone involved as it usually does in monster movies.)
The finale solves the immediate problem without introducing any huge new problems right away or leaving the characters with a huge fucking mess to clean up. It’s just a fun, straightforward popcorn movie.
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Big house? Fancy car? Yeah yeah, that’s fine. But let me ask you: how incredibly amazing does putting on a new pair of socks feel?
Modest Goals 01.13.26 By Kevin R. Mitchell
Modest goals of indifference Providing patronage, for one Facilitating in creative endeavors Without concern for base returns
As strumming chord progressions Under words, that might be heard Birds sing from finite gilded cages Resonate infinite, across the ages
Back tracking, behind mores’ beat Mona Lisa smiles, meet and greet Good intentions’ sunny side street Fait accompli life, wrapping’s neat
Once upon, as some nevermore Craven dark’s phosphorus score Playing to a dream state traveler Awaiting turns forms your before
Drinking from primordial soup Thinking eye sea born storms Cross sections to understand Cuts across our festival plans
Arriving again, likes a Mobius strip Special derivatives, Platonic solids Dimensionless geometries, divinity Training to steal a thought’s affinity
Sowing seeds in deeds for greed Beyond a means, for every need Screed flat flex deus ex machina Singularities’ homogeneity feeds
Like an accelerating mind Towards logarithmic limits Pour light beams streams Against lost knight’s skies
Cutting, Gordian Knot ties Buy a sword as strife dies Dynastic agnostic arbitration Fabled enabled’s meditation
Modest goals of indifference Providing patronage, for one Live life, perfecting zero sum As in the balance, was it fun?
my blogging game is not as strong as my twitter game. I’ve been ideating about whether I should embrace the more “”””””””Relaxed””””” (low-effort read:shit) vibe and if not what is the idea way to become like 10% more insane
I want to be rich enough to buy my pistachios shelled.
Well I’m going to be in a student pilot that’s set to be aired on Youtube. #movingupintheworld #canalreadytastethefame
One day, when i am the writer/director/actress of fun but politically prescient and socially content, I will be on the Graham Norton Show. And Graham will have dug up this example of my brilliant early work and we will all have a modest and self-deprecating laugh on my behalf.