Tomes and Talismans

sta, viator, heroem calcas

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See, you can just destroy something iconic in half a second, there’s no need to write a whole hour of television.

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Bowie’s new single is about how 2pac is definitely alive, right?

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I never learned keyboard shortcuts for letters with umlauts.

Any time I need the ö/ü I just Google “Mötley Crüe” so I can copy and paste.

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If the POLICE LINE DO NOT CROSS barriers aren’t touching one another, they are merely police line segments.

(This is what they call underground journalism.)

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“It just struck me that atheism may be enormously Catholic, and as though one might strike out God merely the better to be Catholic.“

The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann, 1924

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I’m surprised to see you up so late, but you’re probably surprised to see me up so early.

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In 2012, a friend compiled an unsolicited but most welcome report on “all the times Marc Bolan shouts ‘YEAH!’ in a stupid pro-wrestler voice.” The final conclusion was that Bolan started doing it sometime around January 1972 and seemed to have stopped by that summer.

However, I still receive occasional errata. Today’s for example: “Check out 0:57 of ‘Shock Rock.’ I think he was feeling low.”

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“The girl in the red heels is passing my Ursula-the-Sea-Witch-pretending-to-be-human test something fierce.”

“That doesn’t often happen, I take it?”

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What, chang’d so soon! hath your new sprightly lord Found out a trick in night-games more than we Could know, in our simplicity? — Ha! is’t so? Or does the fit come on you, to prove treacherous To your past vows and oaths?

Like oh yeah, doy, that’s what I should’ve said.

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It’s really satisfying when characters in a cartoon Christmas episode look exactly the same as usual except for wearing a scarf.

Yeah that’s a thing I’m thinking about. In July.

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When there’s trouble you blame B.W.

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at least I dont LOL! - Marc Spector, 2015

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Sometimes I accidentally let this run too long and man, the 1992 cutoff is way too generous because that shit is basically Jock Jams.

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This is Soviet Jamcat.

Its “owners” call it some dumb and wrong name but I know its true nature.

Soviet Jamcat.

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Slavic literature has the best fables about anthropomorphic rats and arrogance:

That incense is for me, said the rat haughtily to his kin,

As he sat on the altar during Mass.

Suddenly, as he choked on the billows of smoke from the incense burners,

A cat leaped from the side, caught him, and strangled him.

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Gon’ chill by a municipal water feature until I dope out this story of basketball and witchcraft.

As one does.

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“Look, he sent me a bunch of texts about coming over, and when I didn’t respond he sent this video of his fireplace and walking through his house with John Legend songs playing.”

“The thirst is strong with this one.”