This is basically my impression as well. I get why it's natural to celebrate rhetoric that's buttery, extreme, and flattering if you share the politics of the speaker, and Vidal had a good trade in that sort of rhetoric, but I wish that persuasiveness would rouse people to skepticism at their own agreement, once in a…

This is basically my impression as well. I get why it's natural to celebrate rhetoric that's buttery, extreme, and flattering if you share the politics of the speaker, and Vidal had a good trade in that sort of rhetoric, but I wish that persuasiveness would rouse people to skepticism at their own agreement, once in a…

Vidal: Why I'd like to see you try, ya crumbbum! I'll break ya muddah's kneecaps, how bout dat!

Vidal: Why I'd like to see you try, ya crumbbum! I'll break ya muddah's kneecaps, how bout dat!

Ha, well, sometimes the simplicity does feed back into the mythology I suppose….

Yeah, he's maybe the prime example. Guileless human howdy doody makes intentionally damaged objets d'wtf? Life is strange.

Their dance shows reviewer Poncington Danconious III is a highly respected appraiser of the motional arts.

There's something weirdly charming about artists who have the most complicated, shielding self-mythologies informed by all this confrontational, cutting edge, avant-garde ideology and then some simple uncomplicated human element pokes through. Like, oh he liked cats? Yeah no, it's not a post-ironic statement about…

Jeers to this newfangled spasmodic jerk dancing. Cheers to old-timey classics like the Cool Jerk.

Recognizing the publisher I'm going to take a wild guess and assume without clicking through that whatever book that is proudly one ups the book under review here in the Marx dept. and features approximately 63% more jargon.

Recognizing the publisher I'm going to take a wild guess and assume without clicking through that whatever book that is proudly one ups the book under review here in the Marx dept. and features approximately 63% more jargon.

"Dante’s [books] are notable mainly for their boisterousness and their sly
acknowledgment that fantasy and reality are rarely as separate as we try
to make them."

"Dante’s [books] are notable mainly for their boisterousness and their sly
acknowledgment that fantasy and reality are rarely as separate as we try
to make them."

Post-rock song title or line from a lost Coleridge poem seem like possibilities too.

Post-rock song title or line from a lost Coleridge poem seem like possibilities too.

Excellent, most excellent.

Excellent, most excellent.

A grimacing Al Franken locked in battle with Frankenstein atop a flaming treble clef barreling down the train tracks of a guitar neck, surrounded by cartoon smoke, lasers, and no fewer than three morphologies of naked viking women.

A grimacing Al Franken locked in battle with Frankenstein atop a flaming treble clef barreling down the train tracks of a guitar neck, surrounded by cartoon smoke, lasers, and no fewer than three morphologies of naked viking women.

Peanut Butter Jesus? He's like a DJ or something, I thought.