solitary posts that effortlessly summarize the spirit of ILX

You know how decades end not on Jan. 1 of the first year but when events mark a transition--e.g., Clinton election, Nirvana et al as the beginning of the 1990s, not whatever happened on Jan. 1, 1990?

Somehow, this feels like the end of the 2000s. The Dark Knight (and maybe the other two--I haven't seen them) was all about releasing tension from the collective waiting-for-the-other-shoe-to-drop post-9/11 anxiety. Somehow the shift back from the simulacrum to real tragedy marks the end of the effectiveness of this particular post-9/11/massacre/helplessness as entertainment. Not saying we won't have more big-terrorism thrillers or nihilistic villains, but in the way that the hitman movies of the 90s now feel dated instead of feeding into the present current of our dreamlife, something about what's happened hear may end the particular current this trilogy fed into.

― Odd Spice (Eazy), Friday, July 20, 2012 4:50 PM (9 minutes ago)

that's a good post

lol

i dunno i thought it was :/

punditry is hard

this is like a concept coming from historiography & hobsbawn etc but then we go from 'the long nineteenth century' bookended by the revolution and 1914 to the 'long 2000s' bookended by the benevolent happenstance that some wasteman chose to shoot up a cinema rather than a chicken feed store

I think that was an attempt at a decade bookend, not a century one

well ultimately who gives a fuck i dunno i liked reading it

^ solitary posts etc

http://www.slate.com/

if i just admit that you're smarter than me is it ok if you go fuck yourself?

why does anyone think that they have something interesting or useful or important or helpful to say about this situation?

― congratulations (n/a), Friday, 20 July 2012 16:28 (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

that one belongs in 'truth bombs' imo

if i just admit that you're smarter than me is it ok if you go fuck yourself?

― wack nerd zinging in the dead of night (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, July 20, 2012 12:42 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark

nakh ur unreadable btw

if i just admit that you're smarter than me is it ok if you go fuck yourself?

― wack nerd zinging in the dead of night (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, July 20, 2012 12:42 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

" . . . smarter than I am . . ." jftr.

this is like a concept coming from historiography & hobsbawn etc but then we go from 'the long nineteenth century' bookended by the revolution and 1914 to the 'long 2000s' bookended by the benevolent happenstance that some wasteman chose to shoot up a cinema rather than a chicken feed store

― nakhchivan, Friday, July 20, 2012 9:26 AM (3 hours ago)

the bookending of an epoch is a conceptual thing, and because of that, it can exist in many different forms. it seems unlikely that this single act of random violence will be flagged by the arbiters of history as the "real end" of the decade that began on 9/11, but depending on how the next decade goes, it might come to seem as reasonable a demarcation point as any. at the moment, of course, it seems premature to stake much but sorrow on it.

nakh is unreadable only to aspie web scanners

nakh demands to be read out loud, pausing for a sip of tea every eight syllables

who are the arbiters of ilx?

arbiters vs orbiters: fite

http://i.imgur.com/rrc3F.gif

http://i.imgur.com/PeQ3F.gif

<3 nakchivan, very readable imo, though i'm about 50/50 on the references

i think we can safely blame eazy's post, and many others like it throughout ilx's history (i am certainly not absolving myself) on the existence of media studies departments.

nakh is p great imo

arbite nakh frei

That Illuminati pyramid only has two sides visible! Gasp! What is hidden on the other two?

yeah, i endorse all things nakhchivan, but i'm not in the mood to cap on anyone today, so i'm okay with eazy's post, too. hakuna matata.

i had one typed up for you involving keith olbermann, god and paint fumes but i deleted it, hakuna matata

nakh is unreadable only to aspie web scanners

I'm working a threadcop shift tonight and wanna remind everybody that using "aspie" like this is an asshole move, don't do it, thanks

board needs to put that one to bed

if you're reminding me, i wasn't trying to put anybody down, but i know that it's like saying gay or retarded, apologies and thanks

i'm not going to make "best friends" excuses

here's an excuse, i try to keep my insensitive japery off the "main boards", would not have spoken so freely on ILE

:-(

love that the illuminati pyramid is so clandestine it wears sunglasses even while being explicated

the part of that post i thought was funny was "nirvana etc" instead of idk the fall of the ussr (but then i guess that's the end of the 20th century not the 80s) (but who cares)

hoping this is the point of the clusterfuck where we all start making puns

― google deeznuts (D-40), Wednesday, July 25, 2012 5:17 PM (47 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

but before it devolves into accusations of custos

― google deeznuts (D-40), Wednesday, July 25, 2012 5:18 PM (46 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

eh hem

i don't know if i understand what is going on but welcome back to ilx, i guess
― thomp, Thursday, July 26, 2012

good lord what have i done

― O_o-O_O-o_O (jjjusten), Thursday, July 26, 2012 3:47 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

bumping for bookmarks

I judge all bands by their fans and that's why 100% of all bands are garbage

― MUBU gai pan (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, August 8, 2012 6:23 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

more of a pvmic

judging bands by their fans is very much the spirit of ilm imo

also in the spirit of people who are 10 years old

also in the spirit of posters like tim f who have written honestly and intelligently about the sentiment

whiney has a noble savage complex for juggalos

― Elrond Hubbard (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 8 August 2012 23:08 (Yesterday) Permalink

god, paging through this thread is just an endless pile-on of LOLs for me, superior to any excelsior thread IMO

sometimes a binladenthumbsupbycomputer.jpg really is worth a thousand words, though

― Thanks WEBSITE!! (Z S), Thursday, August 9, 2012 11:04 AM (1 hour ago)

astrology is bunk but in a meaningless universe with the planet careening towards total destruction it's kind of fun

― Iago Galdston, Tuesday, August 14, 2012 4:03 PM (26 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

(pertaining to tswift)

could shakespeare have written that well at 14? idts.
― prolego, Tuesday, August 14, 2012 12:19 PM