The "short, sharp" thing makes me wonder if he needed to give himself a "little" project break between what he was doing and the "leave me alone" bit makes me hopeful he's getting back to it. Dunno.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 17 May 2022 16:17 (one year ago) link
I thought so too. Also: cash flow.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 17 May 2022 16:18 (one year ago) link
He's already answered the question the next book would need to answer--"How did Trump happen?"--but I still want him to write it.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 17 May 2022 17:21 (one year ago) link
I remembered a book called "After Strage Texts" after reading about TS Eliott's "After Strange Gods" and discovered it literally un-google-able": only TS and stuff about texting. It can't even come up (without subtitle) in an Amazon search! https://t.co/XFrDEooZZx— Rick Perlstein (@rickperlstein) February 10, 2023
True, I also get no results for "After Strage Texts"
"After Strange Texts" otoh...
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Friday, 10 February 2023 17:49 (one year ago) link
I've looked for ASG for a couple years. Not even my uni library has a copy.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 10 February 2023 17:54 (one year ago) link
A remarkable story from @rickperlstein about a night he shared with Marc Andreessen, who said of rural small-town Americans who didn't leave their communities, "I’m glad there’s OxyContin and video games to keep those people quiet"https://t.co/KqIeLAtXHR— David Dayen (@ddayen) April 24, 2024
― Never fight uphill 'o me, boys! (President Keyes), Wednesday, 24 April 2024 16:27 (three days ago) link
paging mr. choppy
― the defenestration of prog (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 24 April 2024 16:53 (three days ago) link
That was well written but a long write-up to a pretty weak punchline. I was expecting Burroughsian levels of depravity to be revealed ("...and then Andreesen snapped the houseboy's neck while still balls-deep...") but all that for a snarky one-liner about rednecks? Meh.
― Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Wednesday, 24 April 2024 17:56 (three days ago) link
Says something about Andreessen that's that all he can say!
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 24 April 2024 17:57 (three days ago) link
yes it shows how boring the very rich are. They're different from you and me.
― the talented mr pimply (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 24 April 2024 17:59 (three days ago) link