Tim Riley's Blog, page 4
November 30, 2015
December Spinout: Links, Letters, Libraries
Van Gogh’s Letters by Nicole Kraus “In Jewish mysticism, the empty space — the Chalal Panui, in Hebrew — has tremendous importance, because it was the necessary pre-condition for God’s creation of the world. How did the Ein Sof — the being without end, as God is called in Kabbalah — create something finite within […]
October 31, 2015
Modified Limited November Hangout: Lowdown on the UpClick
There Is No White Race by Walter Mosley (July 9, 2014) “The white race is a fiction created by aggressive colonization and slavery. In the colonies destined to become the United States, the European colonists found themselves pitted against the indigenous (red) people while enslaving Africans (blacks). In between these two colors, the white […]
September 30, 2015
October Blues: Line-Dance Clicks
Owing to the Greeks Tom McCarthy on historical roots of the European Union fiscal crisis “This echo in German of a Greek theme or relation is exemplary: Germany has always been particularly indebted to Greece. Indeed, from a cultural point of view, it could be argued that Germany more or less created itself as a […]
August 31, 2015
Links Gone Wild: September Gurl Clicks
Love, Mercy, Genius, Dystopia, Racism, Tattoos, Robots, and Showtime's shy Winnebagos in this month's epic summary of mass marginalia.
July 31, 2015
Links Go Flapping: August Shower Tunnels
Monthly links too good to share:
June 16, 2015
Meatball Martin Luther King Jr Boulevard
Peter Serafinowicz utters the greatest tit joke in the history of film.
June 9, 2015
What Makes a Woman? – NYTimes.com
The “I was born in the wrong body” rhetoric favored by other trans people doesn’t work any better and is just as offensive, reducing us to our collective breasts and vaginas. Imagine the reaction if a young white man suddenly declared that he was trapped in the wrong body and, after using chemicals to change […]
March 30, 2015
Color Surfing, Predonimant.ly
Sister Rosetta Tharpe, light green.
March 11, 2015
Quarry Days: Little Richard Meets John Lennon, via Michael Hill…
https://www.facebook.com/johnlennonle... Beatles books tend to fall into two broad categories: British vs. American authors. The Brits get a so many particulars right, and shame us Americans so often, they like to think they own the subject. That they feel proprietary puts it mildly. Americans like to ponder how such a vast cultural transformation took place […]
March 6, 2015
DETERIORATA XV:I
QUOTE OF THE WEEK: TIE! Out There: From 1993 to 2002, David Duchovny starred in “The X-Files” as the persistent and slightly paranoid F.B.I. special agent Fox Mulder, investigator of and true believer in paranormal activity. Then, from 2007 to 2014, he took on the even scarier role of Hank Moody, the wild-boy writer in […]
