Daniil Kharms Pretty Much Rules Your Face…
Friday, May 9th by Shane
Is also, apparently, a monster
Via Conversational Reading, here is some more talk about how the Russian absurdist was awesome. Like so awesome one of his friends would get wasted and pee on the floor and all Kharms did was keep a mop on hand. But there are so many other wicked crazy things he did and wrote in this article I expect you to just read it and say to yourself “Yeah, that guy just ruled my face”. Also, I feel it necessary to post this small story from Kharms that I keep on my desktop because, well, it rules: There was a redheaded man who had no eyes or ears. He didn’t have hair either, so he was called a redhead arbitrarily. He couldn’t talk because he had no mouth. He didn’t have a nose either. He didn’t even have arms or legs. He had no stomach, he had no back, no spine, and he didn’t have any insides at all. There was nothing! So, we don’t even know who we’re talking about. We’d better not talk about him any more.
This article by Shalom Auslander, via Bookslut, rules for these reasons: It’s funny and quick and makes me think he really has a point about how anger fuels the creative outlets of this world. It does not rule for these reasons: System of a Down and Bill Hicks aren’t good.
Anyone wanna give me a quick schooling on why you would use a dash instead of a semicolon or vice versa?
You into skulls? On a related note, you into Skulls?
And finally, apparently the filthy internet is taking attention away from filthy books. Book challenges in America keep dropping probably since parents are too busy sweating over GTA IV and Two Girls One Cup to care what teachers are giving their illiterate children. So, I guess we can call that a victory. But then again, when they came for the gay penguins I said nothing…
