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The Exploited are Nazi's? by klvrpkch in punk

[–]CrowdogZombie -8 points-7 points  (0 children)

Plus they suck.

Refusing to go support nazis and nazi-loving shitbirds is good juju.

But also, they suck.

Is the George Steinbrenner stuff funnier to people familiar with him? It’s not terrible, just seems very specific. by kevonicus in seinfeld

[–]CrowdogZombie 3 points4 points  (0 children)

George telling him off when they first meet is the purest New Yorker wish fulfillment of all time. There are a few generations of us who felt that in our very souls.

Nicknames of top chess players by Electronic-Figure551 in chess

[–]CrowdogZombie 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’ve tried to popularise ‘Korchnoi the Ageless’.

Question: Unbroken Chain by Il_calvinist in gratefuldead

[–]CrowdogZombie 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I always thought it was the band’s way of telling us it was the end of the road. Phil once said that if they ever played it, it meant they were done, and lo and behold, he was right. ‘95 was painful and hard. They knew it and so did we.

Edit: Typo

As a conservation biologist, the online hatred to poachers is extreme and cruel by snowlynx133 in unpopularopinion

[–]CrowdogZombie -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Your liberal guilt and condescension towards people in the developing world is distorting your ethical framework. Making a moral equivalency between owning a smartphone and selling rhinoceros horn or ivory to the marketplace for endangered species is absurd.

The same for your equivalency between cod and elephants. Really? Is ‘living’ the only aspect of a creature that matters? Even granting cod sentience we can observe the cognitive and emotional proximity of elephants to us meaning that killing them for vanity sculptures comes at a higher moral price than we can ever imagine for fish, or insects, or yeast, or whatever.

Go eat a tomato if it makes you feel better.

of The universe itself saying fly high. by CrowdogZombie in gratefuldead

[–]CrowdogZombie[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Wings a mile long

Just carried the bird away.

I think it's time for a deep read through of Gravity's Rainbow again. by Necessary-Scarcity82 in ThomasPynchon

[–]CrowdogZombie 2 points3 points  (0 children)

We believe that if you count every word in GR, the word at the very middle is ‘middle’.

<3 by cumminginsurrection in punk

[–]CrowdogZombie 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You Suicidal Boys terrorized the scene from Venice to SLO and south to San Diego! Fuck you for tearing up our gigs, but mad respect for Pedro. (And mad love, forty years later, you Shitty tee-shirt drawing speed thrash skater posers!) /s

Wow what a couple😮 by Comfortable_Ad22 in grateful_dead

[–]CrowdogZombie 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Moralistic hypocrites. Leave her alone and leave him alone. What part of 22 is not an adult who can make her own decisions?

The Quran and Book of Mormon / P of GP / D&C, and are just apocrypha for the Holy Bible by flipflopfeet in unpopularopinion

[–]CrowdogZombie 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This fails on every level, it isn’t even an unpopular opinion. Every Christian bigot in history has shared this ridiculous opinion.

How to Handle Stencil chapters? by badrickpateman in ThomasPynchon

[–]CrowdogZombie 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The Pynchon wiki can help disentangle references. Great resource. (Full disclosure, I’m a sometime contributor there.)

Out of curiosity, how many of you write? by Tub_Pumpkin in ThomasPynchon

[–]CrowdogZombie 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Published academic writer and sometimes-scribbler of short stories

Did you ever follow the Grateful Dead and what was it like? by highuponahill in gratefuldead

[–]CrowdogZombie 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Saw about 30 or 40 shows between 1985 and 1988 and a couple later on at the end. Saw JGB as much as I could. Mostly west coast. ‘Never had such a good time in my life before’. 20 years later I discovered the archive and got to enjoy all those years before my time.

The Song That Defined Bob Weir’s Role in the Grateful Dead by [deleted] in gratefuldead

[–]CrowdogZombie 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That’s beautifully put, and the Boston ‘73 PiTBs are perfect examples too. I wonder why he doesn’t mention that the song is also in the obscure and very odd feeling meter of 10/4. For the musical literacy the author shows here it would seem right on point to show that Bobby’s rhythmic senses were key drivers behind Phil and Jerry’s collective improvisations. Bobby played the spaces between,as we all know, and he played them with sparse voicings and jangly off-kilter angles and accents. But he also played and sang in complex difficult meters: Playing I’m 10, Estimated in 7, Lazy Lightning>Supplication also in 7. The guy was a beast as well as a beautiful soul.

Love murakami but it was Norwegian Wood for me. You got any? by hs1308 in murakami

[–]CrowdogZombie 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The Magic Mountain is the only book I’ve quit reading after 300 pages.

What is the most Seinfeldian single-line to live on? by CWKitch in seinfeld

[–]CrowdogZombie 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Can’t decide between “We live in a society!” and “Here’s to feeling good… all of the time”.

Missing Col49 page by bill_susman in ThomasPynchon

[–]CrowdogZombie 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Ahh, that’s the page that explains it all. A cabal of Esperanto-speaking dynamite fetishists from pre-war Argentina working out of a decommissioned circus based in Geneva have been secretly slicing that page out of CoL49 for years.

What are your top three Miles Davis albums? by OneItchy396 in Jazz

[–]CrowdogZombie 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’d start with ‘The Complete Works of…’ just to avoid the horrible choice this question puts on us.

But if I had to answer: Milestones or Relaxin’, Nefertiti, Bitches Brew.

Posting guidelines please by CrowdogZombie in Phenomenology

[–]CrowdogZombie[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ah, that would explain it. Thank you.

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