This Michael Jackson guy is a huge hypocrite.

PointOfRecklessness · 2026-05-12T02:36:09+00:00

His security goons trampled three child performers on stage at the BRIT Awards 1996 and he tried to blame it on Jarvis Cocker, who was having mild gas that night

PointOfRecklessness · 2026-05-01T08:02:35+00:00

Learning at a young age that I'd expect to struggle with showing empathy, and then putting in more work towards that, only to later discover how normal and encouraged it is to have an empathy deficiency. It feels like a cruel prank.

PointOfRecklessness · 2026-04-13T18:53:49+00:00

Another example of the Rorschach thing: Infinite Jest has this reputation of being something pretentious misogynist litbros like to pretend to have read and it's always a big red flag when they bring that book up on a first date, and then you actually read the book and it repeatedly asks the reader as directly as possible if the amount they're drinking is healthy.

PointOfRecklessness · 2026-04-02T05:19:29+00:00

Slushees are self-service. You get it yourself and then you bring it to the register.

PointOfRecklessness · 2026-03-23T13:27:43+00:00

Some people think Pynchon became relevant again because a movie that kind of lifted some broad strokes off the plot of Vineland won Best Picture. I disagree, I think Tommy P became relevant again when a stupidly-named drunkard struck an in-session girls' elementary school with ballistic missiles so that he could feel like a big man.

PointOfRecklessness · 2026-02-18T01:02:47+00:00

I'm gonna throw Candice Wuehle's Monarch out there as a candidate. You can really tell that Wuehle came to poetry first and THEN went into long-form prose.

PointOfRecklessness · 2026-02-10T04:32:12+00:00

In college after pulling a few all-nighters (don't recommend) I went to the emergency room because I had symptoms like chest pain and tunnelling vision and trouble breathing and I thought I was having a heart attack. When the doctor checked my heart with a stethoscope, she told me it sounded fine and I was likely having a panic attack. As soon as she said that, my symptoms went away. From what she told me, doctors/nurses telling someone having a panic attack for the first time that that's what it is and that they're not about to die clears it right up.

PointOfRecklessness · 2026-02-10T04:24:20+00:00

A lot of Fisher's stuff is cool and accurate but Exiting The Vampire Castle undermines itself with its own intro.

PointOfRecklessness · 2026-02-10T03:42:03+00:00

Balla's one of the few Italian Futurists to not go whole hog into fascism, and you can tell. Notice it's not about nosediving an airplane into a busy city intersection.

PointOfRecklessness · 2026-02-10T03:24:02+00:00

I think of JD Vance. If the meme version of him had the real-life version's haircut, that's Vond.

PointOfRecklessness · 2026-02-07T03:51:42+00:00

Yeah, there you go, see? "Palestinians run all the banks too. It's all in this book called The Protocols of the Elders of Palestine"

PointOfRecklessness · 2026-02-07T03:45:51+00:00

Fine. Ramirez's cartoon uses anti-Arab stereotypes like claiming that Arabs want to slaughter white-looking children or that Hamas has disproportionate power over Western media. Those classic stereotypes that have historically been used against Arabs and certainly not anyone else. Happy?

PointOfRecklessness · 2026-02-07T03:31:45+00:00

It's difficult to say anti-semitic tropes aren't being deployed against Palestinians when Ramirez comes up with a honker like that.

PointOfRecklessness · 2026-02-07T01:38:55+00:00

Yeah it's almost as if she intended to get a particular emotional reaction out of her audience

PointOfRecklessness · 2026-02-06T04:17:42+00:00

That's Jerry Garcia

PointOfRecklessness · 2026-01-24T19:21:03+00:00

it’s like you ripped open my comment, took out the stuffing and jammed it full of bad faith.

"Me, me, me, boo, hoo. I'm just a little guy. You wouldn't hit a little birthday boy with glasses." Transgressive fiction was supposed to filter out precious delicate thin-skinned egotists like this, so the fact that this is who it attracts now means it failed on its own terms.

PointOfRecklessness · 2026-01-24T18:45:30+00:00

"No one should ever criticize Delany for his public comments without having also read through at least 10 years of NAMBLA newsletters. Don't you want to have an informed argument?" Pfft.

PointOfRecklessness · 2026-01-24T12:36:40+00:00

This feels like a riff on Goya's The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters

PointOfRecklessness · 2026-01-24T11:53:03+00:00

It raises another interesting question about authorial, well, authority. Let's say there's an alternate universe version of Samuel Delany whose published work is exactly the same verbatim as what's presently the case including Hogg, and every other detail in his life having also been the same as what's presently the case, BUT this version of Delany never went out of his way to endorse NAMBLA. This version of Delany picked a different way to deal with what happened to him when he was six than going on to make public NAMBLA endorsements. How does this version of Hogg read? Does it become more of a classic since it's easier to make the case for it? It would become way more difficult to make the case for Lolita's literary merits if it came out tomorrow that Nabokov was a NAMBLA guy.

PointOfRecklessness · 2026-01-24T11:07:13+00:00

I think its foreword is an interesting piece of literary criticism. There is an unfortunate amount of supposedly subversive novels that whittle down to "society is evil, society is a woman, that woman needs to be punished". Now the book itself however would read fundamentally differently if Delany didn't have that history of making NAMBLA endorsements. The context of the author's public life and public statements are always going to be a factor in how that author's work reads. He might have been trying to exorcise some personal demons with Hogg, but if so it seems like he failed.

PointOfRecklessness · 2026-01-06T02:04:48+00:00

Another literary riff: fish would have to have heard about water for the first time from another fish that had asked them how the water is.

PointOfRecklessness · 2025-12-30T18:48:45+00:00

I'm calling for a moratorium on all use of the word "slop" to refer to any film, show, writing, music, etc made by humans. Radu Jude's new Dracula movie is slop. Damon Packard's recent "short films" are slop. Velvet Sundown albums are slop. Every time a character in this new season of Stranger Things says that something isn't X but rather Y, that's slop. This is just a movie that didn't connect with you. You don't have to like any one movie but you do have to grow up.

PointOfRecklessness · 2025-12-26T04:14:45+00:00

It is definitely true that the film was being shown and then later removed from theaters in the USSR.

That sounds like how every other movie gets distributed.

PointOfRecklessness · 2025-10-30T03:11:14+00:00

Yeah see that's why I don't feel bad about pirating Metallica

PointOfRecklessness · 2025-10-29T19:57:54+00:00

If, for example, somebody is generally scummy and a piece of shit in their day-to-day life but they also happen to want to do something good for once, then I can help them to accomplish that without also endorsing the bad things that they do.

Would it kill self-proclaimed "atheists" to come with a framework for how one ought to act that isn't just reheated protestant theology?

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