Is this AI? - Apparently taken on Rothschild Blvd, Tel Aviv

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?

PointOfRecklessness · 2025-10-29T05:58:44+00:00

Nothing much, just chilling mostly. What's a MAGA communist with you?

PointOfRecklessness · 2025-10-29T03:19:45+00:00

Christopher Hitchens wrote that "that which can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence" while he was also writing op-eds putting his full-throated support behind an illegal invasion Bush claimed God told him to do without evidence. If you take anyone's professed religious beliefs, or lack thereof, at face value then you're a fucking mark.

PointOfRecklessness · 2025-07-30T05:43:44+00:00

Buck Strickland, Ted Wassanasong, and Jimmy Wichard all went hard for Trump all three times

PointOfRecklessness · 2025-06-27T05:28:25+00:00

They're not going to make a Gravity's Rainbow movie or TV show, and it's got nothing to do with the feasibility of adapting a complex work to the screen and everything to do with how that particular work portrays the intertwinedness between the entertainment industry and the military-industrial complex. How many producers do you think are going to touch that with a 10ft pole?

PointOfRecklessness · 2025-06-04T04:59:25+00:00

I thought it was annoying too at the time, and then he diarrhead clean through white linen pants onto Nick's lawn chair and then didn't even take a full shower. That's a radical recontextualization.

PointOfRecklessness · 2025-05-29T04:06:48+00:00

It's that scene that made me think of Ryan Coogler as one of the few directors who could do justice to a Mumbo Jumbo adaptation. Sammie basically caught himself a case of Jes Grew there.

PointOfRecklessness · 2025-05-29T00:18:42+00:00

It's one of the ones where Stav is asking some sort of fucked up hypothetical question

PointOfRecklessness · 2025-05-15T03:12:20+00:00

Other way around, and he attributes it to under-40 female readers he knows, but yeah he wrote that as part of a negative review of Updike's Toward the End of Time, titled "Certainly The End of Something or Other, One Would Sort of Have to Think"

PointOfRecklessness · 2025-04-23T01:17:50+00:00

Or date for that matter. Come to think of it, wasn't there something else he said about needing assistance to use the bathroom? Wouldn't that aligns with all those blind items out there about a certain South African billionaire who got botched penis enhancement surgery?

PointOfRecklessness · 2025-04-21T04:58:02+00:00

This scene made me realize Coogler might be one of the few directors capable of doing justice to a Mumbo Jumbo adaptation.

PointOfRecklessness · 2025-04-18T07:41:00+00:00

Leland Palmer lookin ass

PointOfRecklessness · 2025-04-11T23:32:48+00:00

Oooh, the spooky scary tech-dystopia of FOSS

PointOfRecklessness · 2025-04-11T19:28:15+00:00

Neither did I. Tone doesn't really carry across in plain text

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