I read a whole bunch of longish stuff from the internet, so sometimes I want to generically recommend something that's probably not quite thread material, and I am almost always interested in generic recommendations, so this is a thread for good, longform you find on the internet. I'm going first, though:
This is just so so good. It's a detective story about the blues and the proto-blues and racism and obsession and the recording industry and things like that, and it's just so good.
Ha ha, don't care. I'm still going to post stuff sometimes, and judge all y'all for not reading it.
This is really woah stuff about ambiguities around patients in varying states of consciousness, and people working on ways to establish communications with them.
I get RSS from different longform sites, and sometimes I want to recommend something, but also, I only really read stuff that either immediately grabs my attention, or that I see linked in multiple different places. But also I figure I'd trust your guyses' recommendations more than generic sites.
PS my favorite is to go through my longreads section (esp. longform.org and longreads.com, because they're aggregators), then I save the things I want to Pocket so I can read them whenever I get a chance, either online or off. It's p. sweet. Also, longreads.com lets you sort by how much time you have.
I don't know and I don't care about what this article is about. It's very very British, and all that happened during my Lost Decade when I had a little kid and too many things to do and didn't have a clue what anyone else was up to. I mean, I had to keep stopping and looking things up so I'd even know what he was talking about.
I only read it because someone pulled the sick burn about Oasis being the most disastrous misunderstanding of the Beatles since Charles Manson.
But then, I started getting angry anyway, and now I am pretty sure that 90s Britpop is at the root of everything that is currently shit everywhere.
Never mind that for all I know, this could be fabricated from near whole cloth. I only have a vague, scattered sense of recognition of what this guy's even talking about.
Still.
Stupid Blur. I've hated them since, like, forever.
Maybe someday, I can tell the second hand story of when my brothers set a horse's head on fire in the middle of the night at some reservoir and then both lost their shoes in the mud trying to get away, and had to sneak into the only 24 hour store in town to get new ones.
Oh, wait. That was pretty much the whole thing. Story TOLD. SHORTFORM.
Maybe someday, I can tell the second hand story of when my brothers set a horse's head on fire in the middle of the night at some reservoir and then both lost their shoes in the mud trying to get away, and had to sneak into the only 24 hour store in town to get new ones.
Oh, wait. That was pretty much the whole thing. Story TOLD. SHORTFORM.
I'm pretty sure you've told that story before. Or, rather, you told the part about your brothers losing their shoes in the mud and having to go shopping while shoeless in the middle of the night, but you neglected to mention the FLAMING HORSE HEAD, like oh, setting fire to the grisly remains of a large animal is just a Wednesday night, but the interesting part of this story is obviously being in Wal*Mart or wherever with no shoes on.
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"Trans Am Jesus" is "what hanged me"
I don't mind at all just sticking things here as bookmarks just in case someone is looking for something to read someday, but it's really nice to know that someone's appreciating them.
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"freedom to differ is not limited to things that do not matter much. That would be a mere shadow of freedom. The test of its substance is the right to differ as to things that touch the heart of the existing order."
- Justice Robert Jackson, West Virginia State Board of Ed. v. Barnette
I like that a lot. I've always been really bothered by that chirpy, relentless, delusional, and worst of all forced kind of optimism. I'm not going to post some scene from Dancer in the Dark, but I really want to.
Long form recommendations.
not reading. Your emotional logic sucks.
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