Blog Entries from Friedrich Kugelschreiber

  1. Happy Independence Day

    I put down Middlemarch temporarily. I’ve read like three other books since I started it; there are ~100 pages left, but I’ve taken up Main Street by Sinclair Lewis in the meantime. Reading an American novel is like a breath of fresh air. Happy Independence day, everyone. Fittingly, I am reenacting the American Revolution through my reading choices, and as in a mystery play entering into and partaking of that eternal moment; in a mystical recapitulation of it i am declaring my own...
  2. I have no mouth and I must scream

    James Dean, who died in 1955, just landed a new movie role, thanks to CGI - The Verge We fetishize celebrity so hard--it makes us so horny or whatever--that those Hollywood psychopaths feel the need to dig up and reanimate a 50s film star, decades after the flesh has rotted off his bones, to make a movie. There are live actors without the pall of death on them, and you decide to make a digital zombie out of James Dean. It's sick. It's a sign of unhinged capitalistic excess; it's a...
  3. Gæð a wyrd swa hio scel

    I'm sitting in a coffee shop right now. I've been here a couple times in the past week. Last Saturday a guy from the community theater came in, handing out flyers and asking everybody "will you come see Pippin the musical?" Well, he just came in again, and now I have two flyers for Pippin the musical. It feels as if I'll be guilty of some grave impiety if I don't go see this production. A few weeks ago, when I was leaning over the sink to spit out my toothpaste, my crucifix necklace caught...
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