Art/Skill/Techne
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Question-Knowing
none else can ever deconstruct the paint layered facades that hide reality thought concept belief singularity intertwining mist where I and not-I ever flow toward and away from each other and nothing thought concept belief All falls to one who stumbles in two which skitters… Continue reading
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Joel Cross “Shake it Off”
Joel Cross is a musician from here in Denton who got his degree in music from the University of North Texas. One of the best guitarists in the area. I’ve had the pleasure of seeing him play many times. Wonderful guy… Continue reading
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A Fixed Idea by Amy Lowell
What torture lurks within a single thought When grown too constant; and however kind, However welcome still, the weary mind Aches with its presence. Dull remembrance taught Remembers on unceasingly; unsought The old delight is with us but to find… Continue reading
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McKinney Classic Film Festival
The McKinney Classic Film Festival begins Friday, September 11 at the McKinney Performing Arts Center at 111 N. Tennessee Street and runs through Sunday, September 13. A total of five classic films that span the 1930s to the 1960s, will be screened throughout the… Continue reading
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The end of Aqua Teen Hunger Force marks the end of an era for TV animation · For Our Consideration · The A.V. Club
The Aqua Teens had no mission, no reason for being. They were mascots without a restaurant, signifiers without any signified. At their core they were talking trash, parodies of commercial waste who actually became merchandisable characters in their own right.… Continue reading
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Concerning the Disciplinization of Language
It’s one of those aspects of the Society of Discipline that enclosures of experts form to put knowledge into hierarchical strata and assess who gets power and who does not based on the rules of the enclosure. Yes, I’m talking… Continue reading
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#baristalarry has an #esprorience
Stopping in to @bmc_denton, Barrista Larry makes a latte with a little help from our Customer Service Mgr, Aaron, and then has a full-on esprorience. 😉 Continue reading
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The Tribe Official TRAILER (2015)
Ukrainian director Grigoriy Fesenko’s “The Tribe”–about a deaf teenager struggling to fit into the boarding school system–happens in sign language with no subtitles. Looks brilliant. Continue reading
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Justice Elena Kagan’s Pro–Spider-Man Ruling
A suit involving an inventor trying to retain royalty payments for a web slinging glove (shoots silly string actually) after the patent ran out on the toy. Marvel didn’t want to pay royalties. Inventor wanted them to keep coming… Kagan… Continue reading
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Ursula K. Le Guin: We can Envision Better than Capitalism
“We live in capitalism,” said Le Guin, “Its power seems inescapable… So did the divine right of kings.” Continue reading
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Free to Be Miley
[Miley Cyrus] says she has come to consider her own sexuality — even her own gender identification — fluid. “I am literally open to every single thing that is consenting and doesn’t involve an animal and everyone is of age.… Continue reading
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Ora et Labora, #Prayer and #Work
St. Benedict summarized the entirety of his rule in two practices, contemplating with the heart and laboring with the hands. “The monastic life is very plain and ordinary,” says Father Cassian Folsom, the founder and prior of the Monks of… Continue reading
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Decision
If I am no longer the man I was, it is because I decide to become the man I will be. Continue reading
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Fate and the Wire
Tautological understanding is very much a part of The Wire‘s metaphysics. David Simon directs/authors the series structurally along the lines of Greek Tragedy rather than the Shakesperean variety. Essential paths–following the strict law of identity–play a huge role in instantiating a… Continue reading
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