DISMANTLE WHARF

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Cut waaaay back on Meta in early Jan. Don't miss it a bit. Moving some of my online political signaling energy into IRL engagement with ambient humans. It can be real work to manage boundaries but the experience almost always surpasses expectations and feels like the truest defense against fascism. ...

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I though the topic might invite other shares. But apparently not, or at least not yet. Interesting. I had some insights come to me around the time that I posted this and my enthusiasm for their arrival carried me on into this space to reflect on themes of community and crisis. I'll put a little more...

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There is so much to be said in this topic. So much healing to do. How to do it? How has the work been going? Does any of this work work? It is about bodies, right? About fitting in and filling out our bodies in the right way among all our often contradictory and elusive parts? Fear and pain are info...

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Funny. I was just thinking of this genre today. Here's a sample from a favorite: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/articl ... ering-town

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Helping to run a cannabis company, trying to move a co-op through a long dysfunction, writing about how one might dream people into your life. Still meditating an hour a day. Getting ready for the baby to hear about her college options. Discovering the value of emotions. Working at being a worthy li...

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Onboard the LAST OF US train, though ep. 2 was pretty tedious. Before that, followed my Mother's suggestion to check out Ancient Apocalypse. Always good to have something to share with the elders. Quite a bit of good information about very old cities and megaliths though obscured by a hokey breathle...

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OMG! I am so happy this site is back! It's ex-sitin'!

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The chili turned out quite tasty. Just the usual things, various beans and cumin, chili powder, garlic and tomatoes, and so on. jackfruit is the meatish part. can kind of have the consistency of pulled pork. Yes, this was jackfruit from the can. I have made jackfruit from the fruit but it is a lot o...

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we can speak of big screen here too, right? been out in the malls a bit to breathe in their saltpeter fragrance of collapse, everything simultaneously over-priced and abandoned, images in a fever. last night our provocation was 'men'. i've found alex garland's prior directing worth watching and this...

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oooo. nice thread. you'd have liked my jackfruit chili tonight.

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began the flag show. charmed. (they make such wonderful flags!) thank you dismantle.cult for dismantling our evenings.

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I went to IMDB to look up the writer's names for an episode of The Morning Show with the intention of stalking and publicly shaming them.

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We have moved in to The Morning Show which has some fantastic moments that shine through its a-list soap opera gloss. [Update. S2 E7 is so schmaltzy and preposterous I withdraw any endorsement of this project.] On the weekends when the teen checks in (soon to leave us and join the mad swarm of globa...

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OMG. The call is coming from inside the house. So sorry for the suffering you are suffering. Trying to believe I can keep bobbing and weaving.

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Partner and I were screaming at the screen for the last ten minutes of the season closer. I don't believe that has ever happened before in the history of family screen-viewing.

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(I really wanted to say, 'reëvaluate.')

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Severence has caused me to re-evaluate Ben Stiller's contribution to the culture.

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... and then severance happened.

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My family has been enjoying the sentimental amusement of Call My Agent. Sometimes sharp and poignant, sometimes banal and corny, always français af. 4 of ****, fun.

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Mmmm. Nice segue.. (also pivoting off D. Snowden & Cynefin ) https://vimeo.com/117051065 Cut from 2015. More here: Waterloo Institute for Social Innovation and Resilience Interesting particularly because of WISIR's association with Turtle Island Institute to connect contemporary work in 'social'...

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I woke around 4 am and because I am 'on vacation' and free of certain rules I set for myself in other spheres there was a computer in my bed. It has been a habit - I have no idea how long I have done this - to keep some kind of spoken word program running all night as I sleep. I could say much more ...

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my family is all up in Station Eleven rn thanks to dismantle.w. so much it looks like I will have to stay away from the chatter here while we keep on our watch. rn I'm thinking it is one of the best shows I've ever seen. way more complex and emotionally risky that it needs to be - or should be - to ...

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revisited Southland Tales this weekend with the teen. viewing number 3 or 4.. first time in probably 10 years. one of the great sprawling wrecks of a bro trope. the last section, 'wave of mutilation' stands on its own. exhausted by the masculine gaze on a rainy sunday afternoon in america, 2022. bac...

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"I choose life!"

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Teen and I co-reading / explicating U. Le Guin's translation of Tao Te Ching.

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I made it!

How's Gary?

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I am reading THE DAWN OF EVERYTHING. Pretty neat!
(Purchased from the MASSIVE BOOKSHOP with https://commongood.earth community credits, I am proud to say.)

Thanks for the KSR shoutout @RCH! On deck!

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we copy you. now we are in the 1990s in our evenings watching girls do gruesome things on our screen. I will be so pleased if I hear Team Dresch or The Vaselines in this context. By the way, did anyone else catch the Beat Happening cue in Reservation Dogs? That show's Music Supervisor happened to re...

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yourfriendclaire wrote: ↑Mon Dec 27, 2021 8:13 pm ha! I don't remember it as an UrHo thing...but I remember there being a brief moral panic on local news stations in the '08s about YouTube videos that could get you high

That was real news?

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don't look.. made me want to see a satire with bravado... I saw this when I was ten. Pretty amazing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcUv4dAiCkA

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so many..

https://youtu.be/s4S1Q1vfngA

https://youtu.be/zPTyic_WPxI

https://youtu.be/5_HMM4hbJeA

https://youtu.be/98Ow_Jav_eo

https://youtu.be/ais2uSUwIuY

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Backaway in the Ultimate Blogger days, I recall an amusing blost about... was it 'digital drugs'? does anyone recall?

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On the Succession wave. Loved the new Greg predicament, strapped to a marxist missile aimed at the heart of capitalism! Poor Greg!

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Yeah. Capote. One of those. I read that as a pup. I just remember mood. IN COLD BLOOD. oof. The 20th C had a few biggies. All that time on their hands.

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Bless his heart, but oh, to be a white dude in showbiz. Aye. BTW, more about Jim Gavin (and the music) from America Magazine, The Jesuit Review: https://www.americamagazine.org/arts-culture/2018/09/07/interview-jim-gavin-creator-whimsical-offbeat-lodge-49 JG - "The best word I know to describe...

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We completed Lodge 49 last night. Agree that it is special. Sometimes veered zany or poignant in ways that made me tired, but what are you going to do? You gotta get out there and sell that sizzle to make it in America. Ahistorical 'weird folk' themed soundtrack often carried me. Quite an 'auteur'vi...

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Seconding Reservation Dogs. Loved the Cop Ride-along episode. Just sweet complicated flavors. (Beat Happening cue in ep. 4)

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watching lodge 49. it's very stressful. protagonist keeps making terrible choices. not sure if we can stick with it.

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I just read the entire 'What are you watching? thread. My brain feels like it has watched 1000 trailers. So fun to attend your hobnob. Big bag bursting with titles and tropes.

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A wish to be wished any day of any year: H a p p y B i r t h d ay, -R- -C- -H- !!

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That Nina Simone reading. That last interview.. ".. so beautiful [tears]"

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O. And I finally watched US. Also a strong finish. Best Trump era film?

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Summer of Soul finishes strong.

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Hacks is having a turn in the evening family ritual.

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My family has been watching The Expanse. We call it 'Space Problems'. The class and ethnic issues are fun. Bit of gratuitous gore. I guess people enjoy that? It can be almost witty, the gore. So gratuitous. Seems to be a thing.

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Hi Claire! Hi e'r'body! Just thinking about sitting too long and too close to the cathode ray tubes in the previous century. I got cooked. We all got cooked. The institutions are melting along with the glaciers. The distance between peak kindness and peak cruelty is exploding in astronomical intensi...

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That high-pitched sound you heard when you turned the color knob all the way up.

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yourfriendclaire wrote: ↑Thu Dec 17, 2020 10:43 am The best thing about growing older is having known your friends for a very long time. I met @joni when he was 24 and now he’s 40!!!

See? I was 39 when I met you guys. And now I'm 80-greaty!

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yourfriendclaire wrote: ↑Thu Dec 17, 2020 9:41 am Is that how time works??

Yep. A slow zoom out to eternity.

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When I close my eyes and think 'pop song'...

https://youtu.be/bjQzJAKxTrE

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