tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30450115923780364412024-03-18T09:17:30.610-07:00à bas le cielEisel Mazardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06898869744926590471noreply@blogger.comBlogger687125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3045011592378036441.post-37729801040511409762024-03-18T09:13:00.001-07:002024-03-18T09:16:50.949-07:00Too Cute to be Easy.
A motto for many things in life —and a serious contender for the title of the first volume of my autobiography. ;-)Eisel Mazardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06898869744926590471noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3045011592378036441.post-82475540816040198042024-03-18T06:22:00.001-07:002024-03-18T09:16:58.943-07:00When money is the motive.Eisel Mazardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06898869744926590471noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3045011592378036441.post-74794972097545903482024-03-14T17:31:00.000-07:002024-03-14T17:31:21.618-07:00Though seeing, they do not see; though hearing, they do not hear.This is James Aspey. This was his facial expression while he was reading my comment —perhaps in a moment of recognizing who I am and where he remembers me from, perhaps not.Eisel Mazardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06898869744926590471noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3045011592378036441.post-24276580004655341972024-03-14T02:10:00.001-07:002024-03-14T17:20:47.779-07:00Five years: you only get so many segments of five years to gamble with.Eisel Mazardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06898869744926590471noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3045011592378036441.post-68708495695905789662024-03-12T14:21:00.000-07:002024-03-14T17:21:02.743-07:00Frame One.https://youtube.com/shorts/7RB1XcLkxgUEisel Mazardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06898869744926590471noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3045011592378036441.post-84204996510577888932024-03-09T04:22:00.001-08:002024-03-09T15:11:44.618-08:00Reckless optimism.Eisel Mazardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06898869744926590471noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3045011592378036441.post-20430188505982473002024-03-08T05:33:00.000-08:002024-03-08T05:35:12.682-08:00The ladybug on its blade of grass, the sun in its sky, etc.One point I did not quite communicate (in my unedited performance) but that a few of you may have picked up on implicitly: it may seem salient to reproach the animals of the forest for living and suffering "for nothing" from the perspective of the sun, on the scale of the solar system revolving through the eons, that these are motes of dust relative to a galaxy comprising innumerable solar Eisel Mazardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06898869744926590471noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3045011592378036441.post-66651540908741501132024-03-08T04:14:00.000-08:002024-03-08T05:33:56.996-08:00Wolf on a Carpet, Lion on a Couch: Abolir El MascotismoEisel Mazardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06898869744926590471noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3045011592378036441.post-3677965769748906232024-03-07T12:40:00.001-08:002024-03-08T05:34:06.701-08:00Cotton candy colored culture clash.
I used to say the future of the veganism is you. Let's face it: after a war of attrition I was never even trying to win, the future of veganism is me.Eisel Mazardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06898869744926590471noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3045011592378036441.post-16223975975103411802024-03-06T13:00:00.001-08:002024-03-06T16:45:47.579-08:00For Melissa, also, this is still season two.
À bas le ciel: season two isn't over yet.Eisel Mazardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06898869744926590471noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3045011592378036441.post-53558642211043791842024-03-06T07:24:00.001-08:002024-03-06T16:47:00.841-08:00Final Cut Bro revisited.Eisel Mazardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06898869744926590471noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3045011592378036441.post-23613676718906401792024-03-03T21:03:00.001-08:002024-03-06T07:27:22.765-08:00Hard man.Eisel Mazardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06898869744926590471noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3045011592378036441.post-34894665917604730742024-03-02T07:09:00.001-08:002024-03-06T16:47:06.292-08:00Not Detroit.Eisel Mazardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06898869744926590471noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3045011592378036441.post-92181119489346990332024-03-01T17:32:00.001-08:002024-03-06T07:28:04.571-08:00Any political movement predicated on the notion that life is not worth living is doomed.
There actually was an autocorrect error in this one that I had to fix: premised vs. predicated upon.Eisel Mazardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06898869744926590471noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3045011592378036441.post-59721084307935260052024-02-29T11:01:00.001-08:002024-03-06T07:28:16.164-08:00The world's most easily anticipated cultural crisis.Eisel Mazardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06898869744926590471noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3045011592378036441.post-65263982951424291182024-02-28T17:38:00.001-08:002024-03-06T07:28:23.537-08:00Incorporating as a creed, not a religion... AFAIK Cambridge University started this side of the game...Eisel Mazardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06898869744926590471noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3045011592378036441.post-1612225932557203072024-02-25T18:39:00.000-08:002024-02-26T00:57:16.780-08:00A revolution wasted on the revolutionaries.
Youth is wasted on the young. Conformity is wasted on the conformists. Revolution is wasted on the revolutionaries.Eisel Mazardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06898869744926590471noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3045011592378036441.post-78823700472883960952024-02-25T14:58:00.000-08:002024-02-25T15:07:16.002-08:00On ostensible motivations: money, fame, power, respect, sex.This is not a bad trait, on your part, but you need to become more accustomed to dealing with the division between ostensible motivations and actual motivations:even within a demimonde as obviously artistic and altruistic as rap music, ONLY A MINORITY OF PEOPLE really care about rap music itself, whereas some people are just trying to make money, just trying to get laid —some people are literallyEisel Mazardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06898869744926590471noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3045011592378036441.post-73976301314607058192024-02-25T12:08:00.001-08:002024-02-26T00:56:00.523-08:00Appealing to self-interest, as opposed to "doing the right thing because it's the right thing to do."Eisel Mazardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06898869744926590471noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3045011592378036441.post-14802681752232175952024-02-23T23:02:00.001-08:002024-02-26T00:56:10.755-08:00The riddle of the five year plan.Eisel Mazardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06898869744926590471noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3045011592378036441.post-25058566530053043552024-02-23T18:46:00.000-08:002024-02-23T18:46:21.482-08:00Socrates of New Orleans.Socrates started out in the agora. Ended up in prison with a bottle of hemlock. I ain't playing that Socrates game by those Socrates rules. Socratic method is overrated. Even at Harvard.If you want to live in imitation of Socrates, don't forget the way in which he died.Eisel Mazardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06898869744926590471noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3045011592378036441.post-52037585282986700222024-02-21T17:27:00.001-08:002024-02-23T10:19:02.555-08:00The Spirit of Season Three.
The long-awaited sequel... COWSPIRACY 2: DON'T BLAME JESUS, a.k.a. Christspiracy: the Revenge of Doh.
Eisel Mazardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06898869744926590471noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3045011592378036441.post-51097365447857438252024-02-21T00:40:00.001-08:002024-02-21T07:11:17.327-08:00Department of Not Taking the War Seriously.Eisel Mazardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06898869744926590471noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3045011592378036441.post-62414385683209146372024-02-20T07:31:00.000-08:002024-02-20T20:03:08.617-08:00Tattoos and swords: being perceived as dangerous is better than being perceived as innocuous.—————My advantage (and disadvantage) in life is that people find me terrifying: this is partly "intellectually intimidating", but it's partly some other type of fear —several other types of fear, perhaps.—————Interesting. Do you have much success with that?—————Depends on what you mean by success.A lot of people perceive me to be a genius, in a lot of different contexts.Not a lot of people Eisel Mazardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06898869744926590471noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3045011592378036441.post-28572669905593776472024-02-20T07:08:00.000-08:002024-02-20T07:08:34.650-08:00On the self-evident stupidity of Sam Bankman-Fried: cultural implications.Torn from the comment section.[Eisel Mazard:] The only mystery is how this guy convinced anyone that he was of above average intelligence: SBF has never said a single word in an interview that sounded wise, witty or even sharp.[samuhlm2:] hes going to have haters for obvious reasons, but if you don't think it takes above average intelligence to go to MIT, work at Jane St, start a business doing Eisel Mazardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06898869744926590471noreply@blogger.com