Paul John Adams

Author of Metarules of the S•M•F

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@thefancymike Apropos of... movies we once watched on VHS??

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@thefancymike Have you seen Car Wash lately. I have. It's better than I'd remembered, mainly for its rejection of central conflict theory. Corny? Well, yeah, ok.

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@Gibboanxious I would say 0%, but if you showed me the back of the box and it said "Directed by John Waters," I'd revise that to 100%.

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@jamie_moberst @Bill_Gerrard Uh, no. That's a ridiculous way to encapsulate one person's life and beliefs because you probably disagree with some parts of his stance regarding Ukraine. Or something like that.

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@DavidMarney4 @HumanBollard @EricIdle Now I'm thinking Devo: "Freedom of choice... is what you've got... Freedom from choice... is what you want..."

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@SnydeNotSnarky @JohnCleese Or, to further develop your thesis, why the fuck any idiot would support Trump at any time ever.

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@bustingood @wastemailing @ryanhasbadtaste Yet Don Quixote is a work that more easily lends itself to a reading focused on "meanings" than, say, Beckett's Watt, or Queneau's Zazie in the Metro, or Kafka's America, or Calvino's If on a Winter's Night a Traveler, or even Homer's Odyssey, or Shakespeare's Othello, or etc...

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@bustingood @wastemailing @ryanhasbadtaste Does the book (do the books) condemn Quixote as an idiot who should have been a realist? Or does it condemn "realist" society for its corruption and pathetic lack of true romance? To some extent Cervantes ridicules both AND advocates for both, and occasionally shrugs at both.

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@_holyweather @moonandmouth I learned that if you put an open pair of scissors under a chair and a witch sits in the chair, she will be unable to get up. Witch trap!!

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@thefancymike Authors I know who have new books out this year are Jim Meirose, with The Box and The Private Adventures of Fresh Detective Gerdulon (both from Alien Buddha) and Zack Kopp with Uneasy World and Main Character Syndrome. They're authors I'd vouch for based on reading prior works.

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@Gabino_Iglesias It's a rose, regardless of its name.

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@bdcollins_1995 @AmericanGwyn My "intuition" is to do whatever Chicago tells me to do. (Okay... semi-facetious, but... not entirely)

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@AmericanGwyn Darn, I wanted to say "Rash Woman," but that's two letters. Well, I'm saying it anyway.

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@words_by__elle @IlanaMiraL @sanktjosten What... is happening...?

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This is not facetious: In what ways is philosophy challenged by the realization that intelligence has only appeared in an animal species; i.e., the universe is only perceived by a creature that is naturally violent, that feels both pain and hunger?

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@thefancymike It's been a long time, but I wonder how Babe 2 has aged.