Paul R

Professionally trained amateur academic. Lover of bourbon & Great Danes. Native Californian & proud.

[Paul R @PaulRinSF]

@_motherslug The Deleuze & Guattari Italian Wedding Fakebook is my favorite instance of the playful whimsy and abstruse arcana being one and the same. Also, the love song between the logical elements of a proposition (in V. if memory serves).

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@GJOH29 And both are lower than his OPS, which is insane.

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@bloatinus Seems like it’s the “deciding” that marks the spot of corporate cooptation. Punk was always already co-opted by its self-consciousness as style (hence its anxiety about poseurs), but by the ‘90s it was a player-piano roll of poses.

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@purpledrank0 @Jeff_Scott123 @GiantHotTakes I feel like trolling Padres fans is almost too easy, not least because they’re burning so hot as the window starts to close. Giants fans have proven themselves over long decades; I fear Pads fans don’t have the stamina.

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@jskmap1284 @AdmiralBear01 @baileytparsons There was something like an ‘agricultural research station’ (IIRC) at Davis before Berkeley had buildings, but as I said, that’s a technicality & Cal was certainly the first UC campus per se.

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@jskmap1284 @AdmiralBear01 @baileytparsons Davis technically precedes Berkeley, but not as a general campus.

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@_motherslug I thought the penultimate season was pretty bad, IIRC, and the season before that wasn’t much better. But lordy did they ever nail that finale.

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@purpledrank0 @Jeff_Scott123 @GiantHotTakes Would you say that you’re living your best life more when trolling Giants fans or Padres fans?

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@Boltjolt @JomboyMedia They are astonishingly bad and quite obviously so, except to Giants fans who evidently don’t know any better. You’d have thought that the outstanding Jon Miller might’ve made an impression.

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@GJOH29 Looking forward to the day he’s announced as a front office or minor league hire in Dodger blue.

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@BlakeHHarris @InfiniteDodger He said literally _nothing_ that Mets fans don’t say 1,000 times a season.

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@ComfortableCam @_motherslug Farnum’s soliloquies are the best in the show IMO, the most clearly Shakespearean in form and function.

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@FeitanoTheWise @_motherslug For me that is one of the most cringe-inducing bits of scenery-chewing I’ve ever seen. I hate it so much I skip over it rather than watch it. I hasten to add that I really like pretty much every other performance of his in the show. Chacun à son goût I suppose.

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@sibinmohan This happens in the BDSM world as part of a particular dynamic. Highly intelligent hetero women who have submissive fantasies sometimes need to make it at least _plausible_ that the man they’re playing with is ‘superior’ to them for purposes of the fantasy.

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@Jolly_Olive Incorrect. It was a marvelous call, appropriately invoking a long, hard-earned history of LOLball without extraneous elaboration.

“Oh no—Mets!!” is exactly what every Mets fan thinks 1,000 times each season.

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@MickPuck Back in the ‘70s, Jan Wenner apparently issued a decree that all rock critics who even aspired to the august pages of Rolling Stone had to use ‘eponymous’ whenever possible on penalty of death. It even metastasized into the pages of Creem, Circus, NY Rocker, etc.

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@rationalyankee …and with that bit of arrant idiocy he lost the right to the adjective ‘rational.’ Sic transit gloria Twitter

One prays that’s literally the dumbest thing you’ve ever thought, let alone written. You actually think MLB/the Dodgers/aliens/the Illuminati bamboozled the FBI & IRS?

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@MattPolProf Her Berkeley predecessor Michael Rogin also preached this dismal prophecy. He once told me that “the only way socialism will ever come to the United States will be with the word ‘national’ preceding it.” (He was if anything even harder on liberals.)

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@bartlebytaco “over which they know absolutely nothing about”

New to English, I see. Welcome!

[in English it would be “about which they know absolutely nothing.” Hit the books.]

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@LatFilosof Nozick.