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May 5, 2011August 3, 2011 - Uncategorized

What Were You Doing in 1979? (part 1)

Paul Simon was making One Trick Pony. Art Garfunkel was starring in Nicolas Roeg’s Bad Timing.

October 13, 2010October 14, 2010 - Uncategorized

The Post-Post-Modern Things: Björk, Kathy Acker, and the Astral-Disappearing Act (23-53/53)

Here’s the rest of the essay….was coming in smaller bits, but now an explosion. (1-2/53) (3-6/53) (7-10/53) (11-17/53) (18-22/53) 23.…

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August 12, 2010 - Uncategorized

The Post-Post-Modern Things: Björk, Kathy Acker, and the Astral-Disappearing Act (18-23/53)

(1-2/53) (3-6/53) (7-10/53) (11-17/53) 18. Surely she had precursors, as Humbert Humbert speaks of his famous nymphet.  Yet, more than…

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August 4, 2010August 5, 2010 - Uncategorized

The Post-Post-Modern Things: Björk, Kathy Acker, and the Astral-Disappearing Act (11-17/53)

Earlier: (1-2/53) (3-6/53) (7-11/53) 11. From Acker’s Blood and Guts in High School (1978): “The plants in her room cast…

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July 27, 2010 - Uncategorized

The Post-Post-Modern Things: Björk, Kathy Acker, and the Astral-Disappearing Act (7-11/53)

Earlier: The Post-Post-Modern Things: Björk, Kathy Acker, and the Astral-Disappearing Act (1-2/53) The Post-Post-Modern Things: Björk, Kathy Acker, and the Astral-Disappearing…

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