Oh, and I finished the biography of Hitler I've been reading these two months. Turns out the butler did it.


Exploitation and The X-FactorExploitation and The X-FactorExploitation and The X-Factor
This article examines how contestants seeking celebrity through Simon Cowell's program are submitting to be ridiculed.
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The X-Factor is presently in the final stages of its sixth season. Although this series has not recreated the ratings height of season five's conclusion, viewing figures are consistent with previous years. The X-Factor attracts 55% or so of the terrestrial audience, according to The Independent. Unlike other 'phenomena' like Big Brother then, The X-Factor's appeal has not diminished.
With some justice might Simon Cowell argue that his show en


Raskolnikov's LetterLetter from Rodion Raskolnikov to Sonya MarmeladovaRaskolnikov's Letter
13th January, 1867 Siberia
Dearest Sonya,
There resides through the window of my prison cell a mud track, often taken by the peasants. They traverse by this route, in their horses and carts, the distance separating their landowner's estate from their farms. I'm not certain what it is they freight back and forth - their barrows are covered by those coarse blankets such people favour and it's not something with which I'm concerned.
What is of greater interest to me than the peasants themselves is the highway by which t
Old School

napoleon at sevenan old guitarist sitting on a watercolor hill,napoleon at seven
plucking on six strings absent. two halves of breasts running near
under van gogh's starry night, under black-white guernica.
everything in all jigsaws, everything in trepid cubes.
a girl before a mirror with violin and guitar,
sitting with three musicians and a woman with her book,
stippling all realities of intangible maternity.
hours yielding from dalí's clock, minutes sub-the alchemist
like rain, like raining, like rained— portraits wilt
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I really should be studying.
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Aspen
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"For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
And the stars never rise but I feel the bright eyes
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;" ~ Edgar Allen Poe
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Aladdin Sane
Scary Monsters
Outside
The Best of Bowie
The rest I either find embarrassing to listen to, or have lost all appeal after five years.
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\"might wanna incest in Photoshop.\" -- Chandra
\"My uncle works for Orkin killing incests\" -- Mojo
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'Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.'
Yeah, Dostoevsky wasn't too happy being resurrected from the grave to help me compete for a dA subscription, but I won him round eventually. (Actually, my first thought on completing the thing was 'God, this sounds nothing like Crime and Punishment', but thanks for the kind words!)
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