26.1.12

if it was about anything

“When Madeleine asked what the book was about, she was given to understand by Whitney that the idea of a book being 'about' something was exactly what this book was against, and that, if it was 'about' anything, then it was about the need to stop thinking of books as being about things. Madeleine said she was going to make coffee.”

(Jeffrey Eugenides, The Marriage Plot)

23.1.12

orientoitukaa voittoon

My Doctor Says Haavisto

Kokoomuslaisia emme ole.

-ksi emme tahdo tulla.

Olkaamme siis haavistolaisia.

Don't stand in the doorway / Don't block up the hall

Viitasaari on uusi Facebook.

Rullaluistin on uusi jalasmökki.

Fashionably late on uusi Suomella töissä.

Kävely on uusi limo.

Dialogi on uusi läpihuuto.

La comunità che viene on uusi Vårt land.

5.2.2012...

It'll soon shake your windows / And rattle your walls

Mennäänpäs mokoman suon yli, että heilahtaa.

"Pyydän teitä orientoitumaan toisen kierroksen voittoon."

20.1.12

modernismin myöhempiä vaiheita

Maantieltä hän lähti ja androidit

Tiet etäisyyksiin ja Godzilla

Syksy muuttaa Kloonisodat

Peiliin piirretty Crimson Dynamo III

Kenttävartio ja Robocop

Asioiden suhteet ja Balrog

Kirkas, hämärä, Cthulhu

18.1.12

in a volatile world we need more discretion

You've been on your high horse and you are off to the the races. / I look at the world on a case-by-case basis. / When people are suffering I roll up my sleeves / and do what I can to cure our disease. / The future's uncertain, our outlooks are frail. / That's why free markets are so prone to fail. / In a volatile world we need more discretion / so state intervention can counter depression.”

Keynes vs. Hayek Round Two