sus

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Compared to combat, stealing money felt like “child’s play.” “Hundreds and hundreds of times I’d gone through people’s houses with guns, zip-tying people, screaming at people, sometimes shooting, and it’s like, what’s this compared to that?” He robbed nearly a dozen banks over the next four months, stealing close to $40,000.

Apparently Cherry exists because of Tyrant Books (publishers of Megan Boyle's Live Blog, Darcie Wilder's literally show me a healthy person, Ken Baumann's Solip.)
Mr. Walker never planned to write about his experience, he said. Once in a low security prison, he found ways to occupy himself: he read 19th-century Russian literature, studied Spanish, German and Latin, and tutored other inmates who were getting their G.E.D.s. Two and a half years into his sentence, he got a letter from Matthew Johnson, co-owner of Tyrant Books. Mr. Johnson had read an article in BuzzFeed about Mr. Walker’s crimes and his military service, and began sending him books to read. After they had corresponded for a few months, Mr. Johnson urged him to write a book.
 

WashYourHands

Cat Malogen
Saw that film drop as a torrent last few days, oorah. Admit to be curious as every cinematic depiction of ptsd is, well, cinematic

As for ptsd, that other lass who kept insisting on getting her snatch out and nodding hard from smack got there figuratively up-thread, pretty gash though (pardon the pun)
 
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mvuent

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yeah those were just me amusing myself by imitating the way much smarter people talk. the tweets are meaningless nonsense. for some reason the phrase "libidinal economy" was really cracking me up that day.

in all seriousness i really did enjoy that story though, would recommend it to anyone who doubts the power of the BKLYN mafia.
 
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mvuent

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tbh i doubt their power, but am a big fan of stories that paint really vivid pictures of their characters' psychologies, especially when said pictures feel "true".

haven't read much of the borges recently but when i finish it (in 50 years) i'll def revive that thread. if you wanted to talk about any particular story i'd be up for reading it.
 

linebaugh

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tbh i doubt their power, but am a big fan of stories that paint really vivid pictures of their characters' psychologies.

haven't read much of the borges recently but when i finish it (in 50 years) i'll def revive that thread. if you wanted to talk about any particular story i'd be up for reading it.
no I think you should pivot to Ulysses and join the boys
 

mvuent

Void Dweller
This just in: sex, drugs & rock n roll rendered boring by privileged brooklyn hipsters
i think a lot of these people were serious, overly studious nerds in school, so once they get to hip brooklyn--in their minds, on the merits of how interesting they've become thanks to all their highbrow reading and academic cleverness--they feel like it's their turn to live it up and be rockstars. the magicians (the book) captures this dynamic of insufferable self conscious / self congratulatory hedonism pretty well iirc.
 

pattycakes_

Can turn naughty
i think a lot of these people were serious, overly studious nerds in school, so once they get to hip brooklyn--in their minds, on the merits of how interesting they've become thanks to all their highbrow reading and academic cleverness--they feel like it's their turn to live it up and be rockstars. the magicians (the book) captures this dynamic of rather insufferable self aware / self congratulatory hedonism pretty well iirc.

It's one of the major byproducts of internet 2.0. Before the net enabled it most of us were born into a narrow band of possibilities based on stuff like wealth, location, looks, peer groups and chutzpah. These days you pick a style or a mish mash of and can hack your way into coolness with a little bit of nous. It's a weird displacement via visual status cues and well curated vocab.
 

woops

is not like other people
i think a lot of these people were serious, overly studious nerds in school, so once they get to hip brooklyn--in their minds, on the merits of how interesting they've become thanks to all their highbrow reading and academic cleverness--they feel like it's their turn to live it up and be rockstars.
why not
It's one of the major byproducts of internet 2.0. Before the net enabled it most of us were born into a narrow band of possibilities based on stuff like wealth, location, looks, peer groups and chutzpah. These days you pick a style or a mish mash of and can hack your way into coolness with a little bit of nous. It's a weird displacement via visual status cues and well curated vocab.
good
 

entertainment

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It's one of the major byproducts of internet 2.0. Before the net enabled it most of us were born into a narrow band of possibilities based on stuff like wealth, location, looks, peer groups and chutzpah. These days you pick a style or a mish mash of and can hack your way into coolness with a little bit of nous. It's a weird displacement via visual status cues and well curated vocab.

what used to seperate people in the schoolyard was if you were one those who could say things spontaneously or one of those who would come up with them later lying in your bedroom. that ability, which we called charm, seems more or less purged of the massive value it used to carry.
 
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