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"Hell, I'll kill a man in a fair fight... or if I think he's gonna start a fair fight, or if he bothers me, or if there's a woman, or if I'm gettin' paid - mostly only when I'm gettin' paid." - Jayne, Firefly

"I am like a being thrown from another planet on this dark terrestrial ball, an alien, a pilgrim among its possessors." - Thomas Carlyle

bookmarks:
alexithymia moi
gideon books (2024)
a ~ books (braindump)
travel (current daydreams)
notes (favourites 2024)

An esoterically egocentric list, if ever there was one...based on celebrity photos and this [http://www.estherhonig.com/#!before--after-/cvkn/cvkn/image1rf3]

  • Israel - sultry, smoldery, rejects homogeneity
  • Bulgaria - alien, weirdly shaped, dark and moody
  • India - fabulous femme
  • Serbia - smoldery
  • Romania - good, don't do anything, because it's some of the world's most interesting bodies and faces
  • Italy - sultry
  • Bangladesh - very sultry
  • Ukraine - bold, edgy or nothing
  • Pakistan - good, clean, simple, snazzy
  • U.S. doe-eyed bobblehead waif look
  • Vietnam - not much happening really, but it doesn't need to either
  • Kenya - screaming in my face makeup. good. blocky geometric patterned clothes in an electric rainbow bursting out of earthtones? now I am screaming. but what can be done? fashion isn't the top priority over there...
  • Germany - go gothic revival or go home
  • Argentina - except for Tim Burton's Miss Argentina
  • Venezuela - it's like every Venezuelan auto detailer custom airbrushed an expensive tricked out sports car...and missed...and hit their girlfriend instead.
  • Australia - very cheerleader
  • UK - very administrator
  • Sri Lanka - very valley girl
  • Chile - very schoolmarm
  • US sorority chick look - very cheerleader
  • Greece - very cheerleader
  • Indonesia - very mom
  • Philippines - very loud
  • Morocco - very mustache

How did I have this much free time? Why did I think this judgement merited a public pronouncement? Is this listography list emblematic of life in the post-industrial middle class first world? Is this why the middle class is disappearing? So many questions that I won't have time to attend to...because I made this list instead...

Q. Are you a racist? A. No, I just like to rationalize my perceptions into clearly defined linear judgements as much as possible, for peace of mind. And besides that, this is solely a commentary on mutable cultural biases, not intractable facets of people such as ethnicity or race.

Now, I'm going to read a book, because it is clear that the Internet is eating me.

aug 30 2014 ∞
dec 8 2014 +