Roundup
Roundup in which the pollen count leaves me with no choice but to shapeshift into my reptile self
hotmanhokage i seen one before it was riding a bike disguised as a man and i saw his eyes.i think my cousin is a reptilian because her eyes look like it all that all the time
lescwilson I think u should consider that one of the qualities of these reptilians is known to be their cold hearted nature and that they’d kill u at the drop of a hat… for food…so don’t be so eager for their control lest u be farmed like veal or pork!
LadyWennor Draconians happen to be my favorite cataloged species. Don’t care about their plans of taking over earth if that is the case. I find Draconians hot but if you ask me I always fall for the extream.
“Wake Up!”: The Reptilian Shapeshifter Vidclip Festival is currently running at Coop’s place. Where else?
With a great hearty hat tip to Kate Ankofski- this interactive guide to finding your favorite Bob Dylan album.
At the Rumpus, Jami Attenberg interviews Teddy Wayne and David Goodwillie at the same time (!!!) about their new novels, terrorism, and the media.
And this one from the Almost Rhymes File: Christopher Hitchens on the Dark Side of Dickens.
Tags: bob dylan, David Goodwillie, Dennis Cooper, Kate Ankofski, Teddy Wayne
been collecting reptilian shape shifter videos on my youtube channel for a few years now…
they’re amazingly sincere…and close to 90% of them are news broadcasters.
feel bad that someone beat me to it…
been collecting reptilian shape shifter videos on my youtube channel for a few years now…
they’re amazingly sincere…and close to 90% of them are news broadcasters.
feel bad that someone beat me to it…
Hey more’s the merrier John! Hit us with that link to your channel. Also, can you clarify when you say “close to 90% of them are news broadcasters”– do you mean that mostly newscasters are suspected of being reptilian shapeshifters, or do you mean mostly newscasters are leveling these accusations?
Hey more’s the merrier John! Hit us with that link to your channel. Also, can you clarify when you say “close to 90% of them are news broadcasters”– do you mean that mostly newscasters are suspected of being reptilian shapeshifters, or do you mean mostly newscasters are leveling these accusations?
hey justin,
this guys videos are some of my favorites…mostly because he scores them with these insanely foreboding hector berlioz symphonie fantastique type shit…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mp5FF-f3pd0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uH82n0DiKaY&feature=related
he has a whole series of them…very much down the rabbit hole of anonymous internet paranoia…i spend entirely too much time watching these vids. but they’re totally awesome…
oh and, most of the reptilian shape-shifter vids i’ve seen are of actual new casters purportedly shape-shifting…it’s like a whole genre of reptile-alien conspiracy theory…
thought this one from archangel systems is probably the coolest one i’ve seen…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZGh5cCiEF8
the video is kind of fucked quality wise…even has a $25,000 reward (ha!) for anyone who can disprove it…very jacob’s ladder demon’y…radical.
alpha draconis,
xoxo
hey justin,
this guys videos are some of my favorites…mostly because he scores them with these insanely foreboding hector berlioz symphonie fantastique type shit…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mp5FF-f3pd0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uH82n0DiKaY&feature=related
he has a whole series of them…very much down the rabbit hole of anonymous internet paranoia…i spend entirely too much time watching these vids. but they’re totally awesome…
oh and, most of the reptilian shape-shifter vids i’ve seen are of actual new casters purportedly shape-shifting…it’s like a whole genre of reptile-alien conspiracy theory…
thought this one from archangel systems is probably the coolest one i’ve seen…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZGh5cCiEF8
the video is kind of fucked quality wise…even has a $25,000 reward (ha!) for anyone who can disprove it…very jacob’s ladder demon’y…radical.
alpha draconis,
xoxo
and one more…
here’s a tutorial on how to spot your very own shape-shifting reptilian…hint: people who blink too much!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWuVHWDZfU4
and one more…
here’s a tutorial on how to spot your very own shape-shifting reptilian…hint: people who blink too much!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWuVHWDZfU4
All famous, powerful, and wealthy American writers are actually just reptilians. PEN America is a reptilian front.
All famous, powerful, and wealthy American writers are actually just reptilians. PEN America is a reptilian front.
Well, ok, here’s the link: http://www.photoshelter.com/c/platzer_twinimages/gallery-img-show/National-Book-Awards-Nov-2004/G0000wiClZUx7oJs/?P_ID=P00006IAp33eD31I&_bqG=59&_bqH=eJyLSs.1zHJJdgtxNCpyLQ_PMTAxqihLD_ZJdMy3MjQ0tzI0MLCyco_3dLF1NwCC8kznnKjQCvN8r2K1AJBoAEjUzNOxwNg41cXY0FPN3TPe3dHHxzUoEpsmADg9IL0-&I_ID=I0000xc4ri4K0dUo
Well, ok, here’s the link: http://www.photoshelter.com/c/platzer_twinimages/gallery-img-show/National-Book-Awards-Nov-2004/G0000wiClZUx7oJs/?P_ID=P00006IAp33eD31I&_bqG=59&_bqH=eJyLSs.1zHJJdgtxNCpyLQ_PMTAxqihLD_ZJdMy3MjQ0tzI0MLCyco_3dLF1NwCC8kznnKjQCvN8r2K1AJBoAEjUzNOxwNg41cXY0FPN3TPe3dHHxzUoEpsmADg9IL0-&I_ID=I0000xc4ri4K0dUo
Sing it, King W.
Sing it, King W.
Why would a shape-shifter need contact lenses?
Why the hell am I questioning the logic in one of these videos?
Why would a shape-shifter need contact lenses?
Why the hell am I questioning the logic in one of these videos?
i really liked the wayne and goodwillie interview although it seems such a NY attitude to assume that NY would be the target yet again. speaking as an outsider looking in, i’m not sure NY is that symbolically potent anymore. since 9/11, it’s kind of spent.
i really liked the wayne and goodwillie interview although it seems such a NY attitude to assume that NY would be the target yet again. speaking as an outsider looking in, i’m not sure NY is that symbolically potent anymore. since 9/11, it’s kind of spent.
You don’t think the largest city in America (4th largest metro area in the entire world), which is still the center of countless things in america and the world, is symbolically potent?
What would you attack? Detroit?
You don’t think the largest city in America (4th largest metro area in the entire world), which is still the center of countless things in america and the world, is symbolically potent?
What would you attack? Detroit?
not really. i’m not really saying NY couldn’t be subject to an attack of some sort, i should have put the words ‘the target’ in scare quotes, but that it isn’t anything like this iridescent flame to the terrorist moth. the point of symbols is not to denote where a centre actually exists. they’re about the ideography of centrality, the idea that the centre is inscribed somewhere absolute. i feel that 9-11 put paid to that in the american context. the country has been a ship without a flag since then. so NY can still go on being systemically at the heart of things while being symbolically mooted. i mean, NY is not really the centre of ‘countless things in america and the world’, symbolically speaking. it used to feel that way because it was the centre of one big thing that presents itself as the countless, finance, which fell symbolically on 9-11. the fact that it continues to be one big centre of finance in reality overlooks the way that the politics behind finance is terrorism’s next salient aim – and, it may be pointed about, especially since the financial crisis, that symbolic node is in washington, which was targeted on 9/11 but overshadowed by NY. in that sense, i think the whole idea of ‘the target’ in terms of vertical symbolic size and largeness is sort of anachronistic post 9-11. but you know, it’s the job of ideology to keep anachronism imminent. part of what can’t be admitted is that on 9-11, the job was done successfully. the terror attacks worked. and i sort of feel like there’s a new york denial about its obsolescence symbolically after 9/11 through its ‘knowing fear’ (a fear, however, that does not put a stop to work or productivity or make people move away from NY) that it’s the no. 1 target in america for the next strike. which is to say, the next strike of ‘significance’, since there have been plenty of quite extravagant strikes since. but i may be proven wrong. this is only an impression of how things are.
not really. i’m not really saying NY couldn’t be subject to an attack of some sort, i should have put the words ‘the target’ in scare quotes, but that it isn’t anything like this iridescent flame to the terrorist moth. the point of symbols is not to denote where a centre actually exists. they’re about the ideography of centrality, the idea that the centre is inscribed somewhere absolute. i feel that 9-11 put paid to that in the american context. the country has been a ship without a flag since then. so NY can still go on being systemically at the heart of things while being symbolically mooted. i mean, NY is not really the centre of ‘countless things in america and the world’, symbolically speaking. it used to feel that way because it was the centre of one big thing that presents itself as the countless, finance, which fell symbolically on 9-11. the fact that it continues to be one big centre of finance in reality overlooks the way that the politics behind finance is terrorism’s next salient aim – and, it may be pointed about, especially since the financial crisis, that symbolic node is in washington, which was targeted on 9/11 but overshadowed by NY. in that sense, i think the whole idea of ‘the target’ in terms of vertical symbolic size and largeness is sort of anachronistic post 9-11. but you know, it’s the job of ideology to keep anachronism imminent. part of what can’t be admitted is that on 9-11, the job was done successfully. the terror attacks worked. and i sort of feel like there’s a new york denial about its obsolescence symbolically after 9/11 through its ‘knowing fear’ (a fear, however, that does not put a stop to work or productivity or make people move away from NY) that it’s the no. 1 target in america for the next strike. which is to say, the next strike of ‘significance’, since there have been plenty of quite extravagant strikes since. but i may be proven wrong. this is only an impression of how things are.
I don’t understand your argument. Maybe you could explain what cities would be more symbolically potent in America? NY and DC seem like the only symbolically potent cities for an attack.
NY towers so massively in America that, like say Paris in France or Rome in Italy, it’s symbolism is almost unlimited. This is not to say that if terrorists strike again they will strike in NY, who knows, they don’t always go for the most symbolic targets.
You say you are an outsider. Are you British? You use British quote marks. I’d be interested in hearing what cities you think are more potent in this context…
I don’t understand your argument. Maybe you could explain what cities would be more symbolically potent in America? NY and DC seem like the only symbolically potent cities for an attack.
NY towers so massively in America that, like say Paris in France or Rome in Italy, it’s symbolism is almost unlimited. This is not to say that if terrorists strike again they will strike in NY, who knows, they don’t always go for the most symbolic targets.
You say you are an outsider. Are you British? You use British quote marks. I’d be interested in hearing what cities you think are more potent in this context…
I’m Australian. But I’m not sure that NY does tower nearly so massively over America as it imagines. I guess my argument is – or it isn’t as solid as an argument, more an intuitive sense – that if the intention is to go for “the most symbolic target”, that isn’t NY anymore. 9/11 undid the sense of unlimitedness to NY’s symbolism, I think. So Washington would be my pick for numero uno but I’d also say LA, for instance, is a much more likely possibility than NY too because when it comes to a different methodology of attack, like a bio or chemical weapon, you don’t really need a vertical horizon, horizontal works just as efficiently. You could also add Atlanta to that too: it has the world’s busiest airport, truly and massively disruptive to the mobility of everyone mobile everywhere if it were devastated. But my honest feeling is, outside of the truly catastrophic event of nuclear or whatever, would be that the more potent symbolic terrorist attack would be a coordinated series of bombings in totally nondescript places all at once across the US (or wherever else). If you want to shatter the civilian base, you go for the symbology of the everyday. Plus it’d be relatively simple to organise too. I kind of picture that as the next thing, maybe. But I don’t know, I don’t want to be taken the wrong way. This is only speculation and it’s less about getting the next one right in terms of location than it is about assessing the effects of 9/11 and what symbolism means now in the American context, where its field has shifted.
I’m Australian. But I’m not sure that NY does tower nearly so massively over America as it imagines. I guess my argument is – or it isn’t as solid as an argument, more an intuitive sense – that if the intention is to go for “the most symbolic target”, that isn’t NY anymore. 9/11 undid the sense of unlimitedness to NY’s symbolism, I think. So Washington would be my pick for numero uno but I’d also say LA, for instance, is a much more likely possibility than NY too because when it comes to a different methodology of attack, like a bio or chemical weapon, you don’t really need a vertical horizon, horizontal works just as efficiently. You could also add Atlanta to that too: it has the world’s busiest airport, truly and massively disruptive to the mobility of everyone mobile everywhere if it were devastated. But my honest feeling is, outside of the truly catastrophic event of nuclear or whatever, would be that the more potent symbolic terrorist attack would be a coordinated series of bombings in totally nondescript places all at once across the US (or wherever else). If you want to shatter the civilian base, you go for the symbology of the everyday. Plus it’d be relatively simple to organise too. I kind of picture that as the next thing, maybe. But I don’t know, I don’t want to be taken the wrong way. This is only speculation and it’s less about getting the next one right in terms of location than it is about assessing the effects of 9/11 and what symbolism means now in the American context, where its field has shifted.
Actually, quick amendment, it wouldn’t be simple to organise an attack on the everyday like that. That feeds into the whole anti-terror hysteria over the porousness of an open society. It’d just be more simple than platting a bomb on Wall Street, though, and have a bigger symbolic impact, I think.
Actually, quick amendment, it wouldn’t be simple to organise an attack on the everyday like that. That feeds into the whole anti-terror hysteria over the porousness of an open society. It’d just be more simple than platting a bomb on Wall Street, though, and have a bigger symbolic impact, I think.
Eh, we will have to agree to disagree. I think however you measure it, NY towers over America city-wise both in practical ways (its size, the number of things it is the center of, etc.) and a more general cultural sense (how often it appears in movies or TV shows or novels, for example, compared to others). DC, as I said, is an obvious pick here as it houses the government. You have LA coming in third. Beyond that there isn’t even much in contention to be honest. Attacking a major airport, like in Atlanta, would practically cause a lot of chaos, but I don’t think symbolically it would do more than JFK, if we are talking about symbolism in a post-911 context. Most cities honestly don’t have much of a “presence” in the general cultural landscape. There are just too many in contention here. I don’t think most Americans have much of an opinion on a city like Atlanta at all, as awesome as it may be.
This feels weird to talk about though, especially sitting in Manhattan right now.
Eh, we will have to agree to disagree. I think however you measure it, NY towers over America city-wise both in practical ways (its size, the number of things it is the center of, etc.) and a more general cultural sense (how often it appears in movies or TV shows or novels, for example, compared to others). DC, as I said, is an obvious pick here as it houses the government. You have LA coming in third. Beyond that there isn’t even much in contention to be honest. Attacking a major airport, like in Atlanta, would practically cause a lot of chaos, but I don’t think symbolically it would do more than JFK, if we are talking about symbolism in a post-911 context. Most cities honestly don’t have much of a “presence” in the general cultural landscape. There are just too many in contention here. I don’t think most Americans have much of an opinion on a city like Atlanta at all, as awesome as it may be.
This feels weird to talk about though, especially sitting in Manhattan right now.
Yeah, fair enough. I just think NY thrives on its sense of overestimating itself. It would be almost impossible to convince the city that it could ever lose its symbolic status as it functions by putting that status beyond reproach. There’s always ‘more’ to NY apparently but I’d suggest, post 9-11, not anymore. The city is still the city, but it’s smaller, it’s lost the axis between center and world it still persists in insisting it has. Since terrorism is largely about gimmickry, to hit NY again seems stale if anything but that staleness isn’t only in the ‘been done’ category, it’s also ‘been successfully done’. It’s weird. NY is just about the only place in the states, really, that doesn’t think that 9-11 was as big as it was. And the reason it doesn’t think that is because it assumes that the city itself is so symbolically big only more could be in stall for it. See in the article, for instance, the observation by Goodwillie that “there’s so much going on in the reality of every-day New York that potential threats–even doomsday kind of stuff–naturally take a backseat.” An exquisitely New York sentiment, haha. It’s precisely that idea of ‘so much going on’ in the everyday life of New Yorkers, the ‘so much’ that is so much it leads them to defer action on their beliefs, namely, that NY is the ground zero of the catastrophe to come, which feeds into the comforting assumption that the city is still the world target, that 9-11 didn’t work. But yes, anyhow, now I’m just repeating myself. Thanks for engaging, Lincoln, always a pleasure.
Yeah, fair enough. I just think NY thrives on its sense of overestimating itself. It would be almost impossible to convince the city that it could ever lose its symbolic status as it functions by putting that status beyond reproach. There’s always ‘more’ to NY apparently but I’d suggest, post 9-11, not anymore. The city is still the city, but it’s smaller, it’s lost the axis between center and world it still persists in insisting it has. Since terrorism is largely about gimmickry, to hit NY again seems stale if anything but that staleness isn’t only in the ‘been done’ category, it’s also ‘been successfully done’. It’s weird. NY is just about the only place in the states, really, that doesn’t think that 9-11 was as big as it was. And the reason it doesn’t think that is because it assumes that the city itself is so symbolically big only more could be in stall for it. See in the article, for instance, the observation by Goodwillie that “there’s so much going on in the reality of every-day New York that potential threats–even doomsday kind of stuff–naturally take a backseat.” An exquisitely New York sentiment, haha. It’s precisely that idea of ‘so much going on’ in the everyday life of New Yorkers, the ‘so much’ that is so much it leads them to defer action on their beliefs, namely, that NY is the ground zero of the catastrophe to come, which feeds into the comforting assumption that the city is still the world target, that 9-11 didn’t work. But yes, anyhow, now I’m just repeating myself. Thanks for engaging, Lincoln, always a pleasure.
For what it’s worth, new new story today about foiled Al-Qaida suicide bomb plans in NYC
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/04/24/zarein-ahmedzay-alqaida-o_n_550519.html
For what it’s worth, new new story today about foiled Al-Qaida suicide bomb plans in NYC
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/04/24/zarein-ahmedzay-alqaida-o_n_550519.html
Yeah, it’s interesting how that coincided, ha, just to make my sense of things more murky, no doubt. But like I said above, that NY could be subject to a new terrorist action is not really the same as the entwined notion it’s the ripest site for ‘the next 9-11’. Then again, maybe this is an encouraging sign, perversely. Maybe in its relative weakness as a gesture, a subway bombing is not easily subject to media representation, the scaling back due to lack of homemade explosives, etc., it indicates al-Qaeda doesn’t really have a next 9-11 up its sleeve at all, is out of logistical capacities and big ideas. I hope so.
Yeah, it’s interesting how that coincided, ha, just to make my sense of things more murky, no doubt. But like I said above, that NY could be subject to a new terrorist action is not really the same as the entwined notion it’s the ripest site for ‘the next 9-11’. Then again, maybe this is an encouraging sign, perversely. Maybe in its relative weakness as a gesture, a subway bombing is not easily subject to media representation, the scaling back due to lack of homemade explosives, etc., it indicates al-Qaeda doesn’t really have a next 9-11 up its sleeve at all, is out of logistical capacities and big ideas. I hope so.
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