Minor Pleasures (3 Viewers)

[Diddles]

You wouldn't believe the amount of drink I've managed to get down me the last three days. Delighted my liver is still functioning.

 

[Cornu Ammonis]

Think that's the last of my Christmas shopping done.

Plus working on a Saturday should be a complaint but analysing data for a study I've been working on for over three years and it looks like it's all coming together into one deadly (and possibly controversial) paper. Can hopefully get into a nice journal with this which should improve my employability/grant securing abilities.

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

Think that's the last of my Christmas shopping done.

Plus working on a Saturday should be a complaint but analysing data for a study I've been working on for over three years and it looks like it's all coming together into one deadly (and possibly controversial) paper. Can hopefully get into a nice journal with this which should improve my employability/grant securing abilities.

Fair fucking play

 

[Denny Oubidoux]

Worst Books of 2014 – Nonfiction! | stevereads

Knobgard is at number 1 in some lad's top 10 worst books of 2014.

1. My Struggle by Karl Knausgaard (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) – Contenders come and go, of course, but there was never any real doubt that this grubby monstrosity would be theStevereads Worst Book of the Year in the category of Nonfiction – taking all the boring volumes as one book, and more importantly, taking the whole noxious project as nonfiction rather than the fiction a uniform chorus of bandwagon-jumping book critics hailed it as all throughout 2014. Since half the people so obviously tracing-papered by its sloppy, lazy prose are suing the author’s publisher for slander and the other half are in therapy to deal with their entirely-natural feelings of betrayal, since walking tours are now conducted in the author’s tediously-recreated Norway and parts West, and since every store receipt and theater ticket stub can be called into evidence, this isn’t fiction any more than his cast-iron solipsism would make the author another Proust (oh wait – he was already called that by The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The London Times, The Los Angeles Times, Le Monde, Der Spiegel, Pope Francis, Henry Kissinger, Noam Chomsky, Lucille Ball, and former U.S. Presidents Ford, Reagan, and Lincoln). Although Knausgaard’s navel-staring is the loathsomely prominent choice as Worst Nonfiction Book of 2014 (among its many, many other sins, it manages to be even less interesting than its infamous namesake), surely a dishonorable mention must go to the legion of critics who were, until the mania passed, so proud of being able to name-drop which volume of “My Struggle” they were currently wading through. Seldom in recent memory has the Republic of Letters been so badly failed by its very own watchdogs, all of whom could surely see in 10 pages that this particular emperor had no clothes but not one of whom stood up and said it (or better yet, simply declined to give it page-space). When the Big Fraud of 2015 comes along, we’ll all have to hope for better.

 

[Lili Marlene]

Worst Books of 2014 – Nonfiction! | stevereads

Knobgard is at number 1 in some lad's top 10 worst books of 2014.

i am only very very vaguely aware of him, what's his deal and why do we hate him?

 

[Denny Oubidoux]

i am only very very vaguely aware of him, what's his deal and why do we hate him?

I thought everyone loved him. He wrote the shittest book ever, 7 volumes of it, and everyone seems to be loosing their minds over it, calling him the new Proust etc. I only read about 60 pages but that wont hold me back from dismissing the entire thing.

 

[Cornu Ammonis]

Was hanging out with this year's Nobel Prize winner for medicine this afternoon. Albeit very briefly.

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

Was hanging out with this year's Nobel Prize winner for medicine this afternoon. Albeit very briefly.

Is he still rocking that beard?

 

[Cornu Ammonis]

Of course. Sea captain-tastic.

 

[Unicron]

Hipster laurette?

 

[george mcfly]

i'm in mega good form today and having a really good day

 

[jonah]

I'm in a good mood too I have been listening to KISS all day, and I'm getting my eyebrows threaded after work and all thaa.

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

Christmas card from Ireland.

This shit is ON!

 

[Unicron]

Christmas card from Ireland.

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I sent my only card of the year (first card in years in fact) on Friday, it arrived in New York this morning. Surprised by how fast it got there

 

[Kermit McDermott]

When there's someone in work who has a slightly unusual hobby and is really into it, even if it's nerdy. It's a nice change from the usually football and a few pints majority.

 

[therealjohnny]

They've put up the icicle effect lights in Leixlip. My disappointment was immeasurable when the lights went up and they weren't included this year.

Christmas is saved!

 

[David Kronenbourg]

I'm getting my eyebrows threaded after work and all thaa.

what's that?

 

[jonah]

what's that?

 

[jonah]

I think I'm having a shit day because I can't sleep, get up at 6am and everything goes right. Gary Numan is on my tv while I actually have time to put make up on and eat breakfast, when I get into work, I give my friends their presents and just as I start getting sleepy again I REALISE BORN TO RUN IS A SONG AND I LISTEN TO IT ALL DAY.

 

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