[Chris]

Originally Posted by noodles

Unfortunately, whenever I think of DT now, "Fuck off, Roland!" immediately pops into my head. Are you sure Eddie didn't make that quote?

YOU HONK MAFAH!

[noodles]

Originally Posted by Chris

YOU HONK MAFAH!

[Joel]

I'm reading 'The Color of Water' by James McBride. Awesome book. It deals with race relation issues.

[David]

Triple threat on books right now:

The Da Vinci Code
Double Helix
The American Connection (IRA shiznat)

[Drew]

Well, last night I picked up my vacation reading - the next George R.R. Martin novel, Ellison's Juneteenth (Invisible Man kicks absurd amounts of ass, so this has been on the list for a while), and another copy of Derrida's "Of Grammatology.'

I started in on the introduction to "Of Grammatology" last night, as I remember trying to read it over the summer while I was in college and deeming it the most absolutely incomprehensible pile of pedantic crap I'd ever seen, and I wanted something that'd put me to sleep.

Strangely, I'm actually finding it mildly amusing this time around. Maybe the incomprehensibility ramps up as the preface goes on (I'm only about ten pages into a post-structural analysis of the inherent contradiction of a preface in that by it's very nature it must be written after the actual text and is thus a misnomer, will eventually be sublimated by the reading of the text, and is essentially a condensed reading of the text, and that as each reading of a text is slightly different from reader to reader and repetition to repetition all that you are finally left with is the differences between readings being the only true "existance" of the text itself, and as such a preface is somewhat pointless in that it's only the shadow of someone else's reading).

I think I'm going to save this one for the beaches and bang through Martin and possibly Ellison on the flight and train ride, but I'm relieved and/or concerned that I've either gotten smarter, or my tastes have changed.

Also, (and I realize my saying this is case for concern) I REALLY need to read some Hegel.

[nitelightboy]

I'm reading the prep book for the CJBAT, which is the written police academy entrance exam. What fun!

[The Dark Wolf]

Drew, you are from an alternate universe or something. All that phraseology just blurred into some incomprehensible gobbledy-gook!

WTF, dude! You need to kick it with me ghetto-style for awhile, rid your cranial partitions of that high-falootin' nonsense. We'll go drink some 40's and sit on the curb together, hollerin' at some hoochies.

I deem this a plan.

(Glad to see you're enjoying Martin, though. Lamentably, Infinite Joke sits unread, un-loved by yours truly. My alternate universe theory was actually developed while attempting to muddle through said tome.)

[Naren]

Originally Posted by The Dark Wolf

Drew, you are from an alternate universe or something. All that phraseology just blurred into some incomprehensible gobbledy-gook!

WTF, dude! You need to kick it with me ghetto-style for awhile, rid your cranial partitions of that high-falootin' nonsense. We'll go drink some 40's and sit on the curb together, hollerin' at some hoochies.

I deem this a plan.

(Glad to see you're enjoying Martin, though. Lamentably, Infinite Joke sits unread, un-loved by yours truly. My alternate universe theory was actually developed while attempting to muddle through said tome.)

Hell yeh. We need to show Drew how it's done in the ghetto.

In fact, dogg, I think our music could have been described as "ghetto metal." It wasn't rap-metal or anything like that. It was just ghettoed-out metal. So ghettoed-out if made you drunk just listened to it. Hyah hah. Like muthah-fuckin' Jimmy Johns. You know muthah fuckin' Jimmy Johns? Awww, yeah. Shit, dogg. Haaaaaa.

Ahem.

[The Dark Wolf]

^ Non sequitur, but awesome nonetheless.

You're right, though. Ghetto-metal. I like that, dude.

[Drew]

Originally Posted by The Dark Wolf

Drew, you are from an alternate universe or something. All that phraseology just blurred into some incomprehensible gobbledy-gook!

WTF, dude! You need to kick it with me ghetto-style for awhile, rid your cranial partitions of that high-falootin' nonsense. We'll go drink some 40's and sit on the curb together, hollerin' at some hoochies.

I deem this a plan.

(Glad to see you're enjoying Martin, though. Lamentably, Infinite Joke sits unread, un-loved by yours truly. My alternate universe theory was actually developed while attempting to muddle through said tome.)

I'm always down for a bit of front-porch lounging, 40 in hand. Just, if need be, I can kick it (snobby aristocratic) East coast style, too.

Deconstructionism and post-Structuralism are actually pretty damn cool as philosophical stances - rather than treating an argument at face value, the idea is you draw attention to the underlying structures that the argument is built upon and attack them. Of Grammatology is right up my ally, then - it's basically a theoretical "how-to" on how to render arguments irrelivent by deconstructing the language they're based upon. In short, you focus on not trying to counter the "meaning" of an argument, but rather by creating a disconnect betwee the language of the argument and the meaning of the words - the signifier and signified, in post-structural parlance.

Now, um, where's my 40?