Comments for Newhandsweepstakes http://newhandsweepstakes.com hands, things, things Thu, 23 Feb 2012 08:26:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ Comment on Blake Butler BOOSTING in Steve Roggenbuck’s ear by gustavo.rivera http://newhandsweepstakes.com/2012/02/22/blake-butler-boosting-in-steve-roggenbucks-ear/#comment-1325 Thu, 23 Feb 2012 08:26:04 +0000 http://newhandsweepstakes.com/?p=1510#comment-1325 bulter’s so experimental he bores me.

]]> Comment on The Internet is real: Ana C. mailed me her chapbook “make-believe love-making” by griverasantiagogustavo.rivera http://newhandsweepstakes.com/2012/02/09/the-internet-is-real-ana-c-mailed-me-her-chapbook-make-believe-love-making/#comment-1324 Thu, 23 Feb 2012 08:22:56 +0000 http://newhandsweepstakes.com/?p=1453#comment-1324 great review. ana is a great writer. she’s even better when uninfluenced by the peers with whom she tends to relate with. fuck the niggassbitches.

]]> Comment on New Kitty Litter by David http://newhandsweepstakes.com/2012/02/22/new-kitty-litter/#comment-1323 Thu, 23 Feb 2012 08:21:37 +0000 http://newhandsweepstakes.com/?p=1506#comment-1323 This is a thought-provoking piece, if I do say so. A mixture of the mundane and the sublime; of the human and the animal; of the sober and the intoxicated. Wonderfully done, and in a way that compels me to attempt something myself–though I have no pets at the moment, and so would have to take my inspiration from elsewhere.

]]> Comment on “Events Leading to My Arrest” by Brian McElmurry by Brian McElmurry http://newhandsweepstakes.com/writings/events-leading-to-my-arrest-by-brian-mcelmurry/#comment-1317 Mon, 20 Feb 2012 21:17:02 +0000 http://newhandsweepstakes.com/#comment-1317 37 total hits as of 02/20/12

]]> Comment on Book review: “Suicide” by Edouard Leve by Brian McElmurry by Brian McElmurry http://newhandsweepstakes.com/writings/book-review-suicide-by-edouard-leve-by-brian-mcelmurry/#comment-1316 Mon, 20 Feb 2012 20:54:37 +0000 http://newhandsweepstakes.com/?page_id=1329#comment-1316 24 total hits as of 02/20/12

]]> Comment on On the Significance of Monday by Brian McElmurry http://newhandsweepstakes.com/2012/02/02/on-the-significance-of-monday/#comment-1267 Tue, 07 Feb 2012 19:22:04 +0000 http://newhandsweepstakes.wordpress.com/?p=1443#comment-1267 Emma, that is really interesting. It parralels the Buddhist idea of attachment and anger when the attachment is taken from a person. The weekend we are free and covet this, and then when it is taken away, our illusion of freedom, happiness, lack of “bondage” is taken away and we feel anger at the situation (and ourselves possibly) that broke our illusion of “freedom.” Or we’re coming down from drugs and alcohol and more moody because. thanks for that link! :-)

]]> Comment on On the Significance of Monday by David http://newhandsweepstakes.com/2012/02/02/on-the-significance-of-monday/#comment-1266 Tue, 07 Feb 2012 05:00:51 +0000 http://newhandsweepstakes.wordpress.com/?p=1443#comment-1266 This is an incredible insight into the week/weekend structure, I believe! There is something pleasure-principle-violating about our embrace of the weekly rhythm. Hence more is there than meets the eye. Perhaps you can write a post that elaborates your thoughts in further detail???

]]> Comment on On the Significance of Monday by David http://newhandsweepstakes.com/2012/02/02/on-the-significance-of-monday/#comment-1265 Tue, 07 Feb 2012 04:38:44 +0000 http://newhandsweepstakes.wordpress.com/?p=1443#comment-1265 It’s strange how in our work week/weekend culture Friday and Monday entail one another in their own bizarre way…

]]> Comment on On the Significance of Monday by Emma http://newhandsweepstakes.com/2012/02/02/on-the-significance-of-monday/#comment-1264 Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:49:36 +0000 http://newhandsweepstakes.wordpress.com/?p=1443#comment-1264 p.s. speaking of here and gone…my old house!

]]> Comment on On the Significance of Monday by Emma http://newhandsweepstakes.com/2012/02/02/on-the-significance-of-monday/#comment-1263 Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:48:43 +0000 http://newhandsweepstakes.wordpress.com/?p=1443#comment-1263 Given that Monday has come around again, and a propos of your musing, I’ve been thinking that maybe the weekend is like a vast cultral game of “fort” and “da” (you know, the game that Freud observes his grandson playing with the ball of string: http://www.answers.com/topic/fort-da) – Monday then bearing the significance of both of these – here and gone – signifiers?

The whole work week a mourning/sublimation. At least after the labor movement negotiated for there to be a weekend at all. Ha!

]]> Comment on On the Significance of Monday by Brian McElmurry http://newhandsweepstakes.com/2012/02/02/on-the-significance-of-monday/#comment-1262 Mon, 06 Feb 2012 18:13:20 +0000 http://newhandsweepstakes.wordpress.com/?p=1443#comment-1262 At work people will always says, “It’s Friday.” And then I’d say pessimistically, “Only 3 days till Monday.” At least on weekends you can sleep in. Then it’s back to BS work on monday, a vicious cycle that everyone must face and deal with the suffering and inconsequence of their lives. Survival not fulfillment.

]]> Comment on The Internet is not real by Brian McElmurry http://newhandsweepstakes.com/2012/01/17/the-internet-is-not-real/#comment-1257 Wed, 01 Feb 2012 23:49:30 +0000 http://newhandsweepstakes.com/?p=1431#comment-1257 Dave, the stats doesn’t count our hits when we’re logged in. So all the views are other people than us. That is a great previous sentence.

]]> Comment on The Internet is not real by Brian McElmurry http://newhandsweepstakes.com/2012/01/17/the-internet-is-not-real/#comment-1256 Wed, 01 Feb 2012 23:45:44 +0000 http://newhandsweepstakes.com/?p=1431#comment-1256 You looked at the stats counter while you scan a document in a windowless room. You see 6 people have ‘hit’ your blog. You think there is no nazis that care what you currently do on the internet.

]]> Comment on The Internet is not real by Brian McElmurry http://newhandsweepstakes.com/2012/01/17/the-internet-is-not-real/#comment-1248 Mon, 30 Jan 2012 23:43:19 +0000 http://newhandsweepstakes.com/?p=1431#comment-1248 You imagine creating a robot that could do your job for you while you write or read, and sometimes ‘fix’ the robot and reboot it so it will continue working. A robot to run a copier. But the copier is like a robot. If you had the capital and the know-how to make a robot you wouldn’t be making copies. Someday you’ll use your brain. Someday… emo

]]> Comment on The Internet is not real by Brian McElmurry http://newhandsweepstakes.com/2012/01/17/the-internet-is-not-real/#comment-1247 Mon, 30 Jan 2012 20:04:01 +0000 http://newhandsweepstakes.com/?p=1431#comment-1247 You decide to take a nap on your lunch break. Feel slightly depressed even though you’re listening to dance music.

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