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I'm going to Vietnam pretty soon, just to eat pho. I don't really expect it to be a life altering experience, well I hope not at least. I just want to eat noodles and then bounce.

http://gastronomyblo...the-lunch-lady/

Attempt and report back

Doing that thing where I bounce around five or six books, but this was the most recent thing:

Absolutely magnificent in its clarity & ambition.

Has anyone read any of the serialization in Paris Review? I can't remember the last time I was this excited for a novel. I think this could be right up there with The Savage Detectives and 2666, and it's a much shorter read for those who are time poor.

I used to have a subscription but let's be honest, the Paris Review is pretty bogus. You don't have a copy of this yet, do you? And that's a good looking edition.

Lot's of good stuff coming out in the next few months. This, The Flame Alphabet by Ben Marcus, Leve's Autoportrait.

Just saw this - was at McNally & J for the launch of the spring issue, the first issue of the serialisation, and the translator Natasha Wimmer had some interesting things to say. Some of which were covered in her piece at the end of The Savage Detectives. But if you can get hold of a transcript, do that (and let me know!)

Anyway, the Third Reich is a little rough around the edges, but incredibly skillful. I would say it's been the best part of the Paris Review over the past year, although I've fallen behind and have yet to get their fall issue.

Next to the Bolano, my favourite bits of the Review have got to be their extended interviews with writers - and their archive that's available online is just such a treasure trove. Which means, I guess, that I'll not be buying the Review after the winter edition...

Been on a documentary film binge, thanks to the iplayer:

Wow, check Boots at 1:35. If this is early 50s as suggested on the video then it would be around the time of Pharma Society of Britain v Boots Chemists, when the basic legal basis for today's self-service shopping came about.

On that archival note, this one is a favourite:

So much advertising, so much Nestle(!), and the traffic at the massive Bank junction is pretty epic.

Tooting. Dosa n' chutny and Apollo banana leaf are both very good.

Dosa n' Chutney is great. So tasty, so filling, so cheap and all in a chromed-out environment with blaring Bollywood DVDs on the flatscreen.

Both Sybaritical & I would like to send regards to fre$co (did v5.0 kill your dolla sign?) and SM. We wandered down and ate ourselves silly. Their idli especially. Was ridiculous how quick we finished it.

Applaud: Grand plans to revamp/integrate superfuture.

Slow clap: Rolling out a 5.0 that makes Google look like pros.

Also: just realised highstreet's legendary waywt was at the Whiteread installation in 05. Double rep.

a little fairy gave these to me... and permission to post

Killed it.

A costume of what? Someone who exercises?

Running Monk

"imo no hate"

The ultimate copout. You're either calling him out or you're not...

(IMO)

Is this where someone starts the best of waywt caption thread?

Dark popcorn flicks, so good.

The day was fairly unremarkable beyond that, though the duck has been very concerned about his friends in London and wishes safety upon them. Take care out there.

ordo <--- the best

Is always funny how metaphors work - Left, Right, anything & everything

Typically, the Enemy Octopus stands in for a nation or distinct community, and not as an individual. The octopus has been cast as Nazi, fascist, Jewish conspiracist and English imperialist. They've stood in for Antwerp, of all places. Stretch out the arms and they span the distance from 1904 Japan to 2003 internet, anti-Russian sentiment to anarchist website.

http://armsandthelaw.com/archives/2007/04/of_octopuses_an.php

More metaphors.

http://boingboing.net/2011/10/16/octopi-wall-street.html

More wing chun (errrrrday).

^ new zizek out next year:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2011/oct/16/slavoj-zizek-perverts-guide-ideology

Today at the Tate. Great meditative documentary by Corinna Belz.

Oh, I just watched this the other night. One of my favorites! I love the beginning of the last fight, the camera panning past the ruined walls with birds landing. It's the little things.

Soundtrack is great as well, the dirty bass synth sounds are spot on.

JDSPORTSF　　　　UK / London

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Kind of what Cloud_SB said.

Re: Fighting you outside uniqlo

I thought this was appropriate given the launch of superfuture v.4S

I WILL NOT GET INTO ARGUMENTS ON THE INTERNET. I WILL NOT GET INTO ARGUMENTS ON THE INTERNET. I WILL NOT GET INTO ARGUMENTS ON THE INTERNET. I WILL NOT GET INTO ARGUMENTS WITH YOUR FAT, MUSTARD STAINED, UGLY, DIPSHIT, BUCK TOOTHED, FASHION BACKWARD, SPLIT END FACTORY ASS ON THE INTERNET. I WILL NOT GET INTO ARGUMENTS ON THE INTERNET.

I AM AN ADULT. I WEAR VERY EXPENSIVE BOOTS. I READ BOOKS FOR PLEASURE.

I WILL NOT COME TO YOUR HOUSE AND PUNCH YOU IN THE MOUTH. I WILL NOT COME TO YOUR HOUSE AND PUNCH YOU IN THE MOUTH. I WILL NOT COME TO YOUR HOUSE AND PUNCH YOU IN THE MOUTH.

ANIMALS TALKING IN ALL CAPS