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An artist of incalculable significance, Lou was also, as one of his song titles put it, the ultimate “NYC Man,” as inextricable a part of the city as, say, the Twin Towers. Now he and they are gone and the city still stands, however much
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I miss Lou. Heaven can keep Bowie. We need Lou.
“Nevermind is almost two years into being everywhere. Grunge shit is all over MTV and, to paraphrase the Dead Milkmen, they’ll slam to anything”
― In on the Kill Taker
― In on the Kill Taker
“In terms of labor relations, the basic problem with living your life is that it’s on the-job training and by the time you get some skill at it, you’re permanently laid off.”
― Vic and Blood: Stories
― Vic and Blood: Stories
“But good old Albert, aka Vic, whooped and howled like a Belgian wolfhound getting a glucose enema.”
― Vic and Blood: Stories
― Vic and Blood: Stories
“MacKaye found what became in the band’s name in 1987, in journalist Mark Baker’s fascinating 1981 book Nam: The Vietnam War in the Words of the Men and Women Who Fought There. Fugazi: a slang term for “fucked up.”
― In on the Kill Taker
― In on the Kill Taker
“For Aristotle, a mark of good literature is that it “satisfies the moral sense.”1 The Christianized version of this classical tradition reached its climax in the Renaissance author Sir Philip Sidney’s treatise A Defense of Poetry. Sidney claimed that the very purpose of literature is the “winning of the mind from wickedness to virtue” and inflaming a reader with a “desire to be worthy.”2”
― On Reading Well: Finding the Good Life Through Great Books
― On Reading Well: Finding the Good Life Through Great Books
Lofi Digital Monk’s 2025 Year in Books
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