1.16.2008

Cheer Up, Dickhead

One of the most important scholars I've read in any depth this year is Perry Anderson, probably the most important Marxist scholar writing in English today.* I read yet another brilliant article by him yesterday and, as usual, felt pretty depressed. Basically, the guy is amazing at describing just how terrible everything is and has been for the last couple of hundred years, and it's hard to avoid feeling pretty down after coming to terms with his writing.

Fortunately for me, my brother sent me a bunch of awesome motivational posters. Like this one.


And it occurs to me that one thing grad school has undermined is my ability to indulge in the kind of things that used to make me happy, like funny weird shit and good music. So here's me stating my intention of doing that more frequently from now on. To start with, I'm listening to Wolf Parade right now, and they are completely fucking badass.

* Or, um..."late Marxist?" "Marxian?" "Marx-inspired?" "Radical leftist?" Who fucking cares.

8 comments:

Adam said...

I am glad you liked it. We all need to lighten up sometimes.

Chrissy said...

I am definitely going to have to prescribe more White Ninja Comics:

http://www.whiteninjacomics.com/

That should cheer you up in no time!

Rachel said...

http://llbbl.com/data/RPG-motivational/

I like this one best:
http://llbbl.com/data/RPG-motivational/target30.html

Depression - the more you know, the more she camps out on the doorstep of your mind.

clumsygirl said...

This is the best chunk of awesome I've found this week:
http://missedmanners.wordpress.com/2008/01/03/battle-of-pelennor-fields/

noncoupable said...

Wow. I definitely encourage considering another 40 year old virgin or Conan night (or two, or three). And if not that, then definitely more BBQs/drinks and sharing random YouTube videos. I'm just sorry I'm not living there this year to offer my place as a free spot for all of the above.

kungfuramone said...

C: I'm already an avid reader. :]
R: Those are *amazing*!
C: That, also, is outstanding.
A: You're right. Another Conan night is overdue.

This is the power of the collective mind at work.

Adva Ahava said...

Really cute baby badger + baby otter video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwbVQetLqfM&eurl=http://mfrost.typepad.com/cute_overload/

clumsygirl said...

If it cheers you up any more, I'm using that picture as a writing prompt for tomorrow's class (ie: Tell about seeing this show. What was it like? How'd you get tickets? etc.)

ha!