Candice, do you really work for Fredric Jameson? Louis Althusser wrote to me
about a month ago to say that Jameson was now teaching with Bob Perelman in
Beijing at the International Business College of the Peoples Revolutionary
Army. I'll forward that letter so you can see. You might want to show it to
Fred.
Yes, I, too, have heard that Mark Weiss cuts a dashing figure. (sigh) But
who is Carla Summers?
I would like to apologize for the neck biting reference. I had just come
back from an Xmas party where I was overserved by the person spooning the
eggnog. Still, that's no excuse for pushing the shady line between sex and
violence-- particularly in an architectural space where the word "rectum" is
verboten.
How big is my lava lamp, Candice? I am looking right now, but I can't find
it. Wait... no, aha! No, lost it again... Ho, Ho, Ho. (you naughty girl--
when we get ouselves kicked outa here, come with me on a ride down Route 66.
I've got a pistol and a hundred dollar bill.)
By the way, as soon as I say that my b-c's have gone done, I get (and this
is no jokle) e-mails from *two* different list-mates who begin by saying
"Dear Fat Bastard". Predictable.
Kent
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Candice wrote,
>Click, hatch, click, hatch--it's the sound of Happy Workers busy plotting
>paranoia on the New World Order map that takes up one whole wall of the
>office where I work (for Fredric Jameson, as it happens). _His_ office is
>the one with the (swinging) door constructed of architectural theories
>abandoned (hopefully) outside it.
>
>Oh, and did I mention that I went to college with Carla Summers? You can
>bet
>I heard all about Mark Weiss and the toreador pants.
>
>Miss Arras the Lioness
>
>P.S. Never mind the boils--how big is your lava lamp?
>
>
>
>on 12/16/00 11:48 PM, kent johnson at [log in to unmask] wrote:
>
> > OK everybody, whoa! I provided a Url for O'Brien's site. Have people
>taken a
> > look? Click on before you start hatching conspiracy theories out of Fred
> > Jameson's office.
> >
> > Here's my opinion. I am blown away by O'Brien. I would say that he is a
>real
> > discovery, and if John (Dick) Tranter ignores me on this (listen, John,
>I
> > think you have produced the most important magazine since Bush Sr.'s
> > invasion of Panama, so don't get me wrong), he will be making a terrific
> > mistake.
> >
> > And why have some of you assumed that I have a condescending attitude
>toward
> > Elvis?! I am the heaviest card-carrying member of the Elvis fan-club,
>and
> > that is official, if you care to check out the Nov. '99 issue of _The
>King_
> > (I was officially weighed in Las Vegas in July of '99 at the national
>Elvis
> > Presley Tribute Convention as 406 lbs.-- by teh way, I've noticed that
>since
> > I announced that I have boils and weigh 420+, that my b-c's have dropped
> > markedly, thus lending credence to MF's Author Function theory). I also
>have
> > a lava lamp in my bedroom.
> >
> > It doesn't matter one iota whether O'Brien is a goldminer or a fig-leaf.
>He
> > is one of the English-speaking world's most beautiful poets since Ern
>Malley
> > or Emily Dickinson. Eat yoru heart out and lie down on the velvet
>postmodern
> > arras of lionesses that is the rug in my living room. Whether you are a
>man
> > or a woman. Becasue I will bite your throat.
> >
> > And check your architectural theory at the door.
> >
> > Kent
>
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