Comments on: The Once And Future Yoshida

By: kei & yuri

kei & yuri — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 04:09:27 +0000

No cleverness or clever words can equal the power of a contextually correct shreiking quotation. We have seen this happen in exposing the stupidity of the ADL (Jesus Christ Superstar is a passion play that will arouse anti-Jewish sentiment!) and are confidant it can work with yoshikun.

By: Terry C, Ecstatic Democrat

Terry C, Ecstatic Democrat — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 03:20:04 +0000

Is that the piece of shit who threatened to curb stomp us?

I will say now what I said in 2004:

Bring it on, bitch!

The only comfort HE gets is from his momma.

By: Phoenician in a time of Romans

Phoenician in a time of Romans — Mon, 06 Nov 2006 07:38:43 +0000

The ultimate Shorter of any Adam Yoshida essay â€” and by extension, of any such essay by a neocon or a neocon enabler, or by what used to be called a fascist, back when believing in the principles of fascism accorded the use of that term â€” might go like this: â€œNow look what those barbarians are making us do!â€?

I have a copyright on “Shorter Yoshida” zings – or at least I did until the coward disabled comments on his blog.

By: Adam Yoshida

Adam Yoshida — Sun, 05 Nov 2006 07:03:21 +0000

Well, I’ve run my hosting from Geocities for years – and hosted via Blogger. But, blogger is discontinuing support for said arrangement (I’d have to migrate over to a .blogspot address) – and so I put up the present page as a temporary stopgap.

Some friends of mine are supposed to be doing a Movable Type installation over the site, but haven’t gotten to it. I finally went and wrote a pre-election piece today and founds this article.

Don’t worry, I haven’t gone.

By: Jody

Jody — Sat, 04 Nov 2006 19:20:41 +0000

“Hurtling fruit wagon” is going into my regular insult rotation.

By: catastrophile

catastrophile — Sat, 04 Nov 2006 09:32:56 +0000

My Ironometer is definitely spiking, but in case anybody actually cares, everything seems to still be there, just not linked from the — um, snazzy? — new frontpage . . .

http://adamyoshida.com/2004/11/four-more-years-aka-take-that-you-sons.html

By: jeff

jeff — Sat, 04 Nov 2006 08:46:45 +0000

my reading of this article screeched to a halt when i came to the line about nietzche. i agree and have to say i consider him an artist 1st… and if that brings to mind, say, andy warhol, then you should reexamine what it is to be an artist. i recommend reading nietzche.

By: shawn214

shawn214 — Sat, 04 Nov 2006 03:55:45 +0000

It’s pretty easy to get a non-teleological reading of Marx. You can also get a teleological one if you want. Marx’s relationship to the Hegel is very contested. I know that we live in a time when Marx, the cypher for movements that didn’t fit his criteria for Socialism anyway, is irrelavant. But, I would suggest,that people try reading him, rather than other “Marxists.” If you want to read “Marxists”, most (all?) of the Western Marxist tradition is explicitly non-teleoligical. Checkout this summary of Gramsci for example
http://faculty.maxwell.syr.edu/merupert/gramsci%20outline.htm
I can understand why people think the way they do about “marxism”, but there are alternative schools and interpretations. Sorry if this is rambling (I’m in a hurry).
Where is Retardo????????

By: they're all midgets

they're all midgets — Sat, 04 Nov 2006 03:17:04 +0000

There once was a geek called Yoshida [pronounced like Ida-ho]
Whose intentions were all genocidal
The gist of his oeuvre
Was to spit on the Louvre
For its art not approved by the right-al.

Best I can do at the end of the week.

By: Mr. Mordant

Mr. Mordant — Sat, 04 Nov 2006 01:03:20 +0000

Go ahead, man, looks like we’re the only ones still monitoring this thread. Let your geek flag fly!

As for my disclaimer above, I was just trying to avoid the usual objections that come up whenever The Mustachioed One gets brought up, since I just wanted to know what Gavin meant by his “reducto-expansive stupidity” and didn’t want to waste time rehashing arguments that Walter Kaufmann already buried.

By: herr doktor bimler

herr doktor bimler — Sat, 04 Nov 2006 01:02:20 +0000

Letâ€™s hope together that Yoshidaâ€™s ouvre comes back to us

So today’s challenge is to write a limerick around the words ‘oeuvre’ and ‘Louvre’. Score bonus points by using the words ‘genocidal’ and ‘inter-tidal’.

By: a different brad

a different brad — Sat, 04 Nov 2006 00:22:16 +0000

But I’m in grad school studying Nietzsche. Waaaaaaah, I wanna go first.
N as to whether he’s a philosopher, depends on what you mean by philosopher.
Metaphysician? No, not unless like Heidegger you think he really did have a theory of the will to power. One who’s concerned with the art of living and the history of thought surrounding it? Most definitely.
Regarding throwing Nietzsche in a bag with Marx, well, huh?
Marx was a teleological thinker, basically a Hegelian with a different narrative. If you think Nietzsche was attempting to say, no, this is what history was and is leading to, I’d suggest you read him again. Start with “On the uses and disadvantages of history for life” in Untimely Meditations.
And that’s a short geek out, I could be a hell of a lot more long winded.

By: Mr. Mordant

Mr. Mordant — Fri, 03 Nov 2006 21:09:29 +0000

Hey, a different brad! I geeked out first! Wait yer turn!

By: kerril

kerril — Fri, 03 Nov 2006 20:49:34 +0000

Let me just add my concurrence to nashtbrutusandshort’s comment. That was an excellent description of right wing myopia. Kudos again.

By: a different brad

a different brad — Fri, 03 Nov 2006 20:34:10 +0000

You had me till you knocked Nietzsche. And, even worse, dumped him in a bag with Marx, more or less proving you’re not even talking about Nietzsche. You’re talking about the cartoon character crazy german wannabe viking all the cool kids rag on. Less Foucault, more Nehamas and Schacht. I know I’m geeking out unnecessarily over a single line, but fuck if that wasn’t a stupid line.

By: Dan Someone

Dan Someone — Fri, 03 Nov 2006 19:11:01 +0000

I clicked the link to adamyoshida.com and there is “Test Blong Entry” [sic] posted there.

Could it be that Yoshida is moving to the next level, transitioning from mere blogger to BLONGER? I for one look forward to watching this development closely over the coming months.

By: Bloggofascist

Bloggofascist — Fri, 03 Nov 2006 16:56:55 +0000

In the Illuminatus trilogy, there was a beautiful essay on “Look at what you made me do”. Anyone know if there is a link to it on the internets?

By: Martin Wisse

Martin Wisse — Fri, 03 Nov 2006 15:03:43 +0000

OH NOES! Don't worry Gavin, Yoshinda's genius is preserved intact in all its brilliance over at archive.org. YEAH!

By: Doug

Doug — Fri, 03 Nov 2006 14:58:00 +0000

I always had to admire/pity Yoshida for his unerring faith that if his brand of fascism was ever allowed to take over completely, his Asian ass wouldn’t be tossed in an internment camp forthwith. If you think about it, he’s kind of like Michelle Malkin only with Malkin’s last tiny vestiges of self-control removed.

By: HemlockEcho

HemlockEcho — Fri, 03 Nov 2006 14:13:21 +0000

Above: Yoshida, often asked toguest post, has so far declined.

Didn’t he actually do a guest post once? And make fun of Swankster? I’m too lazy to look.