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@179AAP893 @indaclubpenguin still, if you can push past the other books, White Jazz I think might have the best rhythm of any of JE's work (it's aptly named!) and the first-person psychological unraveling that goes on is really unique to that book.

@179AAP893 @indaclubpenguin I think White Jazz is right up there with Tabloid and Cold Six, but you do have to read Big Nowhere and LA Confidential for the full character impact, which I agree were outclassed by the Underworld USA books.

my newest hot take is that the cold six thou is every bit as good, if not better than, american tabloid

@179AAP893 big agree, I think they have an interesting relationship to each other, with Cold Six pushing the general pace/style/cruelty to such extremes that it becomes an auto-critique of the whole Ellroy schtick. Love em both!

@Dok845 100% with you. I was thinking about it the other day while reading some of David Graeber's Debt, where he touches on the incredibly awful shit the IMF had been doing. the film is the best depiction of everyday, modern evil I've seen.

I think in its unbutchered version, Welcome to New York is probably *the* film of the 21st century

@bidenbigboi @179AAP893 I have a copy of Antwerp but haven't cracked it... the cover of my edition is of course irresistible to a 2666 fan but I've never confirmed that it's actually related

@bidenbigboi @179AAP893 SD is such fun, I'm due for a reread -- I highly recommend By Night in Chile, it gets at some of the same themes as 2666 but it's nice and short.

this is what happens when I go into a blind panic for a week and half of my brain shuts down like when a dolphin goes to sleep

@LittleEdy_Comic I'm so happy Edy's back. It's the funniest comic I've read in years :)

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@179AAP893 100%. There's a really good coda to this in Blood's a Rover if you get to it. You gotta love how much Ellroy cares about his most evil characters.

maybe my favorite thing about the underworld USA trilogy so far is the way ellroy conveys the high camp emperor palpatine energy of j Edgar hoover, but he does it exclusively through the way the man talks on the telephone, he's not appeared once in the flesh iirc

Harrisburg Daily Independent. Pennsylvania, June 17, 1909

Kansas sugar ape drawn for @troughofluxury

@Futurhythm Thank you!

@flotsamBjetsam Bewitched (1981)

This is how he would want to be remembered

@reeesh24 ah wonderful! it reads like a very pithy intro to an overview of psychoanalysis for invested layfolk like myself. had me intrigued for more :)

@flotsamBjetsam Hahaha it’s my own thoughts. So not Einstein, in fact the opposite probably.

psychoanalytic thinkers rightly point out that life will always be unhappy, but we deserve higher forms of unhappiness than we have today

Family on the Barricades, 1848 #honoredaumier #realism wikiart.org/en/honore-daum…

@thewastedworld do you have a rec for reading on the impact of augustine's thought? I really have difficulty figuring what aspects of his theology I end up porting backwards