mallorys_camera | That time I had lunch w/Andy Warhol, Mick Jagger, and Henry Kissinger in the Studio 54 cafeteria... (Reply)

I kinda ache all over. Not sure what be up with that except maybe I was up too late last night. I think maybe the Autoimmune Disease is only manageable when I get 8 to 10 hours of sleep per night.

I was up late editing

sulphuroxide’s story for Sooper Sekrit Standpoint.

You can read the story here:

https://medium.com/rally-point-perspectives/introducing-president-duckface-2040-18c292f296b7

(Hi,

sulphuroxide!)

sulphuroxide is one of the most brilliant and original thinkers I know, but his work is so dense with ideas in its unfiltered form that I suspect it’s intimidating for most readers. They don’t even begin to know how to connect the dots. And, of course – little snobs! – they’re resentful of the fact that they could possibly be intimidated by ideas, so they may even dismiss those ideas as dull. Boredom is the ultimate defense mechanism, after all.

When editing

sulphuroxide, I have two goals:

(A): To translate some of his more obscure language choices into the common tongue that most people will understand
(B): To provide connective tissue between free-floating ideas so that the cognitive leap from one idea to the next isn’t over quite so large a gap.

Two more pieces in the pike. Dollman’s McLuhan for Dummies, which fortunately will require very little line editing, and which starts out – as all Dollman pieces must – something along the lines of, The night after Marshal McLuhan came to me in a blinding flash of light and anointed me as his One Chosen Disciple, I had lunch with Andy Warhol, Mick Jagger, and Henry Kissinger in the Studio 54 cafeteria – and can I just say, the sliders were terrible –

Also a piece from a BBC journalist who is earnestly arguing that we should trust Big Media, that our mistrust in major media outlets is terribly misplaced.

And, of course, I am writing a piece: The Five Insurgency Blogs You MUST Read.

(That Five… You MUST formula is guaranteed clickbait.)

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Else? Between working on behalf of the Sooper Sekrit Political Group and toiling at the Scut Factory, my own work has fallen by the wayside. My two heroines, Ybel and June, languish in dire circumstances with no immediate rescue in sight.

I’ve taken to scanning the pavement whenever I’m out and about running errands in case a thousand dollar bill falls out of somebody’s pocket.

(Forget about getting that money back, careless passerby! That money’s mine.)

And it is a most lovely spring.