The Phil Inspector

Irony, puns, and life's other small joys

Nov 6
“the “close door” button in an elevator does nothing to hasten the door closing but merely gives the presser a false sense of effective activity” Rebecca Mead on Zizek

Nov 4

Strange New York Experience # 1

Awkwardly listening to the conversations of window washers outside my office on the 16th floor.


Oct 29

Think about it

Alot of people spend 8 hours a day in an office getting paid to browse the internet and find ways to spend their money.


Oct 26

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Oct 16
“We don’t believe in democracy…but somehow we act as if it works.” Slavoj Žižek on Democracy Now

Oct 9

Nietzche's "letters of insanity."

This reminds me of this great site of Nietzche’s “letters of insanity.”  Number seven is my favorite:

To Princess Ariadne, My Beloved.

It is a mere prejudice that I am a human being. Yet I have often enough dwelled among human beings and I know the things human beings experience, from the lowest to the highest. Among the Hindus I was Buddha, in Greece Dionysus—Alexander and Caesar were incarnations of me, as well as the poet of Shakespeare, Lord Bacon. Most recently I was Voltaire and Napoleon, perhaps also Richard Wagner … However, I now come as Dionysus victorious, who will prepare a great festival on Earth … Not as though I had much time … The heavens rejoice to see me here … I also hung on the cross …

Cosima Wagner (1837-1930)

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In January 1889 Nietzsche suffered a mental breakdown in Turin, Italy. He was found in a street, weeping and embracing a horse.

“The Nobel prize for peace? Obama should have won the ‘Nobel Prize for escalating violence and killing civilians’.” Zabihullah Mujahid, spokesman for the Taliban

Oct 8

 I didn’t know george bush was an electro-pop sensation in his youth.  I also didn’t know he sang with an eastern european accent


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