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Should Have Stayed at the Bus Station
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Richard Linklater's Slacker, in handy snack form. Follow for semiregularly scheduled interventions into your regular attention field. "Honor thy error as a hidden intention."
Pinned
I mean, all those other directions, just because they thought about it...
became separate realities.
They just went on from there and lived the rest of their life.
I mean, entirely different movies, but we'll never see it...
because, you know, we're kind of trapped in this one reality restriction
And it's great. It's just got this like second by second account...
of just the entire tragic sequence, you know.
— That's fascinating. Yeah.
— Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.
But then, of course, then there's my real favorite one right here...
which you really should snap up if you can.
February 10, 2026 at 5:11 PM
Best Evidence. That's the one with all the head-snap stuff in it.
— Oh, yeah?
— Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.
Of course, if you like that, you should really read Six Seconds in
Dallas...
'cause, you know, Six Seconds is the one that's got all the trajectories...
and the triangulation of the bullets and stuff.
February 10, 2026 at 3:00 PM
and he was able to just see everything.
I really don't know too much about this. I was kind of just flipping
through.
Oh, well, it's really good. If you like that...
you should really read one of the other books around here. It might be here.
February 10, 2026 at 12:49 PM
It wasn't Oswald that did it. Of course you know it was Jack Ruby.
— Oh, really? I didn't realize that.
— Oh, yes.
This is also the book that's got the testimony of Sam Holland, you know...
the Prince of the Puff of Smoke.
Yeah, he was up there on the overpass over Dealey Plaza...
February 10, 2026 at 10:38 AM
It's great. Rush to Judgment has all the testimony, you know...
of all the witnesses who were never called before the Warren Commission.
You know, like Mrs. Aquilla Clemmons...
who was that maid who lived on Patton Street who saw the Tippet shooting.
February 10, 2026 at 8:27 AM
— Not too much.
I graduated a couple of years back. Just pretty much hanging out.
— Yourself?
— Oh, yeah, you know me.
I've been, uh, keeping up with my J.F.K. Assassination theories,
you know.
— Oh, really?
— Yeah.
You know, you're reading one of the great books on the subject.
February 10, 2026 at 6:16 AM
— Oh, that's an excellent book.
— Yeah?
— Yeah. Hey.
We had a class a couple of years ago, remember?
No, what class?
It was an anthropology class in ethnographic film.
Oh, yeah, yeah. The dancing birth scenes. Those death rituals.
— Yeah, yeah.
— I remember that.
— What have you been up to?
February 10, 2026 at 4:05 AM
I just need to get away for a little bit. I need some quiet.
How about the next show, two hours from now.
I'll meet you there. You've been wanting to see it.
— Okay. Okay.
— Okay?
I'll meet you there. See you.
Oh, I see you're reading Rush to Judgment.
— Oh, yeah. I guess I am.
February 10, 2026 at 1:54 AM
— I mean, Bob Dylan.
— Let's forget it. We're late.
— We've already missed it.
— Oh, no. Come on. Come on.
We can make it. There's gonna be five minutes of trailers. It'll be no
problem.
We missed the beginning. Hang it up. I'm gonna go look at some books.
February 9, 2026 at 11:43 PM
— The more I get to know you...
I just feel sorry for you.
— I'm glad they think I'm an asshole.
— I bet you are.
I don't think anyone who's ever done anything...
hasn't been considered an asshole by the general populace.
— I mean, look at Freud.
— Yeah, let's look at Freud. Man.
February 9, 2026 at 9:32 PM
Suspect, you're beginning to suspect.
Oh, that's rich. That's really rich.
So what? At least what is there is based on good sources.
At least I'm not chained to this slave morality that seems to rule your
life.
Thank you very much. You know, everyone else just thinks you're an asshole.
— Great.
February 9, 2026 at 7:22 PM
and totally unoriginal.
Great. Personal attacks now, is that it? I thought we were beyond that.
It's like you just pasted together these bits and pieces...
from your authoritative sources.
I don't know. I'm beginning to suspect maybe there's nothing really in
there.
February 9, 2026 at 5:11 PM
It's an escape from working on yourself, from perfecting yourself.
Yeah, Mr. Perfect here.
You know, that's what I hate. When you start talking like this.
It's like you're just pulling these things from the shit you read.
You haven't thought it out for yourself, no bearing on the world around us...
February 9, 2026 at 3:00 PM
all you're able to see is this base creature in them.
You can't see any true potential.
I think it's their potential I do see.
But it's like all these other futile causes that you fall into.
They all stem from a certain weakness.
You know, psychologically, helping everyone else out is easier.
February 9, 2026 at 12:49 PM
I do realize that. There are better ways to help.
— I've been looking into these groups.
— That's what I'm talking about.
That's exactly what I'm talking about. See, we're conditioned to assume...
that suffering is bad.
It's not. See, when you pity someone...
February 9, 2026 at 10:38 AM
Both of them, both of them. It's bad for both of you.
Him because it's not really gonna help him.
And you because that relationship is naturally going to involve...
that condescending element, maybe even contempt.
Granted giving the man a quarter isn't gonna change his life around.
February 9, 2026 at 8:27 AM
— Come on, I got it for half price.
— Budding capitalist youth.
— Say, y'all. Y'all got some change.
— Yeah.
— Nah.
— There you go.
— Thank you.
— You want a soda?
— Yeah, I appreciate it.
You know, there's something very wrong with that.
What, that I gave the guy your Coke? The quarter?
February 9, 2026 at 6:16 AM
"Whereas he is neither first, nor last, nor only, nor alone...
in a series originating in and repeated to infinity."
Hey, wait up.
— Hey, how's it going?
— Hi. Okay. Where have you been?
— Oh, nowhere.
— We've gotta get a move on.
— I got you something.
— What?
— Great. NutraSweet, my favorite.
February 9, 2026 at 4:05 AM
"To reflect that each one who enters imagines himself to be the first to
enter?
"Whereas he is always the last term of a preceding series.
"Even if the first term of succeeding ones each imagining himself to be
first...
"last, only and alone.
February 9, 2026 at 1:54 AM
What did you do with the bookmark?
I didn't do anything with the bookmark.
— There wasn't one in there.
— This is when Leopold discovers...
that he's just been fucked over by his wife.
He says, "If he had smiled, why would he have smiled?
February 8, 2026 at 11:43 PM
Fuck you. I don't wanna read your book.
— Here. You read it.
— I'm not gonna read this fuckin' book.
It will make a lot more sense if you read it.
— I'm not gonna
— Hey! Goddamn!
See how easy that was?
— No problem. Now, just
— Dick.
It all makes sense if you just read this passage here.
February 8, 2026 at 9:32 PM
Why in the hell is he throwing it in? It's a perfectly good typewriter.
The typewriter isn't the point. The point is it symbolizes the bitch that
just fucked him over.
It symbolizes the bitch that fucked me over six months ago.
And it symbolizes the bitch that's gonna fuck you over.
February 8, 2026 at 7:22 PM
You gotta throw the typewriter in. That's why we brought it here.
I been thinking about it. I don't want to throw it in.
— This is juvenile.
— Here, you shut up.
When he throws the typewriter in, read the passage that's marked in
the book.
Look, man. This is stupid. I'm not gonna throw it in, man.
February 8, 2026 at 5:11 PM
She's off to a good start.
But she's not gonna fuck 'em in this tent.
— She's not gonna fuck 'em in this tent.
— She's not gonna fuck 'em in this
tent.
Throw it in.
Now the typewriter.
— Come on, man.
— I don't wanna throw the typewriter in.
February 8, 2026 at 3:00 PM
— So what do we do now? I'm really late.
— First of all, give him the tent.
Now recite exactly what I told you to say and throw the tent in.
This was her tent.
— I fucked her in this tent.
— A little more feeling.
I fucked her in this tent.
She's probably gonna fuck a lot of other guys.
February 8, 2026 at 12:49 PM