Do “people” use “blogs” for making “resolutions”? “I” “think” “I” “will.”

That’s quite enough of that.

Truth be told, I’ve been haunted for eight months by a phrase from some cultural theorist or other, I believe named Canclini, who said “Consumerism is good for thinking.” My seminars have not yet made me despise capitalism (though they’ve made a sporting go of it), but they have convinced me that any material agency I retain in this world is and ever will be overwhelmingly constituted by my (relatively) massive spending-power. Yes, I am Massive, and paralysis in the face of such Massificity seems more and more like an intellectual and moral cop-out.

Hence, my resolutions, which I now impart to you, oh anonymous electronic…um…thingummy. And I exhort you, ye mass of digits, typing and teching, to extend whatsoever mysterious invisible tentacles make of thy influence to Hold Me To Them.

“Because words are actions and they make things happen” (Kureishi).

So.

It is not very cold here. No more heat.

I will buy No Thing. (Except a portable music device. oh dear. I’m going to be terrible at this).

Expensive, fair-trade organic edibles it is. (And sushi? Damn…) It might lead to a best-selling diet book. Successful global venture, here I come.

This could be enjoyable.

On the other hand, who refuted the categorical imperative? I might want to read them.