What about stuff in general? Does stuff matter anymore? Is stuff over?

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What do you think of stuff? I mean stuff in the most inclusive sense of the word. For instance, if I say "I can't come over 'cause I have to do some stuff," I'm limiting the concept to stuff that you can do. Likewise, "She got all angry and stuff so I had to leave" limits us to stuff that you can get, and "I was going to write today, but I was tired and stuff so I just watched TV" limits us to stuff that you can be. So I obviously mean more than just stuff like that, and more than stuff not like that, too, since I want to include stuff that neither resembles nor differs from that and has nothing to do with that and might not be the sort of stuff for which "resemblance" and "difference" are relevant terms or even for which "term" is a relevant term.

― Frank Kogan, Friday, 11 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I guess what I'm really asking is whether, given all the stuff from last year (not to mention stuff unrelated to last year and stuff for which the notion of "year" is inapplicable), is stuff even viable anymore? Or are we entering the post-stuff era?

― Frank Kogan, Friday, 11 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I predict you are entering a new era in which people will begin telling you to stuff it. [argh > ;)]

― Nude Spock, Friday, 11 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I would think we are perpetually in a post-stuff state, since the stuff we actually work with (whether it's stuff we do, we get, or we are) is stuff we will eventually get go (that is, the stuff we aren't dealing with RIGHT NOW). The stuff you're referring to, Frank, is "future" stuff - there is no stuff in the NOW, really. (I mean NOW.)

I'm all for stuff, personally. Without stuff, my thoughts & sentences would be half-ass attempts at explication. With stuff, however, I sound 29% more smart than the next smartest person (who, coincidentally enough, happens to be the person I sat next to in my 3rd through 6th grade math classes).

Now, is there a difference between teenage stuff and grown-up stuff, or are these actually the same stuffs in differing contexts?

― David Raposa, Saturday, 12 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Stuff is valuable. Stuff is not a mere verbal tic. Stuff is the indeterminate object of subjectivity, the fuzzy nebula of the determinate. With its late capitalist flurry of fax machines, Hula Hoops, and Carrot Tops, the world cannot possibly render itself fully particulate, and during times of this intimate rapid-fire dialectical movement, stuff assumes its role as a caulk of Being.

Stuff is, to the subject, essentially unanlyzable. If, after making reference to stuff, we were asked to break it down into its constituent parts, we would more likely than not produce a posteriorori rationalizations more absurd than those that follow the Pepsi Challenge (though this limitation hardly keeps anyone from doing it). Stuff that remains unanalyzed -- or more accurately, stuff that is beyond the analyzed and the unanalyzed -- is a sign and is not a sign. It is a double sign, a self-erasing sign. It is a sign that says "move on to the next eddy of consciousness" (which is how it gains it usefulness) but also "ignore this sign."

― Michael Daddino, Saturday, 12 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Didn't Carlin once wonder about why your shit is stuff and other folk's stuff is shit? There's a certain poetry about that approach.

― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 12 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Didn't George Carlin once wonder about why your shit is stuff and other folk's stuff is shit? There's a certain poetry about that approach.

― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 12 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

This is what happens when you remember about the Carlin here after the fact. But Marcello could say it too if he likes. :-)

― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 12 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

This Carlin has no comment but would very much enjoy a stuff/shit throw-down. Not to mention other symbiotic/semantic throw-downs.

― Marcello Carlin, Sunday, 13 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

M. Carlin has expressed his wish for a semantic throw-down of some sort, so in honor of his birthday, I bring up this thread.

p.s. happy birthday, marcelllo.

― felicity, Wednesday, 23 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

five years pass...

http://www.springvalleyherbs.com/images/supplements/supplementsII/HotStuffBan.jpg

― gershy, Sunday, 25 November 2007 01:39 (eighteen years ago)

I LOVE STUFF I LOVE STUFF SO MUCH

― Abbott, Sunday, 25 November 2007 01:47 (eighteen years ago)

eight years pass...

are we still in the post-stuff era

― F♯ A♯ (∞), Tuesday, 30 August 2016 17:22 (nine years ago)

Post-stuffism is such an enigma to me, man. Have you noticed that it's getting increasingly difficult/expensive to acquire stuff? It's a bummer. Give me stuff anyday.

― Our Meals Are Hot And Fresh! (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 30 August 2016 17:35 (nine years ago)

here's a penny for your thoughts

― F♯ A♯ (∞), Tuesday, 30 August 2016 17:40 (nine years ago)

Here's a bitcoin for your e-ponderings.

― Our Meals Are Hot And Fresh! (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 30 August 2016 17:43 (nine years ago)

stuff is so clearly a rip off of other stuff

― Anacostia Aerodrome (El Tomboto), Tuesday, 30 August 2016 17:49 (nine years ago)

was selling some stuff the other day and the guy texts me if i have venmo -- thought it was some new drug at first but it's apparently a (new?) way to give funds electronically

so ya

i accept venmo now

― F♯ A♯ (∞), Tuesday, 30 August 2016 18:05 (nine years ago)

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