Monday, July 11, 2011

yes no maybe sometimes always never




That kitten performed her ass off yesterday to get me take her home at the Adopt-A-Cat windows of a corporate pet supply chain. We needed an orange bag of ridiculously priced cat food for the Ferals and a green bag of ridiculously priced diet cat food for the indoor fatties. It took all my heartlessness to not take her home.

I didn't buy anything for Clops - and he's ours, just when yet not sure, and I need to know he's healthy but the eye, know that the wound is totally healed; why buy food before talking to the vet? The woman on duty in cat adoption asked me, how many do you already have, I said seven, soon to be eight, and she laughed in spirit. HEY! why don't you adopt a cat this week and make two mortal and lonely creatures lives nicer, fuller, please?







Or what? Clops gonna cost me a thousand in immediate costs and thousands over the course of a lame lifetime, I'm not going to take him? Fuck it, put him to death?

See? I could only go two days before bringing The Clusterfuck back to blog.












SIX WORDS

Lloyd Schwartz

yes 
no
maybe
sometimes
always
never

Never?
Yes.
Always?
No.
Sometimes?
Maybemaybe 
never
sometimes.
Yes—
no
always:

always
maybe.
No—
never
yes.
Sometimes,

sometimes
(always)
yes.
Maybe
never . . .
No, 

no—
sometimes.
Never.
Always?
Maybe.
Yes—

yes no
maybe sometimes
always never.




11 comments:

  1. why don't you adopt a cat this week

    Because I'm done with them, and I like breathing. The nicest thing I have to say about them now is that they're not dogs.

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  2. Alex Pareene spelled "The War Criminal Post" wrong.
    ~

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  3. "why don't you adopt a cat this week"

    Because I'm horribly allergic and they produce nearly instant asthma attacks.

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  4. The GbV bursts are always good!

    The Ian Welsh entry and many of the comments made me shiver.

    MD absorb DC? Ask native Virginians (south of Manassas) how they feel about VA absorbing its part of DC way back when. Statehood for DC is the only sensible thing but that would require some legal machinations that some would find bizarre if not "impossible." (their word)

    In reality news... I never visit the dog shelter because I'd bring one home every time. But never a bioaccessory dog, those things can be put down constantly and I'd feel nothing.

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  5. We'll be getting a dog from rescue once Planet is off to college and we figure out some sort of routine in her absence. Wouldn't be fair to us or the dog until then.

    And yes, I'm sure Southside wishes Arlington County wasn't in Virginia.

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  6. Who elevates these bands, Mr. Red. I mean, they must market test them first, right? So - who is the market that makes Fleet Foxes and that shitty canadian duo into sensations?

    Is it hipsters?

    Seriously, I'm still stuck in the 70s and Scandi death metal. I have no map for this brave new terrain.

    I get how Zeppelin made it. They fucking slogged through years of non-stop heavy touring. And Jimmy's sloppy guitar works with Plant's voice.

    It works. Altogether and all at one. "Black Mountain Side" still plays. It carries its age and its datedness into the present, and it works.

    Fleet Foxes doesn't work. It's like Seals and Croft's suicide music was brought back from the dead, barely animated with whatever zombie juice informs the population of bad Milla Jojovich movies, then given a week's supply of heroin in order to bring it as close as possible backwards to the point of death...

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  7. I'm gonna post your comment and questions tomorrow to see if others might react. I'll say something like "my problem with bands like Fleet Foxes and The Decembrists and Fitz and the Tantrums is that they're shitty tribute bands of shitty bands I never liked in the first place, but more, it's being told these bands and acts are cutting-edge indie that bugs me. DeVotchka? Beirut? *Arcade Fire* is better than all these acts," though now I think I'll just link to *this* comment.

    To be fair, I'm sure I'm guilty of liking current tribute bands for the same reason, with the important distinction that the bands I liked then didn't suck, and lordy, does Fleet Foxes suck.

    O? Have I ever mentioned how much I hate blooger's inability to edit comments, cause I do.

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  8. Oops, sorry. I meant the inability to edit my comments for typos that pisses me off. I'd not edit anyone's other than mine.

    I did look in spam and it wasn't there. You're always welcome to comment here, you who asked.

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  9. I am with you on Fleet Foxes, etc, etc. But I love the Decemberists. I can't defend it though.

    As for Sleater Kinney- I'd give up dudes for Corin Tucker. There is supposedly a new album coming out- at least that's what the dingleberry on KEXP said last weekend. (I *may* have been seriously hungover and misheard).

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  10. There is a very good reason for me to send the Ball n' Chain to the local pet store for specific things only they sell- My bleeding heart, leftwing ass would always come home with yet another of the world's cast-offs.

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  11. Fleet Foxes...gah. Skip them. What do they offer, but cheap nostalgia for memories held not by the listeners, but by the listeners' parents.

    "Oh that's so cool, they're FOLKY." As if acoustic music died with the iPhone or something.

    Decemberists? Pretense taken to high levels, perhaps the highest ever. Colin Meloy is a fop, a pretentious, fey, affected-accent-cuz-he-wishes-he-was-born-in-seacoast-rural-England-1723-instead-of-Helena-Montana-1971. And the name... as if they are revolutionary. What fucking hollowness! Meloy used to wait the counter at a local bakery. He puts his pants on one leg at a time too -- or, I guess, his pantaloons. /rolleyes

    What makes them "popular" is the same thing that made the Head Cheerleader "popular" in HS.

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