other kinds of balm

• I've posted Gubaidulina often hear though never her Piano Concerto, found this morning on the amazing Atonality.net, a simply astonishing resource. It also encourages reading the web while listening to it since I'm already on the web listening to it, discourages the reading of novels since I can't read fiction while music is playing. So have links.
• >>Deleted bleggalgazing<< Two Giftmas presents for you today!
• Six rules for criticizing Obama over Social Security.
• Not fiscal cliff, descent into lawlessness.
• Taxation with representation.
• I have no idea what a Piers Morgan is, but he pissed off Liberals by saying something so Liberals sign petition to have him deported. 
• UPDATE! While I'm still not sure what a Piers Morgan is, multiple people tell me that I have it ass-backwards - that it's conservative gun-supporters who want to deport him. My sincerest apologies, I'll double-check my sources from now on when reading something about someone I know nothing about. 
• No, I wasn't advocating Loomis be fired, I advocated acknowledging what a hypocritical assclown he is.
• I've offered a blogfriend looking for a rebrand free rights to this tag: Straddling the International Date Line Like a Perpetual February 29th. I like it, anyway.
• The same fucking card every year. 
• Oh look, Fuckface Hiatt gave column inches to Max Boot:

 

• Haven't had a chance to use that gag in a while. 
• Happy Blegday. I steal links from them all the time, thanks!
• Gamification.
• Fuck the US Park Service.
• Wonder what the main topic of conversation in DMVtown will be this week? I hope the Racist Slurs win for all my beloved who are Racist Slurs fans. As for the authoritarian in me, the Racist Slurs, when they wear the gold pants, have the best uniform in Helmetball.
• My current and future hell.
• Quick review of Ashbery's Quick Question.
• On The Grand Inquisitor. Maybe it's my imagination, but I'm seeing Fyodor (especially C&P) show up in more litblogs this past year than in recent memory.
• End of Oulipo?, The
• Sonata.
• British currency. What is a Robbie Williams?
• The 50 Most Anticipated Albums of 2013? Number Two disqualifies the whole list. Fuckingsuck.
• Trust the cloud with your music?

85. A FINAL SHOPPING LIST

Julie Carr

hands.
melted ice.
sun.
shine.
wire.
wire.
that which can be.
that which cannot.
a strategy.
the end of the day.
the heat at my neck.
sugar high.
the inside of his mouth.
the mother skirt.
hot sidewalk by the DMV.
the buzz in my head.
the fear running up the side of it.
partitions.
balm.
other kinds of balms.
whatever the children want.