A different Hillaryite Colleague than the one who won a Manhattan just said, Hillary's the nominee, how can you defend your rejection of Hillary now. Sigh. Here's a set I tweeted out last night, you didn't listen to it then, because I love you, you can not listen to it now!
- Rise of the void toward the periphery: Simulation is precisely this irresistible unfolding, this linkage of things as if they had a meaning, so that they are no longer controlled or regulated except by artificial montage and non-sense. It is the putting up for auction of the event through radical disinformation, the price-tagging of the event instead of gambling with it, instead of investing in the stakes of history. If, on the other hand, should there be a stake in this, it remains occult, enigmatic, and resolved in events that have never really taken place. And I am not talking about ordinary events, but of the events of the East [Eastern Europe], of the Gulf War, etc. What the Agency otherwise specifically aimed at was to oppose this simulation with a radical dissimulation, to lift the veil from this non-happening of events. It has also occultized and enigmatized itself in their image in order to open up and clear to the way to a particular void, to a certain non-sense — unlike the media which remains relentlessly bent on filling up all interstices.
- Why Americans are voting against the status quo in one chart.
- Hillary Clinton wears $12.5K Armani suit to make speech on income equality. Pointed out to remind: she is a remarkably stupid candidate.
- Surely, Comrade, you don't want push back: I've been noticing that Democrats are flip-flopping between treating Donald Trump as a stupid, bigoted clown, with whom either of the Democratic front runners will easily mop up the floor; and as a dangerous neo-Hitler who will win in November if we don't dig deep into our pockets to donate to the Democrats, and generally devoting all our energy to Stopping Trump. Sanders's supporters are already being blamed in advance for Clinton's defeat in December, with sober Democrats warning of the dreadful consequences of their refusing to vote for our only hope against the Trump juggernaut. If Trump does win in November -- and one of the most annoying things about the way the campaign is covered and discussed is this tendency to issue predictions about the outcome of such a complex process over many months, when so much can and will change in ways that can't be predicted -- the last thing establishment Democrats will do is blame themselves for supporting an unpopular candidate, when the polls they take so seriously have indicated that at present her opponent has a better chance of beating Trump.
- Briefly considering Polanyi.
- Clinton Syndicate nails down excuse for when she loses to Trump.
- On a child's broken toy and adults.
- Why poets hate poetry.
- The Identity Artist and the Identity Critic.
- What's happened to the fireflies?
- Thomas Bernhard, for those of you who do.
- On fictional poetry.
- Serendipitously - since I posted a poem of his two days ago - Seidel interview.
- Dumpster diving.
- Random thoughts (not mine - safe to click link).
- Truth about translation.
- Hats in Pynchon's Against the Day.
- Will Oldham interview.
- Prayer.
- New Aphex Twin on the way?
- Pere Ubu, the TVD First Date.
THE TRAGIC CONDITION OF THE STATUE OF LIBERTY
Bernadette Mayer
Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!
Give me your gentrificatees of the Lower East Side including all the
well-heeled young Europeans who’ll take apartments without leases
Give me your landlords, give me your cooperators
Give me the guys who sell the food and the computers to the public schools in District One
Give me the IRS-FBI-CIA men who don’t take election day off
Give me the certain members of the school board & give me the district superintendent
Give me all the greedy members of both american & foreign capitalist religious sects
Give me the parents of the punk people
Give me the guy who puts those stickers in the Rice Krispies
Give me the doctor who thinks his time is more valuable than mine and
my daughter’s & the time of all the other non-doctors in this world
Give me the mayor, his mansion, and the president & his white house
Give me the cops who laugh and sneer at meetings where they demonstrate
the new uses of mace and robots instead of the old murder against
people who are being evicted
Give me the landlord’s sleazy lawyers and the deal-making judges in housing court & give me the landlord’s arsonist
Give me the known & unknown big important rich guys who now bank on our quaint neighborhood
Give me, forgive me, the writers who have already or want to write bestsellers in this country
Together we will go to restore Ellis Island, ravaged for years by wind, weather and vandals
I was surprised and saddened when I heard that the Statue of Liberty
was in such a serious state of disrepair & I want to help
This is the most generous contribution I can afford.
