tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30209604027083038302024-03-17T23:03:16.084-04:00BLCKDGRDUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3918125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020960402708303830.post-57369987414975184772024-03-14T11:15:00.011-04:002024-03-14T20:30:04.079-04:00Fluff. Garbage.<p></p><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="color: #990000; font-size: large;">They want to take us back to where we ran</span></div><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="color: #990000; font-size: large;">from. The still-enslaved freed shitlords' kapos</span></div><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="color: #990000; font-size: large;">deliriously greedy in service</span></div><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="color: #990000; font-size: large;">to punish you, that's what makes them happy</span></div><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="color: #990000; font-size: large;">It's what shitlords feed them for their fealty</span></div><p></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">I know I've thought this and am sure I've written and/or typed it but typing it now: there are no second chances painting so there's no editing, no fixing, no anguishing over what was done, no dicking with done shit, just moving forward, abandon sooner than later. The five lines above: how I heard that in my head times the edits already by counting to ten, I can't make it less shitty by editing but I *could* fuck it up more and lessen the rush of completion, I know this disqualifies me as a poet down to the level I am not an artist but I've known this since I edited my first poem in 1971</span><br /><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOl-fQTxbIzRBPvjJMtPSmFO6e_l2NlBiA9TDvhcvmYINTLpDpU8NyHM4c3_SXlpdtYYyPplurG0Y4yYrdUJC8YFxZX3i924F2xwGAGIvlDRAa0aCn0Ky0UtWjWA-HTJEZ4XfrT_Y6dtaJdOtoNCez1KjVIHB4x29qJ2bTERGv9uxWLhrHabbkRSVz4xNh/s2396/left.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2396" data-original-width="2396" height="800" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOl-fQTxbIzRBPvjJMtPSmFO6e_l2NlBiA9TDvhcvmYINTLpDpU8NyHM4c3_SXlpdtYYyPplurG0Y4yYrdUJC8YFxZX3i924F2xwGAGIvlDRAa0aCn0Ky0UtWjWA-HTJEZ4XfrT_Y6dtaJdOtoNCez1KjVIHB4x29qJ2bTERGv9uxWLhrHabbkRSVz4xNh/w640-h640/left.jpg" width="800" /></a></div><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">My left eye. Told yesterday by Eyedoc Jr he wants to yoink out my cataracts this Fall, says otherwise any RX for glasses will grow obsolete within a year after filling, he wants to spare me the cost of new glasses each year, fine metaphors abound</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">Too, 16 years since my obamapostasy viz <a href="https://twitter.com/_ryanruby_/status/1768292366304059444" target="_blank">motherfucking professional Democrats</a>, I'm deeply embarrassed and ashamed to find myself angry at my congressman from MD-8, Jamie Raskin, a still-enslaved shitlord kapo who performatively prances as a cracker-ridiculing populist progressive Democrat, who not only supports the Zionist genocide of Palestinians (while receiving generous AIPAC donations) but voted yesterday to ban IcToktay, if asked he no doubt would say he did so to prevent the corpse of Mao from reading my texts to my daughter about her new puppy. National security, see? My right eye (both bigger <a href="https://hexjeff.blogspot.com/2024/03/2024-march-my-left-eye-right-eye.html" target="_blank">here</a>)</span><br /><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEzatUC2aKQSNcuR9INkOyYtwZ1FJerBEsJb1HUiO7ZaX69I24VpCe18YY0rxlQYLSm5pvimqNY2zwgIWxV0bHJ5LOGC5xGxmyo5RuZgNHZhAPiuLH19o0pK6AUwqkFGxcef7pvHC-jMb0OnqdfN2GRgR6p0ac91zVr07E4Bd4TB0CUfhO3a-AmEfWKPXM/s2396/right.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2396" data-original-width="2396" height="800" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEzatUC2aKQSNcuR9INkOyYtwZ1FJerBEsJb1HUiO7ZaX69I24VpCe18YY0rxlQYLSm5pvimqNY2zwgIWxV0bHJ5LOGC5xGxmyo5RuZgNHZhAPiuLH19o0pK6AUwqkFGxcef7pvHC-jMb0OnqdfN2GRgR6p0ac91zVr07E4Bd4TB0CUfhO3a-AmEfWKPXM/w640-h640/right.jpg" width="800" /></a></div><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">National security? </span><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1419; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Shitlords' frenzied you're hearing/seeing unauthorized content that breaks shitlord kayfabe, look at the on-demand bipartisanship of congress to limit the sources you use to inform your thoughts and life, borg implants (you think I'm just making a shitty Next Gen allusion, this IS in the works, I guaranfuckentee) will have eager bipartisan support. The deeper the broken kayfabe the more irreparable the kayfabe, the more determined are shitlords to insist you eat their kayfabe, so, fascism, so: fucking duh I needed to puke</span><span style="font-size: 15px;">
</span></span></span></p><p><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="700" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Q1rstv4TCmQ?si=LuYHjgypO1IqK4CM" title="YouTube video player" width="800"></iframe><br /><br /><br /></p><table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" data-sheets-root="1" dir="ltr" style="border-collapse: collapse; border: none; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; table-layout: fixed; width: 0px;" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><colgroup><col width="100"></col><col width="100"></col><col width="100"></col><col width="100"></col><col width="100"></col><col width="100"></col><col width="100"></col><col width="100"></col></colgroup><tbody><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"\"Young voters, black voters, Arab and Muslim voters are fleeing the Democratic Party at a critical electoral juncture because of our anti-Palestinian policies. To win them back, our plan is to ban their favorite website.\""}" rowspan="1" style="background-color: #fff2cc; border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Spectral; font-size: 23pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;">"Young voters, black voters, Arab and Muslim voters are fleeing the Democratic Party at a critical electoral juncture because of our anti-Palestinian policies. To win them back, our plan is to <a href="https://twitter.com/jakebackpack/status/1768264589412581796" target="_blank">ban their favorite website</a>."</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"The Panic Of the Ruling Class"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 44pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">The <a href="https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2024/03/the-panic-of-the-ruling-class/" target="_blank">Panic</a> Of the Ruling Class</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"⇧"}" style="background-color: #fcebff; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; color: red; font-family: arial; font-size: 57pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">⇧</td><td colspan="7" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"\"They are clinging to Israel, not because they have a genuine belief Israel is a force for good, not because they believe in religious Zionism, not even because they believe it is a necessary colonialist project in the Middle East, but because it has been for decades their totem, the very badge of political respectability, the membership card for the political country club. Israel is now toxic to the public and the entire history of ethnic cleansing, massacre and long genocide on which the very existence of Israel is based, is now laid bare. The political class are now in a panic, and lashing out everywhere. Police powers to limit free assembly were already hugely increased just last year by the Public Order Act 2023, where any demonstration which is noisy or causes inconvenience can be banned. Now we have calls from the responsible ministers for pro-Palestinian demonstrations to be banned because they offend their sensibilities in a way they are finding difficult to define\""}" rowspan="1" style="background-color: #fff2cc; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(204, 204, 204); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 13pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;">"They are clinging to Israel, not because they have a genuine belief Israel is a force for good, not because they believe in religious Zionism, not even because they believe it is a necessary colonialist project in the Middle East, but because it has been for decades their totem, the very badge of political respectability, the membership card for the political country club. Israel is now toxic to the public and the entire history of ethnic cleansing, massacre and long genocide on which the very existence of Israel is based, is now laid bare. The political class are now in a panic, and lashing out everywhere. Police powers to limit free assembly were already hugely increased just last year by the Public Order Act 2023, where any demonstration which is noisy or causes inconvenience can be banned. Now we have calls from the responsible ministers for pro-Palestinian demonstrations to be banned because they offend their sensibilities in a way they are finding difficult to define"</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"European settlers doing what European settlers have always done"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 21pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">European settlers doing what European settlers <a href="https://twitter.com/AchmatX/status/1766477808111403466" target="_blank">have always done</a></td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Today in Rhetorical Questions: WILL AARON BUSHNELL’S DEATH TRIGGER ANARCHISM WITCH HUNT?"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 22pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;">Today in Rhetorical Questions: WILL AARON BUSHNELL’S DEATH <a href="https://theintercept.com/2024/03/07/aaron-bushnell-fbi-anarchism-extremist/" target="_blank">TRIGGER ANARCHISM WITCH HUNT</a>?</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Israel has deliberately starved the people of Gaza"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 28pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;">Israel has <a href="https://johnmenadue.com/israel-has-deliberately-starved-the-people-of-gazavideo-plus-transcript/" target="_blank">deliberately starved</a> the people of Gaza</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"There is nothing — literally nothing — evil that Israel could do in which Israel would not be framed as the real victim."}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 34pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;">There is nothing — <a href="https://twitter.com/caitoz/status/1767314872776458448" target="_blank">literally nothing</a> — evil that Israel could do in which Israel would not be framed as the real victim.</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Take, for instance: Israeli military blows up EU-funded, UNWRA-operated daycare centre in Tulkarm refugee camp"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 23pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;">Take, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBoLGVvgn5w" target="_blank">for instance</a>: Israeli military blows up EU-funded, UNWRA-operated daycare centre in Tulkarm refugee camp</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"This Is What Our Ruling Class Has Decided Will Be Normal"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 23pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"><a href="https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/this-is-what-our-ruling-class-has" target="_blank">This</a> Is What Our Ruling Class Has Decided Will Be Normal</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Trump makes anger, fear, and resentment entertaining"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 25pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">Trump makes anger, fear, and resentment <a href="https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2024/03/21/laugh-riot-trump-fintan-otoole/" target="_blank">entertaining</a></td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"How Conservative Congregations Scale the Church-State Wall to Political Victory"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 32pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;">How Conservative Congregations Scale the <a href="https://capitalandmain.com/power-of-the-pulpit-how-conservative-congregations-scale-the-church-state-wall-to-political-victory" target="_blank">Church-State Wall</a> to Political Victory</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"The State of the Union is \"Failed\""}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 40pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">The State of the Union is "<a href="https://www.blackagendareport.com/state-union-failed" target="_blank">Failed</a>"</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Companies paid top executives more than they paid in US taxes"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 42pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;">Companies <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/mar/13/top-us-executives-salaries-versus-tax-payments" target="_blank">paid top executives</a> more than they paid in US taxes</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"IcToktay: of course shitlords will monetize the emasculation of independent voices"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 31pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;"><a href="https://twitter.com/BeckyQuick/status/1768247921927942525" target="_blank">IcToktay</a>: of course shitlords will monetize the emasculation of independent voices</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"BUMP: The Millennial Left as a Moment in Internet History"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 44pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;"><a href="https://benjaminstudebaker.com/2024/02/24/the-millennial-left-as-a-moment-in-internet-history/" target="_blank">BUMP</a>: The Millennial Left as a Moment in Internet History</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Under the guise of empowerment and freedom, politicians and business are offloading lifethreatening risk to individuals"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 22pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;">Under the <a href="https://aeon.co/essays/why-governments-and-business-like-to-offload-risk-to-individuals" target="_blank">guise of empowerment and freedom</a>, politicians and business are offloading lifethreatening risk to individuals</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Comrades, community, and commitment"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 33pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">Comrades, <a href="https://www.tempestmag.org/2024/03/comrades-community-and-commitment/?" target="_blank">community</a>, and commitment</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Avedon Carol's very occasional links"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 37pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">Avedon Carol's very occasional <a href="https://avedoncarol.blogspot.com/2024/03/i-can-bring-whole-cities-to-ruin.html" target="_blank">links</a></td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="4" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Maggie's weekly"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 39pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"><a href="https://maggiemcneill.com/2024/03/10/links-714/" target="_blank">Maggie's weekly</a></td><td colspan="4" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"APEERANCES"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(204, 204, 204); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 42pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"><a href="https://davidly66.blogspot.com/2024/03/appearances-peering.html" target="_blank">APEERANCES</a></td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"QUADRIPEDAL FEELZ ‘n EXPLICIT ADVICE"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 28pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">QUADRIPEDAL <a href="https://berlin8berlin.wordpress.com/2024/03/13/quadripedal-feelz-n-explicit-advice/" target="_blank">FEELZ</a> ‘n EXPLICIT ADVICE</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"A bleggalgaze about litblogs"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 48pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">A <a href="https://www.thereadingexperience.net/tre/2024/03/what-hath-the-blog-wrought.html" target="_blank">bleggalgaze</a> about litblogs</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="4" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Wings of Desire"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 42pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"><a href="https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2024/04/04/wings-of-desire-they-flew-carlos-eire/" target="_blank">Wings of Desire</a></td><td colspan="4" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"{ feuilleton }'s "}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(204, 204, 204); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 45pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">{ <a href="https://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2024/03/09/weekend-links-716/" target="_blank">feuilleton</a> }'s</td></tr></tbody></table><p><google-sheets-html-origin></google-sheets-html-origin><br /><br /><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="700" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/zt4b__1I1S4?si=K4X-Hr4etJoYF1zK" title="YouTube video player" width="800"></iframe></p><div><br /></div><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>THE GHOST</b></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Frank Bidart</b></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;">You must not think that what I have<br />accomplished through you</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;">could have been accomplished by any other means.<br /></span><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;">Each of us is to himself<br />indelible. I had to become that which could not<br /></span><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;">be, by time, from human memory, erased.<br /></span><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;">I had to burn my hungry, unappeasable<br />furious spirit</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;">so inconsolably into you<br /></span><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;">you would without cease<br />write to bring me rest.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;">Bring us rest. Guilt is fecund. I knew</span><br /><br /><div><span style="font-size: x-large;">nothing I made<br />myself had enough steel in it to survive.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;">I tried: I made beautiful<br />paintings, beautiful poems. Fluff. Garbage.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;">The inextricability of love and hate?</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;">If I had merely made you<br />love me you could not have saved me.</span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020960402708303830.post-56281662643641187552024-03-07T14:31:00.003-05:002024-03-09T08:33:50.706-05:00Causes Pursue All Wobbly Deeds<p><span style="font-size: x-large;">Latest novel I've failed: *Huckleberry Finn,* was attempting a reread ahead of Percival Everett's *James* release next month. Other novels I've failed in 2024: McElroy's *Hind's Kidnap,* de la Pava's *Lost Empress,* a reread of Barth's *Sot-weed Factor,* Levin's *Mount Chicago,* Katz's new translation of Fyodor's *Brothers Karamazov,* and at least three others I can't remember and can't be bothered to go find. Today's headshot, gouache and acrylic ink</span><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfVHhQ4OkoZbjH5mKydax8IpwsGWR3ONAAvm4gdQcf-mp47nLewuoPQqsAEBRkRqcZWxrqQcmfLz4R0uZ8xEJaQClyzU4SzMACQWj_J4UYjWlxEFCq32Fgv1hDN6TjIpKzftmiLSIB7-1LCh0tnYbtfErs80mDMKnsvEVY-NIOJ1YAHwzxI6OJfcjs7C1W/s1796/Scanned%20from%20a%20Xerox%20Multifunction%20Printer-101.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1796" data-original-width="1796" height="800" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfVHhQ4OkoZbjH5mKydax8IpwsGWR3ONAAvm4gdQcf-mp47nLewuoPQqsAEBRkRqcZWxrqQcmfLz4R0uZ8xEJaQClyzU4SzMACQWj_J4UYjWlxEFCq32Fgv1hDN6TjIpKzftmiLSIB7-1LCh0tnYbtfErs80mDMKnsvEVY-NIOJ1YAHwzxI6OJfcjs7C1W/w640-h640/Scanned%20from%20a%20Xerox%20Multifunction%20Printer-101.jpg" width="800" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;">My eyes suck but are not the problem. I haven't watched a movie or television show in at least a decade not out of some performative moral protest but because they bore the fuck out of me and I'd rather listen to music and read poetry and novels instead and, as Life in the Clusterfuckocene saturates, overwhelms, and dominates my head, I now read three pages of a novel cognitively then ten more pages obliviously before awakening from the clusterfuck's miasma to realize I retain nothing of those ten pages and discover I have no desire to read further. It's not boredom, it's not disinterest, it's, I've told you this three times (I can't imagine rereading Vollmann's *Dying Grass,* quite possibly my favorite novel ever, where that <i>telling you three time</i> gag is from) I am being reprogrammed by clusterfuckaires and not only do I not resist, I'm a solipsistically greedy addict, it's kinda dark in here</span><br /><br /><br /><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="700" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/E1tkI5SwM_M?si=EF6B9vv27VQG9Ng8" title="YouTube video player" width="800"></iframe><br /><br /><br /></p><table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" data-sheets-root="1" dir="ltr" style="border-collapse: collapse; border: none; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; table-layout: fixed; width: 0px;" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><colgroup><col width="100"></col><col width="100"></col><col width="100"></col><col width="100"></col><col width="100"></col><col width="100"></col><col width="100"></col><col width="100"></col></colgroup><tbody><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"\"You have to vote for the Democrats; they’re the only thing preventing fascism\""}" rowspan="1" style="background-color: red; border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Spectral; font-size: 32pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;"><span style="color: white;">"You </span><a href="https://twitter.com/AugustJPollak/status/1765766892587790416" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">have to vote</span></a><span style="color: white;"> for the Democrats; they’re the only thing preventing fascism"</span></td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"White House attempted to hide arms shipments for Israeli genocide"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 36pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;">White House <a href="https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2024/03/07/omqx-m07.html" target="_blank">attempted to hide</a> arms shipments for Israeli genocide</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"\"What’s happening to people isn’t just this death and dismemberment and hunger. It is a total denigration of their personhood.\""}" rowspan="1" style="background-color: yellow; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 30pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;">"What’s happening to people isn’t just this death and <a href="https://twitter.com/democracynow/status/1765377609146196242" target="_blank">dismemberment and hunger</a>. It is a total denigration of their personhood."</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Palestine And The Worthlessness Of The Western Liberal"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 40pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;">Palestine And The <a href="https://caityjohnstone.medium.com/on-palestine-and-the-worthlessness-of-the-western-liberal-f769a8d06863" target="_blank">Worthlessness</a> Of The Western Liberal</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Today in Rhetorical Questions: Why is the US administration only pretending to pressure Israel?"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 39pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;"><a href="https://www.unz.com/kbarrett/bidens-bogus-ceasefire-shenanigans/" target="_blank">Today in Rhetorical Questions</a>: Why is the US administration only pretending to pressure Israel?</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"\"This is genuinely the quiet part out loud of most admonishments from liberals\""}" rowspan="1" style="background-color: cyan; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 34pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;">"This is genuinely the quiet part out loud of most <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/mommunism.bsky.social/post/3kn3p536nbs2q" target="_blank">admonishments from liberals</a>"</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"\"Neoliberal warmonger tries to take a poem and frame it as a mental illness to dunk on the left.\""}" rowspan="1" style="background-color: yellow; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 39pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;">"<a href="https://twitter.com/davenewworld_2/status/1765745236091748643" target="_blank">Neoliberal warmonger</a> tries to take a poem and frame it as a mental illness to dunk on the left."</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"\"Rachel Maddow is a perfect example of the liberal \"upright sodomite\" imperial lesbian. She spent her entire career ignoring Israel/Palestine. Now it's her shining moment: pushing genocide entirely out of the conversation in the name of *saving democracy.*\""}" rowspan="1" style="background-color: cyan; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 15pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;">"Rachel Maddow is a perfect example of the liberal "upright sodomite" imperial lesbian. She spent her entire career ignoring Israel/Palestine. Now it's her shining moment: <a href="https://twitter.com/thrasherxy/status/1765629413884829957" target="_blank">pushing genocide entirely out of the conversation</a> in the name of *saving democracy.*"</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"\"Western leaders are experiencing two stunning events: defeat in Ukraine, genocide in Palestine. The first is humiliating, the other shameful. Yet, they feel no humiliation or shame\""}" rowspan="1" style="background-color: yellow; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 22pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;">"Western leaders are experiencing two stunning events: defeat in Ukraine, genocide in Palestine. The first is humiliating, the other shameful. Yet, they <a href="https://scheerpost.com/2024/03/07/michael-brenner-the-wests-reckoning/" target="_blank">feel no humiliation or shame</a>"</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"IDF celebrates the destruction of Gaza’s nonprofit Society for Deaf Children"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 34pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;">IDF <a href="https://twitter.com/narrative_hole/status/1765078996595908655" target="_blank">celebrates the destruction</a> of Gaza’s nonprofit Society for Deaf Children</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Our swearing is a good barometer of the sensibilities of our culture"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 40pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;">Our <a href="https://idiotic-hat.blogspot.com/2024/03/language.html" target="_blank">swearing is a good barometer</a> of the sensibilities of our culture</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"The Constitution Turned Upside Down"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 35pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">The <a href="https://www.nybooks.com/online/2024/03/06/the-constitution-turned-upside-down/" target="_blank">Constitution</a> Turned Upside Down</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Professional Democrats creating a police state, always"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 25pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">Professional <a href="https://twitter.com/msolurin/status/1765438744830619994" target="_blank">Democrats creating a police state</a>, always</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"The Arctic Ocean could be ‘ice-free’ within the decade"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 25pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">The Arctic Ocean could be ‘<a href="https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2024-03-05/the-arctic-ocean-could-be-ice-free-within-a-decade" target="_blank">ice-free</a>’ within the decade</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"The Torturers’ Poor Memories"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 44pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">The <a href="https://original.antiwar.com/andrew-p-napolitano/2024/03/05/the-torturers-poor-memories/" target="_blank">Torturers’ Poor Memories</a></td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Tibbutz Be’eri Rejects Story in New York Times October 7 Exposé: “They Were Not Sexually Abused” "}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 26pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;">Tibbutz Be’eri Rejects Story in New York Times October 7 Exposé: “<a href="https://theintercept.com/2024/03/04/nyt-october-7-sexual-violence-kibbutz-beeri/?" target="_blank">They Were Not Sexually Abused</a>”</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"The Desire to Be Visible"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 55pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">The <a href="https://thebaffler.com/latest/the-desire-to-be-visible-toure" target="_blank">Desire to Be Visible</a></td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Today in Rhetorical Questions: BALTIMORE TOUTS EQUALITY, SO WHY DID IT LAVISH TENS OF MILLIONS IN TAX BREAKS ON A SINGLE DEVELOPMENT: HARBOR EAST?"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 29pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;"><a href="https://therealnews.com/baltimore-touts-equality-so-why-did-it-lavish-tens-of-millions-in-tax-breaks-on-a-single-development-harbor-east" target="_blank">Today in Rhetorical Questions</a>: BALTIMORE TOUTS EQUALITY, SO WHY DID IT LAVISH TENS OF MILLIONS IN TAX BREAKS ON A SINGLE DEVELOPMENT: HARBOR EAST?</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Why Has the White Working Class Embraced Trump?"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 25pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;">Why Has the White Working Class <a href="https://capitalandmain.com/why-has-the-white-working-class-embraced-trump" target="_blank">Embraced Trump</a>?</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Today in Rhetorical Questions: Why is Oklahoma making it easier for pedos?"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 36pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;"><a href="https://www.oklahoman.com/story/opinion/columns/2024/03/05/oklahoma-hb-3120-sex-ed-bill-leaves-kids-risk-sexual-violence/72837260007/" target="_blank">Today in Rhetorical Questions</a>: Why is Oklahoma making it easier for pedos?</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"I, for one, have always been a spiritual lesbian"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 30pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">I, for one, have always been a <a href="https://twitter.com/BadMedicalTakes/status/1765014653220831454" target="_blank">spiritual lesbian</a></td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Today in Rhetorical Questions: Why is New York Times campaign coverage so bad?"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 31pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;"><a href="https://presswatchers.org/2024/03/why-is-new-york-times-campaign-coverage-so-bad-because-thats-what-the-publisher-wants/" target="_blank">Today in Rhetorical Questions</a>: Why is New York Times campaign coverage so bad?</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="5" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Mandate of reviewers"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 37pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"><a href="https://www.thereadingexperience.net/tre/2024/02/mandate.html" target="_blank">Mandate of reviewers</a></td><td colspan="3" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Robber Barons"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(204, 204, 204); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 34pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"><a href="https://goflyingcows.com/" target="_blank">Robber Barons</a></td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"PUBLIC CONVOs: “INCEST AND AFRO-AMERICAN LITERATURE” & “WHY IS DFW A RED FLAG FOR PEOPLE?"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 21pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;"><a href="https://berlin8berlin.wordpress.com/2024/03/05/public-convos-incest-and-afro-american-literature-why-is-dfw-a-red-flag-for-people/" target="_blank">PUBLIC CONVOs</a>: “INCEST AND AFRO-AMERICAN LITERATURE” & “WHY IS DFW A RED FLAG FOR PEOPLE?</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="3" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Unknown Language #17"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 20pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"><a href="https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?" target="_blank">Unknown Language #17</a></td><td colspan="5" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Frederick Flying Cows?"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(204, 204, 204); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 35pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"><a href="https://goflyingcows.com/" target="_blank">Frederick Flying Cows</a>?</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"A friend gifted me *Graffiti on Low or No Dollars* yesterday and am eager to start and fail it, the author interviewed here"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 33pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;">A friend gifted me *<a href="https://mastbooks.com/products/graffiti-on-low-or-no-dollars" target="_blank">Graffiti on Low or No Dollars</a>* yesterday and am eager to start and fail it, the author interviewed <a href="https://www.thegadflymagazine.org/home-1/yaydhj9qxi1grz80hs40my9h3i3oxi" target="_blank">here</a></td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Lyn Hejinian’s Counterlife"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 50pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"><a href="https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/lyn-hejinian-obit/" target="_blank">Lyn Hejinian’s Counterlife</a></td></tr></tbody></table><p><google-sheets-html-origin></google-sheets-html-origin><br /><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="700" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Wks-OjK--bw?si=VLS2sN8lBbBRIXf6" title="YouTube video player" width="800"></iframe><br /><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>[ONCE A POIGNANT CATALYST....]</b></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Lyn Hejinian</b></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span> Once a poignant catalyst was lodged in the Y of a tree<br /></span><span> No, not a poignant catalyst - the poignancy of the catalyst, like the catalyzing of the poignancy, came later<br /></span><span> A bee landed on a fallen peach<br /></span><span> A beloved man struck a table with the flat of his hand<br /></span><span> A sailor reached terra incognito without water and found it overrun with sheep<br /></span></span><span style="font-size: x-large;"> Why?</span><br /><br /> <span style="font-size: x-large;"> Causes pursue all wobbly deeds</span><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020960402708303830.post-22688769944373199152024-03-04T11:25:00.000-05:002024-03-04T11:25:07.039-05:00Tripping an Automated Shutdown in the Casing and Halting All External Workings of the Moist Robot I Inhabit at the Moment<p><span style="font-size: x-large;">Joe Biden airlifting food to the people he bombs. Shitlords have decided, Trump it will be, Democrats busting ass to get it done. Kidding, they like to lose, love the pay. Rest of the monologue, as always, transmitted via grid. A year ago this week, at the encouragement of my wife and daughter, I gathered a bunch of my square placemats to submit to a contest, thank the fucking lord I talked my self out of that shit</span><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXmWYDV53nVqrNpi6eutht9NWkTP9OcNpA-YSsMJjBwpgVyZpvOcZcDhGjG6nlV5xcQwkCHQmcGrvqf3il48GT0QgPlRCi3J5ZIruWyyfIQYCJUsczs7oE9QRuscnXjuZOCPWHWgARqSkygnJ9-Qj6FHdWSArupk6y87iG_sngYPNSF332koUTXESA0Nj4/s2986/Scanned%20from%20a%20Xerox%20Multifunction%20Printer-100.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2986" data-original-width="2881" height="825" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXmWYDV53nVqrNpi6eutht9NWkTP9OcNpA-YSsMJjBwpgVyZpvOcZcDhGjG6nlV5xcQwkCHQmcGrvqf3il48GT0QgPlRCi3J5ZIruWyyfIQYCJUsczs7oE9QRuscnXjuZOCPWHWgARqSkygnJ9-Qj6FHdWSArupk6y87iG_sngYPNSF332koUTXESA0Nj4/w618-h640/Scanned%20from%20a%20Xerox%20Multifunction%20Printer-100.jpg" width="800" /></a><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #383838; font-family: Merriweather, serif; font-size: 25px; text-align: center;">Full size </span><a href="https://hexjeff.blogspot.com/2024/02/2024-february-one-side-of-my-daughters.html" style="background-color: white; color: #0087be; font-family: Merriweather, serif; font-size: 25px; text-align: center; text-decoration-line: none;">HERE</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #383838; font-family: Merriweather, serif; font-size: 25px; text-align: center;">. There *has* changed though work still to do before it’s here. Manic sideways, me, my apologies, I’m desperate to find solutions I’m too lazy to seek<br /></span><br /><br /><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="700" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/csZ7Q_IfTH4?si=mlQjGDuT2HvgT5Tp" title="YouTube video player" width="800"></iframe><br /></p><br /><google-sheets-html-origin><table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" data-sheets-root="1" dir="ltr" style="border-collapse: collapse; border: none; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; table-layout: fixed; width: 0px;" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><colgroup><col width="100"></col><col width="100"></col><col width="100"></col><col width="100"></col><col width="100"></col><col width="100"></col><col width="100"></col><col width="100"></col></colgroup><tbody><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="4" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"THE SHOAH AFTER GAZA"}" rowspan="1" style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Spectral; font-size: 43pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"><a href="https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n05/pankaj-mishra/the-shoah-after-gaza" target="_blank">THE SHOAH AFTER GAZA</a></td><td colspan="4" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"\"Those driven to scan Joe Biden’s face for some sign of mercy, some sign of an end to bloodletting, find an eerily smooth hardness, broken only by a nervous little smirk when he blurts out Israeli lies about beheaded babies. Biden’s stubborn malice and cruelty to the Palestinians is just one of many gruesome riddles presented to us by Western politicians and journalists\""}" rowspan="1" style="background-color: #fff2cc; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(204, 204, 204); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 12pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">"Those driven to scan Joe Biden’s face for some sign of mercy, some sign of an end to bloodletting, find an eerily smooth hardness, broken only by a nervous little smirk when he blurts out Israeli lies about beheaded babies. Biden’s stubborn malice and cruelty to the Palestinians is just one of many gruesome riddles presented to us by Western politicians and journalists"</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="4" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"On *Chaos* Framing"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 32pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">On *<a href="https://twitter.com/equalityAlec/status/1763275641674248351" target="_blank">Chaos</a>* Framing</td><td colspan="4" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Our shitlords are sociopaths"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(204, 204, 204); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 24pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">Our <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/hungry-palestinians-looking-food-made-israeli-soldiers-feels-unsafe-says" target="_blank">shitlords are sociopaths</a></td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"⇧"}" style="background-color: #fcebff; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; color: red; font-family: arial; font-size: 57pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">⇧</td><td colspan="7" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"\"The point of New York Times and CNN both using \"chaotic\" to describe a historic massacre of starving people swarming food is to reduce initial viral outrage by downplaying its intentional, inexcusable nature\""}" rowspan="1" style="background-color: #fff2cc; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(204, 204, 204); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 16pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">"The point of New York Times and CNN both using "chaotic" to describe a historic massacre of starving people swarming food is to reduce initial viral outrage by downplaying its intentional, inexcusable nature"</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Aaron Bushnell and the age of immolation"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 32pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">Aaron Bushnell and the <a href="https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/burnt-offerings/" target="_blank">age of immolation</a></td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"\"Hard to fault the NYT here from following the logic of their own Israel coverage and deciding that the longterm smart, just and fair response was racially profiling their community and exerting massively disproportionate power on any dissent at the expense of most of what it purports to stand for.\""}" rowspan="1" style="background-color: black; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; color: white; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 17pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">"Hard to fault the NYT here from following the logic of their own Israel coverage and deciding that the longterm smart, just and fair response was racially profiling their community and exerting massively disproportionate power on any dissent at the expense of most of <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/mobute.bsky.social/post/3kmoikqq5rp2o" target="_blank">what it purports to stand for</a>."</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"⇧"}" style="background-color: #fcebff; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; color: red; font-family: arial; font-size: 57pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">⇧</td><td colspan="7" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"The Story Behind the New York Times October 7 Exposé"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(204, 204, 204); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 39pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">The <a href="https://theintercept.com/2024/02/28/new-york-times-anat-schwartz-october-7/" target="_blank">Story</a> Behind the New York Times October 7 Exposé</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"AIPAC uncorks $100 million war chest to sink progressive candidates"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 37pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">AIPAC <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2024/03/03/aipac-israel-spending-democratic-primaries-00144552" target="_blank">uncorks</a> $100 million war chest to sink progressive candidates</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"A frantic attempt at imperial containment"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 32pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">A <a href="https://newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/against-solutionism" target="_blank">frantic attempt</a> at imperial containment</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Prestige media stooges can't wait to blame you for Biden's defeat"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 40pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">Prestige media stooges can't wait to <a href="https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/the-fake-n-y-times-chicken-sandwich-story-is-quite-real.html" target="_blank">blame you</a> for Biden's defeat</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="3" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Vital reminder"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 32pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"><a href="https://twitter.com/mhdksafa/status/1763922689767391674" target="_blank">Vital reminder</a></td><td colspan="5" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Marching in the pouring rain"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(204, 204, 204); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 29pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"><a href="https://twitter.com/GerardDalbon/status/1764041119262712130" target="_blank">Marching</a> in the pouring rain</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"\"One has to be impressed by the chutzpah of a political party that has “returning the consequentiality to sex” as a core policy goal, but is also nominating as their presidential candidate a serial philanderer and rapist who has sired children with multiple women\""}" rowspan="1" style="background-color: #fff2cc; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 19pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">"One has to be <a href="https://twitter.com/nils_gilman/status/1764658732863004720" target="_blank">impressed by the chutzpah</a> of a political party that has “returning the consequentiality to sex” as a core policy goal, but is also nominating as their presidential candidate a serial philanderer and rapist who has sired children with multiple women"</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"⇧"}" style="background-color: #fcebff; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; color: red; font-family: arial; font-size: 57pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">⇧</td><td colspan="7" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"\"There's something utterly bizarre about the Democratic Party's inability to campaign against something like this. They're never reluctant to use feminism as marketing, but are absolutely terrified of substantive feminist politics."}" rowspan="1" style="background-color: #c9daf8; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(204, 204, 204); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 19pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">"There's something <a href="https://twitter.com/kevinbaker/status/1764659970857972065" target="_blank">utterly bizarre</a> about the Democratic Party's inability to campaign against something like this. They're never reluctant to use feminism as marketing, but are absolutely terrified of substantive feminist politics.</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"\"MAGA is a magnet for all the anxieties unloosed by the decay of an antiquated industrial capitalism\""}" rowspan="1" style="background-color: #fff2cc; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 26pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">"MAGA is a <a href="https://jacobin.com/2024/03/left-politics-future-history-capitalism-progress" target="_blank">magnet for all the anxieties</a> unloosed by the decay of an antiquated industrial capitalism"</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"\"It doesn’t matter if most people hate you, as long as your 40 percent is fanatically committed\""}" rowspan="1" style="background-color: #c9daf8; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 40pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">"It <a href="https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/fintan-o-toole-trial-runs-for-fascism-are-in-full-flow-1.3543375" target="_blank">doesn’t matter</a> if most people hate you, as long as your 40 percent is fanatically committed"</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="5" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":" Mighty contagious absence"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 31pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"><a href="https://this-space.blogspot.com/2024/02/a-mighty-contagious-absence.html" target="_blank">Mighty contagious absence</a></td><td colspan="3" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"{ feuilleton }'s"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(204, 204, 204); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 36pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">{ <a href="https://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2024/03/02/weekend-links-715/" target="_blank">feuilleton</a> }'s</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"#1378: Colors in Ever Changing Conversations Dissolving the Prison Bars of Capitalism and State."}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 27pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">#<a href="https://jacobrussellsmagicnames.com/2024/02/29/1378-colors-in-ever-changing-conversations/" target="_blank">1378</a>: Colors in Ever Changing Conversations Dissolving the Prison Bars of Capitalism and State.</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"The Institute for Illegal Images"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 43pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">The Institute for <a href="https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2024/03/04/the-institute-for-illegal-images/" target="_blank">Illegal Images</a></td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="4" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Maggie's weekly"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 39pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"><a href="https://maggiemcneill.com/2024/03/04/links-713/" target="_blank">Maggie's weekly</a></td><td colspan="4" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Marathon time at WFMU"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(204, 204, 204); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 27pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"><a href="https://wfmu.org/" target="_blank">Marathon time at WFMU</a></td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="4" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Open and closed"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 39pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"><a href="https://limitedinc.blogspot.com/2024/03/open-and-closed.html" target="_blank">Open and closed</a></td><td colspan="4" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Vocation search"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(204, 204, 204); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 39pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"><a href="https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2024/03/21/in-search-of-his-vocation-marcel-proust/" target="_blank">Vocation search</a></td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"CHEAP ‘N PAINLESS LESSONS IN WRITING, SESSION #4: EXPOSITION"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 34pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"><a href="https://berlin8berlin.wordpress.com/2024/02/28/cheap-n-painless-lessons-in-writing-session-4-exposition/" target="_blank">CHEAP ‘N PAINLESS</a> LESSONS IN WRITING, SESSION #4: EXPOSITION</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Dalkey should be shipping me at least two*Miss McIntosh, My Darling*s, if true if you want one let me know"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 36pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">Dalkey should be shipping me at least two*<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/books/under-review/the-longest-least-remembered-great-american-novel" target="_blank">Miss McIntosh, My Darling</a>*s, if true if you want one let me know</td></tr></tbody></table></google-sheets-html-origin><br /><br /><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="700" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/mCjgWXPHkSI?si=qgpDWoROHL2dgcYn" title="YouTube video player" width="800"></iframe><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>GLITCH</b></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Nick Laird</b></span><br /><br /><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">More than ample a deadfall of one meter eighty to split<br /></span></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
my temple apart on the herringbone parquet and crash<br /></span></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
the operating system, tripping an automated shutdown</span><br /></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">
<br /></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
in the casing and halting all external workings of the moist<br /></span></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
robot I inhabit at the moment: I am out cold and when<br /></span></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
my eyes roll in again I sit on the edge of the bed and tell</span><br /></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">
<br /></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
you just how taken I am with the place I’d been, had been<br /></span></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
compelled to leave, airlifted mid-gesture, mid-sentence, risen<br /></span></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
of a sudden like a bubble or its glisten or a victim snatched</span><br /></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">
<br /></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
and bundled out, helplessly, from sunlight, the usual day,<br /></span></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
and all particulars of life there fled except the sense that stays<br /></span></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
with me for hours and hours that I was valuable and needed there.</span></div><p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020960402708303830.post-67026516860298121822024-02-27T11:44:00.005-05:002024-02-27T16:00:51.185-05:00Gesticulating Like a Flailing Infant but Too Big to Be One, It Is Then the Epitome of a Senile Being<span style="font-size: x-large;">Surely a coincidence that yesterday, the day after Aaron Bushnell self-immolated in front of the Israeli embassy here in protest against the American genocide of Palestinians and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from Gaza and the West Bank, and the day before today's Michigan primary in which a significant number of registered Democrats promise to vote for Uncommitted rather than Biden that Genojoe announced, <a href="https://twitter.com/QudsNen/status/1762254275370008843" target="_blank">over an ice cream cone</a>, and much to the apparent surprise of his Israeli accomplices in genocide, that a cease-fire is imminent, maybe as soon as next Monday. I am, as always, sidewaysier today than yesterday but less than tomorrow</span><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrZ9BFnfUPeeJRXY48axoAh413zktE-LYbZQo0WlmITYMQl8Ohw7GkodbFwsfikBrZgWfC4U0vykZpggHVQ3X4Zgk01m1hUjUjaOQZongU5MDakj2-vX9gjhrzLDl-2iWigu6DVK2Guriiybh1nmsVOKmenBzTkP44VJXnfCFonkunlzqSZsnbsXkwZe2g/s4429/Scanned%20from%20a%20Xerox%20Multifunction%20Printer-98.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4429" data-original-width="2915" height="1240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrZ9BFnfUPeeJRXY48axoAh413zktE-LYbZQo0WlmITYMQl8Ohw7GkodbFwsfikBrZgWfC4U0vykZpggHVQ3X4Zgk01m1hUjUjaOQZongU5MDakj2-vX9gjhrzLDl-2iWigu6DVK2Guriiybh1nmsVOKmenBzTkP44VJXnfCFonkunlzqSZsnbsXkwZe2g/w422-h640/Scanned%20from%20a%20Xerox%20Multifunction%20Printer-98.jpg" width="800" /></a><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;">Which side of the above, top or bottom, is -.06% less-shitty so I can hold my nose, not vote for it either? Sideways and my whiteyelloworangepinkaddiction, who does sideways in whiteyelloworangepink? As for my Richard Dawson addiction:</span><br /><br /><br /><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="700" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/nWghsLiZL5k?si=WoyyywPhlMTtnf49" title="YouTube video player" width="800"></iframe><br /><br /><br /><google-sheets-html-origin><table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" data-sheets-root="1" dir="ltr" style="border-collapse: collapse; border: none; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; table-layout: fixed; width: 0px;" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><colgroup><col width="100"></col><col width="100"></col><col width="100"></col><col width="100"></col><col width="100"></col><col width="100"></col><col width="100"></col><col width="100"></col></colgroup><tbody><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Aaron Bushnell Burned Himself Alive To Make You Turn Your Eyes To Gaza"}" rowspan="1" style="border: 2px solid rgb(255, 0, 0); font-family: Spectral; font-size: 36pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"><a href="https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/aaron-bushnell-burned-himself-alive?" target="_blank">Aaron Bushnell</a> Burned Himself Alive To Make You Turn Your Eyes To Gaza</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"⇧"}" style="background-color: #fcebff; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(255, 0, 0) rgb(255, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 2px 2px; color: red; font-family: arial; font-size: 57pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">⇧</td><td colspan="6" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"\"It says a lot about the American psyche that people can't even recognize a revolutionary act of resistance against an empire that's literally robbing us and butchering babies in our name\""}" rowspan="1" style="background-color: #ffe599; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(255, 0, 0) rgb(255, 0, 0) rgb(204, 204, 204); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 2px 2px 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 16pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: middle;">"It <a href="https://twitter.com/BLCKDGRD/status/1762141343403642936" target="_blank">says a lot</a> about the American psyche that people can't even recognize a revolutionary act of resistance against an empire that's literally robbing us and butchering babies in our name"</td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"⇧"}" style="background-color: #fcebff; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(255, 0, 0) rgb(255, 0, 0) rgb(204, 204, 204); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 2px 2px 1px; color: red; font-family: arial; font-size: 57pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">⇧</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"⇧"}" style="background-color: cyan; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(255, 0, 0) rgb(255, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 2px 2px; color: #ff9900; font-family: arial; font-size: 57pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">⇧</td><td colspan="6" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"\"The claim that US media would have covered a self-immolation differently if it had been undertaken in protest of one of the country’s adversaries is not hypothetical.\""}" rowspan="1" style="background-color: #fff2cc; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(255, 0, 0) rgb(255, 0, 0) rgb(204, 204, 204); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 2px 2px 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 22pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: right; vertical-align: middle;">"The <a href="https://twitter.com/_ryanruby_/status/1762143942420697499" target="_blank">claim that US media</a> would have covered a self-immolation differently if it had been undertaken in protest of one of the country’s adversaries is not hypothetical."</td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"⇧"}" style="background-color: cyan; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(255, 0, 0) rgb(255, 0, 0) rgb(204, 204, 204); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 2px 2px 1px; color: #ff9900; font-family: arial; font-size: 57pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">⇧</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"⇧"}" style="background-color: #fcebff; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(255, 0, 0) rgb(255, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 2px 2px; color: red; font-family: arial; font-size: 57pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">⇧</td><td colspan="6" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"The smearing of Bushnell has started, is escalating"}" rowspan="1" style="background-color: #ffe599; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(255, 0, 0) rgb(255, 0, 0) rgb(204, 204, 204); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 2px 2px 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 39pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: middle;">The <a href="https://weirdcatastrophe.substack.com/p/the-self-immolation-of-aaron-bushnell" target="_blank">smearing</a> of Bushnell has started, is escalating</td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"⇧"}" style="background-color: #fcebff; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(255, 0, 0) rgb(255, 0, 0) rgb(204, 204, 204); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 2px 2px 1px; color: red; font-family: arial; font-size: 57pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">⇧</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"⇧"}" style="background-color: cyan; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(255, 0, 0) rgb(255, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 2px 2px; color: #ff9900; font-family: arial; font-size: 57pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">⇧</td><td colspan="6" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"\"The image of a cop pointing his gun at Aaron Bushnell as he burns to death is truly the most succinct encapsulation of the brutality he died protesting against. His agonized calls for Palestinian freedom should haunt every public official who’s enabled these atrocities.\""}" rowspan="1" style="background-color: #fff2cc; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(255, 0, 0) rgb(255, 0, 0) rgb(204, 204, 204); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 2px 2px 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 17pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: right; vertical-align: middle;">"The <a href="https://twitter.com/NikkiMcR/status/1761984297521602837" target="_blank">image of a cop pointing his gun at Aaron Bushnell</a> as he burns to death is truly the most succinct encapsulation of the brutality he died protesting against. His agonized calls for Palestinian freedom should haunt every public official who’s enabled these atrocities."</td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"⇧"}" style="background-color: cyan; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(255, 0, 0) rgb(255, 0, 0) rgb(204, 204, 204); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 2px 2px 1px; color: #ff9900; font-family: arial; font-size: 57pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">⇧</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"⇧"}" style="background-color: #fcebff; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(255, 0, 0) rgb(255, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 2px 2px; color: red; font-family: arial; font-size: 57pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">⇧</td><td colspan="6" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"\"I guarantee you, if someone lit themselves on fire to protest what's happening in Ukraine, it would be on the homepage of the New York Times and CNN right now. But because Aaron Bushnell stood against Israeli genocide, it gets no such coverage or praise\""}" rowspan="1" style="background-color: #ffe599; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(255, 0, 0) rgb(255, 0, 0) rgb(204, 204, 204); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 2px 2px 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 23pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: middle;">"I guarantee you, if someone lit themselves on fire to protest what's happening in Ukraine, it would be on the homepage of the New York Times and CNN right now. But because Aaron <a href="https://twitter.com/Remroum/status/1762197165126914055" target="_blank">Bushnell stood against Israeli genocide</a>, it gets no such coverage or praise"</td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"⇧"}" style="background-color: #fcebff; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(255, 0, 0) rgb(255, 0, 0) rgb(204, 204, 204); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 2px 2px 1px; color: red; font-family: arial; font-size: 57pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">⇧</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"⇧"}" style="background-color: cyan; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(255, 0, 0) rgb(255, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 2px 2px; color: #ff9900; font-family: arial; font-size: 57pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">⇧</td><td colspan="6" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"\"US Airman Aaron Bushnell did not kill himself to protest some other country's war. The US Department of Defense has compelled the participation of Air Force members like Bushnell in Israel's Gaza genocide. Their orders to deploy to Israel read \"mandatory\""}" rowspan="1" style="background-color: #fff2cc; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(255, 0, 0) rgb(255, 0, 0) rgb(204, 204, 204); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 2px 2px 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 18pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">"US Airman Aaron Bushnell did not kill himself to protest some other country's war. The US Department of Defense has compelled the participation of Air Force members like Bushnell in Israel's Gaza genocide. Their orders to deploy to Israel read "<a href="https://twitter.com/MaxBlumenthal/status/1762196403969728851" target="_blank">mandatory</a>"</td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"⇧"}" style="background-color: cyan; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(255, 0, 0) rgb(255, 0, 0) rgb(204, 204, 204); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 2px 2px 1px; color: #ff9900; font-family: arial; font-size: 57pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">⇧</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"⇧"}" style="background-color: #fcebff; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(255, 0, 0) rgb(255, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 2px 2px; color: red; font-family: arial; font-size: 57pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">⇧</td><td colspan="6" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"\"Millions of people desperately trying to formulate the best zinger about self-immolation to try to go viral on a porn and online gambling app owned by a demented incel made rich by apartheid emeralds whose greatest dream is to live alone on Mars.\""}" rowspan="1" style="background-color: #ffe599; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(255, 0, 0) rgb(255, 0, 0) rgb(204, 204, 204); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 2px 2px 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 19pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">"Millions of people desperately trying to formulate the <a href="https://twitter.com/geoffwilt/status/1762460676113457370" target="_blank">best zinger about self-immolation</a> to try to go viral on a porn and online gambling app owned by a demented incel made rich by apartheid emeralds whose greatest dream is to live alone on Mars."</td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"⇧"}" style="background-color: #fcebff; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(255, 0, 0) rgb(255, 0, 0) rgb(204, 204, 204); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 2px 2px 1px; color: red; font-family: arial; font-size: 57pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">⇧</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"⇧"}" style="background-color: cyan; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(255, 0, 0) rgb(255, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 2px 2px; color: #ff9900; font-family: arial; font-size: 57pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">⇧</td><td colspan="6" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"\"With regard to Aaron Bushnell, you are now seeing the naked reality of psychiatry being used as a weapon for enforcing bourgeois ideology"}" rowspan="1" style="background-color: #fff2cc; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(255, 0, 0) rgb(255, 0, 0) rgb(204, 204, 204); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 2px 2px 1px; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.03); color: #0f1419; text-align: start; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">I'm too cynical to think <a href="https://twitter.com/prem_thakker/status/1762209528974602478" target="_blank">CNN did this</a> for any other reason than to get in front of truth before absorbing condemnation for lies of omission ordered from the top, be interesting to see if MSNBC and NYT come to same business decision</span></span></td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"⇧"}" style="background-color: cyan; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(255, 0, 0) rgb(255, 0, 0) rgb(204, 204, 204); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 2px 2px 1px; color: #ff9900; font-family: arial; font-size: 57pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">⇧</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Extraordinary charges of bias emerge against NYTimes reporter Anat Schwartz"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(255, 0, 0) rgb(255, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 2px 2px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 47pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">Extraordinary charges of <a href="https://mondoweiss.net/2024/02/extraordinary-charges-of-bias-emerge-against-nytimes-reporter-anat-schwartz/" target="_blank">bias</a> emerge against NYTimes reporter Anat Schwartz</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Imagine a mirror image of the Anat Schwartz scandal"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(255, 0, 0) rgb(255, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 2px 2px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 50pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">"Imagine a <a href="https://twitter.com/schwarz/status/1761980630546481194" target="_blank">mirror image</a> of the Anat Schwartz scandal"</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"IDF Kills Nearly 100 Gazans in 24 Hours as Biden Claims Cease-Fire Deal 'Close'"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(255, 0, 0) rgb(255, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 2px 2px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 47pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">IDF <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/biden-cease-fire-close" target="_blank">Kills Nearly 100 Gazans</a> in 24 Hours as Biden Claims Cease-Fire Deal 'Close'</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Just Keep Bringing Awareness To The Depravity Of The Empire In As Many Ways As Possible"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(255, 0, 0) rgb(255, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 2px 2px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 40pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">Just <a href="https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/just-keep-bringing-awareness-to-the?" target="_blank">Keep Bringing Awareness</a> To The Depravity Of The Empire In As Many Ways As Possible</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Reflections on the genocide in Gaza"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(255, 0, 0) rgb(255, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 2px 2px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 38pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">Reflections on the <a href="https://epochemagazine.org/69/the-reality-of-violence-reflections-on-the-genocide-in-gaza/" target="_blank">genocide</a> in Gaza</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Macron & Many European Leaders Call For WWIII?"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(255, 0, 0) rgb(255, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 2px 2px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 50pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">Macron & Many European Leaders <a href="https://www.ianwelsh.net/macron-many-european-leaders-call-for-wwiii/" target="_blank">Call For WWIII</a>?</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"The Financial March to War"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(255, 0, 0) rgb(255, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 2px 2px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 47pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">The <a href="https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/financial-warfare-historically-a-precursor-to-escalation-in-great-power-conflict-by-harold-james-2024-02?barrier=accesspaylog" target="_blank">Financial March to War</a></td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"America’s Richest Men Ask the Courts to Make Unions Illegal"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(255, 0, 0) rgb(255, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 2px 2px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 43pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"><a href="https://prospect.org/blogs-and-newsletters/tap/2024-02-22-americas-richest-men-ask-courts-make-unions-illegal/" target="_blank">America’s Richest Men</a> Ask the Courts to Make Unions Illegal</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Why Are There Suddenly So Many Car Washes?"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(255, 0, 0) rgb(255, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 2px 2px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 29pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">Why Are There Suddenly <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2024-02-21/car-washes-are-taking-over-the-us-here-s-why" target="_blank">So Many Car Washes</a>?</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"CIA: Undermining and Nazifying Ukraine Since 1953"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(255, 0, 0) rgb(255, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 2px 2px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 26pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">CIA: <a href="https://www.voltairenet.org/article189895.html" target="_blank">Undermining and Nazifying Ukraine Since 1953</a></td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="5" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Reactionary Ecology"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(255, 0, 0) rgb(255, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 2px 2px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 40pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"><a href="https://newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/reactionary-ecology" target="_blank">Reactionary Ecology</a></td><td colspan="3" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Autojournalism"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(255, 0, 0) rgb(255, 0, 0) rgb(204, 204, 204); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 2px 2px 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 32pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"><a href="https://lithub.com/the-crooked-timber-of-the-mind-on-the-rise-of-autojournalism/" target="_blank">Autojournalism</a></td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"The War on Transgender Kids Took the Life of Nex Benedict"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(255, 0, 0) rgb(255, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 2px 2px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 44pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">The <a href="https://www.thenation.com/article/society/nex-benedict-oklahoma-war-transgender-kids/" target="_blank">War on Transgender Kids</a> Took the Life of Nex Benedict</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"The Millennial Left as a Moment in Internet History"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(255, 0, 0) rgb(255, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 2px 2px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 26pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">The Millennial Left as a <a href="https://benjaminstudebaker.com/2024/02/24/the-millennial-left-as-a-moment-in-internet-history/" target="_blank">Moment</a> in Internet History</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="4" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Maggie's weekly"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(255, 0, 0) rgb(255, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 2px 2px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 39pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"><a href="https://maggiemcneill.com/2024/02/25/links-712/" target="_blank">Maggie's weekly</a></td><td colspan="4" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"{ feuilleton }'s"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(255, 0, 0) rgb(255, 0, 0) rgb(204, 204, 204); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 2px 2px 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 47pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">{ <a href="https://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2024/02/24/weekend-links-714/" target="_blank">feuilleton</a> }'s</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"The virtues of failure and humility in the face of the next-to-nothingness of human existence"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(255, 0, 0) rgb(255, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 2px 2px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 28pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">The virtues of <a href="https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2024/03/07/at-ease-amid-the-ruins-in-praise-of-failure/" target="_blank">failure and humility</a> in the face of the next-to-nothingness of human existence</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"\"Nearly all novels remind us that the story of one person both is and is not the story of other people, each of whom is the main character of their own life\""}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(255, 0, 0) rgb(255, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 2px 2px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 17pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">"Nearly all <a href="https://newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/feminist-correctives?pc=1577" target="_blank">novels remind us</a> that the story of one person both is and is not the story of other people, each of whom is the main character of their own life"</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"My whiteyelloworangepinkaddiction"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(255, 0, 0) rgb(255, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 2px 2px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 37pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">My <a href="https://blckdgrd.me/2024/02/25/2024-february-24/" target="_blank">whiteyelloworangepinkaddiction</a></td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"PJ Harvey playing DC this coming Sept, who's not going with me?"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(255, 0, 0) rgb(255, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 2px 2px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 21pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"><a href="https://www.brooklynvegan.com/pj-harvey-announces-first-north-american-tour-in-7-years-shares-seem-an-i-video/" target="_blank">PJ Harvey</a> playing DC this coming Sept, who's not going with me?</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"New Godspeed You! Black Emperor song!"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(255, 0, 0) rgb(255, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 2px 2px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 32pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">New <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnMxEOxS_bE" target="_blank">Godspeed You! Black Emperor</a> song!</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"John Ashbery reading 'These Lacustrine Cities'"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(255, 0, 0) rgb(255, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 2px 2px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 29pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"><a href="https://twitter.com/synekura_audio/status/1761903699167772897" target="_blank">John Ashbery</a> reading 'These Lacustrine Cities'</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"RIP Lyn Hejinian, the second most important Lynn in my life"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(255, 0, 0) rgb(255, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 2px 2px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 43pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">RIP <a href="https://twitter.com/JohannesGoranss/status/1761817453808545849" target="_blank">Lyn Hejinian</a>, the second most important Lynn in my life</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="4" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"RIP Lyn Hejinian"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(255, 0, 0) rgb(255, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 2px 2px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 36pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">RIP <a href="https://www.blckdgrd.com/search?q=Hejinian" target="_blank">Lyn Hejinian</a></td><td colspan="4" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"RIP Lyn Hejinian"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(255, 0, 0) rgb(255, 0, 0) rgb(204, 204, 204); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 2px 2px 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 36pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">RIP <a href="https://bigother.com/2024/02/25/r-i-p-lyn-hejinian/" target="_blank">Lyn Hejinian</a></td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"In Memoriam: Lyn Hejinian (1941–2024)"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(255, 0, 0) rgb(255, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 2px 2px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 34pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">In Memoriam: <a href="https://pennsounddaily.blogspot.com/2024/02/in-memoriam-lyn-hejinian-19412024.html" target="_blank">Lyn Hejinian</a> (1941–2024)</td></tr></tbody></table></google-sheets-html-origin><br /><br /><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="700" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/irIH_k3UwWU?si=eiq8f2QziqQoO87Z" title="YouTube video player" width="800"></iframe><br /><br /><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">[THE CLOWN CANNOT ESCAPE GRAVITY]</span></b></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 16.83px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 16.83px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Lyn Hejinian</span></b></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 16.83px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 16.83px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 16.83px;"> </span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;">The clown cannot escape gravity; it cannot be light.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;"> With its round paper-white baby face and enormously exaggerated facial features, the clown must appear to a child like a nightmarish caricature of the figure at which the child first smiled.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;"> The clown is at once both newborn and a ruin. Gesticulating like a flailing infant but too big to be one, it is then the epitome of a senile being - and under its preposterous baggy pants perhaps a diapered one. We begin as small clowns and end as repulsive overgrown ones - perhaps this is the truth which with the clown frightens us.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;"> The clown is a swollen prototypical human, its flopping inflated body a travesty of the rounded features of young creatures that we see as adorable, vulnerable, vivacious, which is to say "cute." It appears before us to taunt us for the inadequacy of our sentimentality, the limits of our generosity, and to deny us the narcissistic pleasure of nurturing tiny beings through which life has a future.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;"> This goofy, looming, unpredictable, garish, frantic, bouncy, nonsensical parody of the child has emerged from beyond the horizon of childish optimism; it is clear from its expression that it has come forth out of despair to reproduce its own failure.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;"> Like an adolescent, its feet are too big for it - as if it had yet to grow into them, but it never will. The only fate left to the clown is to accept its punishment, its humiliation, and then depart.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;"> We laugh awkwardly and perhaps to loudly, as we identify with the clown.</span></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020960402708303830.post-63704353021737155732024-02-25T07:00:00.002-05:002024-02-25T07:00:00.134-05:00All the World Is Birthday Cake, or: Born Eighty-One Years Ago Today<p><span style="font-size: x-large;">The best Beatles song is a George song:</span><br /><br /></p><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="700" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/2zc3idF_IZ0" title="YouTube video player" width="800"></iframe><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">The best Traveling Wilburys song is a George song:</span></p><p><br /></p><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="700" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/1o4s1KVJaVA" title="YouTube video player" width="800"></iframe><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">My second most listened-to album of my life is a George album:</span></p><p><br /></p><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="700" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/_ivqxFB31I8" title="YouTube video player" width="800"></iframe><p><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;">My favorite song ever is a George song:</span><br /><br /><br /><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="700" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/w5L33ZXo26I" title="YouTube video player" width="800"></iframe><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;">I've always I loved George most, people can vouch:</span><br /><br /><br /><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="700" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/biIM4FTMaFc" title="YouTube video player" width="800"></iframe></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020960402708303830.post-49101685380367113912024-02-21T10:12:00.005-05:002024-02-21T18:29:37.023-05:00for some the extermination of the cancer is inseparable from the decreation of the city others associate the decreation with an unstoppable flow of leakage while others associate the decreation with falling rates of profit and the barely perceptible appearance of the human body<p><span style="font-size: x-large;">C and L and me went to Hell in Michigan this past weekend</span><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgERk5EYYZ9D9GadQf9suIl2GFMRXd-T6vX4BWg0JoohwazEB1p0vxX9Y8LknYoFenimhQ8uGgb9B8kmtNdf2E-eFRX7GwwXnUhnl9rcwJGKfD3YRJg5qldMcHM1Y3AMOWoSd8GR6Xqnt6HI9MzRQQMB0OH2P_8cCKP7V-ZgtRmr8-xO3ZQ_7fT5dBiBlSu/s2088/975F92A3-EFBF-4175-A92A-937C999FF08E.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1304" data-original-width="2088" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgERk5EYYZ9D9GadQf9suIl2GFMRXd-T6vX4BWg0JoohwazEB1p0vxX9Y8LknYoFenimhQ8uGgb9B8kmtNdf2E-eFRX7GwwXnUhnl9rcwJGKfD3YRJg5qldMcHM1Y3AMOWoSd8GR6Xqnt6HI9MzRQQMB0OH2P_8cCKP7V-ZgtRmr8-xO3ZQ_7fT5dBiBlSu/w640-h400/975F92A3-EFBF-4175-A92A-937C999FF08E.jpg" width="800" /></a></div><p><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="Wiki's Four Theories on Hell's name" target="_blank">Wiki's Four Theories on Hell's name</a>:</span><br /><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"></span></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;">There are a number of theories for the origin of Hell's name. The first is that a pair of German travelers stepped out of a stagecoach one sunny afternoon in the 1830s, and one said to the other, "So schön hell!" (translated as, "So beautifully bright!") Their comments were overheard by some locals and the name stuck.</span><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-hh_7-5" style="background-color: white; color: #202122; line-height: 1; text-wrap: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell,_Michigan#cite_note-hh-7" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;">[7]</a></sup><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"> The second theory is tied to the "hell-like" conditions encountered by early explorers including </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosquito" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Mosquito">mosquitos</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;">, thick forest cover, and extensive wetlands.</span><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-hh_7-6" style="background-color: white; color: #202122; line-height: 1; text-wrap: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell,_Michigan#cite_note-hh-7" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;">[7]</a></sup><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"> The third is that George’s habit of paying the local farmers for their grain with home distilled whiskey led many wives to comment “He’s gone to Hell again” when questioned about their husband’s whereabouts during harvest time.</span><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-9" style="background-color: white; color: #202122; line-height: 1; text-wrap: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell,_Michigan#cite_note-9" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;">[9]</a></sup><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"> A fourth is that soon after Michigan gained statehood, George Reeves was asked what he thought the town he helped settle should be called and replied "I don't care. You can name it </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Hell">Hell</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"> for all I care." The name became official on October 13, 1841.</span></span></blockquote><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"></span></span><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8bLalZuGl__eptDeraLQG7lXimN2LZRPxK4B3dUJ5DQuOxXOz4PDCr8a7GgA4SBqOom0U7J8VR6ckUKW1i9NMgO8fU6EkkXq2tugpG8LQx3Sh8lLQpR9QvKMPrOyyezpS3i1yE7EoWZe6fKoGO3brGd4LXZejWakh7mtz4evc0m5YP559kxHlHmnc9hD4/s3024/9DBB2AC8-FF18-4D33-8CCF-60E3AA207E38.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="2971" height="830" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8bLalZuGl__eptDeraLQG7lXimN2LZRPxK4B3dUJ5DQuOxXOz4PDCr8a7GgA4SBqOom0U7J8VR6ckUKW1i9NMgO8fU6EkkXq2tugpG8LQx3Sh8lLQpR9QvKMPrOyyezpS3i1yE7EoWZe6fKoGO3brGd4LXZejWakh7mtz4evc0m5YP559kxHlHmnc9hD4/w628-h640/9DBB2AC8-FF18-4D33-8CCF-60E3AA207E38.jpg" width="800" /></a></div><br /><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">I didn't intentionally avoid the internet and documenting each day's clusterfuck news here or in tablet while in Michigan and didn't notice I hadn't written in tablet for four days until we were home. No subsequent epiphany graced me: I've been less here and more elsewhere of late anyway, spending more time on canvases than in tablets. The above says what I want to say better than my typing it could at this point in time </span><span style="font-size: x-large;">though I type it here and in grid below anyway. <br /><br />My daughter teaches high school on the edge of Blue Michigan so she gets kids from blue and red homes, she tells me the majority of the kids that confide in her, both kids from blue homes and kids from red homes, have no intention of voting this year if they will be eighteen in November and no intention of voting ever. Many have no plans for college or trade school or self-teaching themselves coding or some other marketable skill and they expect to work grunt jobs until forced into retirement when they will take late evening shifts at minimum wage at the local Krogers to survive their safety-net-less lives in the 2060s, not that they think they will ever see the 2060s: most think they will be destroyed from within by their coping habits if not killed first in our shitlords' wars of self-interest long before then, and neither C or me think they're wrong. (And it's not just high school kids in Michigan - I hire and supervise college undergraduates, many of them as aspirationally blah as my daughter's students.) (And it's not just the kids - the majority of teachers in my daughter's age-frame adamantly say to almost a man and woman they will never have children - it will be 2088 when a child born today is my age, what freaking world if the world still here?) </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;">Walter Becker born seventy-four years ago yesterday. I love Steely Dan, unfollow if you must</span><br /><br /><br /><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="700" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/0cxFzHO9lfI?si=WZ8UmzSlD9xrlCDj" title="YouTube video player" width="800"></iframe></p><p><br /></p><table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" data-sheets-root="1" dir="ltr" style="border-collapse: collapse; border: none; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; table-layout: fixed; width: 0px;" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><colgroup><col width="100"></col><col width="100"></col><col width="100"></col><col width="100"></col><col width="100"></col><col width="100"></col><col width="100"></col><col width="100"></col></colgroup><tbody><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"US vetoes ceasefire of US's genocidal war"}" rowspan="1" style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Spectral; font-size: 33pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">US <a href="https://twitter.com/aaronjmate/status/1759973321725088053" target="_blank">vetoes ceasefire</a> of US's genocidal war</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Just received my first hate comment in years, presumably a zionist asking why I don't care about ongoing genocides in other places like I care about the Zionist genocide of Palestinians, o! he knows, I'm an anti-semitic piece of shit and he hopes I go blind, so probably an occasional reader if not a regular unless the person wishes blindness on everyone he/she/they hates"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 25pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;">Just received my first hate comment in years, presumably a zionist asking why I don't care about ongoing genocides in other places like I care about the Zionist genocide of Palestinians, o! he/she/they knows, I'm an anti-semitic piece of shit and he/she/they hopes I go blind, so probably an occasional reader if not a regular unless the person wishes blindness on everyone he/she/they hates</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"After Gaza Cease-Fire Veto, Biden to Attend Fundraiser at Home of Pro-Israel Billionaire"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 29pt; font-weight: bold; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;">After Gaza Cease-Fire Veto, Biden to Attend <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/biden-fundraiser-israel" target="_blank">Fundraiser at Home of Pro-Israel Billionaire</a></td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"These optics and words chosen on purpose, think about why"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 23pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">These optics and words <a href="https://twitter.com/BLCKDGRD/status/1760125860655554735" target="_blank">chosen on purpose</a>, think about why</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"U.S. expected to defend Israel at top U.N. court after cease-fire veto"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 21pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">U.S. expected to defend Israel at top U.N. court after <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/02/21/israel-hamas-war-news-gaza-palestine/" target="_blank">cease-fire veto</a></td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Today's everyday Democrats are motherfuckers"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 29pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">Today's everyday <a href="https://twitter.com/davenewworld_2/status/1759848047368888438" target="_blank">Democrats are motherfuckers</a></td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="5" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"How copaganda works"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 37pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">How <a href="https://twitter.com/ScottHech/status/1759690366637445543" target="_blank">copaganda</a> works</td><td colspan="3" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Shitbigot angry people call him a shitbigot"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(204, 204, 204); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 22pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;"><a href="https://bsky.app/profile/mjsdc.bsky.social/post/3klu6r3egqv2i" target="_blank">Shitbigot angry people call him a shitbigot</a></td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Free speech is posting on your own private space *BLCKDGRD is an anti-semitic piece of shit that I hope goes blind,* free speech was not violated when I deleted the comment unpublished"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 20pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;">Free speech is posting on your own private space *BLCKDGRD is an anti-semitic piece of shit that I hope goes blind,* free speech was not violated when I deleted the comment unpublished</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"No, I haven't forgot about christercrackers and crackerchristers"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 22pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;">No, I haven't forgot about <a href="https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2024/02/teen-beaten-to-death-in-a-school-bathroom-bullying-attack-the-school-didnt-call-an-ambulance/" target="_blank">christercrackers and crackerchristers</a></td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"⇧"}" style="background-color: #fcebff; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; color: red; font-family: arial; font-size: 100pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">⇧</td><td colspan="6" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"\"The trans people you know are the ones who made it, and I think the world, as it exists now, is set up to ensure that we don't make it. Nex's teachers didn't even call an ambulance. There is a screening process in place to make sure kids like Nex never grow up. The survivors are just the exceptions\""}" rowspan="1" style="background-color: #f3f3f3; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(204, 204, 204); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 26pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;">"The trans people you know are the ones who made it, and I think the world, as it exists now, is set up to ensure that we don't make it. Nex's teachers didn't even call an ambulance. <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/judedoyle.bsky.social/post/3kluzkobcvu2s" target="_blank">There is a screening process in place to make sure kids like Nex never grow up</a>. The survivors are just the exceptions"</td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"⇧"}" style="background-color: #fcebff; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(204, 204, 204); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; color: red; font-family: arial; font-size: 100pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">⇧</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Today's everyday Democrats are motherfuckers"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 29pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">Today's everyday <a href="https://twitter.com/ryangrim/status/1760001856388882895" target="_blank">Democrats are motherfuckers</a></td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"\"It's grimly amusing how liberals who've spent the past 2 years cheering for the Azov battalion, the past 3 months supporting the IOF, the past few weeks calling for harsher border policy, and are now sobbing over Navalny think they have the moral authority to lecture us on Nazis\""}" rowspan="1" style="background-color: #f3f3f3; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;">"It's <a href="https://twitter.com/truthaddictVT/status/1760087920189247924" target="_blank">grimly amusing</a> how liberals who've spent the past 2 years cheering for the Azov battalion, the past 3 months supporting the IOF, the past few weeks calling for harsher border policy, and are now sobbing over Navalny think they have the moral authority to lecture us on Nazis"</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"THE SHITLORDS WHO OWN DONALD TRUMP AND REPUBLICANS AND JOE BIDEN AND DEMOCRATS, I AM TELLING YOU THREE TIMES, ARE REPROGRAMMING EVERYTHING AND EVERYONE FOR HEGEMONY FOREVER OR HELL FOR ANYONE AND EVERYONE NOT LIVING IN A LUXURY BOMB-SHELTER AND THEY SHIT IN THE WATER YOU DRINK ALL THE FUCKING TIME, THEY WILL DESTROY THE WORLD BEFORE THEY GIVE UP THAT PRIVILEGE"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 18pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;">THE SHITLORDS WHO OWN DONALD TRUMP AND REPUBLICANS AND JOE BIDEN AND DEMOCRATS, I AM TELLING YOU THREE TIMES, ARE REPROGRAMMING EVERYTHING AND EVERYONE FOR HEGEMONY FOREVER OR HELL FOR ANYONE AND EVERYONE NOT LIVING IN A LUXURY BOMB-SHELTER AND THEY <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ck7948geezjo" target="_blank">SHIT IN THE WATER YOU DRINK</a> ALL THE FUCKING TIME, THEY WILL DESTROY THE WORLD BEFORE THEY GIVE UP THAT PRIVILEGE</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Free Palestine. Stop Cop City"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 46pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;"><a href="https://thenewinquiry.com/free-palestine-stop-cop-city/" target="_blank">Free Palestine. Stop Cop City</a></td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="4" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Maggie's weekly"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 38pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;"><a href="https://maggiemcneill.com/2024/02/18/links-711/" target="_blank">Maggie's weekly</a></td><td colspan="4" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Breathing space"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(204, 204, 204); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 41pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;"><a href="https://newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/breathing-space" target="_blank">Breathing space</a></td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"BLACK SWANS ARE THE ONLY SWANS I EVER KNEW"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 42pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;">BLACK SWANS ARE THE ONLY <a href="https://berlin8berlin.wordpress.com/2024/02/14/black-swans-are-the-only-swans-i-ever-knew/" target="_blank">SWANS</a> I EVER KNEW</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Everything Everywhere All at Once All of the Time"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 27pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;">Everything Everywhere All at Once <a href="https://thebaffler.com/latest/everything-everywhere-all-at-once-all-of-the-time-robbins" target="_blank">All of the Time</a></td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="4" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Wake up and listen to the music"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 34pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;">Wake up and <a href="https://www.overgrownpath.com/2024/02/wake-up-and-listen-to-music.html" target="_blank">listen</a> to the music</td><td colspan="4" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"{ feuilleton }'s"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(204, 204, 204); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 46pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;">{ <a href="https://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2024/02/17/weekend-links-713/" target="_blank">feuilleton</a> }'s</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"People Who Can’t Picture Sound in Their Minds"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 28pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;">People Who <a href="https://nautil.us/people-who-cant-picture-sound-in-their-minds-517529/" target="_blank">Can’t Picture Sound</a> in Their Minds</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Any major dude will tell you *Pretzel Logic* was released 50 years ago yesterday"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 33pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;">Any major dude will tell you *<a href="https://twitter.com/baddantakes/status/1759949290472882178" target="_blank">Pretzel Logic</a>* was released 50 years ago yesterday</td></tr></tbody></table><p><google-sheets-html-origin></google-sheets-html-origin><br /><br /><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="700" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/KEz97FU4qR0?si=Y9cjd7zEq_OII5b9" title="YouTube video player" width="800"></iframe><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>POEM #1022</b></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Daniel Borzutzky</b></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;">There is not much excess <br />and what there is is barely perceptible <br />the blank ones disappear from our vision <br />no one notices until <br />there is a dramatic decrease in surplus value</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;">the war is born <br />and the blank ones disappear again<br />but really their disappearance is subjective<br />some see no one <br />while others see everyone</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;">for some the extermination of the cancer is <br />inseparable from the decreation of the city <br />others associate the decreation <br />with an unstoppable flow of leakage <br />while others associate the decreation <br />with falling rates of profit <br />and the barely perceptible <br /><span class="css-8l6xbc evw5hdy0"> </span>appearance of the human body</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;">out of the dead refugee sprouts<span class="css-8l6xbc evw5hdy0"> </span><br /><span class="css-8l6xbc evw5hdy0"> </span><span class="css-8l6xbc evw5hdy0"> </span><span class="css-8l6xbc evw5hdy0"> </span><span class="css-8l6xbc evw5hdy0"> </span><span class="css-8l6xbc evw5hdy0"> </span><span class="css-8l6xbc evw5hdy0"> </span><span class="css-8l6xbc evw5hdy0"> </span><span class="css-8l6xbc evw5hdy0"> </span><span class="css-8l6xbc evw5hdy0"> </span><span class="css-8l6xbc evw5hdy0"> </span><span class="css-8l6xbc evw5hdy0"> </span><span class="css-8l6xbc evw5hdy0"> </span><span class="css-8l6xbc evw5hdy0"> </span><span class="css-8l6xbc evw5hdy0"> </span><span class="css-8l6xbc evw5hdy0"> </span><span class="css-8l6xbc evw5hdy0"> </span><span class="css-8l6xbc evw5hdy0"> </span><span class="css-8l6xbc evw5hdy0"> </span>a breathing poem</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;">out of the dead soldier sprouts<span class="css-8l6xbc evw5hdy0"> </span><br /><span class="css-8l6xbc evw5hdy0"> </span><span class="css-8l6xbc evw5hdy0"> </span><span class="css-8l6xbc evw5hdy0"> </span><span class="css-8l6xbc evw5hdy0"> </span><span class="css-8l6xbc evw5hdy0"> </span><span class="css-8l6xbc evw5hdy0"> </span><span class="css-8l6xbc evw5hdy0"> </span><span class="css-8l6xbc evw5hdy0"> </span><span class="css-8l6xbc evw5hdy0"> </span><span class="css-8l6xbc evw5hdy0"> </span><span class="css-8l6xbc evw5hdy0"> </span><span class="css-8l6xbc evw5hdy0"> </span><span class="css-8l6xbc evw5hdy0"> </span><span class="css-8l6xbc evw5hdy0"> </span><span class="css-8l6xbc evw5hdy0"> </span><span class="css-8l6xbc evw5hdy0"> </span><span class="css-8l6xbc evw5hdy0"> </span><span class="css-8l6xbc evw5hdy0"> </span>a breathing poem</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;">out of the dead city sprouts<span class="css-8l6xbc evw5hdy0"> </span><br /><span class="css-8l6xbc evw5hdy0"> </span><span class="css-8l6xbc evw5hdy0"> </span><span class="css-8l6xbc evw5hdy0"> </span><span class="css-8l6xbc evw5hdy0"> </span><span class="css-8l6xbc evw5hdy0"> </span><span class="css-8l6xbc evw5hdy0"> </span><span class="css-8l6xbc evw5hdy0"> </span><span class="css-8l6xbc evw5hdy0"> </span><span class="css-8l6xbc evw5hdy0"> </span><span class="css-8l6xbc evw5hdy0"> </span><span class="css-8l6xbc evw5hdy0"> </span><span class="css-8l6xbc evw5hdy0"> </span><span class="css-8l6xbc evw5hdy0"> </span><span class="css-8l6xbc evw5hdy0"> </span><span class="css-8l6xbc evw5hdy0"> </span><span class="css-8l6xbc evw5hdy0"> </span><span class="css-8l6xbc evw5hdy0"> </span><span class="css-8l6xbc evw5hdy0"> </span>a breathing poem</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;">but when the city disappears <br /><span class="css-8l6xbc evw5hdy0"> </span><span class="css-8l6xbc evw5hdy0"> </span><span class="css-8l6xbc evw5hdy0"> </span><span class="css-8l6xbc evw5hdy0"> </span><span class="css-8l6xbc evw5hdy0"> </span><span class="css-8l6xbc evw5hdy0"> </span><span class="css-8l6xbc evw5hdy0"> </span><span class="css-8l6xbc evw5hdy0"> </span><span class="css-8l6xbc evw5hdy0"> </span><span class="css-8l6xbc evw5hdy0"> </span><span class="css-8l6xbc evw5hdy0"> </span><span class="css-8l6xbc evw5hdy0"> </span><span class="css-8l6xbc evw5hdy0"> </span><span class="css-8l6xbc evw5hdy0"> </span><span class="css-8l6xbc evw5hdy0"> </span><span class="css-8l6xbc evw5hdy0"> </span><span class="css-8l6xbc evw5hdy0"> </span><span class="css-8l6xbc evw5hdy0"> </span><span class="css-8l6xbc evw5hdy0"> </span><span class="css-8l6xbc evw5hdy0"> </span><span class="css-8l6xbc evw5hdy0"> </span><span class="css-8l6xbc evw5hdy0"> </span><span class="css-8l6xbc evw5hdy0"> </span><span class="css-8l6xbc evw5hdy0"> </span><span class="css-8l6xbc evw5hdy0"> </span><span class="css-8l6xbc evw5hdy0"> </span><span class="css-8l6xbc evw5hdy0"> </span><span class="css-8l6xbc evw5hdy0"> </span><span class="css-8l6xbc evw5hdy0"> </span><span class="css-8l6xbc evw5hdy0"> </span><span class="css-8l6xbc evw5hdy0"> </span><span class="css-8l6xbc evw5hdy0"> </span><span class="css-8l6xbc evw5hdy0"> </span><span class="css-8l6xbc evw5hdy0"> </span><span class="css-8l6xbc evw5hdy0"> </span>so do the poems </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;">and when the poems disappear <br /><span class="css-8l6xbc evw5hdy0"> </span><span class="css-8l6xbc evw5hdy0"> </span><span class="css-8l6xbc evw5hdy0"> </span><span class="css-8l6xbc evw5hdy0"> </span><span class="css-8l6xbc evw5hdy0"> </span><span class="css-8l6xbc evw5hdy0"> </span><span class="css-8l6xbc evw5hdy0"> </span><span class="css-8l6xbc evw5hdy0"> </span><span class="css-8l6xbc evw5hdy0"> </span><span class="css-8l6xbc evw5hdy0"> </span><span class="css-8l6xbc evw5hdy0"> </span><span class="css-8l6xbc evw5hdy0"> </span><span class="css-8l6xbc evw5hdy0"> </span><span class="css-8l6xbc evw5hdy0"> </span><span class="css-8l6xbc evw5hdy0"> </span><span class="css-8l6xbc evw5hdy0"> </span><span class="css-8l6xbc evw5hdy0"> </span><span class="css-8l6xbc evw5hdy0"> </span>the dead are assassinated</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;">picture a heart covered in dust <br />and picture a poem sprouting out of it </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;">picture a heart covered in dust <br />and picture a child chasing it</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;">picture a bullet that kills a child <br />and picture the soldier who tosses the child into the sea<br /></span><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;">the soldier kisses the earth and says<br />it’s not my fault the people are being born and dying </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;">the pastor calls out the names of the children to the congregants </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;">to each name they respond<span class="css-8l6xbc evw5hdy0"> </span><br /><em class="css-2fg4z9 e1gzwzxm0">dead</em></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020960402708303830.post-11577006290526135072024-02-13T11:09:00.014-05:002024-02-14T21:26:49.017-05:00There Are Starving Children Left on Your Plate<p><span style="font-size: x-large;">My apologies, let me move Momcat from top-billing with today's awoogayodel (trademark), my not posting since wasn't bleggal mourning but my deliberate attempt to not awoogayodel daily as effective but repetitive reaction to shitlord organs' incessantly reprogramming me to lockstep accept my (and yours) rapidly approaching immiseration and eventual slaughter</span><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAlLEgsFDIkz8tv_9m-UXFIvLYOGAtxo1Lf-CA4M-dT_AzpuL57d92bIh7TvWtIrjxkNbGouXUpEnRbnyK-R7TEJnx9KY8ey9TpaQqhTP8mFPrKiP_MRZEUhhqYk-DfeQ-2xTtatJ2Td6ULCfUwX3obTRvdquBoAeDiaGwILVFHfjHFdQKohSzRynx5zrN/s2338/Scanned%20from%20a%20Xerox%20Multifunction%20Printer%20(34).jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2338" data-original-width="2337" height="800" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAlLEgsFDIkz8tv_9m-UXFIvLYOGAtxo1Lf-CA4M-dT_AzpuL57d92bIh7TvWtIrjxkNbGouXUpEnRbnyK-R7TEJnx9KY8ey9TpaQqhTP8mFPrKiP_MRZEUhhqYk-DfeQ-2xTtatJ2Td6ULCfUwX3obTRvdquBoAeDiaGwILVFHfjHFdQKohSzRynx5zrN/w640-h640/Scanned%20from%20a%20Xerox%20Multifunction%20Printer%20(34).jpg" width="800" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Yesterday my senator from Maryland, Chris Van Hollen, called the IDF war criminals for starving Gazans, I was surprised and stunned, Chris Van Hollen? I <a href="https://twitter.com/BLCKDGRD/status/1757122307523477695" target="_blank">tweeted</a>:</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><blockquote><span style="font-size: large;">T<span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1419; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: times;">his was my first reaction (Van Hollen is my senator, Maryland). my second reaction that there had to be a cynical motherfucking professional Democrat decision to pick him to speak now so it's borderline evil at best, my third reaction, the fuck is </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1419; font-family: times; white-space-collapse: preserve;">@RepRaskin</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1419; font-family: times; white-space-collapse: preserve;">, moral coward?</span></span></blockquote><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1419; font-family: times; font-size: 17px; white-space-collapse: preserve;"></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Second reaction the correct reaction of course and should have been the first, the fuck wrong with me. Early this morning <a href="https://twitter.com/medeabenjamin/status/1757403469202268212" target="_blank">he voted to give Israel more money</a> for Israel's western shitlord sanctioned genocide. Joe Biden's having aides tell reporters that Joe is really really mad and calling Netanyahu an asshole in a pathetic effort to gaslight his genocidal glee while demanding his party give said asshole more money to buy US bombs, Bidenomics!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">I've been yodeling since October 8 that a major goal of the US proxy genocide in Gaza is to gear-up prepping the American public for the horrors of the coming global wars over resource scarcities and accepting as patriotic the sociopathic death-drive shitlords have to either unilaterally control the world or destroy the world if they can't. This is from eight years ago</span><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjq3GRBgDLtHugSOxfaQdpaSBHGeZyaNA0mEd1j1xXhUKJbp76TOhyphenhyphenoQ2rfTK3xVWB1zkvz-vfbpZ42aDPXxHKLlraASeMEiiNwQHgzf8YFIzxz708GGLT5nrW50GlTb2KtKVSnvDu6WXOfDcgMySOrRPTDJTGPDTgIxOTmYZzcSrzTlr24Sg6jbIZqwhGb/s640/2016%203%209000.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="640" height="800" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjq3GRBgDLtHugSOxfaQdpaSBHGeZyaNA0mEd1j1xXhUKJbp76TOhyphenhyphenoQ2rfTK3xVWB1zkvz-vfbpZ42aDPXxHKLlraASeMEiiNwQHgzf8YFIzxz708GGLT5nrW50GlTb2KtKVSnvDu6WXOfDcgMySOrRPTDJTGPDTgIxOTmYZzcSrzTlr24Sg6jbIZqwhGb/w640-h640/2016%203%209000.jpg" width="800" /></a><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;">Meanwhile, professional motherfucking Democrats and their shitlib zombies can't decide which narrative to adopt as primary, that the special counsel (designated by Biden's own AG) lied about Biden's senility versus Sure Biden is diminished and demented, but Trump. Why doesn't Trump's increasing dementia (Biden will rename Pennsylvania if reelected, for example) get the same 24-7 obsessive play as Biden's, a shitlib former professor of mine demanded of me, when I said because even if Trump is as feeble or feebler than Biden Trump is not currently sending weapons to Israel to ethnic cleanse Palestine, steal the West Bank, and kill all child-bearing age Palestinian women and already born Palestinian children to eliminate the next generation of Palestinians while simultaneously tempting a broad Mideast war that would almost certainly lead to a world war, that's why, this probably the last time my former professor ever asks me anything again</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Meanwhile, in my complicity, we're driving to Michigan Thursday to visit our daughter (so this post might sit atop for a while), HEY! did you know Wayne Kramer made an album (MUBUC5, get it?) with Pere Ubu in 1998? It's true, you can <a href="https://pereubu.bandcamp.com/album/mubuc5-pere-ubu-featuring-wayne-kramer" target="_blank">hear it here</a>, no youtubes to post from that album but here, have this instead</span><br /><br /><br /><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="700" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/kNLk52L6dFI?si=OkrzL_nGA6_mtRg9" title="YouTube video player" width="800"></iframe><br /><br /><br /><google-sheets-html-origin><table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" data-sheets-root="1" dir="ltr" style="border-collapse: collapse; border: none; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; table-layout: fixed; width: 0px;" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><colgroup><col width="100"></col><col width="100"></col><col width="100"></col><col width="100"></col><col width="100"></col><col width="100"></col><col width="100"></col><col width="100"></col></colgroup><tbody><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"What and how helmetball serves: The Super Bowl Massacre"}" rowspan="1" style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Spectral; font-size: 41pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">What and how <a href="https://twitter.com/GUnderground_TV/status/1756956891970707674" target="_blank">helmetball</a> serves: The Super Bowl Massacre</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"The Crisis at The New York Times"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 39pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">The <a href="https://scheerpost.com/2024/02/12/patrick-lawrence-the-crisis-at-the-new-york-times/" target="_blank">Crisis</a> at The New York Times</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"⇧"}" style="background-color: #fcebff; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; color: red; font-family: arial; font-size: 100pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">⇧</td><td colspan="6" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"\"It has been evident to many of us since the genocide in Gaza began Oct. 7 that Israel risked asking too much of those inclined to take its side. The Zionist state would ask what many people cannot give: It would ask them to surrender their consciences, their idea of moral order, altogether their native decency as it murders, starves and disperses a population of 2.3 million while making their land uninhabitable. The Israelis took this risk and they have lost. We are now able to watch videos of Israeli soldiers celebrating as they murder Palestinian mothers and children, as they dance and sing while detonating entire neighborhoods, as they mock Palestinians in a carnival of racist depravity one would have thought beyond what is worst in humanity—and certainly beyond what any Jew would do to another human being. The Israeli newspaper Haaretz reports, as American media do not, that the Israel Defense Forces covertly sponsor a social media channel disseminating this degenerate material in the cause of maintaining maximum hatred\""}" rowspan="1" style="background-color: #fff2cc; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(204, 204, 204); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 13pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">"It has been evident to many of us since the genocide in Gaza began Oct. 7 that Israel risked asking too much of those inclined to take its side. The Zionist state would ask what many people cannot give: It would ask them to surrender their consciences, their idea of moral order, altogether their native decency as it murders, starves and disperses a population of 2.3 million while making their land uninhabitable. The Israelis took this risk and they have lost. We are now able to watch videos of Israeli soldiers celebrating as they murder Palestinian mothers and children, as they dance and sing while detonating entire neighborhoods, as they mock Palestinians in a carnival of racist depravity one would have thought beyond what is worst in humanity—and certainly beyond what any Jew would do to another human being. The Israeli newspaper Haaretz reports, as American media do not, that the Israel Defense Forces covertly sponsor a social media channel disseminating this degenerate material in the cause of maintaining maximum hatred"</td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"⇧"}" style="background-color: #fcebff; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(204, 204, 204); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; color: red; font-family: arial; font-size: 100pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">⇧</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Excellent article on Finkelstein and vital reminder to not make heroes, make allies"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 16pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">Excellent article on <a href="https://www.thedriftmag.com/normcore/" target="_blank">Finkelstein</a> and vital reminder to not make heroes, make allies</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Biden administration signals it is open to Rafah offensive as it looks to press Netanyahu on hostage deal"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 37pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: bottom;">Biden administration <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/war-on-gaza-us-red-line-rafah-blurs-Israeli-offensive-hostage-negotiations-collide" target="_blank">signals</a> it is open to Rafah offensive as it looks to press Netanyahu on hostage deal</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"JOE BIDEN OWNS THIS GENOCIDE"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 35pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: bottom;">JOE BIDEN <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/02/12/israel-rafah-strikes-panic-offensive/" target="_blank">OWNS</a> THIS GENOCIDE</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"\"In The War Of Propaganda, It Is Very Difficult To Defeat The United States”"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 35pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">"In The <a href="https://thealtworld.com/caitlin_johnston/in-the-war-of-propaganda-it-is-very-difficult-to-defeat-the-united-states" target="_blank">War Of Propaganda</a>, It Is Very Difficult To Defeat The United States”</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"JOE BIDEN OWNS THIS GENOCIDE"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 35pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">JOE BIDEN <a href="https://twitter.com/OnlinePalEng/status/1756520913309241854" target="_blank">OWNS</a> THIS GENOCIDE</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"As do motherfucking professional Democrats"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 30pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">As do <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/senate-israel-military-aid" target="_blank">motherfucking professional Democrats</a></td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"A longform reflection on the interplay between obedience & disobedience in the modern corporate university"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 35pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">A <a href="https://stevesalaita.com/the-customs-of-obedience-in-academe/" target="_blank">longform reflection</a> on the interplay between obedience & disobedience in the modern corporate university</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Hell’s Endless Trails from the USA"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 39pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">Hell’s <a href="https://dissidentvoice.org/2024/02/hells-endless-trails-from-the-usa/" target="_blank">Endless Trails</a> from the USA</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="5" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Something's gotta give"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 36pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">Something's <a href="https://twitter.com/Gritty20202/status/1757064952773312674" target="_blank">gotta</a> give</td><td colspan="3" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"After this after this after this"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(204, 204, 204); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 31pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"><a href="https://www.welcometohellworld.com/this-after-this-after-this/" target="_blank">After this after this after this</a></td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Bluesky CEO Jay Graber Says She Won’t ‘Enshittify the Network With Ads’"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 34pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">Bluesky CEO Jay Graber Says She Won’t ‘<a href="https://www.wired.com/story/bluesky-ceo-jay-graber-wont-enshittify-ads/" target="_blank">Enshittify</a> the Network With Ads’</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Ten years into his college teaching career, students stopped being able to read effectively"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 29pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">Ten years into his college teaching career, students <a href="https://slate.com/human-interest/2024/02/literacy-crisis-reading-comprehension-college.html" target="_blank">stopped being able to read</a> effectively</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Why Animals Talk: The New Science of Animal Communication"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 38pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"><a href="https://literaryreview.co.uk/the-soliloquies-of-the-lambs" target="_blank">Why Animals Talk</a>: The New Science of Animal Communication</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"⇧"}" style="background-color: #fcebff; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; color: red; font-family: arial; font-size: 36pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">⇧</td><td colspan="6" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"\"Do animals have language?’ is a bad question. They talk, concludes Kershenbaum, but not in the way we do. We are pathologically linguistic. We chop the world up into propositions and, if we’re not careful, examine those rather than the world itself. The behaviourist Temple Grandin speculates that non-human animals might rely on mental images rather than something tantamount to language to conceptualise ideas (as people like her, with autism spectrum disorder, do). We can’t know, but Kershenbaum is sympathetic to the notion."}" rowspan="1" style="background-color: #fff2cc; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(204, 204, 204); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 12pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">"Do animals have language?’ is a bad question. They talk, concludes Kershenbaum, but not in the way we do. We are pathologically linguistic. We chop the world up into propositions and, if we’re not careful, examine those rather than the world itself. The behaviourist Temple Grandin speculates that non-human animals might rely on mental images rather than something tantamount to language to conceptualise ideas (as people like her, with autism spectrum disorder, do). We can’t know, but Kershenbaum is sympathetic to the notion.</td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"⇧"}" style="background-color: #fcebff; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(204, 204, 204); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; color: red; font-family: arial; font-size: 36pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">⇧</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="4" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Maggie's weekly"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 39pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"><a href="https://maggiemcneill.com/2024/02/11/links-710/" target="_blank">Maggie's weekly</a></td><td colspan="4" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Killing the planet"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(204, 204, 204); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 38pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"><a href="https://twitter.com/EliotJacobson/status/1756333738521420040" target="_blank">Killing the planet</a></td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"This christercracker shitminister looks like my brother Elric"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 41pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">This christercracker shitminister looks like my brother <a href="https://twitter.com/RightWingWatch/status/1757068212406010009" target="_blank">Elric</a></td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Wayne Kramer’s Rage Against the Prison Machine"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 47pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">Wayne Kramer’s <a href="https://capitalandmain.com/wayne-kramers-rage-against-the-prison-machine" target="_blank">Rage</a> Against the Prison Machine</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="3" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"{ feuilleton }'s"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 36pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">{ <a href="https://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2024/02/10/weekend-links-712/" target="_blank">feuilleton</a> }'s</td><td colspan="5" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"SOCIALIST VEGANISM"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(204, 204, 204); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 33pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"><a href="https://monthlyreview.org/2024/02/01/the-case-for-socialist-veganism/" target="_blank">SOCIALIST VEGANISM</a></td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"An excellent collection of songs for Damo Suzuki"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 28pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">An excellent collection of songs for <a href="https://blissout.blogspot.com/2024/02/rip-damo-suzuki.html" target="_blank">Damo Suzuki</a></td></tr></tbody></table></google-sheets-html-origin></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /><br /><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="700" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/d1Wp5PWZ20w?si=U2OpI2Zjnn3t8JoU" title="YouTube video player" width="800"></iframe><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>MAD LIB ELEGY</b></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Ben Lerner</b></span><br /><br /><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro, Garamond, Baskerville, "Baskerville Old Face", "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">There are starving children left on your plate.<br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro, Garamond, Baskerville, "Baskerville Old Face", "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">There are injuries without brains.<br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro, Garamond, Baskerville, "Baskerville Old Face", "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Migrant workers spend 23 hours a day<br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro, Garamond, Baskerville, "Baskerville Old Face", "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">removing tiny seeds from mixtures<br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro, Garamond, Baskerville, "Baskerville Old Face", "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">they cannot afford to smoke<br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro, Garamond, Baskerville, "Baskerville Old Face", "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">and cannot afford not to smoke.<br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro, Garamond, Baskerville, "Baskerville Old Face", "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Entire nations are ignorant of the basic facts<br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro, Garamond, Baskerville, "Baskerville Old Face", "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">of hair removal and therefore resent<br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro, Garamond, Baskerville, "Baskerville Old Face", "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">our efforts to depilate unsightly problem areas.<br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro, Garamond, Baskerville, "Baskerville Old Face", "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Imprisonment increases life expectancy.<br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro, Garamond, Baskerville, "Baskerville Old Face", "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Finish your children. Adopt an injury.<br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro, Garamond, Baskerville, "Baskerville Old Face", "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> ‘I'm going to my car. When I get back,<br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro, Garamond, Baskerville, "Baskerville Old Face", "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> I'm shooting everybody.'<br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro, Garamond, Baskerville, "Baskerville Old Face", "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> [line omitted in memory of_______]</span><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro, Garamond, Baskerville, "Baskerville Old Face", "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro, Garamond, Baskerville, "Baskerville Old Face", "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">70% of pound animals will be euthanized.<br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro, Garamond, Baskerville, "Baskerville Old Face", "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">94% of pound animals would be euthanized<br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro, Garamond, Baskerville, "Baskerville Old Face", "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">if given the choice. The mind may be trained<br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro, Garamond, Baskerville, "Baskerville Old Face", "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">to relieve itself on paper. A pill<br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro, Garamond, Baskerville, "Baskerville Old Face", "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">for your safety, a pill for her pleasure.<br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro, Garamond, Baskerville, "Baskerville Old Face", "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Neighbors are bothered by loud laughter<br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro, Garamond, Baskerville, "Baskerville Old Face", "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">but not by loud weeping.<br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro, Garamond, Baskerville, "Baskerville Old Face", "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Massively multiplayer zombie-infection web-games<br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro, Garamond, Baskerville, "Baskerville Old Face", "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">are all the rage among lifers.<br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro, Garamond, Baskerville, "Baskerville Old Face", "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">The world is a rare case of selective asymmetry.<br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro, Garamond, Baskerville, "Baskerville Old Face", "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">The capitol is redolent of burnt monk.<br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro, Garamond, Baskerville, "Baskerville Old Face", "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> ‘I'm going to my car. When I get back<br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro, Garamond, Baskerville, "Baskerville Old Face", "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> I'm shooting everybody.'<br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro, Garamond, Baskerville, "Baskerville Old Face", "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> [line omitted in memory of _______]</span><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro, Garamond, Baskerville, "Baskerville Old Face", "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro, Garamond, Baskerville, "Baskerville Old Face", "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">There are two kinds of people in the world:<br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro, Garamond, Baskerville, "Baskerville Old Face", "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">those that condemn parking lots as monstrosities,<br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro, Garamond, Baskerville, "Baskerville Old Face", "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">‘the ruines of a broken World,' and those<br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro, Garamond, Baskerville, "Baskerville Old Face", "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">that respond to their majesty emotionally.<br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro, Garamond, Baskerville, "Baskerville Old Face", "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">70% of the planet is covered in parking lots.<br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro, Garamond, Baskerville, "Baskerville Old Face", "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">94% of a man's body is parking lot.<br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro, Garamond, Baskerville, "Baskerville Old Face", "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Particles of parking lot have been discovered<br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro, Garamond, Baskerville, "Baskerville Old Face", "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">in the permanent shadows of the moon.<br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro, Garamond, Baskerville, "Baskerville Old Face", "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">There is terror in sublimity.<br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro, Garamond, Baskerville, "Baskerville Old Face", "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">If Americans experience sublimity<br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro, Garamond, Baskerville, "Baskerville Old Face", "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">the terrorists have won.<br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro, Garamond, Baskerville, "Baskerville Old Face", "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> ‘I'm going to my car. When I get back<br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro, Garamond, Baskerville, "Baskerville Old Face", "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> I'm shooting everybody.'<br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro, Garamond, Baskerville, "Baskerville Old Face", "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> [line omitted in memory of _______]</span></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020960402708303830.post-66729874881011248102024-02-09T09:21:00.008-05:002024-02-09T22:53:03.262-05:00Rest in Peace, Momcat<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_AShd_CrlU0ux9rtxn9o8MVTYCNk2YsYqkYD8LhptGoAPL_S28GV7iBNS9TNtZZE01tAJke7YZYQLVLEiHmVhrOdCVea-hJKpCKgIP5nTDP33CR3J01sB3DJynYkMiYtnx6yv3Bq619U1NdXMXFVonqWE-6VAmNToRdyHx9kSFaNYun856lJXptjGAbFE/s4032/5A4B024B-7BD4-4B76-9CC7-5DAA8F09462D.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="1200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_AShd_CrlU0ux9rtxn9o8MVTYCNk2YsYqkYD8LhptGoAPL_S28GV7iBNS9TNtZZE01tAJke7YZYQLVLEiHmVhrOdCVea-hJKpCKgIP5nTDP33CR3J01sB3DJynYkMiYtnx6yv3Bq619U1NdXMXFVonqWE-6VAmNToRdyHx9kSFaNYun856lJXptjGAbFE/w480-h640/5A4B024B-7BD4-4B76-9CC7-5DAA8F09462D.jpg" width="800" /></a></div><br /><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;">Momcat just hit by a car and killed. I picked her up off the street and wrapped her in a towel and put her in a Chewy's box and put the box on the backporch, the screendoor closed to keep coyotes and foxes and dogs from eating her. The ground too frozen to dig to safe depth, I'll take her to the vets for cremation tomorrow
</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;">Some man walking his dogs yelled hello, crouching over a painting I thought it was my stomach growling with gas and then the neighbor banged and banged and banged on the door, said a black cat, I knew it was Momcat, I knew it wasn't Frankie </span><div><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;">I tried to say to L (last night before I typed this) and C (this morning) and succeeded more than failed how my processing always starts with gratitude I know how and when my feral cats died and they never just disappear and are never seen again so I never have to imagine day after day (and I would imagine day after day year after year) what horrible death they suffered and just process the hard death they had</span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: x-large;">I'd promise myself I'll never have ferals again as if I have a say and as if I'm not delighted to be adopted by them, dogs and cats have found us for forty years, more will again and good</span><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020960402708303830.post-29486781627352930742024-02-08T10:34:00.002-05:002024-02-08T10:35:53.894-05:00Each Night He Must Be Carried Through Artificial Tunnels and Dream Recurrent Dreams<p><span style="font-size: x-large;">Back on fountain pen ink on canvas, see below, back on pencil in tablets (and canvases, though not the one below). Back on <a href="https://www.innovadiscs.com/disc/valkyrie/" target="_blank">valkyrie</a> for more than just rollers, yesterday, two steepest downhill holes at Woodsboro clanked drive off baskets, closest aces yet. I'm not back on Facebook though I've received multiple emails telling me they've received my request to reset my passwork, I had an account for four days back in Facebook's earliest days twenty years ago, all it took for me to say no, I thought I'd deleted the account, someone wants in, is not me. I consolidated all blooger sub-projects into <a href="https://hexjeff.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">one archive</a> last week so I can find things I need to and so I can quick delete everything when I finally want to, 21 posts tagged since the consolidation by blooger with content warnings readers need click through to view, the fuck? </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgX5hxrFw9U3WGhlrSqAFGvWZkru5ulx-jItg0Qg_zWFIcrxgH3PNalmdhCaaqx3sVqTEAvtfQE2X_4GfF4cwOkmnOgIfkJvbLs00fPRG2hXUf7OwWD3Mlpa-rj0QQwWiYOjUtXj4xbdGbxaLDRXNAI3LtNlq5562YaUHjXQ351Xfa-w1S_PHgW_RvHK3en/s2396/Scanned%20from%20a%20Xerox%20Multifunction%20Printer-82.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2396" data-original-width="2396" height="800" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgX5hxrFw9U3WGhlrSqAFGvWZkru5ulx-jItg0Qg_zWFIcrxgH3PNalmdhCaaqx3sVqTEAvtfQE2X_4GfF4cwOkmnOgIfkJvbLs00fPRG2hXUf7OwWD3Mlpa-rj0QQwWiYOjUtXj4xbdGbxaLDRXNAI3LtNlq5562YaUHjXQ351Xfa-w1S_PHgW_RvHK3en/w640-h640/Scanned%20from%20a%20Xerox%20Multifunction%20Printer-82.jpg" width="800" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;">Never off the hexjeffs. Never off the sideways though definitely sidewaysier day by day. <a href="https://granta.com/the-trouble-with-old-men/" target="_blank">Death by gerontocracy</a> is by design. There IS no next generation planned. Reminder: when my daughter is my age it will be 2057, the earth will still exist but will the world? Reminder: if you got no Mojo Nixon than your store could use some fixin', and a reminder that this is ever true:</span><br /><br /><br /><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="700" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Qt81bVae4tQ?si=Hy6192XWrf53j2SI" title="YouTube video player" width="800"></iframe><br /><br /><br /><div><google-sheets-html-origin><table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" data-sheets-root="1" dir="ltr" style="border-collapse: collapse; border: none; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; table-layout: fixed; width: 0px;" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><colgroup><col width="100"></col><col width="100"></col><col width="100"></col><col width="100"></col><col width="100"></col><col width="100"></col><col width="100"></col><col width="100"></col></colgroup><tbody><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Democrats Are Demented Genocidal War Sluts"}" rowspan="1" style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Spectral; font-size: 29pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">Democrats Are <a href="https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/democrats-are-demented-genocidal?" target="_blank">Demented Genocidal War Sluts</a></td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Gaza Method: The West’s evolving blueprint for controlling a poly-crisis world by mass-murdering and subjugating the poor, the rebellious, and those deemed “superfluous\""}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 22pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">Gaza Method: The West’s evolving blueprint for controlling a poly-crisis world by <a href="https://tarikcyrilamar.substack.com/p/the-gaza-method?" target="_blank">mass-murdering and subjugating the poor</a>, the rebellious, and those deemed “superfluous"</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"The Resistible Rise of The New Normal Reich"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 30pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">The Resistible Rise of The <a href="https://consentfactory.org/2024/02/04/the-resistible-rise-of-the-new-normal-reich/" target="_blank">New Normal Reich</a></td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"\"The U.S. seemingly aims to find a way to hurt Iranian and Resistance forces just enough to show that Biden is ‘very angry’, yet without perhaps doing real damage – i.e. it is a form of ‘militarised psychotherapy’, rather than hard politics.\""}" rowspan="1" style="background-color: #efefef; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 16pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">"The U.S. seemingly aims to find a way to hurt Iranian and Resistance forces just enough to show that Biden is ‘very angry’, yet without perhaps doing real damage – i.e. it is a form of ‘<a href="https://strategic-culture.su/news/2024/02/02/the-three-strands-to-the-swarming-of-biden/" target="_blank">militarised psychotherapy</a>’, rather than hard politics."</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Shhh! Bodies of Palestinian detainees who were handcuffed, blindfolded discovered in plastic bags near northern Gaza school"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">Shhh! Bodies of Palestinian detainees who were <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/2/1/palestinians-demand-international-inquiry-after-mass-grave-found-in-gaza" target="_blank">handcuffed, blindfolded discovered in plastic bags</a> near northern Gaza school</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Debunking the myths of Israel/Palestine"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 34pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">Debunking the <a href="https://redflag.org.au/article/debunking-myths-israelpalestine" target="_blank">myths</a> of Israel/Palestine</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"GAZA IS A CRIME SCENE"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 49pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">GAZA IS A <a href="https://merip.org/2024/01/gaza-is-a-crime-scene/" target="_blank">CRIME SCENE</a></td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"In The Middle East The U.S. Has Reached The End Of Its Abilities"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 20pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">In The Middle East The U.S. Has Reached <a href="https://www.moonofalabama.org/2024/02/in-the-middle-east-the-us-has-reached-the-end-of-its-abilities.html" target="_blank">The End</a> Of Its Abilities</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"The Liberal Justices Should Be Talking More Shit"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 28pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">The Liberal Justices Should Be <a href="https://ballsandstrikes.org/legal-culture/sonia-sotomayor-berkeley-speech-liberals-should-be-louder/" target="_blank">Talking More Shit</a></td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"The Real Reason Your Grocery Bill Is Still So High"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 27pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">The Real Reason Your <a href="https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/02/06/the-real-reason-your-grocery-bill-is-still-so-high/" target="_blank">Grocery Bill</a> Is Still So High</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Enshittification is coming for absolutely everything"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 26pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"><a href="https://www.ft.com/content/6fb1602d-a08b-4a8c-bac0-047b7d64aba5" target="_blank">Enshittification</a> is coming for absolutely everything</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"New Study Links Optimism To Lower Cognitive Abilities"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 24pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">New Study Links <a href="https://scitechdaily.com/new-study-links-optimism-to-lower-cognitive-abilities/" target="_blank">Optimism</a> To Lower Cognitive Abilities</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="4" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Maggie's weekly"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 39pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"><a href="https://maggiemcneill.com/2024/02/04/links-709/" target="_blank">Maggie's weekly</a></td><td colspan="4" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Unlearning machines"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(204, 204, 204); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 32pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"><a href="https://newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/unlearning-machines" target="_blank">Unlearning machines</a></td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Metaphors make the world"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 50pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"><a href="https://aeon.co/essays/how-changing-the-metaphors-we-use-can-change-the-way-we-think?" target="_blank">Metaphors</a> make the world</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Cats and human supremacy"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 48pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"><a href="https://indi.ca/cats-and-human-supremacy-3/" target="_blank">Cats</a> and human supremacy</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="3" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"{ feuilleton }'s"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 36pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">{ <a href="https://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2024/02/03/weekend-links-711/" target="_blank">feuilleton</a> }'s</td><td colspan="5" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Seeing animal eyes"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(204, 204, 204); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 44pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"><a href="https://nautil.us/seeing-through-animal-eyes-509263/" target="_blank">Seeing animal eyes</a></td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Elizabeth Bishop born 113 years ago today"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 32pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">Elizabeth Bishop born 113 years ago today</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="4" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Rest in Peace, Mojo Nixon"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 26pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">Rest in Peace, <a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/mojo-nixon-dead-obituary-1234964257/" target="_blank">Mojo Nixon</a></td><td colspan="4" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Rest in Peace, Stevie"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(204, 204, 204); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 32pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">Rest in Peace, <a href="https://twitter.com/joetrainorjunk/status/1754938953319514401" target="_blank">Stevie</a></td></tr></tbody></table></google-sheets-html-origin><br /><br /><div><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="700" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ZqLPCw57yY0?si=quqg1Qi227zCq4SD" title="YouTube video player" width="800"></iframe><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>THE MAN-MOTH</b></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Elizabeth Bishop</b></span><br /><br /><div class="o-vr o-vr_6x" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro, Garamond, Baskerville, "Baskerville Old Face", "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="c-epigraph" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.25rem; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 24px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: italic; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Man-Moth: Newspaper misprint for “mammoth.”</p></div><p style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></p></div></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-large;">Here, above,<br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-large;">cracks in the buildings are filled with battered moonlight.<br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-large;">The whole shadow of Man is only as big as his hat.<br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-large;">It lies at his feet like a circle for a doll to stand on,<br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-large;">and he makes an inverted pin, the point magnetized to the moon.<br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-large;">He does not see the moon; he observes only her vast properties,<br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-large;">feeling the queer light on his hands, neither warm nor cold,<br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-large;">of a temperature impossible to record in thermometers.</span><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro, Garamond, Baskerville, "Baskerville Old Face", "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-large;"> But when the Man-Moth<br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-large;">pays his rare, although occasional, visits to the surface,<br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-large;">the moon looks rather different to him. He emerges<br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-large;">from an opening under the edge of one of the sidewalks<br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-large;">and nervously begins to scale the faces of the buildings.<br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-large;">He thinks the moon is a small hole at the top of the sky,<br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-large;">proving the sky quite useless for protection.<br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-large;">He trembles, but must investigate as high as he can climb.</span><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro, Garamond, Baskerville, "Baskerville Old Face", "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro, Garamond, Baskerville, "Baskerville Old Face", "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> Up the façades,<br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro, Garamond, Baskerville, "Baskerville Old Face", "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">his shadow dragging like a photographer’s cloth behind him<br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro, Garamond, Baskerville, "Baskerville Old Face", "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">he climbs fearfully, thinking that this time he will manage<br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro, Garamond, Baskerville, "Baskerville Old Face", "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">to push his small head through that round clean opening<br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro, Garamond, Baskerville, "Baskerville Old Face", "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">and be forced through, as from a tube, in black scrolls on the light.<br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro, Garamond, Baskerville, "Baskerville Old Face", "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">(Man, standing below him, has no such illusions.)<br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro, Garamond, Baskerville, "Baskerville Old Face", "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">But what the Man-Moth fears most he must do, although<br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro, Garamond, Baskerville, "Baskerville Old Face", "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">he fails, of course, and falls back scared but quite unhurt.</span><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro, Garamond, Baskerville, "Baskerville Old Face", "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro, Garamond, Baskerville, "Baskerville Old Face", "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> Then he returns<br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro, Garamond, Baskerville, "Baskerville Old Face", "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">to the pale subways of cement he calls his home. He flits,<br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro, Garamond, Baskerville, "Baskerville Old Face", "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">he flutters, and cannot get aboard the silent trains<br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro, Garamond, Baskerville, "Baskerville Old Face", "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">fast enough to suit him. The doors close swiftly.<br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro, Garamond, Baskerville, "Baskerville Old Face", "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">The Man-Moth always seats himself facing the wrong way<br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro, Garamond, Baskerville, "Baskerville Old Face", "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">and the train starts at once at its full, terrible speed,<br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro, Garamond, Baskerville, "Baskerville Old Face", "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">without a shift in gears or a gradation of any sort.<br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro, Garamond, Baskerville, "Baskerville Old Face", "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">He cannot tell the rate at which he travels backwards.</span><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro, Garamond, Baskerville, "Baskerville Old Face", "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro, Garamond, Baskerville, "Baskerville Old Face", "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> Each night he must<br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro, Garamond, Baskerville, "Baskerville Old Face", "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">be carried through artificial tunnels and dream recurrent dreams.<br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro, Garamond, Baskerville, "Baskerville Old Face", "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Just as the ties recur beneath his train, these underlie<br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro, Garamond, Baskerville, "Baskerville Old Face", "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">his rushing brain. He does not dare look out the window,<br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro, Garamond, Baskerville, "Baskerville Old Face", "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">for the third rail, the unbroken draught of poison,<br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro, Garamond, Baskerville, "Baskerville Old Face", "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">runs there beside him. He regards it as a disease<br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro, Garamond, Baskerville, "Baskerville Old Face", "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">he has inherited the susceptibility to. He has to keep<br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro, Garamond, Baskerville, "Baskerville Old Face", "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">his hands in his pockets, as others must wear mufflers.</span><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro, Garamond, Baskerville, "Baskerville Old Face", "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro, Garamond, Baskerville, "Baskerville Old Face", "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> If you catch him,<br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro, Garamond, Baskerville, "Baskerville Old Face", "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">hold up a flashlight to his eye. It’s all dark pupil,<br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro, Garamond, Baskerville, "Baskerville Old Face", "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">an entire night itself, whose haired horizon tightens<br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro, Garamond, Baskerville, "Baskerville Old Face", "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">as he stares back, and closes up the eye. Then from the lids<br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro, Garamond, Baskerville, "Baskerville Old Face", "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">one tear, his only possession, like the bee’s sting, slips.<br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro, Garamond, Baskerville, "Baskerville Old Face", "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Slyly he palms it, and if you’re not paying attention<br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro, Garamond, Baskerville, "Baskerville Old Face", "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">he’ll swallow it. However, if you watch, he’ll hand it over,<br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro, Garamond, Baskerville, "Baskerville Old Face", "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">cool as from underground springs and pure enough to drink.</span></div></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020960402708303830.post-76609930917058652782024-02-02T18:48:00.001-05:002024-02-02T19:22:00.525-05:00In the Sound That Abounds and Resounds and Rebounds Off the Ceiling, or: Rest in Power, Wayne Kramer<iframe width="800" height="700" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/vfKhvzUdJoM?si=6uEWEp43jn1tyHUB" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020960402708303830.post-54274350392832745492024-01-29T13:04:00.003-05:002024-01-29T15:39:06.198-05:00as i think of rolling up the dogends<p><span style="font-size: x-large;">The universe can barely contain the depthless contempt and loathing motherfucking professional Democrats and their zombie shitlibs have for you, you fucking hippie. They <a href="https://twitter.com/halalflow/status/1752021755995025689" target="_blank">despise you</a> more than they hate Trump and his zombie magaturds, they despise you more than Trump and his zombie magaturds hate you</span><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuB0YVt5YXZHU1Mz5ycgsVsnRpNozF18hnCvvHkD9YnAeEqQDOIPPx000H9Zwl_rZw4G1xiJHFW7FhFusL0JyyPhBhJlCYdin42Wp8FXWLg7rBvrewsZ5gwsRASGj5VuKMVXRJ3ysrbz1TJgWI5x6rYtYTXhrT2-IQh5-lkmrjjBKzFAXhvxL189efJA57/s1192/GE9VdbFXgAAvri0.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="644" data-original-width="1192" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuB0YVt5YXZHU1Mz5ycgsVsnRpNozF18hnCvvHkD9YnAeEqQDOIPPx000H9Zwl_rZw4G1xiJHFW7FhFusL0JyyPhBhJlCYdin42Wp8FXWLg7rBvrewsZ5gwsRASGj5VuKMVXRJ3ysrbz1TJgWI5x6rYtYTXhrT2-IQh5-lkmrjjBKzFAXhvxL189efJA57/w640-h346/GE9VdbFXgAAvri0.jpg" width="800" /></a><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;">Impressive motherfucking professional Democrat 2024 campaign strategy, demanding an FBI investigation of a major party constituency. Do not underestimate how much FUCK YOU, SHUT THE FUCK UP YOU DIRTY FUCKING HIPPIE OR ELSE is a major motivating factor in Genocide Joe's every single fucking policy decision. They would rather Fat Hitler (who has NOT overseen and funded a genocide but will in the future) rule than admit you are right about anyfuckingthing ever. The nicest thing that could be said about them is they are just following shitlord directions, but temper that with the knowledge that they love (and are well-compensated for) despising you, it's (besides the well-compensated part) their favorite part of their job</span></p><p><br /></p><p><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="700" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/lA2gs5AHRaE?si=AmyvvOKpP1jzreLI" title="YouTube video player" width="800"></iframe></p><p><br /></p><table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" data-sheets-root="1" dir="ltr" style="border-collapse: collapse; border: none; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; table-layout: fixed; width: 0px;" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><colgroup><col width="100"></col><col width="100"></col><col width="100"></col><col width="100"></col><col width="100"></col><col width="100"></col><col width="100"></col><col width="100"></col></colgroup><tbody><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Today in my self-interest: Screed above shat out to get it out of my system, notebook-wise, a temporary but welcome fix"}" rowspan="1" style="background-color: white; border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); color: #0f1419; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">Today in my self-interest: Screed above shat out to get it out of my system, notebook-wise, a temporary but welcome fix</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"O, and to remind you - also to get it out of my system - we are being prepped for a major Mideast war that will likely spread into a world war, please please please, please don't start until after our long vacation in Maine this summer (and may we be on Mount Desert Island when Russian and/or Iranian and/or Chinese nuclear warheads incineration DC and our house four miles north of DC, today in my complicity"}" rowspan="1" style="background-color: white; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; color: #0f1419; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 9pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;">O, and to remind you - also to get it out of my system - we are being prepped for a major Mideast war that will likely spread into a world war, please please please, please don't start until after our long vacation in Maine this summer (and may we be on Mount Desert Island when Russian and/or Iranian and/or Chinese nuclear warheads incineration DC and our house four miles north of DC, today in my complicity</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Happiest days of their lives and the cherry on-top the Fuck You!"}" rowspan="1" style="background-color: white; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; color: #0f1419; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 22pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">Happiest days of their lives and the cherry on-top the <a href="https://twitter.com/leninology/status/1751042175234613266" target="_blank">Fuck You</a>!</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Arab Americans Won’t Be Shamed into Voting for Biden"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 45pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;">Arab Americans Won’t Be <a href="https://stevesalaita.com/arab-americans-wont-be-shamed-into-voting-for-joe-biden/?" target="_blank">Shamed into Voting</a> for Biden</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Has International Law Survived, or Has the Western Political Class Killed It?"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 46pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;">Has International Law Survived, or Has the Western Political Class <a href="https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2024/01/has-international-law-survived-or-has-the-western-political-class-killed-it/" target="_blank">Killed</a> It?</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"War on the Middle East: the Time of Monsters"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 29pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;">War on the Middle East: the <a href="https://www.moonofalabama.org/2024/01/war-on-the-middle-east-the-time-of-monsters.html" target="_blank">Time of Monsters</a></td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"\"Biden-Dems 2024 running as the party of war, genocide, record oil&gas production, and now an immigrant-repression program that’s to the right of Trump in his first term\""}" rowspan="1" style="background-color: #ead1dc; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 23pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;">"Biden-Dems 2024 running as the <a href="https://twitter.com/MarkAmesExiled/status/1751305533938696311" target="_blank">party of war</a>, genocide, record oil&gas production, and now an immigrant-repression program that’s to the right of Trump in his first term"</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"\"Joe Biden is figuring out exactly how racist and xenophobic to be to win over zero Trump voters who think he’s a kid sacrificing pervert and alienate a couple million of his own ostensible voters. The perfect Democrat fuck up\""}" rowspan="1" style="background-color: #cfe2f3; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 23pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;">"Joe Biden is figuring out exactly how <a href="https://twitter.com/lukeoneil47/status/1751430910862303732" target="_blank">racist and xenophobic</a> to be to win over zero Trump voters who think he’s a kid sacrificing pervert and alienate a couple million of his own ostensible voters. The perfect Democrat fuck up"</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"\"I hope the Gaza genocide makes this clear: do we send our cops to Israel for IDF training because the IDF is so fucking good at fighting? No, we send the cops on Israeli vacation (and foot the bill) so they can learn to regard your town as Gaza\""}" rowspan="1" style="background-color: red; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 27pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;"><span style="color: white; font-weight: normal;">"I hope the </span><span style="color: #fcff01;"><b><a href="https://twitter.com/corpseinorbit/status/1751896230748115083" target="_blank">Gaza genocide</a></b></span><span style="color: white; font-weight: normal;"> makes this clear: do we send our cops to Israel for IDF training because the IDF is so fucking good at fighting? No, we send the cops on Israeli vacation (and foot the bill) so they can learn to regard your town as Gaza"</span></td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"\"The Biden Administration's cutting off critical funding to UNRWA is the default form of collective punishment of Clintonian liberals, where the denial of humanitarian aid is used as a weapon to punish (ie., starve) people who have no responsibility for the alleged transgression\""}" rowspan="1" style="background-color: yellow; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 23pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;">"The Biden Administration's cutting off critical funding to UNRWA is the <a href="https://twitter.com/JeffreyStClair3/status/1751993890171990048" target="_blank">default form of collective punishment</a> of Clintonian liberals, where the denial of humanitarian aid is used as a weapon to punish (ie., starve) people who have no responsibility for the alleged transgression"</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Inside the collapsing U.S. political-media-industrial-complex"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 23pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;">Inside the <a href="https://www.semafor.com/article/01/21/2024/inside-the-collapsing-us-political-media-industrial-complex" target="_blank">collapsing U.S. political-media-industrial-complex</a></td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"The Meme-ification of American Politics"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 33pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">The <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-communications/the-meme-ification-of-american-politics" target="_blank">Meme-ification</a> of American Politics</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"What if it’s not really about democracy?"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 34pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">What if it’s <a href="https://alexkrainer.substack.com/p/why-the-oligarchs-love-democracy" target="_blank">not really about democracy</a>?</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"What happened to David Graeber?"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 39pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">What happened to <a href="https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/what-happened-to-david-graeber/" target="_blank">David Graeber</a>?</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"On W.E.B. Du Bois - Marx or Jefferson?"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 35pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;">On <a href="https://newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/marx-or-jefferson" target="_blank">W.E.B. Du Bois</a> - Marx or Jefferson?</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"If humans have souls than elephants have souls (though if elephants have souls it doesn't mean humans have souls)"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 24pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;">If humans have souls than <a href="https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/do-elephants-have-souls" target="_blank">elephants have souls</a> (though if elephants have souls it doesn't mean humans have souls)</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="5" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"What is incoherence?"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 38pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">What is <a href="https://aeon.co/essays/is-it-possible-to-hold-truly-contradictory-beliefs-together" target="_blank">incoherence</a>?</td><td colspan="3" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"MAGGIE'S"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(204, 204, 204); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 43pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"><a href="https://maggiemcneill.com/2024/01/28/links-708/" target="_blank">MAGGIE'S</a></td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Avedon Carol's occasional links"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 43pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">Avedon Carol's occasional <a href="http://avedoncarol.blogspot.com/2024/01/its-wind-that-lingers-long-enough-to-be.html" target="_blank">links</a></td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="3" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"{ feuilleton }'s"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 36pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">{ <a href="https://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2024/01/27/weekend-links-710/" target="_blank">feuilleton</a> }'s</td><td colspan="5" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Reprint Heaven: Brutality"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(204, 204, 204); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 33pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">Reprint Heaven: <a href="https://beforenine.blogspot.com/2024/01/reprint-heaven-brutality.html" target="_blank">Brutality</a></td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"The scholarly journal as puzzle: On time, collaboration and closure"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 20pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">The <a href="https://intellectdiscover.com/content/journals/10.1386/jucs_00068_2" target="_blank">scholarly journal as puzzle</a>: On time, collaboration and closure</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"In which I don't make a category and try not to make an allegory"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 22pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">In which I don't make a category and <a href="https://hexjeff.blogspot.com/2024/01/2024-january-27.html" target="_blank">try not to make an allegory</a></td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Joy Williams on Leonora Carrington"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 37pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"><a href="https://books.substack.com/p/review-joy-williams-on-leonora-carrington" target="_blank">Joy Williams</a> on Leonora Carrington</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Completely Subjective: Anne Carson’s “A Fragment of Ibykos Translated Six Ways” "}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 33pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;"><a href="https://ashberyland.com/2024/01/25/completely-subjective-anne-carsons-a-fragment-of-ibykos-translated-six-ways/" target="_blank">Completely Subjective</a>: Anne Carson’s “A Fragment of Ibykos Translated Six Ways”</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Ahead of Time: on poetry and mourning"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 34pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"><a href="https://yalereview.org/article/kamran-javadizadeh-ahead-time" target="_blank">Ahead of Time</a>: on poetry and mourning</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Robert Wyatt, force of nature, born 79 years ago yesterday"}" rowspan="1" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); font-family: Spectral; font-size: 24pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">Robert Wyatt, force of nature, born 79 years ago yesterday</td></tr></tbody></table><p><google-sheets-html-origin></google-sheets-html-origin><br /><br /><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="700" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/HF6Ut7OnQuo?si=aLRktkU8TWsLnXt3" title="YouTube video player" width="800"></iframe><br /><br /><br /></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>PRATHEORYCTICE</b></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Tom Raworth</b></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;">as i think of rolling up the dogends<br />looking for papers i see this terrible thing<br />thought of as a better life<br />sometimes i wonder<br />what is introspection<br />red white and blue<br />or through mud and blood<br />to the green fields beyond<br />which were the colours on a tie</span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020960402708303830.post-24240251436931363822024-01-21T09:26:00.006-05:002024-01-21T10:39:20.849-05:00Wide-Eyed Boy to the Gun-Play and Genocide<p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiE2pJ1sHOGIn322BinMnKPVzHIh0lGBwJeUppBgkidPCgw9H7WpQ4x499ZVw312NnSkDf-YjPxI-Ja0GLaLQZ4xQGXLHcVpDsK3xwpvXleZ-p3e_6gBohH2aOT-LIoSoiXy1zGUQYddwf0xe_MBeErztGIr-a2gF1EbjYScL6iHtPurtoR_Q7lWn6QnIq2/s2803/with%20tape.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2720" data-original-width="2803" height="780" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiE2pJ1sHOGIn322BinMnKPVzHIh0lGBwJeUppBgkidPCgw9H7WpQ4x499ZVw312NnSkDf-YjPxI-Ja0GLaLQZ4xQGXLHcVpDsK3xwpvXleZ-p3e_6gBohH2aOT-LIoSoiXy1zGUQYddwf0xe_MBeErztGIr-a2gF1EbjYScL6iHtPurtoR_Q7lWn6QnIq2/w640-h622/with%20tape.jpg" width="800" /></a><br /><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #383838;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-large;">Doesn’t exist as was above anymore. After debate, thankfully won by Fuck It (more often than not by lots Fuck It loses in many aspects of my life, many of those many loses valuable loss leaders in real life), I peeled off the yellow and blue masking tape though I thought this a good chapter one, much promise</span></span><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPzTsfBDvgmu0jHu4JSqyWavg8CpISZ_YQkjZgpE-M8M-bRT6pdWZs2RuhJ-Tm_j7tTrCFVXM6Qt4qrPcHlM5CM4DiWWEASdlTgCw6636USlrBslw8-0pVqpTpb7VeDbduY_CQfL4R8tRJNflEazfxC68VtpTubQm0Bv85VaUpyKqucrm-mCeOO30itMzn/s2878/minus%20tape.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2756" data-original-width="2878" height="780" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPzTsfBDvgmu0jHu4JSqyWavg8CpISZ_YQkjZgpE-M8M-bRT6pdWZs2RuhJ-Tm_j7tTrCFVXM6Qt4qrPcHlM5CM4DiWWEASdlTgCw6636USlrBslw8-0pVqpTpb7VeDbduY_CQfL4R8tRJNflEazfxC68VtpTubQm0Bv85VaUpyKqucrm-mCeOO30itMzn/w640-h612/minus%20tape.jpg" width="800" /></a><br /><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #383838; margin-bottom: 0.875em;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-large;">Now that above the new above doesn’t exist does the pdf of what once existed count as an object now that no one can (not that anyone would) hold it, spin it, get fountain pen ink on the tips of fingers when you hold the edges to spin and flip over, and though you might see (but never hold, spin, get ink on your fingers) what I will glue to the back of the object that remains, *that* object will have no paste relationship to the above that no longer exists though it’s glued to what it was, yes or no, answer me, me</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #383838; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">As for what remains on excellent cold press watercolor paper whose superior pigment absorption via rendered slaughtered horses’ hooves Fuck It if I fuck it up Fuck It if call it quits Fuck It does this poem exist, fuck yes</span><br /><br /></span></p><p><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="700" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Hiy3Qbw-oFo?si=9wBWGBd4lUQBejf9" title="YouTube video player" width="800"></iframe><br /><br /><br /></p><table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" data-sheets-root="1" dir="ltr" style="border-collapse: collapse; border: none; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; table-layout: fixed; width: 0px;" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><colgroup><col width="100"></col><col width="100"></col><col width="100"></col><col width="100"></col><col width="100"></col><col width="100"></col><col width="100"></col><col width="100"></col></colgroup><tbody><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Just a deer scoring a goal then celebrating"}" rowspan="1" style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Spectral; font-size: 32pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">Just a <a href="https://twitter.com/AMAZlNGNATURE/status/1747774572013732308" target="_blank">deer scoring a goal</a> then celebrating</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"⬇️"}" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 60pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;">⬇️</td><td colspan="6" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Shitlibs and motherfucking professional Democrats yelling at dirty fucking hippies: IT'S NOT GENOCIDE AND ETHNIC CLEANING!"}" rowspan="1" style="background-color: white; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(204, 204, 204); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; color: #1f1f1f; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 26pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: bottom; white-space: normal;">Shitlibs and motherfucking professional Democrats yelling at dirty fucking hippies: IT'S NOT GENOCIDE AND ETHNIC CLEANING!</td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"⬇️"}" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(204, 204, 204); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 60pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;">⬇️</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Netanyahu: IT'S GENOCIDE AND ETHNIC CLEANSING!"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 46pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;"><a href="https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1748045086812692757" target="_blank">Netanyahu</a>: IT'S GENOCIDE AND ETHNIC CLEANSING!</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Mossad: Fuck yeah it's genocide and ethnic cleansing, see how much fun we're having!"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 32pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;"><a href="https://twitter.com/MOSSADil/status/1748012325288734814" target="_blank">Mossad</a>: Fuck yeah it's genocide and ethnic cleansing, see how much fun we're having!</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Gaza will be the grave of the Western-led world order"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 26pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"><a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2024/1/17/gaza-will-be-the-grave-of-the-western-led-world-order" target="_blank">Gaza will be the grave</a> of the Western-led world order</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"On the ruinous history of Religious Zionism"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 31pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">On the <a href="https://harpers.org/archive/2024/02/israels-war-within-bernard-avishai/" target="_blank">ruinous history</a> of Religious Zionism</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="4" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Israel's right to tyranny"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 29pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"><a href="https://www.972mag.com/israel-gaza-icj-tyranny/" target="_blank">Israel's right to tyranny</a></td><td colspan="4" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Genocide is funny!"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(204, 204, 204); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 35pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"><a href="https://twitter.com/BowesChay/status/1748837131378651548" target="_blank">Genocide is funny</a>!</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"How Biden’s Foreign-Policy Team Got Rich"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 31pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">How Biden’s Foreign-Policy Team <a href="https://www.blckdgrd.com/2024/01/wide-eyed-boy-to-gun-play-and-genocide.html" target="_blank">Got Rich</a></td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Biden Exceeds Worst Fears About Trump"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 33pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">Biden <a href="https://consortiumnews.com/2024/01/18/biden-exceeds-worst-fears-about-trump/" target="_blank">Exceeds</a> Worst Fears About Trump</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"U.S. President Engages In Therapeutic Killing Of Yemeni Children"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 35pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;">U.S. President <a href="https://www.moonofalabama.org/2024/01/therapeutic-killing-of-yemeni-children.html" target="_blank">Engages</a> In Therapeutic Killing Of Yemeni Children</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"MEET THE THOUGHT POLICE"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 40pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">MEET THE <a href="https://consentfactory.org/2024/01/16/meet-the-thought-police/" target="_blank">THOUGHT POLICE</a></td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"What Happened to David Graeber?"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 38pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">What Happened to <a href="https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/what-happened-to-david-graeber/" target="_blank">David Graeber</a>?</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="4" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Maggie's weekly"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 40pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;"><a href="https://maggiemcneill.com/2024/01/21/links-707/" target="_blank">Maggie's weekly</a></td><td colspan="4" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"{ feuilleton}'s"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(204, 204, 204); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 49pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;">{ <a href="https://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2024/01/20/weekend-links-709/" target="_blank">feuilleton</a>}'s</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"On a Sentence from Joseph McElroy’s Actress in the House"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 43pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;">On a <a href="https://greg-gerke.medium.com/on-a-sentence-from-joseph-mcelroys-actress-in-the-house-eccbb8f9ccf8" target="_blank">Sentence</a> from Joseph McElroy’s Actress in the House</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Olga Tokarczuk’s Divine Cosmos"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 41pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"><a href="https://www.theparisreview.org/podcast/6068/olga-tokarczuks-divine-cosmos" target="_blank">Olga Tokarczuk</a>’s Divine Cosmos</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"New Diane Seuss interview (new book of poems out first week of March)"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 36pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;">New <a href="https://hopkinsreview.com/features/in-conversation-with-diane-seuss" target="_blank">Diane Seuss</a> interview (new book of poems out first week of March)</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"New Jesus and Mary Chain album in March, hear a couple of songs now"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 37pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;">New <a href="https://thejesusandmarychain.bandcamp.com/album/glasgow-eyes" target="_blank">Jesus and Mary Chain</a> album in March, hear a couple of songs now</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"My Natural Snow Buildings obsession has returned, Baal bless my hatred of natural snow"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 15pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;">My Natural Snow Buildings obsession has returned, Baal bless my hatred of natural snow</td></tr></tbody></table><p><br /><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="700" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/-G-re6Uw-0g?si=tmHtCVjI4shtzWjh" title="YouTube video player" width="800"></iframe><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>STARRING JOHN WAYNE</b></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Bruce Smith</b></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;">And so despising the fuzzy catkins<br />and REM sleep and oxycotin</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;">of poetry and the sawings of the cello,<br />most of all the cello sawings, and the gallows</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;">humor and the teacup Jesus<br />and the succubus and incubus</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;">of mom and dad, he dreamed<br />of a form, a conquering scheme</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;">that would allow metaphysics and and pleasure,<br />history and ecstasy, flower and terror.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;">He awoke to the big sky and obsession,<br />the justice and recrimination of Western-</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">source of all his right/wrong and wide-eyed<br />boy to the gun-play and genocide</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;">that could not redeem him<br />by his death in the dust at high noon.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;">So he made his laconic man art<br />a bullet through the heart</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;">in black and white<br />back lit, back shot,</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;">a lot of shooting in the back<br />as a way of looking back-</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;">nostalgic, Orphic, unwatchable,<br />American, simple, brutal.</span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020960402708303830.post-70086721207626282962024-01-16T11:46:00.008-05:002024-01-16T18:50:07.644-05:00Who Could Have Called Their Slow Creation *Rage*?<p><span style="font-size: x-large;">Anthony Hecht born 101 years ago today. I deliberately did not post this shitty blog's traditional Hecht birthday post last year (and am not this year) though I knew last year was his centenary and though I can imagine all the possible reasons I didn't I can't remember which one I chose (I'll not choose one today). Yesterday was Captain Beefheart's birthday, Don Van Vliet born 83 years ago, I deliberately did not post this shitty blog's traditional Beefheart post this year and though I can imagine all the possible reasons I didn't I can't remember which one I chose. Four days ago was Morton Feldman's birthday, he was born 98 years ago, I did not post this shitty blog's traditional Feldman post this year and though I can imagine all the possible reasons I didn't I can't remember which one I chose</span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJd6yj81viCOX8HAM9sNJ8OWZDBX-v8zyEvi7V8lobaBcmJU_TpaBKbGl3-0K9lICN1c48iWbTem-LqlRmfgWCBNLKykhaMRjmPERZbYTmZzOQ6eY7RIa73E5Fuy9Npg7xxbLUkH-ypxIR67HQvGYZ5FVu6Ir0AKXN_9aM_8J3yNjYCBHgBx6kgZY0CWgX/s2268/Scanned%20from%20a%20Xerox%20Multifunction%20Printer-70.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1745" data-original-width="2268" height="620" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJd6yj81viCOX8HAM9sNJ8OWZDBX-v8zyEvi7V8lobaBcmJU_TpaBKbGl3-0K9lICN1c48iWbTem-LqlRmfgWCBNLKykhaMRjmPERZbYTmZzOQ6eY7RIa73E5Fuy9Npg7xxbLUkH-ypxIR67HQvGYZ5FVu6Ir0AKXN_9aM_8J3yNjYCBHgBx6kgZY0CWgX/w640-h492/Scanned%20from%20a%20Xerox%20Multifunction%20Printer-70.jpg" width="800" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td></tr></tbody></table><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">Can't bring myself to shred that though I haven't used that avatar in years (though there's still one on the blogroll), the pin fell off my backpack years ago. Shredding continues apace nonetheless. I've also removed and destroyed all hard drives from dead computers, not that I could ever access them again and not that anyone who works for Power would access them (yet) but the discs are smashed to slivers. People keep asking when I'm going to retire, that's the wrong question. I'm destroying all my stuff because I plan on surviving our looming internment and immiseration and incineration, I just want it to be me who destroys me, he types into the cloud</span><br /><br /></p><p><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="700" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/46X7s2T93XY?si=O3-lTFXH10UMdC5H" title="YouTube video player" width="800"></iframe><br /><br /><br /></p><table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" data-sheets-root="1" dir="ltr" style="border-collapse: collapse; border: none; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; table-layout: fixed; width: 0px;" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><colgroup><col width="100"></col><col width="100"></col><col width="100"></col><col width="100"></col><col width="100"></col><col width="100"></col><col width="100"></col><col width="100"></col></colgroup><tbody><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Tell me again it's my fault if I don't vote and Trump wins"}" rowspan="1" style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Spectral; font-size: 24pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">Tell me again it's <a href="https://twitter.com/BLCKDGRD/status/1745594371096060393" target="_blank">my fault</a> if I don't vote and Trump wins</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Today in Joe Biden's genocide!"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 44pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;">Today in <a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/us-secretly-sent-targeting-officers-aid-israels-war-gaza" target="_blank">Joe Biden's</a> genocide!</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"\"Worst man-made medical disaster in modern history”"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 49pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;">"<a href="https://mondoweiss.net/2024/01/operation-al-aqsa-flood-day-101-the-collapse-of-gazas-health-sector-the-worst-man-made-medical-disaster-in-modern-history/" target="_blank">Worst man-made medical disaster in modern history</a>”</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"The Killing of Gaza’s Environment"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 39pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;">The <a href="https://tomdispatch.com/the-killing-of-gazas-environment/" target="_blank">Killing of Gaza’s Environment</a></td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Always instructive to compare what is done in the name of facilitating the free flow of commerce with what is done in the impeding the free flow of persons."}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 8pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;">Always <a href="https://twitter.com/_ryanruby_/status/1745806849025142874" target="_blank">instructive to compare</a> what is done in the name of facilitating the free flow of commerce with what is done in the impeding the free flow of persons.</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"The five Ds of US Middle East policy"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 36pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;">The <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2024/1/14/watching-the-watchdogs-the-5-ds-of-us-middle-east-policy" target="_blank">five Ds</a> of US Middle East policy</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Inside a psyop: Harvard & the Gazan genocide"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 56pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;">Inside a <a href="https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/living-inside-a-psyop/" target="_blank">psyop</a>: Harvard & the Gazan genocide</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Starvation as a Method of Warfare"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 40pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"><a href="https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2024/january/starvation-as-a-method-of-warfare" target="_blank">Starvation as a Method of Warfare</a></td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"The question is no longer whether the Israeli government is racist and genocidal but whether the Israeli Jewish majority supporting its crimes against Palestinians also fit this description"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 34pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;">The <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/how-israels-war-gaza-exposed-zionism-genocidal-cult" target="_blank">question</a> is no longer whether the Israeli government is racist and genocidal but whether the Israeli Jewish majority supporting its crimes against Palestinians also fit this description</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="4" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Autochthonous Wars"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 32pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"><a href="https://yasha.substack.com/p/autochthonous-wars" target="_blank">Autochthonous Wars</a></td><td colspan="4" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"ISRAELI ACTIONS IMPLEMENTED IN BATH UK"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(204, 204, 204); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 20pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;"><a href="https://twitter.com/ShaykhSulaiman/status/1744125164462252289?" target="_blank">ISRAELI ACTIONS IMPLEMENTED IN BATH UK</a></td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Our shitlords are batshit crazy sociopaths"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 33pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">Our shitlords are <a href="https://twitter.com/BillAckman/status/1745251911471612175" target="_blank">batshit crazy sociopaths</a></td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="5" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Hypocrisy and savagery"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 36pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"><a href="https://newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/denegation" target="_blank">Hypocrisy and savagery</a></td><td colspan="3" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"How to hate"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(204, 204, 204); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 39pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"><a href="https://aeon.co/essays/a-history-of-the-manifesto-as-a-document-of-hate-and-violence?" target="_blank">How to hate</a></td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Motherfucking Obama and cosplaying progressives"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 27pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">Motherfucking <a href="https://thebaffler.com/latest/rebels-with-a-cause-lehmann" target="_blank">Obama</a> and cosplaying progressives</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"VITAL REMINDER: Malcolm X on white liberals"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 28pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"><a href="https://twitter.com/SpiritofLenin/status/1745851567306125461" target="_blank">VITAL REMINDER</a>: Malcolm X on white liberals</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"On our batshit crazy shitlord sociopaths"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 34pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">On our <a href="https://defector.com/hiding-and-seeking-with-the-new-york-times" target="_blank">batshit crazy shitlord sociopaths</a></td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"The American Way of Life in its Foulest Manifestation"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 25pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">The American Way of Life in its <a href="https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/01/12/the-american-way-of-life-in-its-foulest-manifestation/" target="_blank">Foulest Manifestation</a></td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"There’s a Huge Covid Surge Right Now and Nobody Is Talking About It"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 18pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">There’s a <a href="https://www.wired.com/story/theres-a-huge-covid-surge-right-now-you-probably-didnt-notice/?" target="_blank">Huge Covid Surge</a> Right Now and Nobody Is Talking About It</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="3" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Maggie's weekly"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 30pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"><a href="https://maggiemcneill.com/2024/01/13/links-706/" target="_blank">Maggie's weekly</a></td><td colspan="5" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"{ feuilleton's weekly links }"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(204, 204, 204); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 32pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">{<a href="https://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2024/01/13/weekend-links-708/" target="_blank">feuilleton</a>}'s weekly links }</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"As always, pigs protects the fash"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 41pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">As always, <a href="https://twitter.com/wissewords/status/1746536973018214435" target="_blank">pigs</a> protect the fash</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Arctic News: 2024 looks worse than 2023"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 34pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"><a href="https://arctic-news.blogspot.com/2024/01/2024-looks-to-be-worse-than-2023.html" target="_blank">Arctic News</a>: 2024 looks worse than 2023</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="4" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"RIP John Pilger"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 41pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">RIP <a href="https://thealtworld.com/vanessa_beeley/journalist-and-film-maker-john-pilger-1939-2023" target="_blank">John Pilger</a></td><td colspan="4" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Monster Train 2020"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(204, 204, 204); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 34pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"><a href="https://sashavreviews.substack.com/p/monster-train-2020?" target="_blank">Monster Train 2020</a></td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"John Pilger: a fierce critic of empire"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 38pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"><a href="https://redflag.org.au/article/john-pilger-fierce-critic-empire" target="_blank">John Pilger</a>: a fierce critic of empire</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"><a href="https://poets.org/poem/transparent-man" target="_blank">Hecht</a></td><td style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(204, 204, 204); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"><a href="https://youtu.be/OucJHUsM_F8?si=qZU0o79p8XAMfV1a" target="_blank">Feldman</a></td><td style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(204, 204, 204); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"><a href="https://youtu.be/Xeu2UuScwYk?si=kGgaNEvn7A9UXOmY" target="_blank">Beefheart</a></td><td style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(204, 204, 204); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"><a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/161844/more-light-659ec46913f0a" target="_blank">Hecht</a></td><td style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(204, 204, 204); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"><a href="https://youtu.be/13WGthWZink?si=hEFI1AwFw6n1DTsB" target="_blank">Feldman</a></td><td style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(204, 204, 204); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"><a href="https://youtu.be/hfX5Ymxf4Rg?si=HyYQYEQbjW0fc7Ka" target="_blank">Beefheart</a></td><td style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(204, 204, 204); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"><a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/browse?contentId=26060" target="_blank">Hecht</a></td><td style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(204, 204, 204); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9lpLm7jwQY" target="_blank">Beefheart</a></td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Repurposing old fountain pen ink"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 40pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"><a href="https://blckdgrd.me/2024/01/14/2024-january14th/" target="_blank">Repurposing</a> old fountain pen ink</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Why you should eat lentils every day"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 37pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">Why you should <a href="https://wapo.st/41XmCFS" target="_blank">eat lentils</a> every day</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Quintessential quadrumvirate of camp comedians!"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 26pt; font-weight: bold; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;"><a href="https://twitter.com/ScottThompson_/status/1746265539213676890" target="_blank">Quintessential quadrumvirate</a> of camp comedians!</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="4" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"New year, same you"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 34pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">New year, <a href="https://idiotic-hat.blogspot.com/2024/01/new-year-same-old-you.html" target="_blank">same you</a></td><td colspan="4" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"On Jason Molina"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(204, 204, 204); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 39pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">On <a href="https://www.welcometohellworld.com/almost-was-good-enough/" target="_blank">Jason Molina</a></td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"The Sonic Revolutions of George Lewis"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 34pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">The Sonic Revolutions of <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/01/15/george-lewis-music-review" target="_blank">George Lewis</a></td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Alice Notley - telling the truth as it comes up"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 30pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"><a href="https://www.full-stop.net/2024/01/10/reviews/tess-michaelson/telling-the-truth-as-it-comes-up-alice-notley/" target="_blank">Alice Notley</a> - telling the truth as it comes up</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Bernadette Mayer's writing experiments"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 34pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"><a href="https://www.writing.upenn.edu/library/Mayer-Bernadette_Experiments.html" target="_blank">Bernadette Mayer</a>'s writing experiments</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Find a private place and read the Hecht out loud, loud"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 25pt; font-weight: bold; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">Find a private place and read the Hecht out loud, loud</td></tr></tbody></table><p><google-sheets-html-origin></google-sheets-html-origin><br /><br /><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="700" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/VsdYOEIERRg?si=uISLnnFPlqGiCY6P" title="YouTube video player" width="800"></iframe><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>GREEN: AN EPISTLE</b></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Anthony Hecht</b></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;">I write at last of the one forbidden topic</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;">We, by a truce, have never touched upon:</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;">Resentment, malice, hatred so inwrought</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;">With moral inhibitions, so at odds with</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;">The home-movie of yourself as patience, kindness</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;">And Charlton Heston playing Socrates,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;">That almost all of us were taken in,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;">Yourself not least, as to a giant Roxy,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;">Where the lights dimmed and the famous allegory</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;">Of Good and Evil, clearly identified</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;">By the unshaven surliness of the Bad Guys,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;">The virginal meekness of the ingenue,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;">Seduced us straight into that perfect world</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;">Of Justice under God. Art for the sake</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;">Of money, glamour, ego, self-deceit.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;">When we emerged into the assaulting sunlight,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;">We had a yen, like bad philosophers,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;">To go back and stay forever, there in the dark</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;">With the trumpets, horses, and ancient Certitudes</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;">On which, as we know, this great nation was founded,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;">Washington crossing the Delaware, and so forth.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;">And all of us, for an hour or so after,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;">Were Humphrey Bogart dating Ingrid Bergman,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;">Walking together but incommunicado</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;">Till subway and homework knocked us out of it.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;">Yet even then, whatever we returned to</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;">Was not, although we thought it was, the world.</span></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 16.83px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 16.83px;" /><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;"> I write at last on the topic because I am safe</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;">Here in the grubby border town</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;">With its one cheap hotel. No one has my address.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;">The food is bad, the wine too expensive,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;">And the local cathedral marred by restorations.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;">But from my balcony I view the east</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;">For miles and, if I lean, the local sunsets</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;">That bathe a marble duke with what must be</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;">Surely the saddest light I have ever seen.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;">The air is thin and cool at this elevation,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;">And my desk wobbles unless propped with matchbooks.</span></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 16.83px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 16.83px;" /><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;"> It began, I suppose, as a color, yellow-green,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;">The tincture of spring willows, not so much color</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;">As the sensation of color, haze that took shape</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;">As a light scum, a doily of minutiae</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;">On the smooth pool and surfaces of your mind.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;">A founding colony, Pilgrim amoebas</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;">Descended from the gaseous flux when Zeus</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;">Tossed down his great original thunderbolt</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;">That flashed in darkness like an electric tree</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;">Or the lit-up veins in an old arthritic hand.</span></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 16.83px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 16.83px;" /><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;"> Here is the microscope one had as a child,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;">The Christmas gift of some forgotten uncle.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;">Here is the slide with a drop of cider vinegar</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;">As clear as gin, clear as your early mind.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;">Look down, being most careful not to see</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;">Your own eye in the mirror underneath,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;">Which will appear, unless your view is right,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;">As a darkness on the face of the first waters.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;">When all is silvery and brilliant, look:</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;">The long, thin, darting shapes, the flagellates,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;">Rat-tailed, ambitious, lash themselves along -</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;">Those humble, floating ones, those simple cells</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;">Content to be borne on whatever tide,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;">Trustful, the very image of consent -</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;">These are the frail, unlikely origins,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;">Scarcely perceived, of all your shall become.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;">Scarcely perceived? But at this early age</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;">(What are you, one or two?) you have no knowledge</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;">Nor do your folks, not could the gravest doctors</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;">Suspect that anything was really wrong.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;">Nor see the pale beginnings, lace endeavors</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;">That with advancing ages shall mature</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;">Into sea lettuce, beard the rocky shore</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;">With a light green of soft and tidal hair.</span></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 16.83px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 16.83px;" /><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;"> Whole eras, seemingly without event,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;">Now scud the glassy pool processionally</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;">Until one day, misty, uncalendared,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;">As mild and unemphatic as a schwa,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;">Vascular tissue, conduit filaments</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;">Learn how to feel the outposts of that small</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;">Emerald principate. Now there are roots,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;">The filmy gills of toadstools, crested fern,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;">Quillworts, and foxtail mosses, and at last</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;">Snapweed, loment, trillium, grass, herb Robert.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;">How soundlessly, shyly this came about,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;">One thinks today. But that is not the truth.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;">It was, from the first, an everlasting war</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;">conducted, as always, at gigantic cost.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;">Think of the droughts, the shifts of wind and weather,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;">The many seeds washed to some salt conclusion</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;">Or brought to rest at last on barren ground.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;">Think of some inching tendrils worming down</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;">In hope of water, blind and white as death.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;">Think of the strange mutations life requires.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;">Only the toughest endured, themselves much altered,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;">Trained in the cripple's careful sciences</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;">Of mute accommodation. The survivors</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;">Were all, one way or another, amputees</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;">Who learned to live with their stumps, like Brueghel's beggars.</span></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 16.83px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 16.83px;" /><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;"> Yet, for all that, it clearly was a triumph,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;">Considering, as one must, what was to come</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;">And, even by themselves, those fields of clover,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;">Cattails, marsh bracken, water-lily pads</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;">Stirred by the lightest airs, pliant, submissive -</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;">Who could have called their slow creation </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;">rage</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;">?</span></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 16.83px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 16.83px;" /><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;"> Consider, as one must, what was to come.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;">Great towering conifers, deciduous,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;">Rib-vaulted elms, the banyan, oak, and palm,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;">Sequoia forests of vindictiveness</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;">That also would go down on the death list</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;">And, buried deep beneath the alluvial shifts,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;">Would slowly darken into lakes of coal</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;">And then under exquisite pressure turn</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;">Into the tiny diamonds of pure hate.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;">The delicate fingers of the clematis</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;">Feeling their way along a face of shale</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;">With all the ingenuity of spite.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;">The indigestible thistle of revenge.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;">And your most late accomplishment, the rose.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;">Until at last, what we might designate</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;">As your Third Day, behold a world of green:</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;">Color of hope, of the Church's springtide vestments,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;">The primal wash, heraldic hue of envy.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;">But in what pre-lapsarian disguise!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;">Strangers and those who do not know you well</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;">(Yourself not least) are quickly taken in</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;">By a summary prospect, shades of innocence.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;">Like that young girl, a sort of chance acquaintance,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;">Seven or eight she was, on the New York Central,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;">Who, with a blue-eyed, beatific smile,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;">Shouted with joy, "Look, Mommy, quick, Look. Daisies!"</span></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 16.83px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 16.83px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 16.83px;"> </span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;">These days, with most of us at a safe distance,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;">You scarcely know yourself. Whole weeks go by</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;">Without your remembering that enormous effort,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;">Ages of disappointment, the long ache</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;">Of motives twisted out of recognition,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;">The doubt and hesitation all submerged</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;">In those first clear waters, that untroubled pool.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;">Who could have hope for this eventual peace?</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;">Moreover, there are moments almost of bliss,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;">A sort of recompense, in which your mood</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;">Sorts with the peach endowments of late sunlight</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;">On a snowfield or on the breaker's froth</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;">Or the white steeple of the local church.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;">Or, like a sunbather, whose lids retain</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;">A greenish, gemmed impression of the sun</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;">In lively, fluctuant geometries,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;">You sometimes contemplate a single image,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;">Utterly silent, utterly at rest.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;">It is of someone, a stranger, quite unknown,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;">Sitting alone in a foreign-looking room,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;">Gravely intent at a table propped with matchbooks,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;">Writing this poem - about me.</span></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020960402708303830.post-11780908084837000242024-01-09T11:30:00.003-05:002024-01-09T15:35:01.334-05:00It’s Not Who You Are But Who You Are and Can’t Undo<p><span style="font-size: x-large;">Did I mention here or just at the other place I'm destroying all of my old journals and most of my art, below are two from 2012 about to go into shredder, I forget when I stopped using Egoslavia as bleggal identifier, maybe five years ago? Canary, Weathervane, Cassandra, Fool? Maybe three years ago?</span><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjeIFJYljnqqVV2AbuSZwiV3KT1NGLuToa28AeCJob1s-KU-eHU538ckrgCYeCpFOnc5H-ojrpZ1fpBTnNvwmaafEX0ytkt_CTWS1Ws_iUHbRiPr1lAkLV6RBXgjR_1aRODpf2O6wqwB4nveYYLiXiDlUq56197bfwhEq8_Ld0TnohP4GwAndVY6Kqa7pJ/s2846/2024%20Jan%209%20a.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1796" data-original-width="2846" height="520" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjeIFJYljnqqVV2AbuSZwiV3KT1NGLuToa28AeCJob1s-KU-eHU538ckrgCYeCpFOnc5H-ojrpZ1fpBTnNvwmaafEX0ytkt_CTWS1Ws_iUHbRiPr1lAkLV6RBXgjR_1aRODpf2O6wqwB4nveYYLiXiDlUq56197bfwhEq8_Ld0TnohP4GwAndVY6Kqa7pJ/w640-h404/2024%20Jan%209%20a.jpg" width="800" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;">Professional and rank-and-file Democrats tell me criticizing the Genocidaire-in-Chief of America while he trumpwashes his genocide in a cracker-attacked Black church is WAY WORSE! than the genocide itself and that *I* will be held personally accountable when said Genocidaire-in-Chief loses his reelection to the turd who's the darling of our batshit crazy sociopath shitlords. When, I ask myself, I'm done shredding all paper evidence against me, will I stop filling the cloud with unerasable evidence against me that our batshit crazy sociopath shitlords will use when they turn the new Genocidaire-in-Chief on me?</span><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUuPCQOSmVtIfzG95KHRXbqAjBta0tR4FflNHijRp4hpJ0ZD4bxxxmiDZqrULWFt1-UK7ZOqlX8iiOBzibjaBCHP5TLsF6UYT_-vpwI1iz1nH_MMqEk5JXScIEY0OXCq2mEijvJm4TU31oFO6z0NjFHzhtxdou2KmfOumLnSaGl5bhLqoFJCLjV48h_j1f/s2074/2024%20Jan%209%20b.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1947" data-original-width="2074" height="750" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUuPCQOSmVtIfzG95KHRXbqAjBta0tR4FflNHijRp4hpJ0ZD4bxxxmiDZqrULWFt1-UK7ZOqlX8iiOBzibjaBCHP5TLsF6UYT_-vpwI1iz1nH_MMqEk5JXScIEY0OXCq2mEijvJm4TU31oFO6z0NjFHzhtxdou2KmfOumLnSaGl5bhLqoFJCLjV48h_j1f/w640-h600/2024%20Jan%209%20b.jpg" width="800" /></a><br /><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="700" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Ovhwlh4sK1A?si=1V63Sf-2OpqCdbLl" title="YouTube video player" width="800"></iframe><br /><br /><br /></p><table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" data-sheets-root="1" dir="ltr" style="border-collapse: collapse; border: none; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; table-layout: fixed; width: 0px;" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><colgroup><col width="100"></col><col width="100"></col><col width="100"></col><col width="100"></col><col width="100"></col><col width="100"></col><col width="100"></col><col width="100"></col></colgroup><tbody><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"ISRAELI ACTIONS IMPLEMENTED IN BATH UK"}" rowspan="1" style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Spectral; font-size: 26pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;">ISRAELI ACTIONS <a href="https://twitter.com/ShaykhSulaiman/status/1744125164462252289" target="_blank">IMPLEMENTED</a> IN BATH, UK</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Timestamped: I tweeted the word *TRUMPWASHING* viz Genocide Joe, trademark"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 44pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;">Timestamped: I tweeted the word *<a href="https://twitter.com/BLCKDGRD/status/1743783109487911103" target="_blank">TRUMPWASHING</a>* viz Genocide Joe, trademark</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"So totally not a sadistic massacre, gleeful genocide, and totally totally not enthusiastic ethnic cleansing"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 39pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;">So totally not a <a href="https://twitter.com/QudsNen/status/1743273101796717026" target="_blank">sadistic massacre</a>, gleeful genocide, and totally totally not enthusiastic ethnic cleansing</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Let’s Discuss Israel And Gaza Again"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 36pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">Let’s Discuss <a href="https://www.ianwelsh.net/lets-discuss-israel-and-gaza-again/" target="_blank">Israel And Gaza</a> Again</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"⇧"}" style="background-color: #fcebff; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; color: red; font-family: arial; font-size: 36pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">⇧</td><td colspan="6" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"\"This war an embarassment for the Israelis. It shows they can’t protect the settlers, they can’t win against Hamas and they can’t stop Hezbollah from striking settlements. It’s just embarassment all around. They want to widen the war and get Iran and the US into it, but they overestimate the US: the US can’t send ships into the Gulf and expect to leave. Most of its regional allies would be unwilling to let it run its airforce off their airfields, and the US can devastate Lebanon but it can’t stop Hezbollah from devastating Tel Aviv\""}" rowspan="1" style="background-color: yellow; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(204, 204, 204); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 13pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;">"This war an embarassment for the Israelis. It shows they can’t protect the settlers, they can’t win against Hamas and they can’t stop Hezbollah from striking settlements. It’s just embarassment all around. They want to widen the war and get Iran and the US into it, but they overestimate the US: the US can’t send ships into the Gulf and expect to leave. Most of its regional allies would be unwilling to let it run its airforce off their airfields, and the US can devastate Lebanon but it can’t stop Hezbollah from devastating Tel Aviv"</td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"⇧"}" style="background-color: #fcebff; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(204, 204, 204); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; color: red; font-family: arial; font-size: 36pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">⇧</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="5" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"GENOCIDE IN GAZA"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 36pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"><a href="https://mearsheimer.substack.com/p/genocide-in-gaza" target="_blank">GENOCIDE IN GAZA</a></td><td colspan="3" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Biden administration's response to Joe's genocide!"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(204, 204, 204); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 18pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;">Biden administration's <a href="https://twitter.com/justalilsky/status/1743071646385148066" target="_blank">response to Joe's genocide</a>!</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"The Epidemiological War on Gaza"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 39pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;">The <a href="https://jewishcurrents.org/epidemiological-war-on-gaza" target="_blank">Epidemiological War</a> on Gaza</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Economists invented austerity and paved the way to fascism"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 44pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;">Economists <a href="https://www.phenomenalworld.org/reviews/austerity-logic/" target="_blank">invented austerity</a> and paved the way to fascism</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"As workers ate lunch today, CEOs had already earned the equivalent of their annual salary"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 41pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;">As workers ate lunch today, CEOs had already <a href="https://www.thecanary.co/uk/2024/01/04/ftse-100-ceo-workers-wage-4-january/#google_vignette" target="_blank">earned</a> the equivalent of their annual salary</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"The Great Breaking of Kayfabe"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 44pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">The Great Breaking of <a href="https://kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/the-great-clarification/" target="_blank">Kayfabe</a></td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Virginia's cracker Attorney General"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 37pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">Virginia's <a href="https://radleybalko.substack.com/p/virginias-culture-warrior-attorney?" target="_blank">cracker Attorney General</a></td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="5" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"The Meaning of Epstein"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 35pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">The Meaning of <a href="https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2024/01/the-meaning-of-epstein/" target="_blank">Epstein</a></td><td colspan="3" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Batshitlord, trademarked"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(204, 204, 204); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 32pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;">Batshitlord, trademarked</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"ALEXA! CLEAN MY BUTT!"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 46pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">ALEXA! <a href="https://futurism.com/the-byte/toilet-connects-alexa-home-voice-control" target="_blank">CLEAN MY BUTT</a>!</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"What the fuck is up with Lloyd Austin?"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 34pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">What the fuck is up with <a href="https://twitter.com/CrispinSartwell/status/1744512811491832306" target="_blank">Lloyd Austin</a>?</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"The 1st Amendment Will Not Save You"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 34pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">The <a href="https://cjhopkins.substack.com/p/the-1st-amendment-will-not-save-you?" target="_blank">1st Amendment</a> Will Not Save You</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Let’s Seize This Opportunity to Destroy Harvard! "}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 28pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">Let’s Seize This Opportunity to <a href="https://theintercept.com/2024/01/06/claudine-gay-harvard-university-ivy-league/" target="_blank">Destroy Harvard</a>!</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="4" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Maggie's weekly"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 40pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">Maggie's weekly</td><td colspan="4" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"{ feuilleton }'s weekly"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(204, 204, 204); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 32pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">{ <a href="https://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2024/01/06/weekend-links-707/" target="_blank">feuilleton</a> }'s weekly</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"CHEAP ‘N PAINLESS LESSONS IN WRITING, LESSON #1: METAPHORS/ ENDINGS/ PRESUMPTIVE IQs"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 24pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;"><a href="https://berlin8berlin.wordpress.com/2024/01/04/cheap-n-painless-lessons-in-writing-lesson-1-metaphors-endings-presumptive-iqs/" target="_blank">CHEAP ‘N PAINLESS LESSONS</a> IN WRITING, LESSON #1: METAPHORS/ ENDINGS/ PRESUMPTIVE IQs</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="5" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"RIP, Phill Niblock"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 45pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">RIP, <a href="https://www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/the-portal/phill-niblock-rip-october-1933-january-2024" target="_blank">Phill Niblock</a></td><td colspan="3" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Three hours of Niblock"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(204, 204, 204); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 36pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;">Three hours of <a href="https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/135709" target="_blank">Niblock</a></td></tr></tbody></table><p><google-sheets-html-origin></google-sheets-html-origin><br /></p><p><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="700" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/AIEyZOB8gNI?si=6-ZnE3SHG62VXrIn" title="YouTube video player" width="800"></iframe><br /><br /><br /><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">SONG OF THE DISGRACED PERSON</span></b><br /><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Jack Underwood</b></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-large;"><span style="background-color: white;">As a fire axe waits in its little shop window</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="background-color: white;">As a tongue returns raw to the lozenge</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="background-color: white;">It’s not your fault you’re like this, but you are</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="background-color: white;">As consternation at the departure gate</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="background-color: white;">As drinking water to find it creamy</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="background-color: white;">As the linseed head of an ant might contain</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="background-color: white;"> a social code in play</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="background-color: white;">As suffering comes home from work</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="background-color: white;"> with the same names as yesterday</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="background-color: white;">As you forget to taste</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="background-color: white;">As you borrow a sigh from the same cubic meters of air</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="background-color: white;">As a too-slow handshake might signal sarcasm</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="background-color: white;">It’s not who you are but who you are and can’t undo</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="background-color: white;">As you shit in a room without water</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="background-color: white;">As you cry in a room without light</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="background-color: white;">We send our love</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="background-color: white;">We send an invoice attached as requested</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="background-color: white;">As if everything were intended for you</span></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020960402708303830.post-24013045255339928772024-01-03T10:13:00.003-05:002024-01-03T11:24:50.440-05:00A Link Between Shame and Mercy, People Who Lack the One Lack the Other<p><span style="font-size: x-large;">First self-portrait of 2024, state of mind starting the year, not completely on fire yet. Gouache, watercolor ink, acrylic ink, fountain pen ink. clear elmer's glue. Will compare to first of 2025 if world (probably, or at least the earth) and me (maybe) are still here then</span><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeljwExLz-q1pJ6j3YYcIj6qTvH-4wNQIewPbRKkpH3nZK_ZAywAPZWDY-3ITXde7bfJwOpSEoeSC6mfL8lqIuDTwEdlXIiN-3OROg8bO20oWOKI_x6E9YfwxbVLTjl7E_4I8M9k3GAyY-dyyum6Ec2aG6XCVVnNRFy2Sv8Ge3WH9QW6g3zq3X5i4WcaNZ/s2386/Scanned%20from%20a%20Xerox%20Multifunction%20Printer-66.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2367" data-original-width="2386" height="800" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeljwExLz-q1pJ6j3YYcIj6qTvH-4wNQIewPbRKkpH3nZK_ZAywAPZWDY-3ITXde7bfJwOpSEoeSC6mfL8lqIuDTwEdlXIiN-3OROg8bO20oWOKI_x6E9YfwxbVLTjl7E_4I8M9k3GAyY-dyyum6Ec2aG6XCVVnNRFy2Sv8Ge3WH9QW6g3zq3X5i4WcaNZ/w640-h634/Scanned%20from%20a%20Xerox%20Multifunction%20Printer-66.jpg" width="800" /></a><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;">Hey, remember that Israeli genocide and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians and stealing of Palestinian lands that the US government desperately wants you to ignore and forget (and will ramp up and accelerate crackers crackering to distract you) and is genuinely unto performability pissed at Israel for not only <a href="https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/us-admonishes-israeli-officials-for?" target="_blank">gleefully reminding you</a> of it but grossly celebrating it? Still happening. Life in Kayfabelessstan when all shitlord effort directed at breaking kayfabe and insisting it hasn't, it's you, you fucking hippie. This will be the shittiest political year of our lives since the last until the next. If the world and I'm here this date 2025 some iteration of this post, one year angrier, one year deeper in doo<br /></span><br /><br /><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="700" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/jfaW-yD7DoA?si=bBQU6eUMagAO66qz" title="YouTube video player" width="800"></iframe><br /><br /><br /></p><table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" data-sheets-root="1" dir="ltr" style="border-collapse: collapse; border: none; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; table-layout: fixed; width: 0px;" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><colgroup><col width="100"></col><col width="100"></col><col width="100"></col><col width="100"></col><col width="100"></col><col width="100"></col><col width="100"></col><col width="100"></col></colgroup><tbody><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"The enabler of our two concurrent world wars"}" rowspan="1" style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Spectral; font-size: 30pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">The <a href="https://gilbertdoctorow.com/2024/01/02/the-enabler-of-our-two-concurrent-world-wars-washington/" target="_blank">enabler</a> of our two concurrent world wars</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Israel in talks with Congo and other countries on Gaza ‘voluntary migration’ plan\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 31pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;">Israel in talks with Congo and other countries on Gaza ‘<a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-in-talks-with-congo-and-other-countries-on-gaza-voluntary-migration-plan/amp/" target="_blank">voluntary migration</a>’ plan</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"The difference in media framing is intentional"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 30pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">The <a href="https://twitter.com/AssalRad/status/1740963111417573476" target="_blank">difference</a> in media framing is intentional</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"The Mess They Made of 2023"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 46pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">The <a href="https://consortiumnews.com/2023/12/27/patrick-lawrence-the-mess-they-made-of-2023/" target="_blank">Mess</a> They Made of 2023</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="4" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"The Left v Dialectics"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 32pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">The <a href="https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii144/articles/oliver-eagleton-therborn-s-world-casting" target="_blank">Left v Dialectics</a></td><td colspan="4" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Low, dishonest days"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(204, 204, 204); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 33pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">Low, <a href="https://thebaffler.com/latest/low-dishonest-days?" target="_blank">dishonest days</a></td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="5" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Shallow Equalibrium"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 39pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"><a href="https://notesfromdisgraceland.wordpress.com/2023/12/31/shallow-equilibrium/" target="_blank">Shallow Equilibrium</a></td><td colspan="3" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"24 Predictions for 2024"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(204, 204, 204); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 22pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;"><a href="https://grist.org/culture/24-predictions-for-2024-climate-trends/" target="_blank">24 Predictions for 2024</a></td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Solidarity with Central Ohio Revolutionary Socialists"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 26pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"><a href="https://www.tempestmag.org/2024/01/solidarity-with-central-ohio-revolutionary-socialists/" target="_blank">Solidarity</a> with Central Ohio Revolutionary Socialists</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Joe Biden's genocide, ethnic cleansing"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 35pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"><a href="https://twitter.com/MarkAmesExiled/status/1741594393235108151" target="_blank">Joe Biden's genocide</a>, ethnic cleansing</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"The Zombification of the Public Forum"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 35pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">The <a href="https://epochemagazine.org/68/the-zombification-of-the-public-forum/" target="_blank">Zombification</a> of the Public Forum</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Corporate America’s Big Lie: What’s Good for Us Is Good for the Country"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 18pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"><a href="https://capitalandmain.com/corporate-americas-big-lie-whats-good-for-us-is-good-for-the-country" target="_blank">Corporate America’s Big Lie</a>: What’s Good for Us Is Good for the Country</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"\"You're supposed to buy that the guys who are fine with insurrection, wholesale theft of America's national secrets, and Neil Gorusch \"borrowing\" much of a book actually give a shit about a few paragraphs published almost 30 years ago. That's the schtick.\""}" rowspan="1" style="background-color: #ffe599; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 15pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;">"You're supposed to buy that the guys who are fine with insurrection, wholesale theft of America's national secrets, and Neil Gorusch "borrowing" much of a book actually give a shit about a few paragraphs published almost 30 years ago. <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/lolgop.bsky.social/post/3ki3bd2bliz2d" target="_blank">That's the schtick</a>."</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"I've been gifted more bluesky secret codes, if you want one let me know"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 38pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;">I've been gifted more bluesky secret codes, if you want one let me know</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="4" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"RIP Arno Mayer"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 39pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">RIP <a href="https://newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/without-end" target="_blank">Arno Mayer</a></td><td colspan="4" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"RIP John Pilger"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(204, 204, 204); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 41pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">RIP <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/a-giant-of-journalism-has-left-us-john-pilger-dead-at-84" target="_blank">John Pilger</a></td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="7" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"From 2016: A World War Has Begun, Break the Silence"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 22pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">From 2016: <a href="https://johnpilger.com/articles/a-world-war-has-begun-break-the-silence-" target="_blank">A World War Has Begun</a>, Break the Silence</td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"⇧"}" style="background-color: #fcebff; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(204, 204, 204); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; color: red; font-family: arial; font-size: 36pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">⇧</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Secret Surveillance Program Breaks All the Laws"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 28pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">Secret <a href="https://original.antiwar.com/jwhitehead/2023/12/31/the-white-house-goes-rogue-secret-surveillance-program-breaks-all-the-laws/" target="_blank">Surveillance</a> Program Breaks All the Laws</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="3" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Maggie's weekly "}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 31pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"><a href="https://maggiemcneill.com/2023/12/30/links-704/" target="_blank">Maggie's weekly</a></td><td colspan="5" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Centrist Utopianism"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(204, 204, 204); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 39pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"><a href="https://stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com/stumbling_and_mumbling/" target="_blank">Centrist Utopianism</a></td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"The Internet Is About to Get Weird Again"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 32pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">The Internet Is About to Get <a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-commentary/internet-future-about-to-get-weird-1234938403/" target="_blank">Weird</a> Again</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Nine red flags to identify food that is ultra-processed"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 26pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/2024/01/02/ultra-processed-foods-identification/" target="_blank">Nine red flags</a> to identify food that is ultra-processed</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="5" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"{ feuilleton }'s weekly links"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 32pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">{ <a href="https://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2023/12/30/weekend-links-706/" target="_blank">feuilleton</a> }'s weekly links</td><td colspan="3" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Virginia Don't"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(204, 204, 204); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 34pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"><a href="https://berlin8berlin.wordpress.com/2023/12/31/virginia-dont/" target="_blank">Virginia Don't</a></td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"A few sentences on every book Ed read or reread in 2023"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 24pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;">A <a href="https://biblioklept.org/2023/12/31/a-few-sentences-on-every-book-i-read-or-reread-in-2023/" target="_blank">few sentences</a> on every book Ed read or reread in 2023</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"New Anne Carson poetry/art in February!"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 33pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">New <a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/wrong-norma-anne-carson/20253139?ean=9780811230346" target="_blank">Anne Carson</a> poetry/art in February!</td></tr></tbody></table><p><google-sheets-html-origin></google-sheets-html-origin><br /><br /><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="700" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/GVxqGhIoDsU?si=IAtaqR7LYdecG4ek" title="YouTube video player" width="800"></iframe><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>SHAME STACK</b></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Anne Carson</b></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;">Shame requires<br />the eyes of others<br />unlike guilt. The eyes<br />of Elijah the Tishbite saw<br />in Jezebel a person with much<br />to be ashamed of. There is a link<br />between shame and mercy people who <br />lack the one lack the other. No one could<br />relax around Jezebel. Psychoanalysts say that<br />shame ruins your capacity for reverie by making cracks<br />in the mind where it is dangerous for thoughts to wander. In<br />the end Jezebel's own eunuchs throw her off the parapet. Her blood is on the wall <br /> and on the horses</span><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020960402708303830.post-36751455047225728042023-12-29T09:09:00.018-05:002023-12-30T21:17:48.622-05:00The Song Choices Were Limited So the Grooves Were Dug Deep<div data-en-clipboard="true" data-pm-slice="1 1 []" style="text-align: right;"><span data-fontfamily="slab-serif"><span>:hospital animal emergency 365/7/24 a in morning Day Christmas Written</span></span></div><div data-en-clipboard="true" data-pm-slice="1 1 []"><span data-fontfamily="slab-serif"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: x-large;"><blockquote style="text-align: left;">Olive attacked <a href="https://www.blckdgrd.com/2023/11/i-subdued-night-until-desert-was-clear.html" target="_blank">Louie</a>,* scratched his eye. In the ten minutes I’ve been here a standard poodle who swallowed a large stuffed toy, an elderly dog w face ripped up after two dogs attacked, an elderly man with an elderly dog wheezing for breath turning slowly in circles on it's leash, and in walks a distraught but dignified elderly woman carrying a box with her cat who died Christmas Eve, I don't want to put her in the trash, she said, I don't know what to do, and the hospital took the box</blockquote></span></span></div><div><span><span data-fontfamily="slab-serif" style="font-size: large;"></span><blockquote style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span data-fontfamily="slab-serif"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">I’m crying. I’m a hot mess sideways. Hundreds of humans will die today via the genocide my tax dollars pay for to be laundered into profits for shitlords and I get furious and enjoy and indulge my fury but an old lady in tears walks into an emergency vets and hands over her only companion for cremation and I melt into hopelessness and *this* feels like a greater sinfu</span><span style="color: #2b00fe;">l</span><span style="color: #cc0000;"> </span><span style="color: #2b00fe;">indulgence, t</span></span><span style="color: #2b00fe;">he fuck wrong with me</span></span></blockquote><p style="font-size: x-large;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJCJmSEyOhXk28yLkvG8hRtLQ2HSr2lZLqz86RpqH9-oD5cgivcV7tGw2KuGnm8nYc3m1blIKGrib_TzLwB9rm6X7PIO3hhqmASGsUZjlSzfbG-ZhkfKMo0lEtOppsVs0H5fBPu-kBKNgpZhQncc2AnQlTuWAJfKZ7P6kwjlv93Rg5NBbPNAUMwWQUypsO/s1786/Scanned%20from%20a%20Xerox%20Multifunction%20Printer%20(28).jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1776" data-original-width="1786" height="800" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJCJmSEyOhXk28yLkvG8hRtLQ2HSr2lZLqz86RpqH9-oD5cgivcV7tGw2KuGnm8nYc3m1blIKGrib_TzLwB9rm6X7PIO3hhqmASGsUZjlSzfbG-ZhkfKMo0lEtOppsVs0H5fBPu-kBKNgpZhQncc2AnQlTuWAJfKZ7P6kwjlv93Rg5NBbPNAUMwWQUypsO/w640-h636/Scanned%20from%20a%20Xerox%20Multifunction%20Printer%20(28).jpg" width="800" /></a></p></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span>This possibly the longest between posts here ever, nine days. I thought my apostasies complete but I'm shocked anew and obsessing, you who follow me on twaater can vouch, this extermination of a people and a place with the full support and in many cases gusto from who are my purported battalion against trumpian hordes. My senators are useless, my congressman, in Democratic leadership ladder his job is to be the progressive congressperson mocking crackers, I knew he corporate was but still, I'm </span><a href="https://youtu.be/ZG3YTqOlIkI?si=VXfYIYjchl4VegDD" target="_blank">disappointed</a><span>, not even *this* fuck? the fuck wrong with me</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-size: x-large;"><div style="text-align: left;">Nothing that is happening anywhere in the world, whether protest already quashed or current protests being quashed and all future protests to be quashed can be stopped by you and me together, and I seem constitutionally unwilling to keep explaining how and why when you already know though I think I think it worse than some of you do, no excuse for barking at the moon daily no matter how fast we eat the latest and shit out the old, so yes, same shit tomorrow</div></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Olive instantly understood my disappointment and her doghousing and she self-isolated upstairs for two days after (C, every bit if not more abnormally nice as her mother (I can't imagine who I'd be if they weren't L & C), suggested Olive was lovingly defending me (though I was never under attack though Olive's first view of Louie was him licking my ears so maybe she *was* says this mark, I'm happy Louie likes me)). I'm working on <a href="https://blckdgrd.me/2023/12/29/2023-kdecember-29/" target="_blank">it</a></span></div><div><div style="text-align: right;"><br /></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbbv6J7jWr3Q-kc1wDKOxSd2rK81ljmmqbE_HXClEmwhugpveSiS1ICzE5x7_1hLGRq-bM2tzqbTYbWR55hQJsomN6cG8idf4XBrA-CvGStbfkXL20Int3JvY3ciZjqW_Wc_2br_OfftCO5LwltKD4y9LQckwxRQk_f4WOzHf4xGUQDQhIFOD2JPKVbWqG/s2349/Scanned%20from%20a%20Xerox%20Multifunction%20Printer%20(27).jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2349" data-original-width="2322" height="800" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbbv6J7jWr3Q-kc1wDKOxSd2rK81ljmmqbE_HXClEmwhugpveSiS1ICzE5x7_1hLGRq-bM2tzqbTYbWR55hQJsomN6cG8idf4XBrA-CvGStbfkXL20Int3JvY3ciZjqW_Wc_2br_OfftCO5LwltKD4y9LQckwxRQk_f4WOzHf4xGUQDQhIFOD2JPKVbWqG/w632-h640/Scanned%20from%20a%20Xerox%20Multifunction%20Printer%20(27).jpg" width="800" /></a></div><div><br /><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="700" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/hnbneKvdBCM?si=IS3tpDTx5qvChfTm" title="YouTube video player" width="800"></iframe><br /><br /><br /><google-sheets-html-origin><table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" data-sheets-root="1" dir="ltr" style="border-collapse: collapse; border: none; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; table-layout: fixed; width: 0px;" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><colgroup><col width="100"></col><col width="100"></col><col width="100"></col><col width="100"></col><col width="100"></col><col width="100"></col><col width="100"></col><col width="100"></col></colgroup><tbody><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"*Olive = our cat, Louie = my daughter's puppy, Olive Louis' first cat encounter (which he's recovered from and he's friends with Fleabus, yinz know Fleabus)"}" rowspan="1" style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); color: blue; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 17pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">*Olive = our cat, Louie = my daughter's sweet puppy, Olive Louie's first cat encounter (which he's recovered from and he's friends with Fleabus, yinz know Fleabus)</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Gas, Gaza, and Western imperialism"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 37pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">Gas, <a href="https://mondoweiss.net/2023/12/gas-gaza-and-western-imperialism/" target="_blank">Gaza</a>, and Western imperialism</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"\"Yes, and that’s why, until a few months ago, financially supporting Hamas was Israeli government policy.\""}" rowspan="1" style="background-color: cyan; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 25pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">"Yes, and <a href="https://twitter.com/BLCKDGRD/status/1740722972233720080" target="_blank">that’s why</a>, until a few months ago, financially supporting Hamas was Israeli government policy."</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"A history of Israeli attempts at ethnic cleansing"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 29pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">A <a href="https://twitter.com/MouinRabbani/status/1740277218004349340" target="_blank">history</a> of Israeli attempts at ethnic cleansing</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"The forces behind the assault on opposition to Gaza genocide"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 23pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">The <a href="https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2023/12/28/xxni-d28.html" target="_blank">forces</a> behind the assault on opposition to Gaza genocide</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"The Bomb In The Backyard: A 2023 Coda"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 33pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">The <a href="https://beforenine.blogspot.com/2023/12/the-bomb-in-backyard-2023-coda.html" target="_blank">Bomb In The Backyard</a>: A 2023 Coda</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"The Mongol Hordes: They’re Just Like Us"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 33pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">The <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/01/01/empires-of-the-steppes-the-nomadic-tribes-who-shaped-civilization-kenneth-harl-book-review?" target="_blank">Mongol Hordes</a>: They’re Just Like Us</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"(if you're paywalled - you shouldn't be but if - and want a pdf just email me, it's a fascinating article)"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 13pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">(if you're paywalled - you shouldn't be but if - and want a pdf just email me, it's a fascinating article)</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="5" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Oligarchy and Democracy"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 32pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"><a href="https://www.the-american-interest.com/2011/09/28/oligarchy-and-democracy/" target="_blank">Oligarchy and Democracy</a></td><td colspan="3" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"The Year in Corruption!"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(204, 204, 204); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 20pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">The <a href="https://thebaffler.com/civilifications/the-year-in-corruption-denison?" target="_blank">Year in Corruption</a>!</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"The idea of a ‘precolonial’ Africa is theoretically vacuous, racist and plain wrong about the continent’s actual history"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 23pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">The <a href="https://aeon.co/essays/the-idea-of-precolonial-africa-is-vacuous-and-wrong" target="_blank">idea</a> of a ‘precolonial’ Africa is theoretically vacuous, racist and plain wrong about the continent’s actual history</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"The Year We Stopped Being Able to Pretend About Trump?"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 23pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">The <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/culture/2023-in-review/the-year-we-stopped-being-able-to-pretend-about-trump" target="_blank">Year</a> We Stopped Being Able to Pretend About Trump?</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Last weekend's Maggie's weekly links"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 36pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">Last weekend's <a href="https://maggiemcneill.com/2023/12/23/links-703/" target="_blank">Maggie's</a> weekly links</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="5" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"The big hole re-opened"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 36pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">The <a href="https://idiotic-hat.blogspot.com/2023/12/the-big-hole-re-opened.html" target="_blank">big hole</a> re-opened</td><td colspan="3" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Some thoughts on the substack controversy"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(204, 204, 204); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 22pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">Some thoughts on the <a href="https://radleybalko.substack.com/p/some-thoughts-on-the-substack-controversy?" target="_blank">substack controversy</a></td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Avedon Carol's occasional links"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 42pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"><a href="https://avedoncarol.blogspot.com/2023/12/peace-on-earth.html" target="_blank">Avedon Carol's</a> occasional links</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="3" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Sasha unquits!"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 34pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"><a href="https://sashavreviews.substack.com/p/immortality-2022?" target="_blank">Sasha unquits</a>!</td><td colspan="5" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Notes from Overground"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(204, 204, 204); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 35pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"><a href="https://this-space.blogspot.com/2023/12/notes-from-overground.html" target="_blank">Notes from Overground</a></td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"The Pathos of Obsolete Reference Books"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 33pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">The <a href="https://retromaniabysimonreynolds.blogspot.com/2023/12/the-pathos-of-obsolete-reference-books.html" target="_blank">Pathos</a> of Obsolete Reference Books</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"⇧"}" style="background-color: #fcebff; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; color: red; font-family: arial; font-size: 36pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">⇧</td><td colspan="7" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"The Guardian asked him to write about blogging"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(204, 204, 204); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 25pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">The Guardian asked him to <a href="https://blissout.blogspot.com/2023/12/ou-sont-les-blogs-dantan.html" target="_blank">write about blogging</a></td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Last weekend's { feuilleton }'s weekly links"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 32pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">Last weekend's { <a href="https://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2023/12/23/weekend-links-705/" target="_blank">feuilleton</a> }'s weekly links</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Review of two new translation of Swann's Way"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 29pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">Review of two new translations of <a href="https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n01/michael-wood/break-your-bleedin-heart" target="_blank">Swann's Way</a></td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"The 500 Best Guided by Voices songs"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 36pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">The 500 Best <a href="https://magnetmagazine.com/2023/12/28/the-500-best-guided-by-voices-related-songs-of-all-time/" target="_blank">Guided by Voices</a> songs</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"(the above GbV song this shitty blog's Theme Song #3 (I'll spare *me* another riff on BLCKDGRD's theme song crisis of being in chaos and *not* being a crisis), the one below the grid my favorite GbV song period)"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 12pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">(the above GbV song this shitty blog's Theme Song #3 (I'll spare *me* another riff on BLCKDGRD's theme song crisis of being in chaos and *not* being a crisis), the one below the grid my favorite GbV song period)</td></tr></tbody></table></google-sheets-html-origin><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="700" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/8MCqMe53woo?si=mn5jzUmQHpAGN9Od" title="YouTube video player" width="800"></iframe></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>JUKE</b></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Diane Seuss</b></span></div><div><br /></div><div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro, Garamond, Baskerville, "Baskerville Old Face", "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">What kind of juke do you prefer?<br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro, Garamond, Baskerville, "Baskerville Old Face", "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">For me, it’s the kind with three<br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro, Garamond, Baskerville, "Baskerville Old Face", "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">songs and thirty-seven blank<br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro, Garamond, Baskerville, "Baskerville Old Face", "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">title strips. Three songs, and two<br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro, Garamond, Baskerville, "Baskerville Old Face", "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">are “Luckenbach, Texas.”<br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro, Garamond, Baskerville, "Baskerville Old Face", "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">The third is beautiful and arcane,<br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro, Garamond, Baskerville, "Baskerville Old Face", "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">but the patrons hate it,<br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro, Garamond, Baskerville, "Baskerville Old Face", "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">and the record skips.<br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro, Garamond, Baskerville, "Baskerville Old Face", "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">I prefer the three-song juke<br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro, Garamond, Baskerville, "Baskerville Old Face", "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">and the three-toothed human</span><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro, Garamond, Baskerville, "Baskerville Old Face", "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro, Garamond, Baskerville, "Baskerville Old Face", "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">smile. I found the juke of my dreams<br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro, Garamond, Baskerville, "Baskerville Old Face", "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">in a bar called “Chums,” no clue<br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro, Garamond, Baskerville, "Baskerville Old Face", "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">the origin or meaning<br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro, Garamond, Baskerville, "Baskerville Old Face", "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">of the quotation marks. It was a prime<br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro, Garamond, Baskerville, "Baskerville Old Face", "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">number of a bar, and now it’s dead.<br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro, Garamond, Baskerville, "Baskerville Old Face", "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">One night, drinking half-and-<br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro, Garamond, Baskerville, "Baskerville Old Face", "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">halfs, half beer, half tomato juice,<br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro, Garamond, Baskerville, "Baskerville Old Face", "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">with schnapps chasers, a cheap<br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro, Garamond, Baskerville, "Baskerville Old Face", "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">source of hallucination.<br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro, Garamond, Baskerville, "Baskerville Old Face", "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">A soon-to-be-defrocked Catholic</span><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro, Garamond, Baskerville, "Baskerville Old Face", "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro, Garamond, Baskerville, "Baskerville Old Face", "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">priest, Vic Jr., my mother, and me,<br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro, Garamond, Baskerville, "Baskerville Old Face", "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">our faces streaked blue with pool<br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro, Garamond, Baskerville, "Baskerville Old Face", "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">chalk, juke red as a beating heart,<br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro, Garamond, Baskerville, "Baskerville Old Face", "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">and just a strip of hollyhocks<br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro, Garamond, Baskerville, "Baskerville Old Face", "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">and a tree line between us<br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro, Garamond, Baskerville, "Baskerville Old Face", "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">and the northern lights.<br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro, Garamond, Baskerville, "Baskerville Old Face", "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">I was young. I looked like a Rubens<br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro, Garamond, Baskerville, "Baskerville Old Face", "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">painting of a woman half-eaten<br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro, Garamond, Baskerville, "Baskerville Old Face", "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">by moths. What lucky<br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro, Garamond, Baskerville, "Baskerville Old Face", "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">debauchery, the ride back</span><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro, Garamond, Baskerville, "Baskerville Old Face", "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro, Garamond, Baskerville, "Baskerville Old Face", "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">on a washboard dirt road,<br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro, Garamond, Baskerville, "Baskerville Old Face", "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">taking everything for granted,<br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro, Garamond, Baskerville, "Baskerville Old Face", "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">flipping off the aurora borealis<br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro, Garamond, Baskerville, "Baskerville Old Face", "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">like it was some three-toothed human<br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro, Garamond, Baskerville, "Baskerville Old Face", "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">in flashy clothes dancing<br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro, Garamond, Baskerville, "Baskerville Old Face", "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">to get my attention.<br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro, Garamond, Baskerville, "Baskerville Old Face", "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">I wasn’t a mean drunk then,<br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro, Garamond, Baskerville, "Baskerville Old Face", "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">just honest.<br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro, Garamond, Baskerville, "Baskerville Old Face", "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Next morning, mom walked in<br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro, Garamond, Baskerville, "Baskerville Old Face", "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">on the naked priest</span><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro, Garamond, Baskerville, "Baskerville Old Face", "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro, Garamond, Baskerville, "Baskerville Old Face", "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">in the shack’s garage,<br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro, Garamond, Baskerville, "Baskerville Old Face", "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">washing himself with a rag<br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro, Garamond, Baskerville, "Baskerville Old Face", "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">and cold water from the well<br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro, Garamond, Baskerville, "Baskerville Old Face", "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">in a metal dishpan. I’d later do dishes<br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro, Garamond, Baskerville, "Baskerville Old Face", "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">in that pan and wash my hair<br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro, Garamond, Baskerville, "Baskerville Old Face", "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">in that pan. We popped popcorn<br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro, Garamond, Baskerville, "Baskerville Old Face", "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">on the one-burner wood-burning<br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro, Garamond, Baskerville, "Baskerville Old Face", "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">stove and ate it out of that pan.<br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro, Garamond, Baskerville, "Baskerville Old Face", "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">I’m talking about a time and a place.<br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro, Garamond, Baskerville, "Baskerville Old Face", "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">All I can say of it is that it was real.</span><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro, Garamond, Baskerville, "Baskerville Old Face", "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro, Garamond, Baskerville, "Baskerville Old Face", "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">The song choices were limited,<br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro, Garamond, Baskerville, "Baskerville Old Face", "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-indent: -1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">so the grooves were dug deep.</span></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020960402708303830.post-28528478042860673752023-12-20T12:26:00.005-05:002023-12-21T08:00:28.805-05:00Apoplectic Executioners, Bungled Incisions<p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-large;">I wrote in tablet last night at 5pm: For the second year in a row Joe Biden's motorcade has shut down the Beltway at rush hour so he can attend a fundraising event at Bethesda Shitlord Country Club. and then at 8pm yesterday evening I saw on twaater Chuck Schumer saying Latin American immigrants need treated "within Democratic principles" and twaated back: "<span style="color: #0f1419;">Democratic principles means Gazan children having limbs amputated with no anesthesia from bombing fully funded and supported through our genocidal Mideast colony and its zionist zealots</span>," I'm seething, thanks for asking</span><br /><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiq_eJAO1BjElJh5J-U_L_yxNLf96QoP5WeSWVlawj6rW_7R92Vv-Pla7fT2LLF0GzEEns0JD2Ps0Xn_uC1SQzB8tOVwuU4oj6foAZM-q61VsUjKbsFpIX1SSi9RObVuXiaw9wl2Xyg6SZoPL2taRO09TFA_IbYmCB46_pQ8fy9vMsOnLYID-CZFnf50OVP/s2335/Scanned%20from%20a%20Xerox%20Multifunction%20Printer-60.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2335" data-original-width="2335" height="800" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiq_eJAO1BjElJh5J-U_L_yxNLf96QoP5WeSWVlawj6rW_7R92Vv-Pla7fT2LLF0GzEEns0JD2Ps0Xn_uC1SQzB8tOVwuU4oj6foAZM-q61VsUjKbsFpIX1SSi9RObVuXiaw9wl2Xyg6SZoPL2taRO09TFA_IbYmCB46_pQ8fy9vMsOnLYID-CZFnf50OVP/w640-h640/Scanned%20from%20a%20Xerox%20Multifunction%20Printer-60.jpg" width="800" /></a></div><br /><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">The Artist Giving the Finger: to be honest, like everything I make, from paintings to parked disc ups for a rare birdie putt to human relationships, I depend entirely on coincidence which occasionally morphs into serendipity: the finger found me, I did not find the finger</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;">Among my most biting apostasies my discovery that I don't find solace in seething I once did which must mean the seething that soothed when I was younger must not have been genuine but performative seething and that the seething I don't find that solace in now will also appear performative to me tomorrow. Waah</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">I haven't typed this in this space in years, at first by design and then by dotage: I (and my cohort of last round of baby-boomers) am the trajectory of America from rise to peak and then now bitter enfeeblement and fatal decline. Do you know I once thought I'd enjoy seething unto empire's death and that I don't, beyond my guilt of the world my generation is leaving to my daughter, my angriest, most deservedly bitter apostasy</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;">At the blue place (I've a fuckton of invites if you want one) I subheaded the site this site's old subhead, Canary, Weathervane, Cassandra, Fool. I can't stop seething it needs said <i>before</i> I assert I don't want to, though I need seethe better, not more effectively (since I seethe to no effect at all) but seethe with more focus, with less spillage into those pockets of my life that I poison with seething's corrosive side-effects. My posting less of late here an attempt to concentrate my seething into bursts rather than blurts, for all the good it's done me. Yes, this is a bleggalgaze, my apologies. Here's this shitty blog's Angry Song, Fleabus on drums and guitar, Stanley vocals</span><br /><br /><br /><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="700" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/OgkzRE89Gyw?si=BM9wNG04zNcVuwaF" title="YouTube video player" width="800"></iframe><br /><br /><br /></p><table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" data-sheets-root="1" dir="ltr" style="border-collapse: collapse; border: none; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; table-layout: fixed; width: 0px;" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><colgroup><col width="100"></col><col width="100"></col><col width="100"></col><col width="100"></col><col width="100"></col><col width="100"></col><col width="100"></col><col width="100"></col></colgroup><tbody><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"BLOOD MONEY: THE TOP TEN POLITICIANS TAKING THE MOST ISRAEL LOBBY CASH"}" rowspan="1" style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Spectral; font-size: 26pt; font-weight: bold; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;"><a href="https://www.mintpressnews.com/blood-money-top-ten-politicians-taking-most-israel-money-israel-lobby/286491/" target="_blank">BLOOD MONEY</a>: THE TOP TEN POLITICIANS TAKING THE MOST ISRAEL LOBBY CASH</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"The Long War on Gaza:"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 56pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">The <a href="https://www.nybooks.com/online/2023/12/19/the-long-war-on-gaza/" target="_blank">Long War</a> on Gaza:</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="1" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"⇧"}" rowspan="2" style="background-color: #fcebff; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; color: red; font-family: arial; font-size: 36pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"><span><div style="max-height: 42px;">⇧</div></span></td><td colspan="7" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"\"The current desecration of Gaza is the latest stage in a process that has taken increasingly violent forms over time. In the fifty-six years since it occupied the Strip in 1967, Israel has transformed Gaza from a territory politically and economically integrated with Israel and the West Bank into an isolated enclave, from a functional economy to a dysfunctional one, from a productive society to an impoverished one. It has likewise removed Gaza’s residents from the sphere of politics, transforming them from a people with a nationalist claim to a population whose majority requires some form of humanitarian aid to sustain themselves\""}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(204, 204, 204); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;"><span style="background-color: #fcff01;">"The current desecration of Gaza is the latest stage in a process that has taken increasingly violent forms over time. In the fifty-six years since it occupied the Strip in 1967, Israel has transformed Gaza from a territory politically and economically integrated with Israel and the West Bank into an isolated enclave, from a functional economy to a dysfunctional one, from a productive society to an impoverished one. It has likewise removed Gaza’s residents from the sphere of politics, transforming them from a people with a nationalist claim to a population whose majority requires some form of humanitarian aid to sustain themselves"</span></td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="7" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"\"Violence in Gaza has not only or even primarily been a military matter, as it is now. It has been a matter of everyday, ordinary acts: the struggle to access water and electricity, feed one’s children, find a job, get to school safely, reach a hospital, even bury a loved one. For decades the pressure on Palestinians in Gaza has been immense and unrelenting. The damage it has done—high levels of unemployment and poverty, widespread infrastructural destruction, and environmental degradation, including dangerous contamination of water and soil, among other factors—has become a permanent condition.\""}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(204, 204, 204); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 15pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;"><span style="background-color: #ffa400;">"Violence in Gaza has not only or even primarily been a military matter, as it is now. It has been a matter of everyday, ordinary acts: the struggle to access water and electricity, feed one’s children, find a job, get to school safely, reach a hospital, even bury a loved one. For decades the pressure on Palestinians in Gaza has been immense and unrelenting. The damage it has done—high levels of unemployment and poverty, widespread infrastructural destruction, and environmental degradation, including dangerous contamination of water and soil, among other factors—has become a permanent condition."</span></td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Going Mask-Off About The Two-State Solution Lie"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 26pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">Going <a href="https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/going-mask-off-about-the-two-state" target="_blank">Mask-Off</a> About The Two-State Solution Lie</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Settler colonial states have a terminal shelf life. Israel is no exception."}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 36pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;"><a href="https://scheerpost.com/2023/12/17/chris-hedges-the-death-of-israel/" target="_blank">Settler colonial states</a> have a terminal shelf life. Israel is no exception.</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"\"When Israeli president Isaac Herzog described the assault on Gaza as a war “to save Western civilization, to save the values of Western civilization,” he wasn’t really lying. He was telling the truth — just maybe not quite in the way that he meant it\""}" rowspan="1" style="background-color: yellow; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 22pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;">"When Israeli president Isaac Herzog described the assault on Gaza as a war “to save Western civilization, to save the values of Western civilization,” he <a href="https://twitter.com/caitoz/status/1737292168942023082?" target="_blank">wasn’t really lying</a>. He was telling the truth — just maybe not quite in the way that he meant it"</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"HOW AMERICAN LIBERALISM ENABLES PALESTINIAN GENOCIDE IN REAL TIME"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 30pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;">HOW <a href="https://spectrejournal.com/the-middle-ground-is-still-a-mass-grave/" target="_blank">AMERICAN LIBERALISM</a> ENABLES PALESTINIAN GENOCIDE IN REAL TIME</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="3" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Impolite society"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 31pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;"><a href="https://thebaffler.com/latest/impolite-society-burton" target="_blank">Impolite society</a></td><td colspan="5" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Global Inequality Network"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(204, 204, 204); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 32pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;"><a href="https://newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/selling-citizenship" target="_blank">Global Inequality Network</a></td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Imperialist Propaganda and the Ideology of the Western Left Intelligentsia: From Anticommunism and Identity Politics to Democratic Illusions and Fascism"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 16pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;"><a href="https://monthlyreview.org/2023/12/01/imperialist-propaganda-and-the-ideology-of-the-western-left-intelligentsia/" target="_blank">Imperialist Propaganda</a> and the Ideology of the Western Left Intelligentsia: From Anticommunism and Identity Politics to Democratic Illusions and Fascism</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"In 2024, newsrooms will be under intense internal pressure to defend democracy?"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 32pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;">In 2024, newsrooms will be under intense <a href="https://presswatchers.org/2023/12/in-2024-newsrooms-will-be-under-intense-internal-pressure-to-defend-democracy/" target="_blank">internal pressure</a> to defend democracy?</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"EXTINCT WOOLLY DOGS!"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 47pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2023/12/14/woolly-dog-dna-coast-salish/" target="_blank">EXTINCT WOOLLY DOGS</a>!</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"UNDERGROUND ZOMBIE STREAMS!"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 34pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/interactive/2023/dc-low-lying-city-flood-risks/?itid=hp-top-table-main_p001_f001" target="_blank">UNDERGROUND ZOMBIE STREAMS</a>!</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Hoo Boy Comes The Wonderful Life"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 37pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"><a href="https://beforenine.blogspot.com/2023/12/hoo-boy-comes-wonderful-life.html" target="_blank">Hoo Boy Comes The Wonderful Life</a></td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Suspending the Apparatus of Glory"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 38pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"><a href="https://epochemagazine.org/67/doing-the-nothing-eric-santner-and-giorgio-agamben-on-suspending-the-apparatus-of-glory/" target="_blank">Suspending the Apparatus of Glory</a></td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="5" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Bleggalgaze: not mine"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 37pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"><a href="https://averypublicsociologist.blogspot.com/2023/12/this-here-blog.html" target="_blank">Bleggalgaze</a>: not mine</td><td colspan="3" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"The death of helmetball?"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(204, 204, 204); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 19pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;">The <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2023/12/18/mississippi-football-culture-opportunity/" target="_blank">death of helmetball</a>?</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="4" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Maggie's weekly"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 38pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"><a href="https://maggiemcneill.com/2023/12/16/links-702/" target="_blank">Maggie's weekly</a></td><td colspan="4" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"{ feuilleton }'s weekly"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(204, 204, 204); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 32pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">{ <a href="https://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2023/12/16/weekend-links-704/" target="_blank">feuilleton</a> }'s weekly</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"IF BERLIN (poems) if berlin (poems)"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 37pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"><a href="https://berlin8berlin.wordpress.com/2023/12/16/if-berlin-poems/" target="_blank">IF BERLIN (poems) if berlin (poems)</a></td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Julia Kristeva: Dostoyevsky in the Face of Death or Language Haunted by Sex"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 17pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">Julia Kristeva: <a href="https://progressivegeographies.com/2023/12/20/julia-kristeva-dostoyevsky-in-the-face-of-death-or-language-haunted-by-sex-trans-armine-kotin-mortimer-columbia-university-press-december-2023/" target="_blank">Dostoyevsky in the Face of Death</a> or Language Haunted by Sex</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"What I am giving my daughter for giftmas"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 32pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">What I am <a href="https://blckdgrd.me/2023/12/19/2023-december-19/" target="_blank">giving</a> my daughter for giftmas</td></tr></tbody></table><p><google-sheets-html-origin></google-sheets-html-origin><br /><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="700" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/N8yj9A-JCRY?si=VUkYEeRH2WZwlvzq" title="YouTube video player" width="800"></iframe><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>EIGHT VARIATIONS</b></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Weldon Kees</b></span><br /></p><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"><strong>1.</strong><br /></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"> Prurient tapirs gamboled on our lawns,<br /></span></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
But that was quite some time ago.<br /></span></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
Now one is accosted by asthmatic bulldogs,<br /></span></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
Sluggish in the hedges, ruminant.<br /></span></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">
<br /></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"> Moving through ivy in the park<br /></span></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
Near drying waterfalls, we open every gate;<br /></span></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
But that grave, shell-white unicorn is gone.<br /></span></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
The path is strewn with papers to the street.</span><br /></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">
<br /></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;">Numbers that once were various<br /></span></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
Regarded us, were thought significant, significant<br /></span></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
Enough to bring reporters to the scene.<br /></span></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
But now the bell strikes one, strikes one,</span><br /></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">
<br /></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;">Strikes one—monotonous and tired.<br /></span></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">
<br /></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;">Or clicks like a sad valise.</span><br /></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">
<br /></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">
<strong>2.</strong> <em>Note to Be Left on the Table<br /></em><br /></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;">This ghost of yours, padding about the upper halls,<br /></span></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
Given to fright-wigs Burbage might have worn,<br /></span></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
Moaning in doorways, jumping out at maids,<br /></span></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
Has not convinced me even yet. Can this be you?<br /></span></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
Your life was frightening enough, but this<br /></span></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
Poor pallid counterpart who fuddles in its role<br /></span></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
Is inexcusable. Go haunt the houses of the girls<br /></span></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
You once infected, or the men who bore<br /></span></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
Your company far oftener than I; annoy the others<br /></span></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
For a change. Is this, my house, the medieval hell<br /></span></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
You took to at the grave’s edge, years ago,<br /></span></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
After a dozen other hells had burned themselves away,<br /></span></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
Or are we purgatory here? If not,<br /></span></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
You make it one. I give you until noon.</span><br /></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">
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<strong>3.<br /></strong><br /></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
Ruined travelers in sad trousseaux<br /></span></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
Roost on my doorstep, indolent and worn.<br /></span></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
Not one of them fulfills despised Rousseau’s<br /></span></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
Predictions. Perhaps they are waiting to be born.<br /></span></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
If so, the spot’s been badly chosen.<br /></span></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
This is a site for posthumous investigations,<br /></span></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
Pillows stuffed with nettles, charnal notions:<br /></span></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
Apoplectic executioners, bungled incisions.<br /></span></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
Indeed, our solitary midwife fondles the hemlock.</span><br /></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">
<br /></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
We welcomed one poor hackneyed Christ,<br /></span></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
Sad bastard, croaking of pestilence. The basement<br /></span></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
Holds him now. He has not as yet arisen.<br /></span></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
The tickets are ready; the line forms on the right.<br /></span></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
Justice and virtue, you will find, have been amazingly preserved.</span><br /></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">
<br /></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">
<strong>4.<br /></strong><br /></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;">As water from a dwindling reservoir<br /></span></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
Uncovers mossy stones, new banks of silt,<br /></span></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
So every minute that I spend with you reveals<br /></span></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
New flaws, new features, new intangibles.<br /></span></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
We have been sitting here for hours—<br /></span></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
“I spent that summer in Madrid,<br /></span></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
The winter on the coast of France—<br /></span></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
The Millotsons were there, and Farnsworth.<br /></span></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
My work has perished with the rest<br /></span></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
Of Europe, gone, all gone. We will not see the end.”</span><br /></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">
<br /></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"> You said goodbye, and your perfume<br /></span></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
Lingered for hours. At first it seemed<br /></span></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
Like summer dying there, then rank and sharp.</span><br /></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">
<br /></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;">And yet I did not air the room.<br /></span></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">
<br /></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">
<strong>5.<br /></strong><br /></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;">Among Victorian beadwork and the smell of plush,<br /></span></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
The owls, stuffed and marvelously sinister,<br /></span></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
Glare from dark corners, waiting for the night.<br /></span></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
High up, the moose’s passive eyes explore<br /></span></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
Candles, unlit, within cut-glass. A door<br /></span></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
Is opened, and you enter with a look<br /></span></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
You might have saved for Pliny or the Pope.</span><br /></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">
<br /></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;">The furniture has shrunk now thirty years<br /></span></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
Have passed (with talent thinning out, and words<br /></span></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
Gone dead), and mouths of friends in photographs<br /></span></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
Display their hopeful and outmoded smiles.<br /></span></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
You counted on at least a sputter of nostalgia,<br /></span></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
However fretful. That was a mistake. Even the moose<br /></span></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
Regards you with a tired, uncomprehending stare.</span><br /></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">
<br /></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">
<strong>6.<br /></strong><br /></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;">Signboards commemorate their resting place.<br /></span></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
The graveless of another century<br /></span></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
Came and were conquered; now their bones<br /></span></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
Are dust where idiot highways run.<br /></span></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
Land in their eyes, unquiet ancestors<br /></span></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
(On fences yellow signs clang in the wind)<br /></span></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
Unstirred by suns drying the brown weeds<br /></span></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
Above them now in parched and caking land.</span><br /></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">
<br /></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"> But when they speak of you, they feel the need<br /></span></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
Of voices polished and revised by history,<br /></span></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
The martial note, words framed in capitals.</span><br /></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">
<br /></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;">It is good to be deaf in a deafening time<br /></span></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
With the sky gone colorless, while the dead<br /></span></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
Thunder breaks, a cracked dish, out of the mind.</span><br /></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">
<br /></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">
<strong>7.<br /></strong><br /></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;">The eye no longer single: where the bowl,<br /></span></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
Dead in the thickened darkness, swelled with light,<br /></span></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
Transformed the images and moved the artist’s hand,<br /></span></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
Becomes a framework for our mania.</span><br /></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">
<br /></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;">And haunts the stairway. Friends depart,<br /></span></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
Taking their last look from the roof,<br /></span></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
Saying goodnight and carrying their view<br /></span></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
Of grapes the model ate in Paris years ago.</span><br /></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">
<br /></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;">Blue in the morning, green some afternoons;<br /></span></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
The night, ambiguous, forgets the signature.</span><br /></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">
<br /></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;">The dust in attics settled and his stove<br /></span></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
Grew cold. About the model nothing much is known.</span><br /></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">
<br /></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;">It ends the wall and complements the view<br /></span></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
Of chimneys. And it hides a stain.</span><br /></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">
<br /></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">
<strong>8.<br /></strong><br /></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"> And when your beauty, washed away<br /></span></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
In impure streams with my desire,<br /></span></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
Is only topic for ill-mannered minds,<br /></span></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
Gifted and glassy with exact recall,<br /></span></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
Gossip and rancid footnotes, or remote despair,<br /></span></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
Let ruined weather perish in the streets<br /></span></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
And let the world’s black lying flag come down.</span><br /></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"> Only in calendars that mark no Spring<br /></span></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
Can there be weather in the mind<br /></span></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
That moves to you again as you are now:<br /></span></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
Tired after love and silent in this house,<br /></span></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
Your back turned to me, quite alone,<br /></span></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
Standing with one hand raised to smooth your hair,<br /></span></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
At a small window, green with rain.</span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020960402708303830.post-57018942940036458982023-12-15T08:43:00.000-05:002023-12-15T08:43:11.293-05:00Disinherited, Annulled, Finally Disacknowledged, or: Born 110 Years Ago<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="700" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/Xzlrg7f8GbI" width="800"></iframe>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>[MURMURS FROM THE EARTH OF THIS LAND]</b></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Muriel Rukeyser</b></span><br />
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Murmurs from the earth of this land, from the caves and craters,<br />
from the bowl of darkness. Down watercourses of our<br />
dragon childhood, where we ran barefoot.<br />
We stand as growing women and men. Murmurs come down<br />
where water has not run for sixty years.<br />
Murmurs from the tulip tree and the catalpa, from the ax of<br />
the stars, from the house on fire, ringing of glass; from<br />
the abandoned iron-black mill.<br />
Stars with voices crying like mountain lions over forgotten<br />
colors.<br />
Blue directions and a horizon, milky around the cities where the<br />
murmurs are deep enough to penetrate deep rock.<br />
Trapping the lightning-bird, trapping the red central roots.<br />
You know the murmurs. They come from your own throat.<br />
You are the bridges to the city and the blazing food-plant green;<br />
The sun of plants speaks in your voice, and the infinite shells of<br />
accretions<br />
A beach of dream before the smoking mirror.<br />
You are close to that surf, and the leaves heated by noon, and<br />
the star-ax, the miner’s glitter walls. The crests of the sea<br />
Are the same strength you wake with, the darkness is the eyes<br />
of children forming for a blaze of sight and soon, soon,<br />
Everywhere, you own silence, who drink from the crater, the<br />
nebula, one another, the changes of the soul.<br /></span><br />
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The traditional Rukeyser birthday paragraph:</span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-size: x-large;">I took an Intro to Poetry course at Montgomery College when I was 20 or
so when I was first learning I dig poetry (and trying to impress two
women). The professor, who insisted we call her Tessa (so I don't
remember her last name), prescribed beats and radicals, among them <a href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/muriel-rukeyser" target="_blank">Rukeyser</a>
for her feminist and social protest themes. I liked her poetry then and
for a few years after, but somewhere, by some erroneous aesthetic
reasoning, I came to think overt political declarations in poems boring
and, frankly, embarrassing no matter how well crafted the poem, so I
stopped reading Rukeyser except when I'd come upon a poem in a magazine
or somewhere. What a fucking dope. To be honest, <i><b>my</b></i>
poetry, when I look up from the page to see what I've written, is often
too full of overt political declarations, it's what I'm best at
rhythmically, propulsively, embarrassingly, I'm so much better at <i><b>that</b></i>
than I am the object><subject><subject><object-ology
of poetry I somehow came to believe was superior, poetry's aim and goal.
In any case, two years or so ago someone returned to the library
Rukeyser's collected and I've been reading it since. It's a second
chance at education.</span></blockquote>
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<span><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">Five more below the fold</span><br /></span>
<span><a name='more'></a></span><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">DESDICHADA</span></b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Muriel Rukeyser</span></b></span><br />
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<div>
<div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">
I. </div>
<br />
<div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">
For that you never acknowledged me, I acknowledge</div>
<div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">
the spring’s yellow detail, the every drop of rain,</div>
<div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">
the anonymous unacknowledged men and women. </div>
<div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">
The shine as it glitters in our child’s wild eyes, </div>
<div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">
one o’clock at night. This river, this city, </div>
<div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">
the years of the shadow on the delicate skin </div>
<div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">
of my hand, moving in time. </div>
<div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">
Disinherited, annulled, finally disacknowledged </div>
<div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">
and all of my own asking. I keep that wild dimension </div>
<div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">
of life and making and the spasm </div>
<div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">
upon my mouth as I say this word of acknowledge</div>
<div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">
to you forever. <i>Ewig</i>. Two o’clock at night.</div>
<br />
<div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">
II. </div>
<br />
<div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">
While this my day and my people are a country not yet born </div>
<div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">
it has become an earth I can </div>
<div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">
acknowledge. I must. I know what the </div>
<div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">
disacknowledgment does. Then I do take you, </div>
<div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">
but far under consciousness, knowing </div>
<div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">
that under under flows a river wanting </div>
<div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">
the other : to go open-handed in Asia, </div>
<div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">
to cleanse the tributaries and the air, to make for making, </div>
<div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">
to stop selling death and its trash, pour plastic down men’s throats,</div>
<div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">
to let this child find, to let men and women find, </div>
<div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">
knowing the seeds in us all. They do say Find. </div>
<div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">
I cannot acknowledge it entire. But I will. </div>
<div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">
A beginning, this moment, perhaps, and you.</div>
<br />
<div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">
III.</div>
<br />
<div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">
Death flowing down past me, past me, death</div>
<div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">
marvelous, filthy, gold,</div>
<div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">
in my spine in my sex upon my broken mouth</div>
<div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">
and the whole beautiful mouth of the child;</div>
<div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">
shedding power over me</div>
<div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">
death</div>
<div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">
if I acknowledge him.</div>
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Leading me</div>
<div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">
in my own body</div>
<div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">
at last in the dance.<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: x-large;">EFFORT AT SPEECH BETWEEN TWO PEOPLE</span></b><br />
<br />
<b><span style="font-size: large;">Muriel Rukeyser</span></b><br />
<br />
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: Speak to me. Take my hand. What are you now?</div>
<div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">
I will tell you all. I will conceal nothing.</div>
<div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">
When I was three, a little child read a story about a rabbit</div>
<div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">
who died, in the story, and I crawled under a chair :</div>
<div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">
a pink rabbit : it was my birthday, and a candle</div>
<div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">
burnt a sore spot on my finger, and I was told to be happy.</div>
<br />
<div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">
: Oh, grow to know me. I am not happy. I will be open:</div>
<div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">
Now I am thinking of white sails against a sky like music,</div>
<div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">
like glad horns blowing, and birds tilting, and an arm about me.</div>
<div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">
There was one I loved, who wanted to live, sailing.</div>
<br />
<div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">
: Speak to me. Take my hand. What are you now?</div>
<div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">
When I was nine, I was fruitily sentimental,</div>
<div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">
fluid : and my widowed aunt played Chopin,</div>
<div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">
and I bent my head on the painted woodwork, and wept.</div>
<div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">
I want now to be close to you. I would</div>
<div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">
link the minutes of my days close, somehow, to your days.</div>
<br />
<div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">
: I am not happy. I will be open.</div>
<div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">
I have liked lamps in evening corners, and quiet poems.</div>
<div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">
There has been fear in my life. Sometimes I speculate</div>
<div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">
On what a tragedy his life was, really.</div>
<br />
<div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">
: Take my hand. Fist my mind in your hand. What are you now?</div>
<div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">
When I was fourteen, I had dreams of suicide,</div>
<div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">
and I stood at a steep window, at sunset, hoping toward death :</div>
<div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">
if the light had not melted coulds and plains to beauty,</div>
<div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">
if light had not transformed that day, I would have leapt.</div>
<div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">
I am unhappy. I am lonely. Speak to me.</div>
<br />
<div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">
: I will be open. I think he never loved me:</div>
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He loved the bright beaches, the little lips of foam</div>
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that ride small waves, he loved the veer of gulls:</div>
<div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">
he said with a gay mouth: I love you. Grow to know me.</div>
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: What are you now? If we could touch one another,</div>
<div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">
if these our separate entities could come to grips,</div>
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clenched like a Chinese puzzle . . . yesterday</div>
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I stood in a crowded street that was live with people,</div>
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and no one spoke a word, and the morning shone.</div>
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Everyone silent, moving. . . . Take my hand. Speak to me.<br />
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<br />
<b><span style="font-size: x-large;">POEM</span></b><br />
<br />
<b><span style="font-size: large;">Muriel Rukeyser</span></b><br />
<br />
<div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">
I lived in the first century of world wars. </div>
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Most mornings I would be more or less insane,</div>
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The newspapers would arrive with their careless stories, </div>
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The news would pour out of various devices </div>
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Interrupted by attempts to sell products to the unseen. </div>
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I would call my friends on other devices; </div>
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They would be more or less mad for similar reasons. </div>
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Slowly I would get to pen and paper, </div>
<div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">
Make my poems for others unseen and unborn. </div>
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In the day I would be reminded of those men and women, </div>
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Brave, setting up signals across vast distances, </div>
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Considering a nameless way of living, of almost unimagined values. </div>
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As the lights darkened, as the lights of night brightened, </div>
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We would try to imagine them, try to find each other, </div>
<div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">
To construct peace, to make love, to reconcile </div>
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Waking with sleeping, ourselves with each other, </div>
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Ourselves with ourselves. We would try by any means </div>
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To reach the limits of ourselves, to reach beyond ourselves, </div>
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To let go the means, to wake. </div>
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I lived in the first century of these wars.<br />
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<br /></div>
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>METAPHOR TO ACTION</b></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Muriel Rukeyser</b></span><br />
<br />
<span itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/CreativeWork">Whether it is a speaker, taut on a platform, <br />who battles a crowd with the hammers of his words, <br />whether it is the crash of lips on lips <br />after absence and wanting : we must close <br />the circuits of ideas, now generate, <br />that leap in the body's action or the mind's repose.<br /><br />Over us is a striking on the walls of the sky, <br />here are the dynamos, steel-black, harboring flame, <br />here is the man night-walking who derives <br />tomorrow's manifestos from this midnight's meeting ; <br />here we require the proof in solidarity, <br />iron on iron, body on body, and the large single beating.<br /><br />And behind us in time are the men who second us <br />as we continue. And near us is our love : <br />no forced contempt, no refusal in dogma, the close <br />of the circuit in a fierce dazzle of purity. <br />And over us is night a field of pansies unfolding, <br />charging with heat its softness in a symbol <br />to weld and prepare for action our minds' intensity.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: x-large;">AKIBA</span></b><br />
<br />
<b><span style="font-size: large;">Muriel Rukeyser</span></b><br />
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The night is covered with signs. The body and face of man,</div>
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with signs, and his journeys. Where the rock is split</div>
<div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">
and speaks to the water; the flame speaks to the cloud;</div>
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the red splatter, abstraction, on the door</div>
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speaks to the angel and the constellations.</div>
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The grains of sand on the sea-floor speak at last to the noon.</div>
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And the loud hammering of the land behind</div>
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speaks ringing up the bones of our thighs, the hoofs,</div>
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we hear the hoofs over the seethe of the sea.</div>
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</div>
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All night down the centuries, have heard, music of passage.</div>
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Music of one child carried into the desert;</div>
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firstborn forbidden by law of the pyramid.</div>
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Drawn through the water with the water-drawn people</div>
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led by the water-drawn man to the smoke mountain.</div>
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The voice of the world speaking, the world covered by signs,</div>
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the burning, the loving, the speaking, the opening.</div>
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Strong throat of sound from the smoking mountain.</div>
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Still flame, the spoken singing of a young child.</div>
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The meaning beginning to move, which is the song.</div>
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Music of those who have walked out of slavery.</div>
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Into that journey where all things speak to all things</div>
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refusing to accept the curse, and taking</div>
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for signs the signs of all things, the world, the body</div>
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which is part of the soul, and speaks to the world,</div>
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all creation being created in one image, creation.</div>
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This is not the past walking into the future,</div>
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the walk is painful, into the present, the dance</div>
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not visible as dance until much later.</div>
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These dancers are discoverers of God.</div>
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We knew we had all crossed over when we heard the song.</div>
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</div>
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Out of a life of building lack on lack:</div>
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the slaves refusing slavery, escaping into faith:</div>
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an army who came to the ocean: the walkers</div>
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who walked through the opposites, from I to opened Thou,</div>
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city and cleave of the sea. Those at flaming Nauvoo,</div>
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the ice on the great river: the escaping Negroes,</div>
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swamp and wild city: the shivering children of Paris</div>
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and the glass black hearses; those on the Long March:</div>
<div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">
all those who together are the frontier, forehead of man.</div>
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</div>
<div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">
Where the wilderness enters, the world, the song of the world.</div>
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</div>
<div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">
Akiba rescued, secretly, in the clothes of death</div>
<div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">
by his disciples carried from Jerusalem</div>
<div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">
in blackness journeying to find his journey</div>
<div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">
to whatever he was loving with his life.</div>
<div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">
The wilderness journey through which we move</div>
<div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">
under the whirlwind truth into the new,</div>
<div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">
the only accurate. A cluster of lights at night:</div>
<div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">
faces before the pillar of fire. A child watching</div>
<div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">
while the sea breaks open. This night. The way in.</div>
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</div>
<div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">
Barbarian music, a new song.</div>
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Acknowledging opened water, possibility:</div>
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open like a woman to this meaning.</div>
<div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">
In a time of building statues of the stars,</div>
<div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">
valuing certain partial ferocious skills</div>
<div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">
while past us the chill and immense wilderness</div>
<div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">
spreads its one-color wings until we know</div>
<div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">
rock, water, flame, cloud, or the floor of the sea,</div>
<div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">
the world is a sign, a way of speaking. To find.</div>
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What shall we find? Energies, rhythms, journey.</div>
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Ways to discover. The song of the way in.</div>
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020960402708303830.post-57558804574342484712023-12-12T10:21:00.011-05:002023-12-12T10:28:42.804-05:00Our Dear-There-Where Cancer, Hear our Lull-Lull-Lullaby<p><span style="font-size: x-large;">Clumsily and haltingly I work to write in tablet and/or type out all variables in play in what I call in my head this bogus, horrific, sinfully hinky war. I'm not close</span><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLcVlEDB6lTQK6SkBsN64_YvfzACnKlGhLcD4HgPOrKvojvhRs0TVixVEK_yzOYm7kVM_wHIYw7Yyz3dF4mvcbi3zAUzHEiqJwlFWboFcjke-G-olK4Pu9U8-4OgnZodwXVMB9LtZgZJCDhCPK-eRUuEAPvZaCZpqn_4sLDTFEu0otIS47y3E08k2sednv/s1765/2023%20Dec%2011%20a.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1745" data-original-width="1765" height="796" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLcVlEDB6lTQK6SkBsN64_YvfzACnKlGhLcD4HgPOrKvojvhRs0TVixVEK_yzOYm7kVM_wHIYw7Yyz3dF4mvcbi3zAUzHEiqJwlFWboFcjke-G-olK4Pu9U8-4OgnZodwXVMB9LtZgZJCDhCPK-eRUuEAPvZaCZpqn_4sLDTFEu0otIS47y3E08k2sednv/w640-h632/2023%20Dec%2011%20a.jpg" width="800" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;">I'm a hot mess, watch this, I once attended this church and performed all the rituals and I experienced that tribal scream once upon as a delivered upon follower, people can vouch, and I never will again, shitlords' priests beat it out of me for profit</span><br /><br /></p><p><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="700" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Rd2g7cvRqHc?si=ccfD-8q-YsrJh3DR" title="YouTube video player" width="800"></iframe></p><p><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;">That scream, lordy. Knowing any church is always bogus doesn't mean I still don't want a church but does mean I suspect the worse of any church anyone belongs to (though some more than others and I'm working to fix that) almost as much as I thoroughly distrust any church I ever belonged to or would ever daydream of joining</span><br /><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhh5mQ_WnXKyKF9uutuxl1o3n6n1D0X9b7KbwoHSr7N-m_9hLMHZ8p0CdMfDiSZ4gyqtACw4-gfhgVHaG82r3JBRW3mJ2X6GqQqyDUmMDpHGCneCF2eb6f3UQ_8vZUmavYdovcAlwZDvz6f9eBwVnSGa7wPxlWJhO2f37kZIbDM0pwKO-3DiWkg-Ko1b-pt/s1791/Scanned%20from%20a%20Xerox%20Multifunction%20Printer-55.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1780" data-original-width="1791" height="798" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhh5mQ_WnXKyKF9uutuxl1o3n6n1D0X9b7KbwoHSr7N-m_9hLMHZ8p0CdMfDiSZ4gyqtACw4-gfhgVHaG82r3JBRW3mJ2X6GqQqyDUmMDpHGCneCF2eb6f3UQ_8vZUmavYdovcAlwZDvz6f9eBwVnSGa7wPxlWJhO2f37kZIbDM0pwKO-3DiWkg-Ko1b-pt/w640-h636/Scanned%20from%20a%20Xerox%20Multifunction%20Printer-55.jpg" width="800" /></a></div><p><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;">This genocide has goals beyond the eradication of Palestinians and Israeli conquest of the West Bank, this is a failing empire's global fuck you not only to its rising foreign competitors but especially to its internal critics and is first and foremost seeding the groundwork for sooner than you think authoritarian discipline and punishment against any and all dissent in the coming global resource and shitlord wars. This war is about Israel and Palestine only to Israelis and Zionists and Palestinians; for American/Western shitlord hegemonists this war an exercise and experiment in the coming police state and promise to all external and internal protest that they will destroy the world before they'd relinquish power<br /><br /></span></p><p><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="700" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ZPtHZEXY75A?si=g3NXDBlhHA4GvFSe" title="YouTube video player" width="800"></iframe><br /><br /></p><table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" data-sheets-root="1" dir="ltr" style="border-collapse: collapse; border: none; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; table-layout: fixed; width: 0px;" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><colgroup><col width="100"></col><col width="100"></col><col width="100"></col><col width="100"></col><col width="100"></col><col width="100"></col><col width="100"></col><col width="100"></col></colgroup><tbody><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"DEATH AND DESTRUCTION IN GAZA"}" rowspan="1" style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Spectral; font-size: 32pt; font-weight: bold; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;"><a href="https://mearsheimer.substack.com/p/death-and-destruction-in-gaza" target="_blank">DEATH AND DESTRUCTION IN GAZA</a></td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"⇧"}" style="background-color: red; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; color: yellow; font-family: arial; font-size: 127pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">⇧</td><td colspan="6" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"\"To be more specific, it is commonplace for Israeli leaders to refer to Palestinians as “human animals, ”human beasts,” and “horrible inhuman animals.”[11] And as Israeli President Isaac Herzog makes clear, those leaders are referring to all Palestinians, not just Hamas: In his words, “It is an entire nation out there that is responsible.”[12] Unsurprisingly, as the New York Times reports, it is part of normal Israeli discourse to call for Gaza to be “flattened,” “erased,” or “destroyed.”[13] One retired IDF general, who proclaimed that “Gaza will become a place where no human being can exist,” also makes the case that “severe epidemics in the south of the Gaza Strip will bring victory closer.”[14] Going even further, a minister in the Israeli government suggested dropping a nuclear weapon on Gaza.[15] These statements are not being made by isolated extremists, but by senior members of Israel’s government\""}" rowspan="1" style="background-color: yellow; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(204, 204, 204); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;">"To be more specific, it is commonplace for Israeli leaders to refer to Palestinians as “human animals, ”human beasts,” and “horrible inhuman animals.”[11] And as Israeli President Isaac Herzog makes clear, those leaders are referring to all Palestinians, not just Hamas: In his words, “It is an entire nation out there that is responsible.”[12] Unsurprisingly, as the New York Times reports, it is part of normal Israeli discourse to call for Gaza to be “flattened,” “erased,” or “destroyed.”[13] One retired IDF general, who proclaimed that “Gaza will become a place where no human being can exist,” also makes the case that “severe epidemics in the south of the Gaza Strip will bring victory closer.”[14] Going even further, a minister in the Israeli government suggested dropping a nuclear weapon on Gaza.[15] These statements are not being made by isolated extremists, but by senior members of Israel’s government"</td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"⇧"}" style="background-color: red; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(204, 204, 204); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; color: yellow; font-family: arial; font-size: 127pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">⇧</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"They actively seek ways to tell you eat shit and die"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 27pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;">They actively seek ways to tell you <a href="https://twitter.com/SecBlinken/status/1733885193746784364" target="_blank">eat shit and die</a></td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Vital Reminder: Malcolm X on Liberals"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 33pt; font-weight: bold; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;">Vital Reminder: <a href="https://twitter.com/SpiritofLenin/status/1734412635985047819" target="_blank">Malcolm X on Liberals</a></td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Today in US War Crimes: 11 Dec 1981 a Reagan-backed death squad massacred around 1,000 people in El Mozote, El Salvador. Prior to being killed, many of the victims were tortured and girls as young as ten were raped by the US-trained troops"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 26pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;"><a href="https://twitter.com/wrkclasshistory/status/1734166281950007677" target="_blank">Today in US War Crimes</a>: 11 Dec 1981 a Reagan-backed death squad massacred around 1,000 people in El Mozote, El Salvador. Prior to being killed, many of the victims were tortured and girls as young as ten were raped by the US-trained troops</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Israel Supporters Would Defend Literally Any Israeli Atrocity"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 22pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;">Israel Supporters Would <a href="https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/israel-supporters-would-defend-literally" target="_blank">Defend Literally</a> Any Israeli Atrocity</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"They actively seek ways to tell you eat shit and die"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 27pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;">They actively seek ways to tell you <a href="https://twitter.com/BLCKDGRD/status/1734413531724869761" target="_blank">eat shit and die</a></td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"\"Bernie Sanders has just come out and said he still opposes a permanent ceasefire because Hamas are pure evil terrorists who have to be destroyed. AIPAC praised him for it. Here's Norman Finkelstein destroying him for his genocidal depravity\""}" rowspan="1" style="background-color: yellow; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 16pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;">"Bernie Sanders has just come out and said he still opposes a permanent ceasefire because Hamas are pure evil terrorists who have to be destroyed. AIPAC praised him for it. Here's Norman Finkelstein destroying him for his <a href="https://twitter.com/zei_squirrel/status/1734079340185276456" target="_blank">genocidal depravity</a>"</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Progressive hero is vile Zionist scum and always has been"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 44pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;">Progressive hero is vile Zionist scum and always <a href="https://twitter.com/truthaddictVT/status/1734249621789045124" target="_blank">has been</a></td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"The Schizotocracy, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love The New Normal Reich"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 30pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;"><a href="https://consentfactory.org/2023/12/07/the-schizotocracy-or-how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-the-new-normal-reich/" target="_blank">The Schizotocracy</a>, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love The New Normal Reich</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"They actively seek ways to tell you eat shit and die"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 27pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;">They actively seek ways to tell you <a href="https://twitter.com/USAmbHRC/status/1733538337233740162" target="_blank">eat shit and die</a></td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"A representative of the state held a show trial that lead to the forced resignation of a private citizen over first amendment protected speech"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 27pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;">A representative of the state held a <a href="https://twitter.com/_ryanruby_/status/1733871583511388448" target="_blank">show trial</a> that lead to the forced resignation of a private citizen over first amendment protected speech</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="4" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"America’s undoing"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 35pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"><a href="https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/united-states/64135/americas-undoing" target="_blank">America’s undoing</a></td><td colspan="4" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Genocide scrolling"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(204, 204, 204); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 36pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"><a href="https://stevesalaita.com/scrolling-through-genocide/" target="_blank">Genocide scrolling</a></td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"This is who we are as Americans"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 41pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">This is who we are as <a href="https://twitter.com/CrispinSartwell/status/1733819355534622896" target="_blank">Americans</a></td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"They actively seek ways to tell you eat shit and die"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 27pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;">They actively seek ways to tell you <a href="https://twitter.com/USAmbUN/status/1733912710973116573" target="_blank">eat shit and die</a></td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"\"Fuck you, we don’t actually care what you think, it’s either this or Trump, eat the plate of shit, hippies\""}" rowspan="1" style="background-color: yellow; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 26pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;">"Fuck you, we don’t actually care what you think, it’s either this or Trump, <a href="https://twitter.com/AugustJPollak/status/1733845787103174898" target="_blank">eat the plate of shit, hippies</a>"</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="4" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Israel is losing this war"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 28pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"><a href="https://www.thenation.com/article/world/israel-gaza-war/" target="_blank">Israel is losing this war</a></td><td colspan="4" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"ZOMBIE ZIONISM"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(204, 204, 204); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 34pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"><a href="https://tarikcyrilamar.substack.com/p/zombie-zionism?" target="_blank">ZOMBIE ZIONISM</a></td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Israel apologists are motherfucking psychopaths"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 28pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">Israel apologists are <a href="https://twitter.com/caitoz/status/1734172217280430274" target="_blank">motherfucking psychopaths</a></td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Don't Make Your Voters Step Over Dead Bodies"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 29pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">Don't Make Your Voters Step Over <a href="https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/dont-make-your-voters-step-over-dead?" target="_blank">Dead Bodies</a></td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"\"If this article was published in a US campus paper, the university president would be forced to resign, while Democratic leaders denounced the students and called for censorship\""}" rowspan="1" style="background-color: yellow; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 36pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;">"If this article was published in a US campus paper, the university president would be forced to resign, while <a href="https://twitter.com/empireburlesque/status/1733886864262611156" target="_blank">Democratic leaders</a> denounced the students and called for censorship"</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="5" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Linguistic ethnic cleansing"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 31pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"><a href="https://rall.com/comic/linguistic-ethnic-cleansing" target="_blank">Linguistic ethnic cleansing</a></td><td colspan="3" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"The far right is philosemitic only when it serves their purposes"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(204, 204, 204); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;">The <a href="https://prospect.org/blogs-and-newsletters/tap/2023-12-11-stefanik-antisemitism-israel-call-bs/" target="_blank">far right</a> is philosemitic only when it serves their purposes</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"One of the many purposes behind the Gazan genocide is to harden people to the coming culling of anyone and everyone our shitlords deem a drain on profits"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 16pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;">One of the <a href="https://twitter.com/highbrow_nobrow/status/1734007806078898636" target="_blank">many purposes behind the Gazan genocide</a> is to harden people to the coming culling of anyone and everyone our shitlords deem a drain on profits</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="5" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"ACAB, Canadian edition: "}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 32pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"><a href="https://twitter.com/StopTheStackYYC/status/1734105577499045965" target="_blank">ACAB</a>, Canadian edition:</td><td colspan="3" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"\"Calgary Police harass and arrest an unhoused community member on Sunday, December 10th, while questioning their winter scarf (not a keffiyeh) and if they're involved in any of the protests for Palestine\""}" rowspan="1" style="background-color: yellow; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(204, 204, 204); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 9pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;">"Calgary Police harass and arrest an unhoused community member on Sunday, December 10th, while questioning their winter scarf (not a keffiyeh) and if they're involved in any of the protests for Palestine"</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Our shitlords are motherfucking sociopaths"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 31pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">Z******s are <a href="https://twitter.com/jeremyscahill/status/1734507744135127108" target="_blank">emmeffing sadistic sociopaths</a></td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Eight Wall Street Mega Banks Have Teamed Up to Run Television Ads in a Bogus Scare Campaign"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 27pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;">Eight Wall Street Mega Banks Have Teamed Up to Run Television Ads in a <a href="https://wallstreetonparade.com/2023/12/eight-wall-street-mega-banks-have-teamed-up-to-run-television-ads-in-a-bogus-scare-campaign/" target="_blank">Bogus Scare Campaign</a></td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"The US is a fascist police state with no privacy"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 29pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">The US is a <a href="https://twitter.com/davenewworld_2/status/1734584231341306166" target="_blank">fascist police state</a> with no privacy</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="4" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Maggie's weekly"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 39pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"><a href="https://maggiemcneill.com/2023/12/09/links-701/" target="_blank">Maggie's weekly</a></td><td colspan="4" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Avedon's links"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(204, 204, 204); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 42pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"><a href="http://avedoncarol.blogspot.com/2023/12/im-convinced-that-id-wind-up-burning-too.html" target="_blank">Avedon's links</a></td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Global crises and global revolts"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 43pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">Global crises and <a href="https://www.tempestmag.org/2023/12/global-crises-and-global-revolts/?" target="_blank">global revolts</a></td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"The Cosmic Web and the Fate of the Universe"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 30pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">The Cosmic Web and the <a href="https://nautil.us/the-cosmic-web-and-the-fate-of-the-universe-463899/" target="_blank">Fate of the Universe</a></td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="5" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"What color do you see?"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 36pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">What <a href="https://aeon.co/essays/the-moral-imperative-to-learn-from-diverse-phenomenal-experiences" target="_blank">color</a> do you see?</td><td colspan="3" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Rogue Wave"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(204, 204, 204); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 36pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"><a href="https://www.sciencealert.com/gigantic-wave-in-pacific-ocean-was-most-extreme-rogue-wave-on-record" target="_blank">Rogue Wave</a></td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"A PHILOSOPHY FOR THE SCIENCE OF ANIMAL CONSCIOUSNESS"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 35pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;">A PHILOSOPHY FOR THE SCIENCE OF <a href="https://inquisitivebiologist.com/2023/12/07/book-review-a-philosophy-for-the-science-of-animal-consciousness/" target="_blank">ANIMAL CONSCIOUSNESS</a></td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="4" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"{ feuilleton }'s weekly"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 32pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">{ <a href="https://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2023/12/09/weekend-links-703/" target="_blank">feuilleton</a> }'s weekly</td><td colspan="4" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Heaven & Hell Syllabus"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(204, 204, 204); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 29pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;"><a href="https://itself.blog/2023/12/12/heaven-and-hell-syllabus/" target="_blank">Heaven & Hell Syllabus</a></td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"I have been reminded of American Analog Set"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 29pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;">I have been reminded of <a href="https://www.brooklynvegan.com/the-american-analog-set-detail-numero-group-box-set-new-drifters-share-outtake-queen-of-her-own-parade/" target="_blank">American Analog Set</a></td></tr></tbody></table><p><google-sheets-html-origin></google-sheets-html-origin><br /><br /><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="700" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ag6ClhddC8I?si=1pB6EEk9G8GKSnTr" title="YouTube video player" width="800"></iframe><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>TO OUR INDOLENT CANCER</b></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Greg Delanty</b></span><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-large;">Ah, our lazy, our listless, our lovely, our lingering<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />languid turtle; mooching, smooching slow dancer;<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />dozy, dossing, easygoing footdragger; tinkering,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />plod-plodding procrastinator; incipient necromancer;<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />lackadaisical, lackluster, loafing, lagging lug;<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />watched pot; fainéant of fainéants; otiose slug;</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-large;">our break-taking, oscitant artisan slacker; our unfussed,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />watching-the-grass-grow dawdler; our most phlegmatic<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />sloth; maundering, moony-loony manatee; nonplussed,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />relaxed, dilatory, shell-slumbering snail; our aesthetic,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />asthenic, torpid tortoise; lumbering Laodicean; dillydally-<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />ing, desultory lol-lol-lollygagger; our shillyshallshally;</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-large;">our dear-there-where cancer, hear our lull-lull-lullaby.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />You can, sir, be kind, be gentle, be easy, no need to rush.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />We still got loads, bags, oodles of time. Remember: I die<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />you die. We’re both here now, why the sudden push?</span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020960402708303830.post-18712716369179296512023-12-07T13:10:00.009-05:002023-12-07T22:36:44.430-05:00But When I Say, You Are Like a Swamp-Animal During an Eclipse, I Am Happy, Full of Wisdom, Loved by Children and Old Men Alike. I Am Sorry If This Confuses You<p><span style="font-size: x-large;">My latest self-portrait requires the top-of-the-line overhead scanner I will never own nor ever have access to, this the <a href="https://blckdgrd.me/2023/12/08/2023-december-eye-update/" target="_blank">Self-Portrait of the Artist Seething</a> before that one:</span><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi738mrpSkXgnglZc6gJDmX8tB_FJ-l6yHZTjc7Ls2zCEPO-1mzJeRI-Nk1FE62Ga1MljJE6uwn607wxgYyx68pUCEdFkdILwflm3nb2b_NZy2_Np2k3JRMtQnx5JDXW1EIZSsnquDntdGnmot4x4lmUb86R5br8IY2R8tDmYb6HAKqmMveAOWR9NWLHN5P/s1771/Scanned%20from%20a%20Xerox%20Multifunction%20Printer-48.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1771" data-original-width="1763" height="800" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi738mrpSkXgnglZc6gJDmX8tB_FJ-l6yHZTjc7Ls2zCEPO-1mzJeRI-Nk1FE62Ga1MljJE6uwn607wxgYyx68pUCEdFkdILwflm3nb2b_NZy2_Np2k3JRMtQnx5JDXW1EIZSsnquDntdGnmot4x4lmUb86R5br8IY2R8tDmYb6HAKqmMveAOWR9NWLHN5P/w638-h640/Scanned%20from%20a%20Xerox%20Multifunction%20Printer-48.jpg" width="800" /></a><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;">Marie, at least three of you here remember her as the friend of L's who whirlwinded dinner at C & R's wedding, screamed - <b>SCREAMED!</b> - at L when on a walk this past Monday when L (who, people can vouch, is abnormally nice and kind for a human) didn't agree that all Palestinians are savage sub-human animals deserving of painful death, every single one of them (Marie screamed at me a half year or so ago that I was an immoral idiot for not toeing the MSNBC line on Ukraine, What, so you support Putin? she inquired). Glad for L I was not on the hike though I believe (or at least like to think) I would have simply said, Marie, we're not talking about this and then walked a hundred yards ahead of them while Marie scolded L for not divorcing an antisemitic pig like me.</span><br /></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span>The breaking of kayfabe to militantly insist that broken kayfabe is eternal unbreakable kayfabe and the You Will Lose Your Job Lose Your House Lose the Use of Your Broken Kneecaps Lose Your Life You Fucking Ewjay-Aterhay If You D</span>isagree Campaign going exactly as I thought it would so why am I so sideways beyond it's done in my name with my tax dollars and without my consent? Did I ever believe in any other telemetry?</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">Gridding the clusterfuck as much a form of self-therapy as the self-portraits though both crowd everything else out. I recognize its futility: if you disagree with me you won't read, if you agree with me you don't need and don't need reminding. When I need to quit I hope I can, if I don't need to quit I hope I don't</span><br /><br /></p><p><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="700" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/DGDTwit60xo?si=DO8INznoqmpHVtOJ" title="YouTube video player" width="800"></iframe><br /><br /></p><table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" data-sheets-root="1" dir="ltr" style="border-collapse: collapse; border: none; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; table-layout: fixed; width: 0px;" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><colgroup><col width="100"></col><col width="100"></col><col width="100"></col><col width="100"></col><col width="100"></col><col width="100"></col><col width="100"></col><col width="100"></col></colgroup><tbody><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Thousands of starving Palestinians queuing for food in Deir al-Balah"}" rowspan="1" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 0, 0); font-family: Spectral; font-size: 19pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">Thousands of <a href="https://twitter.com/leninology/status/1732769951797153801" target="_blank">starving Palestinians</a> queuing for food in Deir al-Balah</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Optimism Linked to Poor Decision-Making and Lower Cognitive Skills"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(204, 0, 0) rgb(204, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 18pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"><a href="https://neurosciencenews.com/optimism-cognition-decision-making-25307/" target="_blank">Optimism</a> Linked to Poor Decision-Making and Lower Cognitive Skills</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"ISRAELI SOLDIER BREAKS A PALESTINIAN WOMEN’S HAND"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(204, 0, 0) rgb(204, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 19pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">ISRAELI SOLDIER <a href="https://twitter.com/ShaykhSulaiman/status/1732716595451949506" target="_blank">BREAKS</a> A PALESTINIAN WOMEN’S HAND</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Using seawater for ethnic cleansing and genocide"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(204, 0, 0) rgb(204, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 28pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">Using seawater for <a href="https://twitter.com/Hanine09/status/1732364971743346884" target="_blank">ethnic cleansing</a> and genocide</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"\"When we watch videos like this which starkly illuminate Israel’s genocidal slaughter of children in Gaza, we must ask ourselves what we can do to make wealthy, hyper-entitled Jewish students feel safer on Ivy League campuses\""}" rowspan="1" style="background-color: yellow; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(204, 0, 0) rgb(204, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 17pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;">"When we watch videos like this which starkly illuminate <a href="https://twitter.com/MaxBlumenthal/status/1732464035050762704" target="_blank">Israel’s genocidal slaughter</a> of children in Gaza, we must ask ourselves what we can do to make wealthy, hyper-entitled Jewish students feel safer on Ivy League campuses"</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Israel's 'Mass Assassination Factory'"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(204, 0, 0) rgb(204, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 37pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">Israel's '<a href="https://daniellarison.substack.com/p/israels-mass-assassination-factory" target="_blank">Mass Assassination Factory</a>'</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Debunking Israel’s “mass rape” propaganda"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(204, 0, 0) rgb(204, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 31pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"><a href="https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/watch-debunking-israels-mass-rape-propaganda" target="_blank">Debunking</a> Israel’s “mass rape” propaganda</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"It is not a coincidence that as America's hands get bloodier in its genocide via its Zionist colony that hyperventilating over a Trump authoritarian inevitability is increasing in professional Democratic liberal-whisperer publications"}" rowspan="1" style="background-color: white; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(204, 0, 0) rgb(204, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; color: #0f1419; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 23pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;">It is not a coincidence that as America's hands get bloodier in its genocide via its Zionist colony that hyperventilating over a Trump <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/12/05/donald-trump-authoritarian-rule-second-term-maga/" target="_blank">authoritarian inevitability</a> is increasing in professional Democratic liberal-whisperer publications</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"IMPORTANT: In the name of all Jews"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(204, 0, 0) rgb(204, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 34pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;"><a href="https://yasha.substack.com/p/in-the-name-of-all-jews" target="_blank">IMPORTANT</a>: In the name of all Jews</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"⇧"}" style="background-color: #fcebff; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(204, 0, 0) rgb(204, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; color: red; font-family: arial; font-size: 36pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">⇧</td><td colspan="6" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"The President of Israel vouches"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(204, 0, 0) rgb(204, 0, 0) rgb(204, 204, 204); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 32pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;">The <a href="https://twitter.com/QudsNen/status/1732180941634679174" target="_blank">President of Israel vouches</a></td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"⇧"}" style="background-color: #fcebff; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(204, 0, 0) rgb(204, 0, 0) rgb(204, 204, 204); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; color: red; font-family: arial; font-size: 36pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">⇧</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Performative pussiness in defence of Zionism"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(204, 0, 0) rgb(204, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 30pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;">Performative <a href="https://twitter.com/HouseGOP/status/1732064188980146642" target="_blank">pussiness</a> in defence of Zionism</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"The iron law of “Western” media/politics:"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(204, 0, 0) rgb(204, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 32pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;">The iron law of “<a href="https://twitter.com/AliAbunimah/status/1732360916858028251" target="_blank">Western</a>” media/politics:</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"⇧"}" style="background-color: #fcebff; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(204, 0, 0) rgb(204, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; color: red; font-family: arial; font-size: 36pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">⇧</td><td colspan="6" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"\"Fake reports of atrocities against Israeli Jews will always receive multiple times more outrage than real atrocities against Palestinians. There’s more sympathy for imaginary beheaded Jewish babies than for thousands of real ones in Gaza.\""}" rowspan="1" style="background-color: yellow; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(204, 0, 0) rgb(204, 0, 0) rgb(204, 204, 204); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 16pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;">"Fake reports of atrocities against Israeli Jews will always receive multiple times more outrage than real atrocities against Palestinians. There’s more sympathy for imaginary beheaded Jewish babies than for thousands of real ones in Gaza."</td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"⇧"}" style="background-color: #fcebff; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(204, 0, 0) rgb(204, 0, 0) rgb(204, 204, 204); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; color: red; font-family: arial; font-size: 36pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">⇧</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"WHEN ISRAELI SOLDIERS ATTACKED THE FUNERAL PROCESSION OF SHIREEN THE USA CHRISTIAN JOURNALIST WHO THEY ASSASSINATED"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(204, 0, 0) rgb(204, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 23pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;">WHEN ISRAELI SOLDIERS ATTACKED THE FUNERAL PROCESSION OF SHIREEN THE USA CHRISTIAN JOURNALIST WHO THEY ASSASSINATED</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"The Official Story Of October Seventh"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(204, 0, 0) rgb(204, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 35pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;">The <a href="https://twitter.com/ShaykhSulaiman/status/1732316446963716343" target="_blank">Official Story</a> Of October Seventh</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"⇧"}" style="background-color: #fcebff; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(204, 0, 0) rgb(204, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; color: red; font-family: arial; font-size: 36pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">⇧</td><td colspan="6" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"\"If you question any part of this official story, you’re an evil Jew-hating monster who loves terrorism and wishes Hitler had won. You should be censored, fired from your job, kicked off campus and disappeared from polite society, because you support genocide and you want good people to die\""}" rowspan="1" style="background-color: yellow; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(204, 0, 0) rgb(204, 0, 0) rgb(204, 204, 204); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 16pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;">"If you question any part of this official story, you’re an evil Jew-hating monster who loves terrorism and wishes Hitler had won. You should be censored, fired from your job, kicked off campus and disappeared from polite society, because you support genocide and you want good people to die"</td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"⇧"}" style="background-color: #fcebff; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(204, 0, 0) rgb(204, 0, 0) rgb(204, 204, 204); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; color: red; font-family: arial; font-size: 36pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">⇧</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Biden works to create plausible deniability as he backs Israel’s assault on Gaza"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(204, 0, 0) rgb(204, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 32pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;">Biden works to <a href="https://mondoweiss.net/2023/12/biden-works-to-create-plausible-deniability-as-he-backs-israels-assault-on-gaza/" target="_blank">create plausible deniability</a> as he backs Israel’s assault on Gaza</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"When Biden tells you he's a ionistz believe him"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(204, 0, 0) rgb(204, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-size: 29pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;"><span data-sheets-root="1" data-sheets-userformat="{"2":13309,"3":{"1":0},"5":{"1":[{"1":2,"2":0,"5":{"1":2,"2":13369344}},{"1":0,"2":0,"3":3},{"1":1,"2":0,"4":1}]},"6":{"1":[{"1":2,"2":0,"5":{"1":2,"2":13369344}},{"1":0,"2":0,"3":3},{"1":1,"2":0,"4":1}]},"7":{"1":[{"1":2,"2":0,"5":{"1":2,"2":13369344}},{"1":0,"2":0,"3":3},{"1":1,"2":0,"4":1}]},"8":{"1":[{"1":2,"2":0,"5":{"1":2,"2":13369344}},{"1":0,"2":0,"3":3},{"1":1,"2":0,"4":1}]},"9":1,"10":1,"11":4,"12":0,"15":"Spectral","16":30}" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Reminder: zionism doesn't have to be Jewish or Israeli, it can be crackerchrister American"}" style="font-size: 30pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">Zionism doesn't have to be Jewish or Israeli, it can be <a href="https://twitter.com/RightWingWatch/status/1732499752644702649" target="_blank">emmeffing crackerchrister</a> American</span></span></td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Arab American Voters Hold Biden Responsible for Genocide and Hate Crimes"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(204, 0, 0) rgb(204, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 31pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;">Arab American Voters Hold Biden Responsible for <a href="https://twitter.com/RightWingWatch/status/1732499752644702649" target="_blank">Genocide and Hate Crimes</a></td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Occupation armies are weak, brutal, and stupid"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(204, 0, 0) rgb(204, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 29pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">Occupation armies are <a href="https://www.ianwelsh.net/why-israel-is-performing-so-badly-against-hamas/" target="_blank">weak, brutal, and stupid</a></td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"History of Gaza: On Conquerors, Resurgence, and Rebirth"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(204, 0, 0) rgb(204, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 23pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"><a href="https://original.antiwar.com/ramzy-baroud/2023/12/05/history-of-gaza-on-conquerors-resurgence-and-rebirth/" target="_blank">History of Gaza</a>: On Conquerors, Resurgence, and Rebirth</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"\"When we watch videos like this which starkly illuminate Israel’s genocidal slaughter of children in Gaza, we must ask ourselves what we can do to make wealthy, hyper-entitled Jewish students feel safer on Ivy League campuses?\""}" rowspan="1" style="background-color: yellow; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(204, 0, 0) rgb(204, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 17pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;">"I had a nasty bit in mind about Western elites eating cooked Palestinians in private compounds, then thought, <a href="https://twitter.com/DennisThePerrin/status/1732815392114901029" target="_blank">Where's the satire</a>?"</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"How Israel Got an Endless Supply of U.S.-Made Smart Bombs"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(204, 0, 0) rgb(204, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 22pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">How Israel Got an <a href="https://inthesetimes.com/article/united-states-israel-precision-guided-munitions-stockpile" target="_blank">Endless Supply</a> of U.S.-Made Smart Bombs</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Do venture capitalists want forever war?"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(204, 0, 0) rgb(204, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 34pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">Do venture capitalists want <a href="https://responsiblestatecraft.org/venture-capital-defense-companies/" target="_blank">forever war</a>?</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Meanwhile: US breaks record for most mass shootings in single year after weekend murders"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(204, 0, 0) rgb(204, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 29pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;"><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/dec/05/mass-shootings-record-year" target="_blank">Meanwhile</a>: US breaks record for most mass shootings in single year after weekend murders</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="4" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Late Republic Politics"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(204, 0, 0) rgb(204, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 31pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"><a href="https://joecostello.substack.com/p/late-republic-politics-59a" target="_blank">Late Republic Politics</a></td><td colspan="4" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Economics twilight"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(204, 0, 0) rgb(204, 0, 0) rgb(204, 204, 204); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 34pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"><a href="https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/robert-shiller-advocates-behavioral-approach-to-economics-by-antara-haldar-2023-12" target="_blank">Economics twilight</a></td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"The Left just doesn’t want it anymore"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(204, 0, 0) rgb(204, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 36pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">The <a href="https://itself.blog/2023/12/06/the-left-just-doesnt-want-it-anymore/" target="_blank">Left</a> just doesn’t want it anymore</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"When They Tell You Who They Are (Part Infinity)"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(204, 0, 0) rgb(204, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 27pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;"><a href="https://mockpaperscissors.com/2023/12/06/when-they-tell-you-who-they-are-part-infinity-3/" target="_blank">When They Tell You Who They Are</a> (Part Infinity)</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"How to be an atheist is medieval Europe"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(204, 0, 0) rgb(204, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 33pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;">How to be an <a href="https://aeon.co/videos/hear-from-blasphemes-sceptics-and-free-thinkers-in-this-tour-of-medieval-unbelief" target="_blank">atheist</a> is medieval Europe</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Moco's long-term plans to make the clusterfuck that is Clarksburg more clusterfuckable"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(204, 0, 0) rgb(204, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 29pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;">Moco's long-term plans to make <a href="https://mocoshow.com/2023/12/05/clarksburg-gateway-sector-plan-existing-conditions-report-presented-to-planning-board/" target="_blank">the clusterfuck that is Clarksburg</a> more clusterfuckable</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="5" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Enigma for criticism"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(204, 0, 0) rgb(204, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 40pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"><a href="https://this-space.blogspot.com/2023/12/the-enigma-for-criticism.html" target="_blank">Enigma for criticism</a></td><td colspan="3" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Modern Dogs"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(204, 0, 0) rgb(204, 0, 0) rgb(204, 204, 204); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 36pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"><a href="https://www.forkingpaths.co/p/the-evolution-of-modern-dogs" target="_blank">Modern Dogs</a></td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Loud Noises From Various Empty Vessels"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(204, 0, 0) rgb(204, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 32pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"><a href="https://idiotic-hat.blogspot.com/2023/12/loud-noises-from-various-empty-vessels.html" target="_blank">Loud Noises</a> From Various Empty Vessels</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"FOUR DYSTOPIAN SHORT STORIES SET IN THE SAME YEAR BUT VERY DIFFERENT REGIONS OF THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(204, 0, 0) rgb(204, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 18pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;"><a href="https://berlin8berlin.wordpress.com/2023/12/07/four-dystopian-short-stories-set-in-the-same-year-but-very-different-regions-of-the-western-hemisphere/" target="_blank">FOUR DYSTOPIAN SHORT STORIES</a> SET IN THE SAME YEAR BUT VERY DIFFERENT REGIONS OF THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="4" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Esthétique du Mal"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(204, 0, 0) rgb(204, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 36pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"><a href="https://www.sas.upenn.edu/~cavitch/pdf-library/Stevens_Esthe%CC%81tique_du_mal.pdf" target="_blank">Esthétique du Mal</a></td><td colspan="4" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"I'm sure I've heard a Taylor Swift song more than once somewhere and she likes helmetball which earns infinity demerits and I give zero shit about Time Magazine's Person of the Year, but if she and the award makes crackers cracker, good on her"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(204, 0, 0) rgb(204, 0, 0) rgb(204, 204, 204); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;">I'm sure I've heard a Taylor Swift song more than once somewhere and she likes helmetball which earns infinity demerits and I give zero shit about Time Magazine's Person of the Year, but if she and the award makes <a href="https://twitter.com/BLCKDGRD/status/1732550697412137051" target="_blank">crackers cracker</a>, good on her</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Of helmetball's heinous crimes, mono uniforms is particularly odious"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(204, 0, 0) rgb(204, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 19pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">Of helmetball's heinous crimes, <a href="https://twitter.com/ravens/status/1732506271054475485?s=46" target="_blank">mono uniforms</a> is particularly odious</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Old Man Look At His Life: Neil Young's Before And After"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(204, 0, 0) rgb(204, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 24pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"><a href="https://thequietus.com/articles/33686-neil-young-before-and-after-review" target="_blank">Old Man Look At His Life</a>: Neil Young's Before And After</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Bandcamped (listened, didn't buy, was hioping I'd want to buy, but...) the new Gabriel, it's mostly meh but has it's moments (one below), as you would bet, I like the Dark Side better"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(204, 0, 0) rgb(204, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 30pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;">Bandcamped (listened, didn't buy, was hoping I'd want to buy, but...) the <a href="https://petergabriel.bandcamp.com/album/i-o" target="_blank">new Gabriel</a>, it's mostly meh but has it's moments (one below), as you would bet, I like the Dark Side better</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"James Tate born eighty years ago tomorrow, Dec 8, click here to see all the Tate poems posted at this shitty blag"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(204, 0, 0) rgb(204, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 33pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;"><a href="https://www.jamestate.net/" target="_blank">James Tate</a> born eighty years ago tomorrow, Dec 8, click here to see <a href="https://www.blckdgrd.com/search/label/James%20Tate" target="_blank">all the Tate poems posted at this shitty blag</a></td></tr></tbody></table><p><google-sheets-html-origin></google-sheets-html-origin><br /><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="700" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/UH5gPE0ALEY?si=zDLTmeJhckUDR8BA" title="YouTube video player" width="800"></iframe><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>WHY YOU WANNA KNOW WHAT TIME IT IS YOU GOT AN APPOINTMENT WITH YOUR ANALYST</b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>James Tate<br /></b></span><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;">When I think no thing is <i>like</i> any other thing<br />I become speechless, cold, my body turns silver<br />and water runs off me, as if repulsed. There I am<br />ten feet from myself, possessor of nothing,<br />uncomprehending of even the simplest particle of dust.<br />But when I say, you are like<br />a swamp-animal during an eclipse,<br />I am happy, full of wisdom, loved by children<br />and old men alike. I am sorry if this confuses you.<br />During an eclipse the swamp-animal<br />acts as though day were night,<br />drinking when he should be sleeping, etc.<br />This is why men stay up all night<br />writing to you.</span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020960402708303830.post-47030692842421167622023-12-04T11:51:00.005-05:002023-12-04T19:51:42.127-05:00Coming Through the Sidedoors: Can We Synchronize Our Souls?<p><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">F<span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1419; white-space-collapse: preserve;">ive day truce, America's Red Hour of gluttony, helmetball, and shopping orgies into debt, the restart of genocide and our and Zionists' genocide and Americans be like, so what, old news, a gazillion media cycles ago, stop the fuck hammering it, wham wham wham, and just *how* fucked up is the college helmetball tournament, answer me!</span> WHAT ABOUT FLORIDA STATE! the true outrage in America, the fuck is wrong with people. Hear, the only American Football I like:</span><br /><br /><br /><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="700" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/_NfnXdXpjL0?si=JwCQT10dPWvGvZC3" title="YouTube video player" width="800"></iframe></span></p><p><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;">This blog, the fuck am I doing. Do you know that Frank Zappa died thirty years ago today so today is the start of Zappadan, once a major Blegsylvanian holiday (I only know since years ago I followed @zappadan on twatter), can you name any others? Here's one, Blogroll Amnesty Day, February 1 each year, the fuck is a blogroll. I don't like Zappa's music, have Beefheart instead<br /></span><br /></p><p><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="700" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/r9lpLm7jwQY?si=UNbqt42u9MW9Ylt7" title="YouTube video player" width="800"></iframe><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;">That's either this shitty blog's Theme Song 8, 9, or 10, maybe even 11, fuck if I remember. The fuck am I doing here. Both still have them but I don't play either of the two musicians who occupy the two permanent seats in My Sillyass Deserted Island Five Game nor do I keep in my head which three musicians or bands currently hold the three rotating seats in My Sillyass Deserted Island Five Game. My tax dollars pay for the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians and wholesale land theft of Palestinian land and Zionists went bonkers when three actors in Australia appeared onstage for a curtain call in keffiyehs and are <a href="https://twitter.com/abcnews/status/1731597994795868215" target="_blank">the true evil</a> in the world, the fuck am I doing here, at least I'm doing it less (also too reading less, writing less, painting less, hiking less, discing less, laughing less, sleeping less, eating less), once a week it seems, and as I type this I haven't looked at my stats since I last posted, if you are still here, thank you, a reminder that this shitty blog's Bleggalgazing Anthem in now paywalled by Worldwide Pants, this is this shitty blog's Theme Song 4 or 5 or 6, I don't remember</span><br /><br /><br br="" /><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="700" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/QSLKzLREoPw?si=WPZuFcw2IlN2mF40" title="YouTube video player" width="800"></iframe><br /><br /></p><table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" data-sheets-root="1" dir="ltr" style="border-collapse: collapse; border: none; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; table-layout: fixed; width: 0px;" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><colgroup><col width="100"></col><col width="100"></col><col width="100"></col><col width="100"></col><col width="100"></col><col width="100"></col><col width="100"></col><col width="100"></col></colgroup><tbody><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Hope you played that, if you played that, which 90% of yinz didn't, loud, and this post's title taken from this song not per usual from the poem at bottom, revolution, motherfuckers, sigh"}" rowspan="1" style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Spectral; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;">Hope you played that, if you played that, which 90% of yinz didn't I'd bet a pint, loud, and this post's title taken from this song not per usual from the poem at bottom, revolution, motherfuckers, sigh</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Is this an existential crisis for democracy or not?"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 28pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;">Is this an <a href="https://www.welcometohellworld.com/is-this-an-existential-crisis-for-democracy-or-not/" target="_blank">existential crisis</a> for democracy or not?</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"HOW AMERICAN LIBERALISM ENABLES PALESTINIAN GENOCIDE IN REAL TIME"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 30pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;">HOW <a href="https://spectrejournal.com/the-middle-ground-is-still-a-mass-grave/" target="_blank">AMERICAN LIBERALISM ENABLES PALESTINIAN GENOCIDE</a> IN REAL TIME</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"What ‘tunnels’ and ‘hostages’ mean in Gaza"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 31pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">What ‘<a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2023/12/3/what-tunnels-and-hostages-mean-in-gaza?" target="_blank">tunnels’ and ‘hostages</a>’ mean in Gaza</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"The signs of American collapse are everywhere"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 29pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">The signs of <a href="https://www.ianwelsh.net/china-will-be-understood-to-be-the-worlds-premier-power-in-less-than-a-decade/" target="_blank">American collapse</a> are everywhere</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"U.S. Sends Israel 2,000-Pound Bunker Buster Bombs for Gaza War"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 20pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">U.S. Sends Israel <a href="https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/u-s-sends-israel-2-000-pound-bunker-buster-bombs-for-gaza-war-82898638" target="_blank">2,000-Pound Bunker Buster Bombs</a> for Gaza War</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"All the Times Israel Has Rejected Peace With Palestinians"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 23pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">All the Times <a href="https://theintercept.com/2023/11/28/israel-palestine-history-peace/" target="_blank">Israel Has Rejected Peace</a> With Palestinians</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Israel Plans For Long War And The Expulsion Of People From Gaza"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 37pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;">Israel Plans For Long War And The <a href="https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/12/israel-plans-for-long-war-and-the-expulsion-of-people-from-gaza.html" target="_blank">Expulsion</a> Of People From Gaza</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"From 2016, but pertinent: New IDF CHIEF RABBI SAYS SOLDIERS CAN RAPE ARAB WOMEN TO BOOST MORALE"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 32pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;">From 2016, but pertinent: New IDF CHIEF <a href="https://www.mintpressnews.com/new-idf-chief-rabbi-says-soldiers-can-rape-arab-women-wartime-boost-morale/218362/" target="_blank">RABBI SAYS SOLDIERS CAN RAPE ARAB WOMEN</a> TO BOOST MORALE</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="2" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Dystopia"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 36pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"><a href="https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2023/12/dystopia/" target="_blank">Dystopia</a></td><td colspan="6" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Basic Principles of Humanity"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(204, 204, 204); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 34pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">Basic <a href="https://www.nybooks.com/online/2023/11/18/basic-principles-humanity-sari-bashi/" target="_blank">Principles</a> of Humanity</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"A mass assassination factory’: Inside Israel’s calculated bombing of Gaza","6":1}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 36pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;">A <a href="https://www.972mag.com/mass-assassination-factory-israel-calculated-bombing-gaza/" target="_blank">mass assassination factory</a>’: Inside Israel’s calculated bombing of Gaza</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"The Stranglehold of Silence: Suppression of Free Speech in the Israel/Palestine Conflict"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 31pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;">The <a href="https://www.projectcensored.org/the-stranglehold-of-silence-suppression-of-free-speech-in-the-israel-palestine-conflict/" target="_blank">Stranglehold of Silence</a>: Suppression of Free Speech in the Israel/Palestine Conflict</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"On the death of world-class criminal, Henry Kissinger"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 25pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">On the <a href="https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/tariq-ali-on-the-death-of-henry-kissinger" target="_blank">death of world-class criminal</a>, Henry Kissinger</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="4" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Crank Profiles # 4"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 36pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"><a href="https://www.carlbeijer.com/p/crank-profiles-3-will-stancils-theory" target="_blank">Crank Profiles # 4</a></td><td colspan="4" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"is responsible for Catherine Wheel song below grid"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(204, 204, 204); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 24pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;">is responsible for Catherine Wheel song below grid</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Obama was the most destructive political figure of his lifetime"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 41pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;"><a href="https://drafts.interfluidity.com/2023/11/30/obama-was-the-most-destructive-political-figure-of-my-lifetime/index.html" target="_blank">Obama</a> was the most destructive political figure of his lifetime</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Meanwhile, the coming resource wars because we're killing our habitat"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 36pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;">Meanwhile, the coming resource wars because we're <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2023/12/03/yukon-river-salmon-climate-change/" target="_blank">killing our habitat</a></td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="4" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Maggie's weekly"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 38pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"><a href="https://maggiemcneill.com/2023/12/03/links-700/" target="_blank">Maggie's weekly</a></td><td colspan="4" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Ordinary crying"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(204, 204, 204); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 40pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"><a href="https://www.eudaemonist.com/2xii2023/" target="_blank">Ordinary crying</a></td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"FIRE PAPER GUNS THE INTERNET and ALL WHO FOLLOWED AFTER"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 36pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;"><a href="https://berlin8berlin.wordpress.com/2023/11/29/fire-paper-guns-the-internet-and-all-that-followed-after-an-excerpt/" target="_blank">FIRE PAPER GUNS</a> THE INTERNET and ALL WHO FOLLOWED AFTER</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"100 Fun Facts About the State of Maryland"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 32pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;"><a href="https://mocoshow.com/2023/12/03/100-fun-facts-about-the-state-of-maryland/#more-84871" target="_blank">100 Fun Facts</a> About the State of Maryland</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Bluesky has sent me three more tickets of entry, want one, email me"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 19pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;">Bluesky has sent me three more tickets of entry, want one, email me</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="4" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Why the existence of things precedes their possibility"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 24pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;"><a href="https://aeon.co/videos/henri-bergson-on-why-the-existence-of-things-precedes-their-possibility" target="_blank">Why the existence of things precedes their possibility</a></td><td colspan="4" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"{ feuilleton }'s weekly"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(204, 204, 204); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 32pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">{ <a href="https://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2023/12/02/weekend-links-702/" target="_blank">feuilleton</a> }'s weekly</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Postcards from Elizabeth Bishop"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 41pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">Postcards from <a href="https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2023/11/27/postcards-from-elizabeth-bishop/" target="_blank">Elizabeth Bishop</a></td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"I *do* remember that this is this shitty blog's Theme Song One:"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 22pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">I *do* remember that this is this shitty blog's Theme Song One:</td></tr></tbody></table><p><br /><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="700" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/JkXN3Tbz-QM?si=frQgaAkCiIdDhklB" title="YouTube video player" width="800"></iframe><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>COWPUNK</b></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Diane Seuss</b></span><br /></p><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Do you think your suffering is exceptional?<br /></span></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
Maybe. Maybe not.<br /></span></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
The times are strange, no doubt.<br /></span></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
In the heat of it, what I believed<br /></span></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
was the heat of it, I shouted like a dockworker<br /></span></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
that I was unafraid. Come at me,</span><br /></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">
<br /></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
I hollered, you can only kill me<br /></span></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
once. There is nothing left<br /></span></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
to take. I’ve said that before. I still hear<br /></span></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
the echo from when the flames<br /></span></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
licked my feet,<br /></span></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
my fearlessness a cabaret.</span><br /></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">
<br /></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
Of course, there is more to take.<br /></span></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
I’m copious and so are you.<br /></span></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
My pipe. My roses. My stubborn<br /></span></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
mule. My burbling<br /></span></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
brook which must be traversed<br /></span></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
to get to the island of blue lawn chairs.</span><br /></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">
<br /></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
My loaded apple trees,<br /></span></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
raspberry bushes, and prefab on a slab,<br /></span></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
and memories of Petra, with three<br /></span></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
teeth, who made a salsa just for me<br /></span></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
when she saw me coming toward her<br /></span></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
diner, Petra’s. My high school drama</span><br /></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">
<br /></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
teacher, Jim, his hair bronze, his pallor<br /></span></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
ruddy, his gait exceptional. I believe<br /></span></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
we should marry, he said to me one night,<br /></span></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
blowing smoke rings, driving me home<br /></span></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
from play practice. I was Mary Warren<br /></span></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
in <em>The Crucible</em>. I’d just learned</span><br /></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">
<br /></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
to insert a tampon. There were no<br /></span></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
boundaries then, and Jim was queer.<br /></span></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
His real love was the boy who played<br /></span></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
The Boy in <em>The Fantasticks</em>.<br /></span></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
I could feel my blood let down<br /></span></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
like breast milk into the fabric</span><br /></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">
<br /></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
of his car seat. I loved the theater.<br /></span></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
What luxury, putting on plays<br /></span></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
in the middle of a cornfield.<br /></span></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
The witch I played giving me<br /></span></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
license to go into fits<br /></span></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
in front of the student body.</span><br /></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">
<br /></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
Jim was fired, and died.<br /></span></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
Petra’s dead.<br /></span></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
The berry bushes are a dream.<br /></span></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
The island is a pipe dream.<br /></span></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
The pipe is a hallucination.<br /></span></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
Still, I’m copious, and so are you.</span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020960402708303830.post-30616340353779400202023-11-28T11:29:00.006-05:002023-11-28T18:31:59.570-05:00Bring Us Forward Notch by Notch into a Paradigm of Comfort to Be Clasped<p><span style="font-size: x-large;">Mood hexjeff thermostat (cold press block, acrylic paint pen, gouache, table salt, watercolor ink), last for a while or not, what passes for my studio inaccessible the next two weeks while maintenance on the building it's in are completed, my tablet activity affected too though not by design and not out of contagion but completely because I'm an animal of routine and one stuck cog disrupts all cogs</span><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8E5OHitkiG9A2kpox8HiopjXQi5I2uhMbdJwt-x1VqD-B2QK4Nn5Pt5RZeeSy088s2BZ7QZrqvujMkNVx6UJjzhqXP1erSD39QFp5eaGw-STWH2smORcKLiurgHZTS5__FyZq3v0liUVCZNvx0Y1ZzqCyfRZYW-d_RZoz97PDR-JgjOa_3w2qYNSm0Bi9/s1377/Scanned%20from%20a%20Xerox%20Multifunction%20Printer%20(23).jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1377" data-original-width="1265" height="860" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8E5OHitkiG9A2kpox8HiopjXQi5I2uhMbdJwt-x1VqD-B2QK4Nn5Pt5RZeeSy088s2BZ7QZrqvujMkNVx6UJjzhqXP1erSD39QFp5eaGw-STWH2smORcKLiurgHZTS5__FyZq3v0liUVCZNvx0Y1ZzqCyfRZYW-d_RZoz97PDR-JgjOa_3w2qYNSm0Bi9/w588-h640/Scanned%20from%20a%20Xerox%20Multifunction%20Printer%20(23).jpg" width="800" /></a></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">Serendipitous actually since I want to be quieter without quieting by kneejerk (though I still gather links of what I don't want to write about or paint or contemplate, just cut and paste the link as self-explanatory spit of evidence of something that sideways me, below's grid a week's worth). <br /><br />I'm here less too apparently, a good thing, a bad thing, a nothing, one thing: Swans in the office, Swans in the car, Swans in my earbuds when sitting on my couch, always a sign of some upcoming swerve in my paradigms </span><div><br /><br /><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="700" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/BAIiQNXArxk?si=vmrF9Pmi1XX8FrJZ" title="YouTube video player" width="800"></iframe><br /><p><br /></p><table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" data-sheets-root="1" dir="ltr" style="border-collapse: collapse; border: none; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; table-layout: fixed; width: 0px;" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><colgroup><col width="100"></col><col width="100"></col><col width="100"></col><col width="100"></col><col width="100"></col><col width="100"></col><col width="100"></col><col width="100"></col></colgroup><tbody><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"\"Let me translate: We let them have a go at it knowing very well it would be genocide and ethnic cleansing, and we’re sad to see it’s just piss-poor, unsuccessful and very embarrassing genocide and ethnic cleansing. Try again in five years\""}" rowspan="1" style="background-color: #ffe599; border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Spectral; font-size: 33pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;">"Let me <a href="https://twitter.com/flying_rodent/status/1728184208622067825" target="_blank">translate</a>: We let them have a go at it knowing very well it would be genocide and ethnic cleansing, and we’re sad to see it’s just piss-poor, unsuccessful and very embarrassing genocide and ethnic cleansing. Try again in five years"</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"JOE BIDEN MOVES TO LIFT NEARLY EVERY RESTRICTION ON ISRAEL’S ACCESS TO U.S. WEAPONS STOCKPILE"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 19pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;">JOE BIDEN MOVES TO LIFT NEARLY EVERY RESTRICTION ON ISRAEL’S ACCESS TO <a href="https://theintercept.com/2023/11/25/biden-israel-weapons-stockpile-arms-gaza/" target="_blank">U.S. WEAPONS</a> STOCKPILE</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"No longer being shocked by the murderousness of the empire is a counterintuitive sign that something unhealthy is happening to you"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 19pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;">No longer being <a href="https://caityjohnstone.medium.com/never-stop-being-shocked-by-the-depravity-of-the-empire-0fbfc055630b" target="_blank">shocked by the murderousness</a> of the empire is a counterintuitive sign that something unhealthy is happening to you</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Years of mainstream media neglect of Palestinian reality means that truths come as shocks to most Americans"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 36pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;">Years of <a href="https://mondoweiss.net/2023/11/years-of-mainstream-media-neglect-of-palestinian-reality-means-that-truths-come-as-shocks-to-most-americans/" target="_blank">mainstream media neglect</a> of Palestinian reality means that truths come as shocks to most Americans</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"What is Hamas? Fuck if you know"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 39pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"><a href="https://stevesalaita.com/hamas-is-a-figment-of-your-imagination/" target="_blank">What is Hamas? Fuck if you know</a></td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"⬆️"}" style="background-color: red; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 72pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: visible; padding: 2px 0px; vertical-align: middle;"><div style="left: -298px; overflow: hidden; position: relative; white-space: nowrap; width: 396px;"><div style="left: 150.5px; margin-left: -396px; margin-right: -396px; position: relative; text-align: center;">⬆️</div></div></td><td colspan="7" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"\"Yet it is the Palestinian people onto whom the Zionist displaces this obsession. All Palestinians are Hamas. Therefore, no Palestinian has a right to live. The conflation deracinates Palestinians and erases Palestine’s long and distinguished history. The process also grants to Zionists a type of rhetorical control in the public sphere: they get to determine the culture of the native; they get to prescribe (and proscribe) the contours of resistance; they get to adjudicate the work of national liberation. Palestinians are entrapped by the crude and self-serving imagination of the oppressor\""}" rowspan="1" style="background-color: #ead1dc; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(204, 204, 204); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 19pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;">"Yet it is the Palestinian people onto whom the Zionist displaces this obsession. All Palestinians are Hamas. Therefore, no Palestinian has a right to live. The conflation deracinates Palestinians and erases Palestine’s long and distinguished history. The process also grants to Zionists a type of rhetorical control in the public sphere: they get to determine the culture of the native; they get to prescribe (and proscribe) the contours of resistance; they get to adjudicate the work of national liberation. Palestinians are entrapped by the crude and self-serving imagination of the oppressor"</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"No Ceasefire in the Propaganda War"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 37pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">No Ceasefire in the <a href="https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2023/11/no-ceasefire-in-the-propaganda-war/" target="_blank">Propaganda War</a></td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"War Is Not Abstracted Anymore"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 41pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">This war is about the <a href="https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2023/12/21/a-bitter-season-in-the-west-bank-david-shulman/" target="_blank">West Bank</a></td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"\"The most vociferous opponents of ‘cancel culture’ have been strangely silent – or worse – in recent weeks on the suppression of speech in support of the Palestinians or critical of Israel\""}" rowspan="1" style="background-color: #fff2cc; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 29pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;">"The most vociferous opponents of ‘cancel culture’ have been <a href="https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/war-is-not-abstracted-anymore?" target="_blank">strangely silent</a> – or worse – in recent weeks on the suppression of speech in support of the Palestinians or critical of Israel"</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Israel’s War on American Student Activists"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 32pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">Israel’s <a href="https://www.thenation.com/article/world/israel-spying-american-student-activists/" target="_blank">War on American Student</a> Activists</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Thread: why Israeli hasbara sucks now"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 35pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"><a href="https://twitter.com/MouinRabbani/status/1727948091053977757" target="_blank">Thread</a>: why Israeli hasbara sucks now</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Just when you thought UEFA couldn't suck more"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 28pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">Just when you thought <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/sports/2023/11/23/uefa-fines-celtic-over-palestine-support-israel-gaza-war-fans-defy-ban-pledge-support" target="_blank">UEFA</a> couldn't suck more</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"The people who don’t believe LGBTQ communities should have any rights whatsoever in the US are mad that queer Muslims are protesting for a free Palestine."}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 26pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;">The <a href="https://twitter.com/still_oppressed/status/1727912302957953534" target="_blank">people</a> who don’t believe LGBTQ communities should have any rights whatsoever in the US are mad that queer Muslims are protesting for a free Palestine.</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Reminder that the Atlantic’s Editor in Chief Jeffrey Goldberg left college to volunteer for the IOF working as a prison guard during the First Intifada, assisting with the torture of Palestinian prisoners, a time he recalls as “exciting” and “exotic.”"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 32pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;">Reminder that the Shitlantic’s Editor in Chief Jeffrey Goldberg left college to volunteer for the <a href="https://twitter.com/babadookspinoza/status/1728467789168455694" target="_blank">IOF working as a prison guard</a> during the First Intifada, assisting with the torture of Palestinian prisoners, a time he recalls as “exciting” and “exotic.”</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"The Hamas Attack and Israel’s War in Gaza"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 31pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">The Hamas Attack <a href="https://cgcinternational.co.in/the-hamas-attack-and-israels-war-in-gaza/" target="_blank">and</a> Israel’s War in Gaza</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"The reality awaiting released Israeli hostages versus the one awaiting released Palestinian prisoners"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 26pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;">The reality awaiting released Israeli hostages <a href="https://twitter.com/RalphNader/status/1729196482308546638" target="_blank">versus</a> the one awaiting released Palestinian prisoners</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Three Zionists walk into a bar"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 45pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">Three <a href="https://twitter.com/AbuMrouj/status/1729321996054319297" target="_blank">Zionists</a> walk into a bar</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Why won’t Arab and Muslim countries help Palestine?"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 25pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;">Why won’t Arab and Muslim countries <a href="https://redflag.org.au/article/why-wont-arab-and-muslim-countries-help-palestine" target="_blank">help</a> Palestine?</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"⬆️"}" style="background-color: red; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 72pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">⬆️</td><td colspan="7" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"\"The common thread is that ruling classes can never be relied on to fight for justice\""}" rowspan="1" style="background-color: #d0e0e3; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(204, 204, 204); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 28pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;">"The common thread is that ruling classes can never be relied on to fight for justice"</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"MEANWHILE: Secretive White House Surveillance Program Gives Cops Access to Trillions of US Phone Records"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 33pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;"><a href="https://www.wired.com/story/hemisphere-das-white-house-surveillance-trillions-us-call-records/" target="_blank">MEANWHILE</a>: Secretive White House Surveillance Program Gives Cops Access to Trillions of US Phone Records</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"MEANWHILE: Rent extraction sole goal"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 33pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"><a href="https://twitter.com/BenjaminNorton/status/1729360550130598326" target="_blank">MEANWHILE</a>: Rent extraction sole goal</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="4" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Avedon Carol's links"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 33pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">Avedon Carol's <a href="https://avedoncarol.blogspot.com/2023/11/therell-be-no-sad-tomorrow.html" target="_blank">links</a></td><td colspan="4" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Maggie's weekly"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(204, 204, 204); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 38pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">Maggie's <a href="https://maggiemcneill.com/2023/11/26/links-699/" target="_blank">weekly</a></td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"How Finance Capitalism Ruined the World"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 32pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">How Finance Capitalism <a href="https://demystifysci.com/transcripts/2023/11/24/dspod-203" target="_blank">Ruined</a> the World</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="3" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"{ feuilleton }'s"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 37pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">{ <a href="https://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2023/11/25/weekend-links-701/" target="_blank">feuilleton</a> }'s</td><td colspan="5" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"When Black Friday comes"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(204, 204, 204); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 32pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">When <a href="https://idiotic-hat.blogspot.com/2023/11/when-black-friday-comes.html" target="_blank">Black Friday</a> comes</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Why Navajo is the world’s hardest language to learn"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 26pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">Why <a href="https://bigthink.com/high-culture/navajo-language/" target="_blank">Navajo</a> is the world’s hardest language to learn</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="4" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Teetering canaries"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 36pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"><a href="https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2023/11/09/teetering-canaries/" target="_blank">Teetering canaries</a></td><td colspan="4" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"It may surprise you to know there is a new Guided by Voices album"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(204, 204, 204); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 19pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;">It may surprise you to know there is a new Guided by Voices album</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Cries and whispers: on Meredith Monk"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 34pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">Cries and whispers: on <a href="https://www.nybooks.com/online/2023/11/22/cries-and-whispers-meredith-monk/" target="_blank">Meredith Monk</a></td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"The title track to Bonnie Prince Billy's latest album isn't on the latest album (he did sing it at the show w Jon Langford we saw two Saturdays ago), it's freaking heartbreakingly gorgeous"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 21pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;">The title track to Bonnie Prince Billy's latest album isn't on the latest album (he did sing it at the show w Jon Langford we saw two Saturdays ago), it's freaking heartbreakingly gorgeous</td></tr></tbody></table><p><google-sheets-html-origin></google-sheets-html-origin><br /><br /><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="700" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/N1agHenGIw4?si=bVTMfqg3pYauF70B" title="YouTube video player" width="800"></iframe><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>NOT THAT IT COULD BE FINISHED</b></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Anne Lauterbach</b></span><br /></p><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">She holds a conversation with her ornaments,<br /></span></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
stray or contingent, heaped in patches<br /></span></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
darkly and then loosened<br /></span></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
onto the table to be consumed.<br /></span></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
Collect me, they seem to ask,<br /></span></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
into an assembly; construe us<br /></span></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
like any morning onto any day.<br /></span></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
Bring us forward notch by notch<br /></span></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
into a paradigm of comfort<br /></span></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
to be clasped: any cup will do.<br /></span></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
Any dance? Take a seed<br /></span></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
and blow it toward the curtain<br /></span></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
which, like a bright shield<br /></span></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
hugging breasts into radiance,<br /></span></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
is seen and spoken of and desired.<br /></span></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
Will any silence fit? So many<br /></span></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
columns of air are held upright<br /></span></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
in inebriated passage,<br /></span></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
so many paper stacks<br /></span></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
brittle under the weight<br /></span></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
of what was news to attentive readers<br /></span></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
as zones of holy strangers<br /></span></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
feed through tunnels their imported cares.<br /></span></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
Stare at us, they seem to say,<br /></span></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
we are windows propped up against the sky,<br /></span></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
quotations of light waiting to sail<br /></span></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
into your aperture, calling <em>because because</em><br /></span></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
and <em>now now now</em>. And the good body<br /></span></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
is pulled over the original rapacious body<br /></span></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
like a huge sock, its cornucopia<br /></span></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
of sour wind and dust emptied into the firmament.</span></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020960402708303830.post-91280925936673212852023-11-21T16:09:00.002-05:002023-11-21T16:19:16.937-05:00It Doesn't End, Night's Sorcery Notwithstanding<p><span style="font-size: x-large;">Sideways but more so. The obliteration of Palestine and the extermination of Palestinians a done deal with the overwhelming approval of everyone who has a say and those who have a say say keep on obliminating and exterterating. Barks below in grid. There is no situation so shitty that shitlords won't try to make shittier for more power and profit. I'm assuming my self-incriminations on this platform and others sufficient enough and safely clouded in databases that my shutting up now won't save me from possible jail and torture or worse, the only reason to quit now is to save me from me who has always believed in an obligation to engage politically regardless of my lack of influence on anyone but myself, that to abdicate to hermitage moral weakness and cowardice, but I'm saner screaming at the clusterfuck than I'd ever be hiding mute in a void, so, below, mood, gouache, watercolor ink, clear Elmer's Glue, my left eye November 2023, my right eye November 2023 <a href="https://blckdgrd.me/2023/11/21/2023-november-blinder-report/" target="_blank">here</a></span></p><p><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0siKpjRIbzXpvBFOZ4hIS8SrPEZ1wjRzj2jeycdKo6sHsmUsHWMQNaYqpV_7bmouHcYz7gMxQji6pF2uz-LWoGA5aO2oRWwCf18SjdhIlULIiH8gd4qQWd7RQXqxffUYPnqeGaiNWkYgvShh0F5383G50reueI1Gsz-kCLeGujP6k-WEjuKk0RuxMYC_r/s1443/Scanned%20from%20a%20Xerox%20Multifunction%20Printer%20(21).jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1443" data-original-width="1350" height="860" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0siKpjRIbzXpvBFOZ4hIS8SrPEZ1wjRzj2jeycdKo6sHsmUsHWMQNaYqpV_7bmouHcYz7gMxQji6pF2uz-LWoGA5aO2oRWwCf18SjdhIlULIiH8gd4qQWd7RQXqxffUYPnqeGaiNWkYgvShh0F5383G50reueI1Gsz-kCLeGujP6k-WEjuKk0RuxMYC_r/w598-h640/Scanned%20from%20a%20Xerox%20Multifunction%20Printer%20(21).jpg" width="800" /></a><br /><br /></p><table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" data-sheets-root="1" dir="ltr" style="border-collapse: collapse; border: none; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; table-layout: fixed; width: 0px;" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><colgroup><col width="100"></col><col width="100"></col><col width="100"></col><col width="100"></col><col width="100"></col><col width="100"></col><col width="100"></col><col width="100"></col></colgroup><tbody><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Last weekend Your Effing Washington Post Joe Biden accused H*m*s of \"pure, unadulterated evil\" (link in reply to this tweet), here, watch Israeli schoolchildren sing \"We Will Annihilate Everyone in Gaza\""}" rowspan="1" style="border: 1px solid rgb(255, 0, 0); font-family: Spectral; font-size: 30pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;">Last weekend in Your Effing Washington Post Joe Biden accused H*m*s of "pure, unadulterated evil" (link in reply to this tweet), <a href="https://twitter.com/BLCKDGRD/status/1726389294250754344" target="_blank">here</a>, watch Israeli schoolchildren sing "We Will Annihilate Everyone in Gaza"</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"But... but... someone chalked Free Palestine on the sidewalk by the White House! let's not lose sight of who's evil here"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(255, 0, 0) rgb(255, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 30pt; font-weight: bold; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;">But... but... someone chalked Free Palestine on the sidewalk by the White House! let's not lose sight of <a href="https://twitter.com/BenJamalpsc/status/1726319971561525563" target="_blank">who's evil here</a></td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Remember a week or three ago some shitwit wrote in the Shitlantic that Nazis weren't so bad because at least they weren't enjoying themselves killing the Jews? cause Ionistszay seem to be having a blast"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(255, 0, 0) rgb(255, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 27pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;">Remember a week or three ago some shitwit wrote in the Shitlantic that Nazis weren't so bad because at least they weren't enjoying themselves killing the Jews? cause Ionistszay seem to be having a <a href="https://twitter.com/QudsNen/status/1726695609426448452" target="_blank">blast</a></td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"⬆️"}" style="background-color: red; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(255, 0, 0) rgb(255, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 64pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: visible; padding: 2px 0px; vertical-align: middle;"><div style="left: -298px; overflow: hidden; position: relative; white-space: nowrap; width: 396px;"><div style="left: 150.5px; margin-left: -396px; margin-right: -396px; position: relative; text-align: center;">⬆️</div></div></td><td colspan="6" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"\"GAZA, PALESTINE, 2023. The era of \"postcolonialism\". Let this serve as a warning to all people of the world. Once they box you into a \"15 minute city\", they can then kill you, and nobody on the planet will do anything at all to save you. They can blame \"terrorism\" that they themselves created through their actions, that they themselves supported, that they themselves funded. Do not let them box you into 15 minute cities. Fight like hell to stop them doing this to you too. Their enemies are not simply Palestinians, it's all of us. We are all Palestinians to them. We are all Palestinians to the psychopathic oligarchy.\""}" rowspan="1" style="background-color: #ffe599; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(255, 0, 0) rgb(255, 0, 0) rgb(204, 204, 204); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 13pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;">"<a href="https://twitter.com/robinmonotti/status/1726424169632481653" target="_blank"><b>GAZA, PALESTINE, 2023</b></a>. The era of "postcolonialism". Let this serve as a warning to all people of the world. Once they box you into a "15 minute city", they can then kill you, and nobody on the planet will do anything at all to save you. They can blame "terrorism" that they themselves created through their actions, that they themselves supported, that they themselves funded. Do not let them box you into 15 minute cities. Fight like hell to stop them doing this to you too. Their enemies are not simply Palestinians, it's all of us. We are all Palestinians to them. We are all Palestinians to the psychopathic oligarchy."</td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"⬆️"}" style="background-color: red; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) transparent rgb(255, 0, 0) rgb(204, 204, 204); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 64pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: visible; padding: 2px 0px; vertical-align: middle;"><div style="left: 3px; overflow: hidden; position: relative; white-space: nowrap; width: 396px;"><div style="left: -150.5px; margin-left: -396px; margin-right: -396px; position: relative; text-align: center;">⬆️</div></div></td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"A Chain of Proxy Wars Looms Large Behind Gaza"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(255, 0, 0) rgb(255, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 27pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">A <a href="https://moderndiplomacy.eu/2023/11/18/a-chain-of-proxy-wars-looms-large-behind-gaza/" target="_blank">Chain of Proxy Wars</a> Looms Large Behind Gaza</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Remember a week or three ago some shitwit wrote in the Shitlantic that Nazis weren't so bad because at least they weren't enjoying themselves killing the Jews? cause Ionistszay seem to be having a blast"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(255, 0, 0) rgb(255, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 27pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;">Remember a week or three ago some shitwit wrote in the Shitlantic that Nazis weren't so bad because at least they weren't enjoying themselves killing the Jews? cause Ionistszay seem to be having a <a href="https://twitter.com/muhammadshehad2/status/1726955647584157732" target="_blank">blast</a></td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"HOW AMERICAN LIBERALISM ENABLES PALESTINIAN GENOCIDE IN REAL TIME"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(255, 0, 0) rgb(255, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 30pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;">HOW <a href="https://spectrejournal.com/the-middle-ground-is-still-a-mass-grave/" target="_blank">AMERICAN LIBERALISM ENABLES PALESTINIAN GENOCIDE</a> IN REAL TIME</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Remember a week or three ago some shitwit wrote in the Shitlantic that Nazis weren't so bad because at least they weren't enjoying themselves killing the Jews? cause Ionistszay seem to be having a blast (cutting the foreskins off the enemy edition)"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(255, 0, 0) rgb(255, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 27pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;">Remember a week or three ago some shitwit wrote in the Shitlantic that Nazis weren't so bad because at least they weren't enjoying themselves killing the Jews? cause Ionistszay seem to be having a blast (<a href="https://spectrejournal.com/the-middle-ground-is-still-a-mass-grave/" target="_blank">cutting the foreskins off the enemy edition</a>)</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(255, 0, 0) rgb(255, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Sideways</span></td><td style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(255, 0, 0) rgb(255, 0, 0) rgb(204, 204, 204); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">is</td><td style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(255, 0, 0) rgb(255, 0, 0) rgb(204, 204, 204); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">always</td><td style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(255, 0, 0) rgb(255, 0, 0) rgb(204, 204, 204); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">better</td><td style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(255, 0, 0) rgb(255, 0, 0) rgb(204, 204, 204); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">than</td><td style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(255, 0, 0) rgb(255, 0, 0) rgb(204, 204, 204); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">always</td><td style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(255, 0, 0) rgb(255, 0, 0) rgb(204, 204, 204); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">upside</td><td style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(255, 0, 0) rgb(255, 0, 0) rgb(204, 204, 204); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">down</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Pentagon secretly poured in arms for invasion of Gaza"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(255, 0, 0) rgb(255, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 25pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">Pentagon <a href="https://www.struggle-la-lucha.org/2023/11/19/pentagon-secretly-poured-in-arms-for-invasion-of-gaza/" target="_blank">secretly poured</a> in arms for invasion of Gaza</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Western officials: Israel tries to avoid civilian casualties in Gaza\r\nIsraeli officials: We're doing genocide\r\nWestern officials: They follow the rules of war\r\nIsraeli officials: We're gonna do way more genocide\r\nWestern officials: It's self-defense\r\nIsraeli officials: Burn them all"}" rowspan="1" style="background-color: #d9ead3; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(255, 0, 0) rgb(255, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 26pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;">Western officials: Israel tries to avoid civilian casualties in Gaza<br />Israeli officials: We're doing genocide<br />Western officials: They follow the rules of war<br />Israeli officials: We're gonna do way more genocide<br />Western officials: It's self-defense<br />Israeli officials: <a href="https://twitter.com/caitoz/status/1726710740218966049" target="_blank">Burn them all</a></td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Student Protests for Gaza Targeted by Pro-Israel Groups for Alleged Civil Rights Violations "}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(255, 0, 0) rgb(255, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 28pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;">Student Protests for Gaza <a href="https://theintercept.com/2023/11/16/israel-palestine-gaza-student-protests/?" target="_blank">Targeted</a> by Pro-Israel Groups for Alleged Civil Rights Violations</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Remember a week or three ago some shitwit wrote in the Shitlantic that Nazis weren't so bad because at least they weren't enjoying themselves killing the Jews? cause Ionistszay seem to be having a blast "}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(255, 0, 0) rgb(255, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 27pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;">Remember a week or three ago some shitwit wrote in the Shitlantic that Nazis weren't so bad because at least they weren't enjoying themselves killing the Jews? cause Ionistszay seem to be having a <a href="https://mondoweiss.net/2023/11/influential-israeli-national-security-leader-makes-the-case-for-genocide-in-gaza/" target="_blank">blast</a></td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="4" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"The Hate Machine"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(255, 0, 0) rgb(255, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 35pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;">The <a href="https://consentfactory.org/2023/11/21/the-hate-machine/" target="_blank">Hate Machine</a></td><td colspan="4" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Must something be done?"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(255, 0, 0) rgb(255, 0, 0) rgb(204, 204, 204); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 26pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;"><a href="https://thebaffler.com/salvos/must-something-be-done-symposium" target="_blank">Must something be done</a>?</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"\"Liberals really do just sit around all day and think of who else to blame for losing\""}" rowspan="1" style="background-color: #ffd966; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(255, 0, 0) rgb(255, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 32pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;">"Liberals really do just sit around all day and think of who else to <a href="https://twitter.com/AugustJPollak/status/1726446748498071995" target="_blank">blame</a> for losing"</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Thought experiment: Same war but Trump is president doing exact same enocidalgay shit as Biden and this fuckface is Trump's spokeperson, I'd still be where I am but where would the turds who defend Biden period be?"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(255, 0, 0) rgb(255, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 17pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;"><a href="https://twitter.com/ShelleyGspan/status/1726709240772124778" target="_blank">Thought experiment</a>: Same war but Trump is president doing exact same enocidalgay shit as Biden and this fuckface is Trump's spokeperson, I'd still be where I am but where would the turds who defend Biden period be?</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"\"I’ve been saying this for weeks and will say it again: this moment has truly laid bare that when it comes to racialized animus toward brown people and Muslims there is nothing that meaningfully separates liberals from their caricatures of racist Trump supporters.\""}" rowspan="1" style="background-color: #e6b8af; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(255, 0, 0) rgb(255, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 24pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;">"I’ve been <a href="https://twitter.com/still_oppressed/status/1727039539439636784" target="_blank">saying this for weeks</a> and will say it again: this moment has truly laid bare that when it comes to racialized animus toward brown people and Muslims there is nothing that meaningfully separates liberals from their caricatures of racist Trump supporters."</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"⬆️"}" style="background-color: red; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(255, 0, 0) rgb(255, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 64pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">⬆️</td><td colspan="6" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"\"You may or may not be surprised to learn that this Islamophobic old white man caught racially abusing an Arab-American food truck worker in NYC is a former advisor to Obama and Biden\""}" rowspan="1" style="background-color: #ead1dc; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(255, 0, 0) rgb(255, 0, 0) rgb(204, 204, 204); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 24pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;">"You may or may <a href="https://twitter.com/PushBidenLeft/status/1727044205904863574" target="_blank">not be surprised</a> to learn that this Islamophobic old white man caught racially abusing an Arab-American food truck worker in NYC is a former advisor to Obama and Biden"</td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"⬆️"}" style="background-color: red; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) transparent rgb(255, 0, 0) rgb(204, 204, 204); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 64pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: visible; padding: 2px 0px; vertical-align: middle;"><div style="left: 3px; overflow: hidden; position: relative; white-space: nowrap; width: 396px;"><div style="left: -150.5px; margin-left: -396px; margin-right: -396px; position: relative; text-align: center;">⬆️</div></div></td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="4" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Maggie's links"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(255, 0, 0) rgb(255, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 41pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"><a href="https://maggiemcneill.com/2023/11/19/links-698/" target="_blank">Maggie's links</a></td><td colspan="4" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"{ feuilleton }'s links"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(255, 0, 0) rgb(255, 0, 0) rgb(204, 204, 204); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 35pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">{ <a href="https://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2023/11/18/weekend-links-700/" target="_blank">feuilleton</a> }'s links</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Contemplating Cormac McCarthy"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(255, 0, 0) rgb(255, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 38pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">Contemplating <a href="https://www.hcn.org/issues/55.11/essays-contemplating-cormac-mccarthy" target="_blank">Cormac McCarthy</a></td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"I dig Blake Butler's fiction (especially *Alice Knott*) and I'm both eager and frightened to read his soon to be released memoir on his wife Molly's suicide"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(255, 0, 0) rgb(255, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 17pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;">I dig <a href="https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2023-11-20/how-do-you-capture-a-life-cut-short-by-suicide-a-husbands-memoir-molly-doesnt-blink" target="_blank">Blake Butler</a>'s fiction (especially *Alice Knott*) and I'm both eager and frightened to read his soon to be released memoir on his wife Molly's suicide</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"@wfmu just tweeted: Genesis, Peter Gabriel, and the story of The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(255, 0, 0) rgb(255, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 27pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;">@wfmu just <a href="https://www.loudersound.com/features/genesis-i-was-aware-there-was-something-going-on-with-peter" target="_blank">tweeted</a>: Genesis, Peter Gabriel, and the story of The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Steely Dan's *Gaucho* released 40 years ago today"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(255, 0, 0) rgb(255, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 27pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">Steely Dan's *<a href="https://twitter.com/in_yacht/status/1726935717732094244" target="_blank">Gaucho</a>* released 40 years ago today</td></tr></tbody></table><p><google-sheets-html-origin></google-sheets-html-origin><br /><br /><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="700" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/cvg5mbM6FGs?si=Y70U7aM0yapr92pZ" title="YouTube video player" width="800"></iframe><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>INSTEAD OF LOSING</b></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>John Ashbery</b></span><br /></p><pre><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Anyone, growing up in a space you hadn't used yet
would've done the same: bother the family's bickering
to head straight into the channel. My, those times
crackled near about us, from sickly melodrama
instead of losing, and the odd confusion...confusion.</span>
<span style="font-size: x-large;">I thought of it then, and in the mountains.
During the day we perforated the eponymous city limits
and then some. No one knew all about us
but some knew plenty. It was time to leave that town
for an empty drawer
into which they sailed. Some of the eleven thousand
virgins were getting queasy. I say, stop the ship!
No can do. Here come the bald arbiters
with their eyes on chains, just so, like glasses.
Heck, it's only a muskrat
that's seen better years, when things were medieval
and gold...</span>
<span style="font-size: x-large;">So you people in the front,
leave. You see them. And you understand it all.
It doesn't end, night's sorcery notwithstanding.
Would you have preferred to be a grownup in earlier times
than the child can contain or imagine?
Or is right now the answer—you know, the radio
we heard news on late at night,
our checkered fortunes so pretty.
Here's your ton of plumes, and your Red Seal Records.
The whole embrace.</span></span></pre>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020960402708303830.post-85225290388160695732023-11-17T12:31:00.001-05:002023-11-17T12:31:08.831-05:00Beauty Makes Me Hopeless. I Don't Care Anymore I Just Want to Get Away<p><span style="font-size: x-large;">Sideways though less so: I've stopped tweeting at my congressman, faux progressive, designated Democratic cracker-troller in congress, and Zionist genocidaire because why bother, professional Democrats would vote for the vilest cracker before they'd ever vote for anyone to the right of themselves. And a reminder: professional Democrats hate you more profoundly, more bone-deeply, more contemptuously than any cracker ever could</span></p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqvmHVgioIupPKWK_4kZRd9vQDMxdqgjqKVe7rVWnrQuXZ3YjZxQNMcRccsffLQZQoA4Wnd3G2Xsp2PoP1N9g3mDjpiGpKefPTuMRtdf1Pwsiy0C0H-9TugMLDdyhctuDnkIzXwJq9jJkDLHpXoseRDGoylFVFdzTMFriOFTMBE36xeKlORtu_jJNqg_xu/s2367/2023%20Nov%2014.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2342" data-original-width="2367" height="792" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqvmHVgioIupPKWK_4kZRd9vQDMxdqgjqKVe7rVWnrQuXZ3YjZxQNMcRccsffLQZQoA4Wnd3G2Xsp2PoP1N9g3mDjpiGpKefPTuMRtdf1Pwsiy0C0H-9TugMLDdyhctuDnkIzXwJq9jJkDLHpXoseRDGoylFVFdzTMFriOFTMBE36xeKlORtu_jJNqg_xu/w640-h634/2023%20Nov%2014.jpg" width="800" /></a><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;">Just gouache and pencil on cold press. Sideways though more so: beyond Israel's parochial interests (<a href="https://twitter.com/hzomlot/status/1725536545115889723" target="_blank">genocide, ethnic cleansing</a> of ALL of Gaza (<a href="https://twitter.com/flying_rodent/status/1725551706031743018" target="_blank">shitty Zionish progaganda</a> now claiming that Hamas' headquarters has been in SOUTH Gaza all along so kaboom) and stealing of Palestinian land in the West Bank), the macro of this American war of choice seems a desperate poot of imperial posturing at power, a western shitlord assertion of Hegemony Forever and a threat by demonstration: Us, Not You, or Death to Everyone, and beyond that a concerted effort to both prepare us for the Wars to the Death and to train us on the upcoming new enforcements of our complete Complicity or imprisonment and if necessary execution</span><br /><br /><br /><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="700" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/hhaK1g_4QNA?si=V4xR3J5N0XrLUkOg" title="YouTube video player" width="800"></iframe><br /><br /><br /></p><table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" dir="ltr" style="border-collapse: collapse; border: none; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; table-layout: fixed; width: 0px;" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><colgroup><col width="100"></col><col width="100"></col><col width="100"></col><col width="100"></col><col width="100"></col><col width="100"></col><col width="100"></col><col width="100"></col></colgroup><tbody><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"A Textbook Case of Genocide"}" rowspan="1" style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Spectral; font-size: 45pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;">A <a href="https://jewishcurrents.org/a-textbook-case-of-genocide" target="_blank">Textbook Case of Genocide</a></td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Genocide Joe and the Electoralists"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 40pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;"><a href="https://stevesalaita.com/genocide-joe-and-the-electoralists/?" target="_blank">Genocide Joe</a> and the Electoralists</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"\"There is no coming back from this, no returning to the days of US imperialism & the myths of American exceptionalism\""}" rowspan="1" style="background-color: #ffe599; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 22pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;">"There is <a href="https://twitter.com/BreeNewsome/status/1725532189608014191" target="_blank">no coming back from this</a>, no returning to the days of US imperialism & the myths of American exceptionalism"</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Hillary Clinton Is Lying About the History Between Hamas and Israel"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 40pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;"><a href="https://theintercept.com/2023/11/17/hillary-clinton-hamas-israel/" target="_blank">Hillary Clinton Is Lying</a> About the History Between Hamas and Israel</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Democrats Sent Police to Attack a Jewish-Led Protest for Palestine"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 40pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;"><a href="https://www.leftvoice.org/democrats-sent-police-to-attack-a-jewish-led-anti-war-protest/" target="_blank">Democrats Sent Police to Attack</a> a Jewish-Led Protest for Palestine</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"⇑"}" style="background-color: yellow; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; color: red; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 46pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">⇑</td><td colspan="6" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"\"The extraordinary illiberal crackdown on advocacy for Palestine over the past months is teaching some important lessons about free speech in the US. Just last night, for example, we saw what happens when peaceful protesters engage in civil disobedience at Democratic Party headquarters: cops beat the shit out of them\""}" rowspan="1" style="background-color: #ead1dc; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(204, 204, 204); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;">"The <a href="https://www.carlbeijer.com/p/dont-let-them-turn-palestine-into" target="_blank">extraordinary illiberal crackdown on advocacy for Palestine</a> over the past months is teaching some important lessons about free speech in the US. Just last night, for example, we saw what happens when peaceful protesters engage in civil disobedience at Democratic Party headquarters: cops beat the shit out of them"</td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"⇑"}" style="background-color: yellow; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(204, 204, 204); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; color: red; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 47pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">⇑</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"US will take massive hit in global standing over Israel"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 25pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">US will take <a href="https://responsiblestatecraft.org/world-reaction-israel-gaza/" target="_blank">massive hit in global standing</a> over Israel</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Canadian liberals suck too, my wife has Canadian citizenship, why would I want to move to America North?"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 36pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;"><a href="https://twitter.com/dimitrilascaris/status/1725323478084030681" target="_blank">Canadian liberals suck too</a>, my wife has Canadian citizenship, why would I want to move to America North?</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="5" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"NO ENDGAME IN GAZA"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 32pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"><a href="https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2023/12/07/no-endgame-in-gaza-fintan-otoole/" target="_blank">NO ENDGAME IN GAZA</a></td><td colspan="3" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"BBC thoroughly pissed off Israeli propaganda laughably shitty and making BBC propaganda look laughably shitty"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(204, 204, 204); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;"><a href="https://twitter.com/broseph_stalin/status/1725481914562121794" target="_blank">BBC thoroughly pissed off</a> Israeli propaganda laughably shitty and making BBC propaganda look laughably shitty</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Laughably shitty Zionist propaganda"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 37pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">Laughably <a href="https://www.thejc.com/lets-talk/all/when-everything-is-labelled-a-war-crime-then-nothing-is-ZtEVmzzsVBAKaRpSvAVo5" target="_blank">shitty Zionist propaganda</a></td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Anne Boyer resigns as poetry editor of NYT Magazine"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 25pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">Anne Boyer resigns as poetry editor of NYT Magazine</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"⇑"}" style="background-color: yellow; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; color: red; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 56pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">⇑</td><td colspan="6" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"\"I can’t write about poetry amidst the \"reasonable\" tones of those who aim to acclimatize us to this unreasonable suffering. No more ghoulish euphemisms. No more verbally sanitized hellscapes. No more warmongering lies\""}" rowspan="1" style="background-color: #d0e0e3; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(204, 204, 204); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 17pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;">"I <a href="https://anneboyer.substack.com/p/my-resignation?" target="_blank">can’t write about poetry</a> amidst the "reasonable" tones of those who aim to acclimatize us to this unreasonable suffering. No more ghoulish euphemisms. No more verbally sanitized hellscapes. No more warmongering lies"</td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"⇑"}" style="background-color: yellow; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(204, 204, 204); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; color: red; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 64pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">⇑</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Are we in a countdown to all-out nuclear war?"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 29pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">Are we in a countdown to <a href="https://gilbertdoctorow.com/2023/11/16/are-we-in-a-countdown-to-all-out-nuclear-war/" target="_blank">all-out nuclear war</a>?</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"The Vermin Libel And The Danger Of Forgetting"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 27pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">The <a href="https://www.offmessage.net/p/trump-vermin-forgetting?r=cfko&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web" target="_blank">Vermin Libel</a> And The Danger Of Forgetting</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Labor’s Upsurge and the Search for Workers’ Power"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 26pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"><a href="https://spectrejournal.com/labors-upsurge-and-the-search-for-workers-power/" target="_blank">Labor’s Upsurge</a> and the Search for Workers’ Power</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Today in Fuck the Motherfucking English!"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 32pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">Today in <a href="https://twitter.com/JimBethell/status/1724956431562985874" target="_blank">Fuck the Motherfucking English</a>!</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Elephants give each other unique names"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 34pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"><a href="https://www.zmescience.com/ecology/animals-ecology/elephant-name-rumble-calls/" target="_blank">Elephants</a> give each other unique names</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="4" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"This is true: I dropped acid many a time in the basement of Ratner's house before it was converted into the museum, Sandy and Sharon, a married couple and charter members of ePod (Elric can vouch) rented the basement apartment"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;">This is true: I dropped acid many a time in the basement of <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2023/11/15/phillip-ratner-ellis-island-sculptures/" target="_blank">Ratner's house</a> before it was converted into the museum, Sandy and Sharon, a married couple and charter members of ePod (Elric can vouch) rented the basement apartment</td><td colspan="4" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"No More Leaves"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(204, 204, 204); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 38pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"><a href="https://fortlaufen.blogspot.com/2023/11/no-more-leaves.html" target="_blank">No More Leaves</a></td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"On Renee Gladman's *Ravicka Trilogy*"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 35pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">On Renee Gladman's *<a href="https://denniscooperblog.com/spotlight-on-renee-gladman-ana-patova-crosses-a-bridge-2014/" target="_blank">Ravicka Trilogy</a>*</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="4" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Hunger for colour"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 36pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"><a href="https://idiotic-hat.blogspot.com/2023/11/a-hunger-for-colour.html" target="_blank">Hunger for colour</a></td><td colspan="4" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Why we write"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(204, 204, 204); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 46pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"><a href="https://itself.blog/2023/11/16/why-we-write/" target="_blank">Why we write</a></td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Anne Boyer resigns as editor of NYT Magazine"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 29pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">Our shitlords are sideways at how we are different sideways to the sideways they want us to be, uh-oh</td></tr></tbody></table><p><google-sheets-html-origin></google-sheets-html-origin><br /></p><p><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="700" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/FisdN6E8sYk?si=WAzZLBV7jYQc-F0n" title="YouTube video player" width="800"></iframe><br /><br /></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>SHORT TALK ON HEDONISM</b></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Anne Carson</b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">Beauty makes me hopeless. I don't care why<br />anymore I just want to get away. When I <br />look at the city of Paris I long to wrap my <br />legs around it. When I watch you dancing <br />there is a heartless immensity like a sail-<br />or in a dead calm sea. Desires as round as<br />peaches bloom in me all night, I no longer<br />gather what falls</span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020960402708303830.post-28244621535420181482023-11-13T13:16:00.011-05:002023-11-14T22:19:24.758-05:00Remind Us of the Braids in the Phrasings of Our Dreams Before We Vanished<p><span style="font-size: x-large;">Latest thoughts on our festering clusterfuck in general and the colony settler Israeli-American massacre and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in particular, fellow vermin and radical Left lunatics:</span><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9bcYPUs6LOzS4cu3dR1Ieol-8lL_sDeZ5DFoOIg8_SMTFa0IjL2793zY50uxXCwAhgyjEgMpNCTX8xk_XsD_AiUzLjzqmj-TQsPPjHt9RUL6KOKQy7zSVYbEKeutzXlA1l3nAcXM4s52PFOy46lG8_E14erUetQgg9c3W4HYmKZzAIcFsdlux2ROohMSC/s1871/2023%20Nov%2013.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1828" data-original-width="1871" height="790" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9bcYPUs6LOzS4cu3dR1Ieol-8lL_sDeZ5DFoOIg8_SMTFa0IjL2793zY50uxXCwAhgyjEgMpNCTX8xk_XsD_AiUzLjzqmj-TQsPPjHt9RUL6KOKQy7zSVYbEKeutzXlA1l3nAcXM4s52PFOy46lG8_E14erUetQgg9c3W4HYmKZzAIcFsdlux2ROohMSC/w640-h626/2023%20Nov%2013.jpg" width="800" /></a><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;">Back to just gouache and watercolor ink, mixed color painter's tape, clear elmers glue, table salt set aside for now, for now just washes. <a href="https://blckdgrd.me/2023/11/11/2023-november-isme/" target="_blank">2023 November Fine Metaphors Abound</a>. I'm <a href="https://www.blckdgrd.com/2023/10/what-if-war-is-just-male-version-of.html" target="_blank">destroying my old tablets</a> after rummaging through and ripping out old poems and paintings I like but forgot first, was going to post some here but no then was going to post some there but no, they've been posted at a blog you can find here if you look. Below in my earbuds while I wrote the above hexjeff, strongly recommend turning your speakers to eleven</span><br /><br /><br /><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="700" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/4XxwAldhVcE?si=_68bMFxhAExzAT9l" title="YouTube video player" width="800"></iframe><br /><br /><br /></p><table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" dir="ltr" style="border-collapse: collapse; border: none; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; table-layout: fixed; width: 0px;" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><colgroup><col width="100"></col><col width="100"></col><col width="100"></col><col width="100"></col><col width="100"></col><col width="100"></col><col width="100"></col><col width="100"></col></colgroup><tbody><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Yinz need to start thinking about what you're willing to sacrifice and how much you're willing to fight the tide of shit coming down the pike"}" rowspan="1" style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Spectral; font-size: 18pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;">Yinz need to start thinking about what you're willing to sacrifice and how much you're willing to fight the <a href="https://twitter.com/hgsuuaw/status/1723117577164009939" target="_blank">tide of shit</a> coming down the pike</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="4" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Schizmogenesis"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 40pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"><a href="https://pluralistic.net/2023/11/11/ad-jacency/#brand-safety" target="_blank">Schizmogenesis</a></td><td colspan="4" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Germany 1923"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(204, 204, 204); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 44pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"><a href="https://spectrejournal.com/germany-1923-part-two/" target="_blank">Germany 1923</a></td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"What Zionism has done to Judaism"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 38pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">What <a href="https://twitter.com/CoreyRobin/status/1723841509953327549" target="_blank">Zionism</a> has done to Judaism</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"The Curious Hacking of @craigmurrayorg"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 32pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">The <a href="https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2023/11/the-curious-hacking-of-craigmurrayorg/" target="_blank">Curious Hacking</a> of @craigmurrayorg</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Ive been yodeling since the beginning that while the Israelis (and Americans) may not have know the precise date they knew an attack was imminent and welcomed it"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 24pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;">I've been <a href="https://twitter.com/ericuman/status/1723460983719424023" target="_blank">yodeling</a> since the beginning that while the Israelis (and Americans) may not have know the precise date they knew an attack was imminent and welcomed it</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"\"Democrats can't even say the word \"ceasefire,\" they can't forgive your usurious student loans, can't do anything for abyssmal healthcare but funnel more customers to death-dealing private insurers - but they can always, always mint new money for cops and genocides\""}" rowspan="1" style="background-color: #f3f3f3; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 19pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;">"Democrats can't even say the word "<a href="https://twitter.com/OLAASM/status/1723840231177125930" target="_blank">ceasefire</a>," they can't forgive your usurious student loans, can't do anything for abyssmal healthcare but funnel more customers to death-dealing private insurers - but they can always, always mint new money for cops and genocides"</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Billionaires discuss $50 million anti-Hamas media blitz"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 25pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">Our <a href="https://www.semafor.com/article/11/09/2023/billionaires-discuss-50-million-anti-hamas-media-blitz" target="_blank">shitlords</a> discuss $50 million anti-Hamas media blitz</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Friendly reminder that Atlanta police regularly trains with the IDF"}" rowspan="1" style="background-color: white; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 20pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;">Friendly <a href="https://twitter.com/Roots_Action/status/1724109909283753996" target="_blank">reminder</a> that Atlanta police regularly trains with the IDF</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Atlanta Police Department, Monday Nov 13, 2023, 10AM EST"}" rowspan="1" style="background-color: white; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 22pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;"><a href="https://twitter.com/Roots_Action/status/1724097387352756350" target="_blank">Atlanta Police Department</a>, Monday Nov 13, 2023, 10AM EST</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"\"A big part of why these psychopath Israelis drive so many Americans rightfully insane is that they are condensed version of us. It's uncomfortable to perceive in a way that is instantly recognizable\""}" rowspan="1" style="background-color: #f3f3f3; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 19pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;">"A big part of why these <a href="https://twitter.com/lukeoneil47/status/1723825726116233411" target="_blank">psychopath Israelis</a> drive so many Americans rightfully insane is that they are condensed version of us. It's uncomfortable to perceive in a way that is instantly recognizable"</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Somebody else gets the money. We get the poo"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 29pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">Somebody else gets the money. <a href="https://artcullen.substack.com/p/something-is-amiss-in-iowa" target="_blank">We get the poo</a></td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"\"It’s time to air an open secret. President Joe Biden is implementing the same policies that were inaugurated by the vilified, mocked and indicted Donald Trump, only with less fanfare and in a more decisive and brutal manner\""}" rowspan="1" style="background-color: #f3f3f3; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 30pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;">"It’s time to <a href="https://newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/elective-affinities" target="_blank">air an open secret</a>. President Joe Biden is implementing the same policies that were inaugurated by the vilified, mocked and indicted Donald Trump, only with less fanfare and in a more decisive and brutal manner"</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"SURVEILLANCE WAGES: A TAXONOMY"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 31pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"><a href="https://lpeproject.org/blog/surveillance-wages-a-taxonomy/" target="_blank">SURVEILLANCE WAGES</a>: A TAXONOMY</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Your Condescension Will Not Save You"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 33pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;">Your <a href="https://www.splicetoday.com/politics-and-media/your-condescension-will-not-save-you" target="_blank">Condescension</a> Will Not Save You</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"THE BIG, HOT, STEAMING, GLORIOUSLY LOW-BUDGET, IGNORANCE MACHINE and PALLIATIVE TREATMENTS THEREOF"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 29pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;">THE <a href="https://berlin8berlin.wordpress.com/2023/11/11/the-big-hot-steaming-gloriously-low-budget-ignorance-machine-and-palliative-treatments-thereof/" target="_blank">BIG, HOT, STEAMING</a>, GLORIOUSLY LOW-BUDGET, IGNORANCE MACHINE and PALLIATIVE TREATMENTS THEREOF</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"$77M to buy out a helmetball coaches contract by $0 for English Departments"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); 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border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 38pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"><a href="https://maggiemcneill.com/2023/11/13/links-697/" target="_blank">Maggie's weekly links</a></td><td colspan="3" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Regarding"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(204, 204, 204); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 46pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"><a href="https://www.eudaemonist.com/9xi2023/" target="_blank">Regarding</a></td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"What is the Science of Linguistics a Science of?"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 29pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">What is the <a href="https://epochemagazine.org/66/what-is-the-science-of-linguistics-a-science-of/" target="_blank">Science of Linguistics</a> a Science of?</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="4" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"{ feuilleton }'s"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 44pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">{ <a href="https://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2023/11/11/weekend-links-699/" target="_blank">feuilleton</a> }'s</td><td colspan="4" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"We are Spartacus"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(204, 204, 204); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 37pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">We are <a href="https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/11/13/we-are-spartacus/" target="_blank">Spartacus</a></td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"A Review of Sonic Life, Thurston Moore’s Rock n’ Roll Fantasia"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 40pt; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal;">A <a href="https://biblioklept.org/2023/11/12/a-review-of-sonic-life-thurston-moores-rock-n-roll-fantasia/" target="_blank">Review of Sonic Life</a>, Thurston Moore’s Rock n’ Roll Fantasia</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"L & I see Bonnie Prince Billy this Saturday night in DC"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 25pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">L & I see <a href="https://www.npr.org/2023/11/10/1197954536/will-oldham" target="_blank">Bonnie Prince Billy</a> this Saturday night in DC</td></tr><tr style="height: 21px;"><td colspan="8" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Andy Partridge turned 70 last Saturday"}" rowspan="1" style="border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; font-family: Spectral; font-size: 35pt; font-weight: normal; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">Andy Partridge turned 70 last Saturday</td></tr></tbody></table><p><google-sheets-html-origin></google-sheets-html-origin><br /></p><p><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="700" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/CWUKjbpR3_4?si=XRk2KFjQQw9BRjWL" title="YouTube video player" width="800"></iframe></p><p><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>THOSE SEVENTY-TWO BODIES BELONG TO US</b></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Roy G Guzman</b></span><br /></p><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">You novelize a route with flesh dumped at the ranch, can’t backtrack<br /></span></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
the courage of miles we traversed in the dark, on a sighing speedboat,</span><br /></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">
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through jungles that spat only shoes, calzones, bodies twisted<br /></span></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
as guitarras when there’s no grito left in them to pluck. Back home,</span><br /></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">
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we priested our mornings with sun-dried sombreros, communed<br /></span></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
with our ghosts & had no wish to sacrifice our bellies, our terneros,<br /></span></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">
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our Consuelos. With wings from acero, we’d crash latitudinal objections,<br /></span></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
mystify Bengay on the mouths of our map-torn feet, pay no heed</span><br /></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">
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to grief’s ambidextrous strophes. If we choked on our own blood<br /></span></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
we harpooned optimism. But when the vans deadlocked our pilgrimage</span><br /></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">
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we knew our shadows had crumbed the anesthetic vultures.<br /></span></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
They pressed their loaded beaks upon our backs until our knees bent</span><br /></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">
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sour orange. One asked if we served the enemy, but we took enemy<br /></span></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
to mean a seed that sits quietly underfoot, abashed to vestibule</span><br /></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">
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the grating sun. Blindfolded, we faced the gloom volcanoes<br /></span></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
of their mothers. How those mothers might’ve screamed like ours</span><br /></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">
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in their tortured independence: bloody thunder in the brown-starched<br /></span></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
symphonies, a wind that howled & shoved its thumbs through feral lands</span><br /></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">
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probing for judgment or commiseration. Chingado god that copycatted<br /></span></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
these legs from monotony. Chingado god that hewed our wrists,</span><br /></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">
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a pair of stems to strap behind our wrested boots & jeans. Whoever<br /></span></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
supplied a plea to that deviant afternoon’s rationed blessings</span><br /></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">
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neglected to add chile, sazón, a nosegay of tortillas to the long road.<br /></span></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
Mothers who’ve come to reclaim our tongues in the dirt: remind us</span><br /></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">
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of the braids in the phrasings of our dreams before we vanished. Pat<br /></span></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
the ground for the bodkinned orchids. Wasn’t it yesterday we were</span><br /></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">
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siphoning forecasts with our fingers roving on the table? Or caught<br /></span></div><div style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
your chests pain-leavened & stilled them with the rumpus of our hopes?</span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1