Tuesday, April 23, 2024

"art is junk" the urinal says "dig a hole "& swim in it"

Our ruling elite love love love this genocide, see it as an opportunity of a lifetime to ruthlessly reimpose a kayfabe everyone knows is broken over a new paradigm of discipline based more than ever on your level of acceptance of your accelerating immiseration, enshittification, elimination



Rest of the monologue, as always, in grid. Four self-portraits, one painting, feel free to say no. The fuck am I doing digging a hole and swimming in it. Songs today off albums in the 50 Best Post-Rock Albums, link in grid





"The *campus antisemitism crisis* is a manufactured distraction created by the people responsible for filling mass graves and the media doing what it can to cover them up"
"This call to violence against U.S. students is endorsed by the gov't of Israel itself"
"let us pause for a moment and remind ourselves how insane it is that institutions that are nominally devoted to education have investment portfolios, and that these portfolios include investments in corporations that profit off of death, destruction, and human misery"
Do you know how Western powers weaponize language in war, conquest, and genocide?
I mean, you can imagine, but it's still worth reminding with evidence of just *how* amorally shitty our shitlords are
HERE COME THE FALSE FLAGSIsrael Is A Threat to Humanity
He WANTS to be hit in the face, he thinks it will solidify his brand and rockstar him, whoever DOES hit him in the face should be taken into custody as his accomplice, I guarantee he's gonna false flag himself
I'm telling you for the third time, this sh*t is BEGGING YOU TO HIT HIM IN THE FACE! When you don't hit him in the face to further his career/fame you are being antisemitic, you hamasnik
"You’re antisemitic if you can’t imagine a moral equivalence between Zionists' entitlement to feel good about their genocidal bigotry and Palestinians' interest in not being slaughtered"
"We're about 5 minutes away from Zionists saying Columbia students are raping beautiful angels in their vast network of tunnels beneath Manhattan"
This is what "academic leadership" actually looks like
"When college students protested segregation, the vietnam war, south african apartheid, or the war in Iraq, there was a horde of powerful individuals and interests who demanded they be arrested/silenced. worth examining if you want to be remembered in the same breath as those ppl"
I don't know if this is a real Ossadmay twitter account but have no doubt whether real or fake Ossadmay (and Ennessay and Angleylay and Omelandhay and without a fucking doubt Enwhypeedee photos everyone and what the tweet threatens will be used as advertised
"Facial recognition can determine whether you participated in the pro Hamas protests at the universities. Your jobs and your degrees will be worthless. Your hiring opportunities will be limited"
The Repression of Pro-Palestinian Education and Resistance
Literary Award Withdrawals, Mounting Criticism Prompt ‘Review’ at PEN America
Today in Rhetorical Questions: "Can liberals please admit that if Trump was president the vast majority of them complaining right now would absolutely be protesting the Gaza genocide, obv not saying I want Trump to win, but the only thing this talking point does is point out liberals’ grotesque hypocrisy
Putting Our Money Where Our Morals Are
China Miéville writes to DAAD
"This week, I learnt of your personal part in the unconscionable withdrawing of the Albertus Magnus Professorship from Professor Nancy Fraser, in your role as rector of the University of Cologne, due to her signing a letter – along with over 400 other philosophers – in solidarity with the Palestinian people in the context of Israel’s ongoing massacres. This in the same month that the Berlin Palestine Congress was ruthlessly and abruptly shut down, peaceful activists arrested and speakers banned. I cannot accept the DAAD’s invitation when I can have no faith that the institution will stand against such a shameful program of repression and anti-Palestinian racism. Indeed, you have personally shown your willingness to be part of it"
Grand theory of U.S. history as a series of devastating backlashes to progress
In the American South, an oligarchy of planters enriched itself through slavery. Pervasive underdevelopment is their legacy
The New Deal, Watergate, current events
Why you can't have free health care and we can't house the homeless
Shitlord media goes full throttle to save fellow shitlord
The one thing my wife, who taught public elementary school art for 38 years and is in the first year of retirement, tells me she misses most about teaching it's brainwashing kids to hate white people
The bipartisan attack on immigrants
Eagleton: Where does culture come from?
Papua New Guinea leader takes offense after Biden implies his uncle was eaten by cannibals
Avedon Carol's occasional links
Maggie's weeklyTwo years ago
What's important to know here is that Chicken Basket was once Mario's Pizza and it was the first non-newspaper boy job of my life fifty years ago (and is across the street from Gaithersburg Elementary School where I went to first grade sixty years ago)
Nicholson Baker's least favorite things!
{ feuilleton }'sSun Rising#1389
Listen to this and this and this
Alice Notley : Being Reflected Upon
On Joyelle McSweeney’s *Death Styles*
39 books: a new series, a bleggalgaze
Rest in Peace, Jerome Rothenberg
Four Jerome Rothenberg poems
Rest in Peace, Jerome Rothenberg
Five Jerome Rothenberg poems
The 50 Best Post-Rock Albums





THAT DADA STRAIN

Jerome Rothenberg
the zig zag mothers of the gods
of science       the lunatic fixed stars
& pharmacies
fathers who left the tents of anarchism
unguarded
the arctic bones
strung out on saint germain
like tom toms
living light bulbs
aphrodisia
“art is junk” the urinal
says “dig a hole
“& swim in it”
a message from the grim computer
“ye are hamburgers”

Friday, April 19, 2024

we’re no longer compelled to devour our enemies’ brains, thanks to our butcher

Yesterday the President of Columbia University told congress she supports peaceful free speech then asked the NYPD to forcibly remove Columbia students peacefully protesting the American-Israeli genocide, ethnic cleansing, and land theft in Gaza (and then kicked said protesters out of Columbia) and the United States, which professes to support a two-state solution in Palestine vetoed a UN resolution calling on a two-state solution while Biden told Netanyahu go ahead and slaughter the Gazans trapped in Raffa, you have my blessing as long as you don't attack Iran to which Israel attacked Iran while a sitting US senator called for the legalized ramming and killing of anti-genocide protesters blocking major roads, and you and I are called the whackfucks, I call this "Thursday," my headshot today:



Zionists sadistically celebrate the genocide and ethnic cleansing for the genocide and ethnic cleansing (plus the land they will steal), western shitlords cheerfully celebrate the genocide and ethnic cleansing as a golden opportunity to criminalize and normalize crushing any and all dissent in the future but from the Left specifically in the present. Hinkiest war ever, gonna get a fuckton hinkier, more hinkiness in grid





From Apartheid to Genocide
"Carcerality was ALWAYS the next logical step for Zionist repression on campus. We spent years warning colleagues that shit was headed in a bad direction, but too many of them tut-tutted those warnings because they wanted to preserve their institutional privileges"
In Gaza's hospitalsProtesting the genocide is FAR WORSE than the genocide itself, says professional sh*tsmear
"Minouche Shafik was the vice president of the World Bank, the deputy managing director of the IMF, and the deputy governor of the Bank of England. When you put an economic hitman in charge of an elite academic institution, the end result is a pro-genocide university"
"You have to fuck up on a truly historic level to get the NYPD to say “even we think these were meaningless arrests.” They love meaningless arrests!
The Farce of Diplomatic Assurances
My congressman, professional motherfucking Democrat Jamie Raskin, the party's designated cracker-baiter, is a piece of shit
Israeli colonizers unleash a dog on Palestinian youth Osayd Taha while asleep, then arrest himFucking insane
When was the last time you saw the words *Saudi Arabia* as if it was a major player in this hinky war in any house organ of note?
The Persistence of Global Capitalism’s Long Depression
Is society caught up in a Death Spiral?
I fully expect that all of the money I've poured into retirement the past 45 years will be stolen by shitlords in the next five years
The Supreme Court effectively abolishes the right to mass protest in three US states
New York City libraries are closed on Sundays because of budget cuts
We need to rewild the internet
A sheriff, a felon and a conspiracy theorist walk into a hotel
Saturday attitudeFacts about opossums
William Vollmann has a 3400 page novel that no one will publish
"The problem is I’ve chosen words, which can’t seem to be about nothing"2024 April Eyesupdate
Anne Carson interview! Weird to me how little notice and noise her new collection *Wrong Norma* is getting, been through it twice, is as fabulous as you'd expect
Keith Haring’s Legacy Is Not Found at the Museum
Rest in Peace, Dickey BettsI dislike to despise most "southern rock" but I always loved the Allman Brothers





BUTCHERS

C.K.Williams
1

Thank goodness we were able to wipe the Neanderthals out, beastly things,
from our mountains, our tundra—that way we had all the meat we might need.

Thus the butcher can display under our very eyes his hands on the block,
and never refer to the rooms hidden behind where dissections are effected,

where flesh is reduced to its shivering atoms and remade for our delectation
as cubes, cylinders, barely material puddles of admixtured horror and blood.

Rembrandt knew of all this—isn’t his flayed beef carcass really a caveman?
It’s Christ also, of course, but much more a troglodyte such as we no longer are.

Vanished those species—begone!—those tribes, those peoples, those nations—
Myrmidon, Ottoman, Olmec, Huron, and Kush: gone, gone, and goodbye.

2

But back to the chamber of torture, to Rembrandt, who was telling us surely
that hoisted with such cables and hung from such hooks we too would reveal

within us intricate layerings of color and pain: alive the brush is with pain,
aglow with the cruelties of crimson, the cooled, oblivious ivory of our innards.

Fling out the hooves of your hands! Open your breast, pluck out like an Aztec
your heart howling its Cro-Magnon cries that compel to battles of riddance!

Our own planet at last, where purged of wilderness, homesickness, prowling,
we’re no longer compelled to devour our enemies’ brains, thanks to our butcher,

who inhabits this palace, this senate, this sentried, barbed-wire enclosure
where dare enter none but subservient breeze; bent, broken blossom; dry rain.

Monday, April 15, 2024

Exchanging Skin for Bark, Bark for Scales, Scales for Hollow Bones of a Bird

Magachoads chant *Genocide Joe, Genocide Joe* at a Trump rally in Pennsylvania this past weekend and they are not wrong. You can support Israel blindly and attack Biden for blindly supporting Israel. Reminder: those of us who do not support Israel blindly and attack Biden for blindly supporting Israel are the evil fucks destroying America and ushering in World War 3


Hinkiest war ever (except for those killed, maimed, orphaned, and starved, etc)...

Decision from an Idiot: the wordpress will remain main hexjeff platform, the hexjeff blooger sent to minors, archive when dope remembers. Idiot promises himself he will learn how to widen the center column of the wordpress hexjeff platform though doesn't promise you he will. Hey, make sure you click the link in grid to understand why Linda Thompson called her new album *Proxy Music.* 

Meanwhile, one of my favorite novelists and essayists now writing neither novels or essays but has taken up painting and is only posting drawings and paintings so I sympathize with yinz tolerating me, I'm happy he's happy

Decision from an Idiot: this Sparklehorse song may already be one of this blog's Theme Songs, I don't remember, I may have wanted to already but didn't because of the youtube black blockage before, *I Fucked It Up* it's called, and I certainly don't remember what number it already was and if it wasn't yet what number it will be and don't know how many Theme Songs there are now and certainly couldn't name them all much less get them in the correct order. Bleggalgaze scratched. Regulars know what abounds and in what condition





What we are witnessing is moral suicide
The Exchange Rate On Palestinian Life
The Destruction of Palestine Is the Destruction of the Earth
Israeli mobs set homes, cars ablaze in West Bank pogrom
Israel and US deliberately gutting international law in Gaza
The moral truth of Israel’s war against Gaza is not difficult to grasp
Every bomb dropped is added to a bill we pay
A historical take on defunding the UNRWA
Killing Humanitarian Workers as a Strategy: Israel’s Endgame in Gaza
"You violate a mountain of UN resolutions, condemn the UN at every turn, bomb UN schools & shelters, murder UN employees, & then you demand a UN meeting over another country responding to your bombing of their consulate"
Where is America's "rules-based order" now?
It is SO totally different and worse when Trump does this, shitlibs tell me
Alabama harvested the organs of inmates without consent, families say
The Persistence of Global Capitalism’s Long Depression
Young People Finally Starting to Recognize the Super Rich and Not Oldsters Are the Problem
A Class Analysis of the Trump-Biden Rerun
Did Trump break the kayfabe of his idiot christer faithful?
How should socialists think about political tradition?
The Flooding Will Come No Matter What
Never say bipartisanship never happens in America
Louisiana High Court: Priests Have a “Property Right” Not to Be Sued For Sexual Abuse
"Virtually all commentary on the topic has come to the same conclusion: that for better or worse, Sweeney’s breasts are a locus for the power struggle between patriarchy and the feminists who want to smash it"
Maggie's weeklyWhy you are lost
Take a drive over the Key Bridge in this poignant short student film from 1987
"impossible to calculate the bullshit quotient of this image"
TICK RESEARCHER’S TIPS FOR STAYING SAFE OUTDOORS
The therapist who hated me2024 Aprilgah
Avedon Carol's occasional links
{ feuilleton }'sHow to make a map of smell
Whales and other aliensTIME EXPLAINED
Hand and Mind: Rothko and appearance versus the essence of appearance
50 ways to end a poemWhy you should have a cat
What can fiction tell us about the apocalypse?
Louise Bourgeois on how to peel a tangerine artistically
The Rejection PlotThe Tale of a Wall
Classical music is in crisis?I now find classical music, even those composers I once loved - Bartok, for instance - completley uninteresting and unlistenable, fuck me
What’s Next for Music Criticism?
Proxy Music: Linda Thompson's new album
"We were once paid $50 to quit": new wave heroes Devo on boos, Bowie and retiring after 50 years
Eight questions for Esther Kinsky
The Bohman Brothers playing live tonight on Daniel's show!






TODAY, MY HOPE IS VERTICAL

Jane Hirshfield

Today, my hope is vertical.
Tomorrow it will be horizontal.
The next day, cloudy.
My hope is like a Greek myth:
exchanging skin for bark,
bark for scales,
scales for the hollow bones of a bird.
In these ways my hope
attempts to escape its fate.
In myth, hope surely knows,
escape is useless.
Still, hope will try.
I, who will someday leave behind
this three-dimensioned puzzle,
pity my hope.
Poorling, I say to my hope,
even I cannot spare you,
even I cannot make you mortal.
Winged, rooted, finned,
roofed or roofless,
of all my shapes, only you, hope,
know nothing of irony,
only you cannot be cynical
or cloak yourself
in the objectivity of grammar.
Only you
cannot suffer suffering.
You exempt, you deny,
you protest with speech and with silence.
You forgive—helpless to not—
in speech and in silence.
I, citizen of perspective,
born into the tribe of time,
will vanish into its blurring distance.
But you—most intransigent,
most stubborn of all my parts—
will be forced to continue.
How tenderly, with two open hands,
you reach again today for hunger’s apple.