wings bring the disk of their sun for around your neck

The shittiest people in the world hate Zohran Mamdani and their second Mamdani meltdown will make the first seem only a hissy fit, Jeff types as he sits in the rental at the northern tip of Michigan's Leelanau Peninsula, steady hard rain erasing my plans to return to Camp Greilick Disc Golf Course to play a third and fourth round at what is one of the best if not the best course I've ever played, goddamn it




That's 14 from the tee box, my only bird there, twice. Plays across an old Boy Scout camp, it's not only a terrific course but a four mile walk through gorgeous dense woods filled with the loudest, most varied birdsong I've ever heard, I've never played anything like it. Holes are hard but fair with clear lines and fairways. Below is Myles Kimberly Disc Golf Course in Maple City, 12, my partner Justin teed to thirty-five feet and I hit the bird with my Alpaca at Tuesday Night Doubles two evenings ago, there were six groups of two, we finished second and won $4 each. Doubles tonight at Bear's Den in Kingsley, I played it Wednesday morning, all tunnels but a few holes, so lots of driving my teebird from the tee box




Zohran Mamdani's name did not come up at all Tuesday doubles at Myles Kimberly (though the round ended while votes were still being counted), but remember, the shittiest people in the world hate Zohran Mamdani and are already conceding the midterms to Trump because of Mamdani's "Communism," an evil and sinister mixture of FDR's New Deal and LBJ's Great Society, *imagine* how much shitlords hate and fear him. Reminder - corporate Democrats abhor Zohran Mamdani more than corporate Republicans adore him. Meanwhile, here's what the far less dangerous than Mamdani six conservative Supreme Justices ruled today


I predict no one, but especially me, will mention either Mamdami or Leo Leo's SCOTUS' rulings tonight at doubles though if I had to bet if one was it won't be Leo Leo's SCOTUS' rulings. United States of Assholes. Public service announcement, if you are ever in Leelanau County they have a stern warning for you

How Capitalism Engineers Moral Blindness w/o Coercion
Alan Greenspan "vehemently encouraged people to get variable-rate mortgages in the very early aughts when housing market watchers could see the bubble it was becoming, which was tantamount to telling people to cut their own throat"
Superpower Vacuum and the Broligarchs’ Plan to Fill It
Shitlord confirms ancient concerns about shitlords
Has any single book drawn more Americans leftward over the last half century than Howard Zinn's *A People’s History of the United States*?
The plutocrats circled their yachts
The shittiest people in the world hate and fear Zohran Mamdani			The Invention of Antifa
I. HATE. MOTHERFUCKING. DEMOCRATS.
How The Free Press spun Trump's cruelty toward migrants as a heroic campaign to "save" kids					The shittiest people in the world hate and fear Zohran Mamdani
"the democratic rank and file is being arrested for posting newspaper articles and getting 50 year sentences for distributing zines and democratic leadership is more concerned with their friends getting primaried than any of it"
The Smell of Burning Cities in the Morning
Palantir Goes on a Democratic Lobbyist Hiring Spree
I. HATE. MOTHERFUCKING. DEMOCRATS.
The shittiest people in the world hate and fear Zohran Mamdani			Whole Foods Got Worse On Purpose
Cops take bribes, sexually abuse kids, beat people they don't like
The economics of US imperialism					Naked Fascism
Maggie		The polite kind of racism
How the brain builds sentences, neuron by neuron
Translation Comparison: Notes from Underground
Reading, ignorance: on new translations of Proust
Legman assman bustman, abominable Henry
Velocity Girls 1989-1992 compilation releases on my birthday in August, best present ever, hear a song below

MONK'S BIRD BOOK

Ed Roberson

Mourning doves are not owls after a while

away from the city      not because the country

appears of a softer feather       less predatory

 

              you're thinking a sound more naturally friendly

              less edgy and dangerous than the subway

but because the

 

city city to city within itself so sharply

details for you   actually walks you through

a training in the amplitudes of form

 

                after a while that sharpness wipes the smile

the natural had you putting on everything.

Really owls       are so soft       their deadly

 

                accuracy of flight depending on it

they are all but silent      a recognizable law

nobody says shit you learn       the city

 

has taught you to  pick up on     which wings

bring the disk of their sun for around

your neck each day

 

                                       and which take you out;

and that your green act of good is natural

in that it too depends on the weather.

Although they know about it and it literally doesn't exist, no, stay up and go to sleep, unless it falls on the right side of the brain positioned for so many forgeries, moon nugget...

Now I'm told that Fred and Ethel nee Lucy and Babalu have bonded with the foster mom and respond to Spider (Fred and Babalu) and Nugget (Lucy and Ethel) and that Nugget is actually a boy





Spider and Nugget it is until it's not. That's Nugget above. We haven't informed Olive yet that Spider and Nugget will be her new roommates in September much less her new roommates are both boys. She's already freaking out, this Friday we're driving to the Leelanau Peninsula in Michigan's far north lower peninsula for ten days, we got out our suitcases and Olive knows what that means and is already sulking, Stanley is blind and can't see the suitcases but knows Olive is sulking and can guess why and is sulking

L was invited to the Traverse City plein air competition, I will have the days to myself while she paints, as always on vacation I have no plans to post and no plans to not post, I just know I will be throwing discs at baskets here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here, rain permitting. There is a reason every post but two a year are tagged My Complicity, they'll both be there this vacation. When I design and produce my own putter it will look like this:



Four people independently have said to me in the past week some version of If Only Dump Died Things Necessarily Will Get Better. Is it me or have you seen anywhere a What Would Happen If Dump Strokes Out Tomorrow? speculative piece from any top tier Shitlord or Liberal barker down to shitty little bleggers like me? Do people think cracker and christer assholes will turn less assholy, that Democrats will stop being full partners in your enshittification, immiseration, and upcoming eradication? Does anyone not think if Dump dies peacefully in his sleep tonight they won't prop his body up somewhere and sniper shoot it while ketchup packets explode on his chest and blame me, jeffantifa, Seorge Goros paid me $25 to do it, and the coup starts? Do people really think everything will be rainbowier when the diapered stool dies? That everyone who's profited and grown fat with power will slither away trying to escape their comeuppance? That shitlord's will cease being batshit crazy motherfucking sociopaths? Yes, the above, besides a putter, *is* an allusion to Gass' *The Tunnel,* the crest of my faction of the Party of Disappointed People, the ostracized not-fascist one not digging tunnels in our basements to find magahitler

So I'm going on vacation to a gorgeous county in Michigan where I will disc golf and hike and drink local beer and smoke good weed and hang out with my wife and daughter and son-in-law and try not to think about my enshittification and immiseration and eventual eradication and will fail. Revolution, mofos, always tainted with selfish complicity with what one rebels against. This post is partly an attempt to burn off the manic before vacation and will fail. Too, David Thomas was born 73 years ago last Sunday the 14th, in an act of complicity nineteen years ago L and I were at this Pere Ubu show in Harrisburg Pennsylvania:

The Ugly Exigencies of Genocide
How Western Media Normalizes Israel’s Ethnic Cleansing in Lebanon
We are ruled by motherfucking sociopaths
Why the Concentration of Wealth and Power Signals Capitalism’s Deepening Crisis
We are ruled by motherfucking sociopaths
Israel planned this genocide decades ago
We are ruled by motherfucking sociopaths
Debunking the October 7th rape hoax yet again
We are ruled by motherfucking sociopaths
Sentencing the Innocent				Planet UFCocene
We are ruled by motherfucking sociopaths
Brutal Oppression and Beautiful Humanity Exist In Every Grocery Store
We are ruled by motherfucking sociopaths
O! hears the soundtrack you should be listening to when reading these links, the few of you who do
We are ruled by motherfucking sociopaths
United States of Assholes		United States of Assholes		United States of Assholes		United States of Assholes
We are ruled by motherfucking sociopaths
Groypthink		21st Century Schizoid Man
We are ruled by motherfucking sociopaths
Spare Me the Lecture on Graham Platner
Listening to Graham Planter on C-SPAN: on the Trail in Bar Harbor; Victory Speech in Blue Hill
I. HATE. MOTHERFUCKING. DEMOCRATS.
Helmetball is the best metaphor for the United States of Assholes
Everything about this World Cup is designed to make you hate it
How This Is The Worst World Cup Already
Resistance to the World Cup at home and abroad
I. HATE. MOTHERFUCKING. DEMOCRATS.
The Obama Center Is a Monument to the More Effective Evil
I. HATE. MOTHERFUCKING. DEMOCRATS.
Race nostalgia as social blight					Kill car dealerships?
I. HATE. MOTHERFUCKING. DEMOCRATS.
Factional schisms over the state religion of Magastan				Factional schisms over the state religion of Magastan
For those of you who think Vance is a lesser fascist than Dump
For those of you who think Vance is a lesser fascist than Dump
How Did American Christianity End Up Like This?
"Remember this scene the next time a corporate reporter tries to insist that a rural diner full of white men in their 60s is somehow a more authentically "American" place, somehow more representative of who we are as a nation"
The insidious corruption of journalistic bothsidesing
You can't ride a potato and call it work
Maggie		Trumpian State Capitalism
☟	People have an inherent preference for counterclockwise motion						☟
Thinking about the loop-hikes L and me do often, the default route on most of them is counterclockwise
{ feuilleton }			Intrusions		Noise & Syrup
I can peedee f u this xeroxed shitty scan. Makes great wallpaper
Reading Benjamin				RIP David Hockney
RIP David Hockney				NEW HORSE LORDS!
William T. Vollmann’s four-volume spook show
James Joyce’s Ulysses, but just the punctuation
100 Guitars’ Worth of Glenn Branca’s Violent Ecstasy							☟

THE MAUVE NOTEBOOK

John Ashbery

On a set you need bush rebels,

that numbing little chair while passing.

If we knock 'em out

seven precincts are going to show up.

It looks like you don't need oil.

I think it'll be fine.

Did she think that might be good,

or for the man who listens to it,

nothing to be done or thought,

(section pending)?

 

Or for the man who listens to it,

an abrupt yawn, history or the other.

Home economics.  Dr. Singalong

can't find his way back.

I don't know about that, but

at her lamps do you still see

the awkward ceremony, too serious?

Leave it that way, imperfect start beyond

where I was going.

Prison outside the perpetual sonata,

the only anxiety,

since you wonder what they don't do,

from your red zero heart page

waiting to touch your face.

 

Although they know about it and

it literally doesn't exist,

no, stay up and go to sleep,

unless it falls on the right side of the brain

positioned for so many forgeries,

moon nugget...

 

I don't cut 'em any slack.

Assault on a clean front,

that's a lot to be turning into.

 

These residents, they start throwing 'em early.

Continue to open your door to mud!                                                          

Take the noon balloon to Rangoon,

gutta percha academy,

to the place of ice cream,

 

because, really, what difference does it make?

When it was time you went home.

Tears and flowers,

 

see how dirty your hands are.

We had a lovely dime.

Soon it will be seven I ask you.