We Have Shapes but No Power

Little Danny Snyder might as well be POTUS. For years he's paid stupid money for overrated and washed-up players (one can't live here and not know what's Redskins). He was General Manager by Beard of Cerrano, and when the clusterfuckery bottomed in zookery, Little Danny Snyder (for PR) fired Little Danny Snyder as General Manager and paid stupid money for an overrated and washed-up CEO (George Macaca Allen's brother) and an overrated and washed-up asshole for asshole's-sake head coach who thinks he's Motherfucking Jesus Patton, who promptly traded for an overrated and washed-up quarterback, benched him, called him a stupid fat nigger, then gave him a $4M apology and contract extension.

Word is Obama's gonna replace Larry Summers with Roger Altman. The motherfucking coaching carousel. If it doesn't matter who's POTUS - and I'm grateful to Obama for grating my fucking face into slaw to teach me once and finally that it doesn't matter who's POTUS - I'm voting for a Palin presidency to grate away whatever giggles I have left.

• What I just said. Sorta.
• Palin shows the right stuff! 
• Economic advice from Caribou Spice.
• Fearing for our democracy.
• Beck of revelation.
• Preferential option.
• Any questions?
• Why fight?
• More like this.
• Chomsky on midterms.
• Guidelines for happy enemy blogging.
• Cycle of life.

• MOCO austerity.
• Lockhouses.
• More on the body in a box.
• I actually felt a twinge of sympathy for Kevin Payne for when he tried to negotiate w/PG.
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• Hemon.
• Minor poets, major works. 
• UPDATE! NEW BARDO POND! 
• Magnetic Fields.
• UPDATE! Claudia Gonson likes Moby Dick (and has a new baby who looks like Laurie Anderson).
• Pavement.

ANNUALS AND PERENNIALS

John Ashbery

Telling it so simple, so far away,
as this America, home of the free,
colored ashes smeared on the base
or pedestal that flourishes ways of doubting
to be graceful, wave a slender hand...

We are fleet and persecuting
as hawks or crows.
We suffer for the lies we told, not wanting to
yet cupped in the wristlock of grace,
teenage Borgias or Gonzagas,
gold against gray in bands streaming,
meaning no harm, we never

meant it to, this stream that outpours now
haplessly into the vestibule that awaits.

We have shapes but no power.