- Me neither. I am such a fucking rube.
- Yes, friends and old-timers, that's the last time I use that obamavatar.
- Zobambies.
- Badiou on Libya.
- Springtime for NATO. Corporate defers to what Marketing says.
- Origins of humanitarian intervention.
- Sock-puppet rebels.
- America at its extremes.
- It's a plutocracy.
- Pastor Sanctimonious hearts Obama: The administration has transformed a weak record into a strong political position. What made this possible was Obama’s willingness to betray progressives in Congress even before the budget conflict began.
- Academic freedom.
- Manning.
- Vote or die.
- It's not the fucking Democrats that keep the less-shitty fairy alive.
- It's not the fucking Democrats that keep the less-shitty fairy alive.
- The redistribution fairy is dead.
- Sbarro files for bankruptcy protection?
- Oxtrot is dead. Ochstradt is here.
- Blegsylvania.
- Blogging macht frei.
- Looking for something else last night I found this:
- I bought this Elkin biography and couldn't believe how badly written it is.
- Sophie's Choice. It has to be at least 25 years since I read it. I remember Stingo.
- I'm not sure why Kramerbooks is being reviewed on a poetry blog because Kramerbooks' poetry stock sucks.
- New Kate Bush? Yes but no. There is this sentence: Kate is currently working on new material although no release date has been set for this.
- Here's the reworked Deeper Understanding. Um. Suck.
- Obscure Sound's Best of March w/sound. I confess I don't get the fuss over of Montreal, which is OK. It feels like I should.
- I love Velocity Girl. Listen to this. Holyfuck.
EXACT
Rae Armantrout
Quick, before you die,
describe
the exact shade
of this hotel carpet.
What is the meaning
of the irregular, yellow
spheres, some
hollow,
gathered in patches
on this bedspread?
If you love me,
worship
the objects
I have caused
to represent me
in my absence.
*
Over and over
tiers
of houses spill
pleasantly
down that hillside.
It
might be possible
to count occurrences.
UPDATE! By request:
And to announce all that on the anniversary of better man's murder.
ReplyDeleteGreat post title, by the by.
Ah, the bad old days of 57numbers@compuserve.net and landfill after landfill overflowing with AOL floppies and CDs, eventually topped by the non-soylent.
ReplyDeleteGotta say, I was expecting some shit symbolism from Obama, but that is many many steps further than I thought he would go.
ReplyDeleteOh jeez, that Kate Bush. I was actually looking forward to the not-new new album, but now....
Yay Velocity Girl. There is a nice video of them performing "Why Should I Be Nice To You" at Fort Reno on Youtube...
ReplyDeleteRe: The Redistribution Fairy: It seems to me the rich and their employees are feeling the results of their decades long propaganda project, not to mention the extraction of wealth from everyone else.
ReplyDeletePossibly they will overreach to the extent that reversal is possible. But this, too, will be very ugly.
Hurray for interesting times!
~
I'm torn on the Kate Bush. I understand her wanting to rework the song The Sensual World now that she has permission to use the Molly Bloom soliloquy as she originally intended.
ReplyDeleteOn the other hand, this reminds me of that crap Gabriel album of covers from a couple of years ago. This is another example of me as moral scold, but new material or nothing.
Hey thanks for the VG. A virtual pint to you.
ReplyDeleteSure.
ReplyDeleteI saw Velocity Girl a couple of times at Ft Reno, but I don't remember this rendition of that song, and I'm pretty good at remembering these things.
I haven't seen music at Ft Reno in at least five years. Time to change that this summer.
Jack, I hadn't known that MLK connection until your comment. Still thinking it through, but wanted to say Yes.
ReplyDeleteAs for post-titles, I didn't write this one either.