- Bukowski born 92 years ago today. Above h/t Biblioklept.
- I don't watch TV much and cable news ever: did this shooting cause a shitstorm?
- The UK is just following orders.
- America's vassal.
- UPDATE! Who America's vassal wouldn't extradite. (h/t)
- It's a long dreary road to Britaingreeceserbia.
- YMOBMC.
- Motherfucking NYPD.
- Dude, it was a motherfucking friendly.
- Someone googled Fleabus and got kangaroo.
- Rooms below the floor.
- Speculative geographies.
- Don't bring me down.
- Lost Stephen Dixon novel found. I am going to try again. Was frightening how easy google wallet, which I had never set up, worked when I ordered the book.
- Re: Bukowski - when I was young and should have liked him more I didn't, now that I'm old and shouldn't like him I do.
- Absolutely horrifying news.
- Bill Evans born 83 years ago today. Bottom cut h/t Mr Alarum. I'm still awaiting Hamster's cascade. UPDATE! Hamster's sent a long cascade. Later this afternoon. Yowser.
RELENTLESS AS THE TARANTULA
Charles Bukowski
they're not going to let you
sit at a front table
at some cafe in Europe
in the mid-afternoon sun.
if you do, somebody's going to
drive by and
spray your guts with a
submachine gun.
they're not going to let you
feel good
for very long
anywhere.
the forces aren't going to
let you sit around
fucking-off and
relaxing.
you've got to go
their way.
the unhappy, the bitter and
the vengeful
need their
fix - which is
you or somebody
anybody
in agony, or
better yet
dead, dropped into some
hole.
as long as there are
humans about
there is never going to be
any peace
for any individual
upon this earth or
anywhere else
they might
escape to.
all you can do
is maybe grab
ten lucky minutes
here
or maybe an hour
there.
something
is working toward you
right now, and
I mean you
and nobody but
you.
I started out with his short stories and novels and they kind of made me not like him at all (undergrad dudes who made excuses for rape references probably didn't help), though sometimes his poetry does hit me, like this one.
ReplyDeleteI hope the U.K. police will remember to shout "Death to the Shah" when they storm Ecuador's Embassy.
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Friendlies are Important. That's how the Angles are numero trois.
ReplyDeleteI ain't watching that fucking cop video. If there was karma, and there ain't, a pack of wild dogs would attack that fucker, leave him for dead, but since he wasn't dead, they'd come back and bleed him a bit more. Repeat as necessary.
ReplyDeleteLooks really nice! :-)
I don't care what you say, Superunknown was and remains awesome. Most of their other stuff doesn't hold up as well.. and dunno that a reunion is necessary, but who am I to judge?
ReplyDeleteHeh, give me *Transmissions from the Satellite Heart* or *Clouds Taste Metallic.* We're never gonna agree, but thanks for playing!
ReplyDeleteOf course that shooting caused a shitstorm. Fox News was reporting about how "liberals" never say a word when their folks do something bad. Etc., etc., etc.
ReplyDeleteAlso. Thanks for the Bukowski.
ReplyDeleteGlad you like. I remember you commenting that you like Bukowski.
ReplyDeleteThis shooting seems to me surprisingly unshitstormy, or at least unshitstormier in the physical and digital places I daily inhabit than the last few shootings (which weren't all that shitstormy themselves compared to...) Maybe it was because it was just a rent-a-cop guarding millionaire lobbyists on K St (or thereabouts) instead of multiple parishioners in a Christian church in Iowa, but I'd written something along the lines after the Sikh shooting, imagine the shitstorm if... But yes, I know it's not close to an exact if.