What If I Maneuvered Conversation in the Hopes That Others Would Pronounce Those Words?

   
My favorite radio show ever since the last until the next. Took me fifty-three years to get it, what the fuck is wrong with me. Need some musical direction from Cleveland on what must absolutely be checked out. Little library joke there. I'm literally going to spend a day driving twice to and from Bamgier to take my daughter out to dinner in the next six days. Rental car better have a fucking iPod jack, downhill from Cooper's Rock to Cheat River, eyawww! Or not. The driving, not the noise. Here's Fleabus last night with lily pollen from playing in the flowers from my mother-in-law's memorial service.

• Eric Hobsbawm has died. His Age of Tetrology (Revolution, Capital, Empire, Extremes) heavily influences my reading of the world. Here's an article from 1977. Here is a book review he wrote on the Hungarian Revolution. Here's Eagleton on Hobsbawm. Here are all Hobsbawm's pieces in NYRB. More to come.
• Such is the noise in my life - such are my priorities - that I forget to take today off to be here. Mr Alarum's there, taking photos, hopefully, I'll badger him for a report.
• UPDATE! Mr Alarum reports it was underwhelming, unenthusiastic, incredibly mehful. He's gone home. I'm too underwhelmed and unenthusiastic to do a mehtopsy.

• Political language and austerity.
• On hippie-punching. 
• The "anarcho-liberal."
• On hippie-punching and the election.
• Yes, motherfucking crackers.
• Asshole urges Romney to be more assholish.
• Five big things that won't be mentioned in the debates. 
• Bunkers. 
• Blegsylvania be dead, yo.
• Rae Armantrout reading.
• Have a Mekons song.

SCUMBLE

Rae Armantrout

What if I were turned on by seemingly innocent words such as "scumble,"
"pinky," or "extrapolate?"

What if I maneuvered conversation in the hopes that others would pronounce
those words?

What if the excitement would come from the way the other person touched
them lightly and carelessly with his tongue?

What if "of" were such a hot button?

"Scumble of bushes."

What if there were a hidden pleasure
in calling one thing
by another's name?