Caught Between the Tongue and the Taste, or: 57 Today

• Have I ever mentioned I love Guided by Voices and all Robert Pollard projects, that Pollard has one of three permanent seats in My Sillyass Deserted Island Five Game? Pollard is 57 today. Today is a High Egoslavian Holy Day. More songs later, requests if you give me any.
• Greenwald and the doctrine of exceptionalism.
• Taylorism, progressivism, and rule by experts.
• The contradictions of capital.
• The future is a foreign country.
• The logic of stupid poor people.
• America as carnival bumcombe.
• A brief history of the devil.
• There are new sites added to Newest Gags First and Second. Check them out. As always, if you are Kinding me but me not you please let me know.

• Halloween is the fucking Arcade Fucking Fire of holidays. Even my favorite DJs on WFMU are playing motherfucking Halloween related songs. Fuck Halloween fuck Halloween fuck this fuck Halloween.
• United and De Rosario part ways. SeatSix sends me a photo - they cut him and he gets to leave stadium watching workers take down his banner. New United ownership - always classy.
• Red Sox fan dedicates trash can he's lighting on fire to Marathon victims.
• I haven't thought of the Willard Grant Conspiracy in a decade. I've a couple of CDs somewhere.
• Saariaho.
• Paris Review just tweeted a quote from 1988 interview with Anthony Hecht so have a 1988 interview with Anthony Hecht.
• Beneath the below GbV song is XXIV: Freedom from Anne Carson's Autobiography of Red, I love you but it's too long to type out, sorry. If they don't embiggen on this blog (and a hearty FUCK YOU! - as opposed to a Salty Salute - to my free blogging platform) the will embiggen here. Autobiography of Red is by far the best thing I've ever read since the last until the next, expect LOTS of Anne Carson poetry (though Autobiography of Red is a novel) in this blog's near future.

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