- New Tortoise ▲
- Friend over pint: Did you hear, Benghazi hearings political ploy to damage Hillary. Me: Two batters and the motherfucking Cubs have won the game. Friend: And did you hear that Hillary has come out against the TPP? Me: Bucs batters have no plan and no chance against Arrieta.
- The exhausted voyager makes landfall.
- The world's silliest empire.
- Gun control: When the US bombs a hospital, it's the Taliban's fault or at the Afghan coalition's behest. But a guy running amok on American students is the fault of gun laws.
- Reflections on a visit to the West Bank.
- Corporate investing in online gambling is related to Corporates relaxation of marijuana laws - distract the littles.
- Alternet is profoundly stupid. And/or trolling.
- Death to the Either/Or.
- Motherfucking Americans and motherfucking guns and motherfucking bombing hospitals.
- Motherfucking Americans and motherfucking guns. Arming the littles isn't an accident either.
- Weird scenes inside the gold mine.
- The invaluable ::: wood s lot ::: is fifteen!
- The Motherfucking Nobel Prize in Motherfucking Literature goes to..... another author I've never heard of.
- Viva White Oak? East Moco is weird.
- I'll spare me and you another recitation of me and the Pittsburgh Pirates through history, but I apologize to lifelong Bucs fans for falling hard for the team again after visiting PNC this past August.
- New SUNN O))) in November!
- Old Tortoise ▼
TOGETHER
Maxine Kumin
The water closing
over us and the
going down is all.
Gills are given.
We convert in a
town of broken hulls
and green doubloons.
O you dead pirates
hear us! There is
no salvage. All
you know is the color
of warm caramel. All
is salt. See how
our eyes have migrated
to the uphill side?
Now we are new round
mouths and no spines
letting the water cover.
It happens over
and over, me in
your body and you
in mine.
From the depths of our childhoods, I spit at thee. Besides, a Cubs Series win positions the stupid effing Nats as the new Cubs/Red Sox.
ReplyDeleteThink fast: when's the last time you went east of Wheatone?
Lucy's Ethiopian Restaurant in downtown Silver Springs on Georgia is east of Wheaton longitudinally-wise, so if the question is, when was the last time I was east of Georgia Avenue it was a couple of months ago when Earthgirl and I hiked that cool trail on Northwest Branch off 29 near Trader Joes. And there's the Indian place in Hillandale we go to. If you're asking me when the last time I was in White Oak or Burtonsville I think you were living w Mothra in her apartment behind the You'll Be Mugged in Parking Lot Strip Mall on Briggs Chaney.
DeleteAlso, apparently, a new Eleventh Dream Day!
ReplyDeleteRepublicans attack Planned Parenthood & Obamacare relentlessly; US Military destroys a MSF hospital: what does that tell you?
First time I've seen Arrieta. Guy's the real deal. It's not on the Bucs by any stretch.
Second month in Chicago, July 1991: Had opened an account at the local community & got a phone call from a branch rep telling me I'd won a raffle they'd entered me into: four club box tickets: Pirates vs. Cubs. Didn't know anyone well who wanted to go, so sold three tickets at face: 15 bucks each (obviously not magnanimous, coulda given 'em away... but plenty of beer money).
ReplyDeleteOnce inside, seated a few rows back of Bucs' dugout, listening to a local prattle on about, "Looki' 'at guy, Bahhhhnds wid a fuckin ear-ring, over by dare!" Barry's head was smaller then. But seeing him and Bonilla up close was kind of a kick in '91. Guy arrives next to me, a couple of friends in tow. I ask him how much he paid: "45 each." I probably told him how magnanimous I'd been.
As it goes to extra innings, I notice a mom, dad and son, disagreement between the latter two about leaving. Son doesn't wanna. Father says, "Alright, another inning." End of the 10th tied 8-8, kid still doesn't wanna leave, pouts, finally relents after a verbal struggle. Bottom of 11th, Mark Grace hits a one run walk-off against Bill Landrum.
I was thinking at work today that my opening sentence was vague in that vernacular and thought about sneaking in and changing it when I got home. You quoted it. It remains. My gratitude.
Yes, East MoCo is weird. Viva White Oak (YUK) is a ten minute walk from Ol' Hamster's nest. I think it is safe to say that this will be my particular Future Hell. What I found interesting are the layers of shell corporations that are making dough on this. I know that makes Landru laugh.
ReplyDeleteOf course, your posting a link based on a Doors riff made me smile. "Weird scenes in[side] the Goldmine" is from what has to be your favorite Doors song, "The End."
Hah, fuck oblivious me! Thanks!
DeleteI hate the bucos. '71 was bad enough but 3-1 up and losing in '79? To Sister Sledge? I love Neil Walker and his connection to the incomparable Roberto Clemente Walker and wish Arrieta (started 3 home openers for the locals) had put it together in Mobtown so I'm glad for the Cubs and I can let go of my sports hate for the Pirates forever.
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