Saturday, December 31, 2016

Finemetaphorabounditus



  • Me ▲ yesterday.
  • I don't feel like doing Paul Westerberg and Patti Smith birthday posts, OK?
  • It's the one on the right, my left in real life, that's the problem. Fortunately, and unrelatedly, I'd trimmed my owlbrows the day before.
  • I also suffer finemetaphorabounditus. My eyes can be fixed - probably - with simple laser surgery. The other? probably requires a finemetaphoraboundectomy. It removes the diseased parts but also destroys healthy cells nearby. Some days my finger hovers over the Fuck It plunger.
  • Saturdays.
  • On Left melancholia: Ten days ago at Cornell I was asked to take part in a debate on the theme 'Is Trump a fascist?’ I answered ‘Trump is as much a fascist as Occupy Wall Street or Nuit Debout are communist!’ There is no possible genealogy between these movements. Such a void in the memory is perhaps the result of my generation’s failures."
  • Our digital idiocy.
  • Who says 2017 can't be worse?
  • Something about this Russia story stinks.
  • Outlasting the Emperor day by day.
  • The Most Important Books of the Last Twenty Years? Any list that has two C.D. Wrights, two Anne Carsons, and two Ishiguros (including The Unconsoled) isn't discountable.
  • My standing offer of buying you - if you ask nice and I like you - Wright's Stealing Away, Carson's The Autobiography of Red, or Ishiguro's The Unconsoled still stands.
  • None of the year end musician death lists - this one, for instance - mention Alan Vega. It also didn't mention C.D. Wright.


  
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3 comments:

  1. As I understand the procedure, the FMA-otomy can result in decreased perception of subtleties -- a refocus on Big Things (Wow, that whale is badass) as opposed to other details (gold piece nailed to mast; floating on coffin; the narrative the narrative).

    Flaubert had the early version of it done and his work just plunged, until he found a magik elixir. Orson Wells descended into self-parody. Certain musicians who remain nameless used the Wal-Mart Home FMA-otomy Kit (with the small tube of anastethic) and with varying awfulness. Jeff Koons -- well; that bastard had it performed at birth, and you've seen the results. Don't Do It, Man!

    Thanks for the linkage. A safe 'n sane New Years for you, your tribe, and all the rest of us down here.

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  2. You know you're getting old when you gotta trim your eyebrows not to mention hairs that start growing out of your ears. Don't get me started on nose hairs. I did see a nose hair trimmer for sale on Amazon. The selling point was that it had a vacuum suction that sucked the nose hair trimmings out of your nose. In this way you didn't have to worry about a nose hair trimming falling out of your nose in an embarrassing moment later on, great selling point. Hey, it's the golden years!

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  3. Am receiving those brainwaves. Please continue transmission.

    Best wishes for the New Year! See better; feel better. *FMA*

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