- Ladies and gentleman, Mr America, Elliott Abrams.
- We are ruled by sociopaths (Jeff types into his Dell laptop).
- Sociopaths by ruled are we.
- We are ruled by sociopaths.
- The doomsday bunkers of the fucking sociopaths that rule us.
- Teaching revolution in urgent times, a syllabus
- Machine politics: the rise of the internet and a new age of authoritarianism.
- The five dumbest reasons for supporting Trump's intervention in Venezuela.
- My aunt is taking us to MGM Grand Casino today for lunch and giving us each $20 to gamble
- her only condition 5% of all winnings above $1000, the effing socialist
- That's Rock Creek Trail along Beach between Connecticut and Dorothy's Temple, yo, do your midnight hiking elsewhere, promise me
- We've long-hiked pavement around Kensington since the trails we hike mud snow ice
- infinity's miniaturization trick, making smaller's larger seem larger than larger's larger
- best rush since last until next
- Whenever I seen the Dark Underpass sign I think of Barnabus Collins, the fuck I am old
- Slot machines, fuck that, one hand poker, $5 ante, draw pocket rockets, all in, shazam
- googlebot scrubbers top to bottoming this blog since Friday when I started yammering about motherfucking sociopaths that rule us, I have faith it's just Serendipity
- This was inevitable.
- The recession is baked in.
- This motherfucking sociopath will never fuck off to the sea.
- Divinity, subordination, anarchy.
- Maggie's weekly links.
- { feuilleton }'s weekend links.
- Ripping Murakami. I loved - loved - 1Q84, anything else I've tried, including the latest, nope.
- Sinking or swimming.
- There are no poems in Poetry Foundation's archives that use the word sociopath.
THE VISITORS OF THE NIGHT
Frank Stanford
This bed I thought was my past
Is really a monk in a garden
He’s dressed in white
Holding a gourd of water
Because I have forgotten Tangle Eye
And Dylan Thomas
The swarthy goose
And the moon in the pennyroyal
With its gut full of shiners
And the skeleton keys to my room
And the snapshots of my land
It seems like dusk
The voice and curls
Left in the strange clothes
Roaming the forty acres of my closet
In the bow wood mountains some boats
Stray as dogs go down in the fields
Shadows yet in the land of the living
When the shade clean leaves you
To your rewards
Bad luck and trouble
Come breaking the laws and trysts
Of love and gravity
So have respect for the dead my dear
And watch your heart like a jukebox
Death coming low with its cold set of tools
But you can’t jimmy love
Is really a monk in a garden
He’s dressed in white
Holding a gourd of water
Because I have forgotten Tangle Eye
And Dylan Thomas
The swarthy goose
And the moon in the pennyroyal
With its gut full of shiners
And the skeleton keys to my room
And the snapshots of my land
It seems like dusk
The voice and curls
Left in the strange clothes
Roaming the forty acres of my closet
In the bow wood mountains some boats
Stray as dogs go down in the fields
Shadows yet in the land of the living
When the shade clean leaves you
To your rewards
Bad luck and trouble
Come breaking the laws and trysts
Of love and gravity
So have respect for the dead my dear
And watch your heart like a jukebox
Death coming low with its cold set of tools
But you can’t jimmy love
If any agency ever needed to off me and make it look like a heart attack, all they'd have to do is let me hear the Dark Shadows theme come wafting through my office walls at 3am. What's worthy of study is how not only terrifying, but also deeply melancholy, what should have been a laughable kitsch-fest really was. A daytime soap opera about vampires: that's Coover territory
ReplyDeleteLOL @ Barnabas Collins. Wife the first gobbled that stuff up.
ReplyDeletepublished in jeff bezos's paper, but not necessarily an expression of his own opinion
ReplyDeleteEverything is not going to be okay’: How to live with constant reminders that the Earth is in trouble - by Dan Zak
If you have an infant daughter, she is expected to live 81.1 years, and so she will be here for 2100, a year that is no longer mythical. She may see the world’s largest naval base, in Norfolk, swamped by rising seas. If she lives in Phoenix, she may feel nearly double the number of 100-degree days. During her lifetime, the oceans will acidify at a rate not seen in 66 million years.
If it keeps going this way.
Alice Major has lived in Edmonton, on the edge of Alberta’s boreal forest, for nearly 40 years. She remembers six weeks of minus-20-degree weather; now the mercury sinks that low only occasionally, she says. In 1949, the year she was born, the planet had around 2.5 billion people on it, and it had taken all of human history to get to that point. In her lifetime alone, the population has grown by about 5 billion.
As Edmonton’s first poet laureate, Major has written a book of verse titled “Welcome to the Anthropocene,” which is the name given to this moment, this epoch, when humans have become a planetary force. The anthropocene — whether it began with agriculture, the colonization of the West, the Industrial Revolution or the atomic bomb — was born of human ingenuity. That’s what empowered us to create this mess, and what empowers us now to see it.
So, how clever are we? Will we invent our way out of this? Alice Major answers:
Immured in cities, we forget we live on a planet that is more inventive than ourselves.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/everything-is-not-going-to-be-okay-how-to-live-with-constant-reminders-that-the-earth-is-in-trouble/2019/01/24/9dd9d6e6-1e53-11e9-8b59-0a28f2191131_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.3a835f1ab1b4
I have reached the Monday Limit for thinking about "how irredeemably fucked", et al., and by way of reaction: Maggie's weekly links (#447) has, hands-down, the finest Godzilla filmclip compilation I have ever seen stitched together in that Blue Oyster Cult video (www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=8&v=muUZjovOFRg).
ReplyDeletei enjoyed this video -
Deletei have always resonated with the final line of the boc song 'history shows again and again how nature points out the folly of men' - see dan zak's piece in the washpost, e.g.
looking at the words given at metrolyrics, i find the following:
Rinji news o moshiagemasu
Rinji news o moshiagemasu
Godzilla ga Ginza hoomen e mukatte imasu
Daishkyu hinan shite kudasai
Daishkyu hinan shite kudasai
google translate provides
Rinji ws I will give you
Rinji ws I will give you
Dj じ ゃ is pounding on ginseng
Please give me your name
Please give me your name
my local library may have several godzilla dvds on the shelf - the catalog says it does have these dvds, but as alfred korzybski said, the map is not the territory
Somebody somewhere (an elected official? on a cable news show?) recently referred to Trump and Co. as sociopaths, and I suspect all the bots want to know who's on that bandwagon.
ReplyDeleteas i suspected - none of the godzilla dvds are actually there
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