- I got Doctor Sevrin ears, it will be Fleabus that caves me
- The disingenuous bullshit of Anonymous' Warning
- The coming genocide in India
- Obama talking up Warren to wealthy donors means Obama talking up wealthy donors to Warren
- Why the working class is abandoning the Left (or: better put, how the Left abandoned the working class)
- The disingenuous bullshit of professional Democrat defenders
- Democrats are the enemy but crackers are pussies
- Maggie's weekly links
- The tenure of status anxiety
- The dog ate my research
- I didn't forget to mention everyone forgot to mention Zappadan once upon a December in Blegsylvania
- Reading in the age of constant distraction
- And I didn't forget that yesterday was Jorma's birthday
CATHEXIS
Rae Armantrout
When we say the world is haunted
we mean untranslated
as yet.
A “cathexis”
is a catch basin
in English.
A result of draining
“here” off into “there.”
Starbucks’s billion plastic straws
are green.
I know the leaves are whispering.
Tell me what my mother meant!
1)i am sorry for your loss
ReplyDelete2)armantrout mentions plastic straws - when i was a youngster, way back in the mid-twentieth century, we had paper straws - is there a reason why that couldn't happen again?
3)with regard to faith in our sociopathic overlords, actor and author stephen tobolowsky says “It’s hard to believe in nothing. Even cats believe in suppertime."
3a)tobolowsky goes to synagogue, by the way - not that there's anything wrong with that
4)some of the songs we will sing at church tonight are centuries old, and i have known them all my life - and others i have just learned in the past few weeks, and they date from this millennium - all part of life's rich pageant in this time travelling adventure
5)here in my eighth decade of life i have, for now, made my peace with organized religion - i assert that i am a believing unitarian, a practicing catholic, a doctor of philosophy, jsps
6)https://www.uua.org/beliefs/what-we-believe/principles
7)practicing defined as 'saying the words and going through the motions' with good will towards my fellow parishioners who are doing the same thing
8)https://tinyurl.com/researchgateprofile
9)https://tinyurl.com/jspsacronym
11)may your days be merry and bright*
12)and may the CREATIVE FORCES OF THE UNIVERSE stand beside us, and guide us, through the Night with the Light from Above**
*irving berlin
**adapted from irving berlin
and speaking of faith in our sociopathic overlords, you point to adam kotsko's blog post about tenure anxiety - a book he has published is
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Adam Kotsko argues that the popularity of the ruthless sociopath reflects our dissatisfaction with a failed social contract, showing that we believe that the world rewards the evil and uncaring rather than the good.
ISBN: 178099091X
Release Date: April 2012
Sorry about Jess. I didn't read anything today, taking a break from human hypocrisy tonight, tomorrow. You could spend all your time reading about all the hypocrisy or writing about it, but all it does is make you crazy. It's probably been this way since Mesopotamia. The only difference is now we have toilet paper. The computer I'm using to write this is made up of toxic components, products of abusive mining, the scrap of which is sent to poor Asian nations where they burn it for the precious metals, thus polluting the planet even more. How hypocritical is that?
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