Bring Us Forward Notch by Notch into a Paradigm of Comfort to Be Clasped
Mood hexjeff thermostat (cold press block, acrylic paint pen, gouache, table salt, watercolor ink), last for a while or not, what passes for my studio inaccessible the next two weeks while maintenance on the building it's in are completed, my tablet activity affected too though not by design and not out of contagion but completely because I'm an animal of routine and one stuck cog disrupts all cogs
Serendipitous actually since I want to be quieter without quieting by kneejerk (though I still gather links of what I don't want to write about or paint or contemplate, just cut and paste the link as self-explanatory spit of evidence of something that sideways me, below's grid a week's worth).
I'm here less too apparently, a good thing, a bad thing, a nothing, one thing: Swans in the office, Swans in the car, Swans in my earbuds when sitting on my couch, always a sign of some upcoming swerve in my paradigms
"Let me translate: We let them have a go at it knowing very well it would be genocide and ethnic cleansing, and we’re sad to see it’s just piss-poor, unsuccessful and very embarrassing genocide and ethnic cleansing. Try again in five years"
JOE BIDEN MOVES TO LIFT NEARLY EVERY RESTRICTION ON ISRAEL’S ACCESS TO U.S. WEAPONS STOCKPILE
No longer being shocked by the murderousness of the empire is a counterintuitive sign that something unhealthy is happening to you
Years of mainstream media neglect of Palestinian reality means that truths come as shocks to most Americans
"Yet it is the Palestinian people onto whom the Zionist displaces this obsession. All Palestinians are Hamas. Therefore, no Palestinian has a right to live. The conflation deracinates Palestinians and erases Palestine’s long and distinguished history. The process also grants to Zionists a type of rhetorical control in the public sphere: they get to determine the culture of the native; they get to prescribe (and proscribe) the contours of resistance; they get to adjudicate the work of national liberation. Palestinians are entrapped by the crude and self-serving imagination of the oppressor"
"The most vociferous opponents of ‘cancel culture’ have been strangely silent – or worse – in recent weeks on the suppression of speech in support of the Palestinians or critical of Israel"
The people who don’t believe LGBTQ communities should have any rights whatsoever in the US are mad that queer Muslims are protesting for a free Palestine.
Reminder that the Shitlantic’s Editor in Chief Jeffrey Goldberg left college to volunteer for the IOF working as a prison guard during the First Intifada, assisting with the torture of Palestinian prisoners, a time he recalls as “exciting” and “exotic.”
The title track to Bonnie Prince Billy's latest album isn't on the latest album (he did sing it at the show w Jon Langford we saw two Saturdays ago), it's freaking heartbreakingly gorgeous
1/i listened to the title track that's not on the album that's named after it - of the songs that ARE on that album my favorite so far is "behold - be held"
2.5/apparently jacobsen is taking bets on various climate-related phenomena 3/the koch machine is throwing their money behind nikki haley - maybe SHE will be our first south-asian ancestry woman president - one never knows when something surprising might happen
1/simon armitage, currently poet laureate of the united kingdom, published a book of poems in the style of james tate
On the front cover of my book 'Seeing Stars', there's a photograph of a poodle which has been shaved into the shape of a horse. I found it on a newspaper website, they were doing an article on dog topiary which was very fashionable at the time. Poodle's shaved into many weird and wild shapes, and the horse was probably the least humiliating, but i used that image because the poems in the book are hybrid poems, they are somewhere between poetry and prose. I think of them as little story poems.
https://poetryarchive.org/poem/christening/
1.1/poetry archive lets you read, but not copy, the first poem in the collection
1.2/i was surprised by the punctuation of Poodle's but i have pasted it here as i found it
2/the covers shown for this book as currently on sale at amazon u.s. and amazon u.k. are not as described in the author's statement - but it can be seen at thriftbooks
https://tinyurl.com/poodlehorse
in my opinion, changing the cover for the paperback publication was a good idea - the photo of the dog on the american edition is more attractive, and the lack of a picture on the british edition is also more attractive
3/while missus charley is away on business this week i am watching nature documentaries about the geological and biological history of the planet on youtube, at double speed - the planet was here before our species, and it will carry on afterwards -
3.5/our friends at wikipedia quote thomas nagel [born july 4, 1937, in belgrade, whose most widely read work is the essay what is it like to be a bat?]
If sub specie aeternitatis there is no reason to believe that anything matters, then that does not matter either, and we can approach our absurd lives with irony instead of heroism or despair.
david north of wsws quotes jonathan swift and has a few remarks on the passing of esteemed statesman henry kissinger
His Grace! impossible! what, dead? Of old age too, and in his bed! ... ‘Twas time in conscience he should die! This world he cumber’d long enough; He burnt his candle to the snuff; And that’s the reason, some folks think, He left behind so great a stink.”
The above-quoted elegy composed by Jonathan Swift comes to mind upon hearing of Henry Kissinger's death. Were the principles proclaimed at the post-World War II Nürnberg Trials enforced, he would have died at the end of a rope decades ago.
Kissinger will be remembered in history as a mass murdering strategist of US imperialism. He was personally responsible for bombing campaigns, military coups, and assassinations whose cumulative death toll runs into the millions.
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1/i listened to the title track that's not on the album that's named after it - of the songs that ARE on that album my favorite so far is "behold - be held"
ReplyDelete2/eliot jacobsen has written
https://climatecasino.net/2023/06/on-being-a-doomer/
2.5/apparently jacobsen is taking bets on various climate-related phenomena
3/the koch machine is throwing their money behind nikki haley - maybe SHE will be our first south-asian ancestry woman president - one never knows when something surprising might happen
1/simon armitage, currently poet laureate of the united kingdom, published a book of poems in the style of james tate
ReplyDeleteOn the front cover of my book 'Seeing Stars', there's a photograph of a poodle which has been shaved into the shape of a horse. I found it on a newspaper website, they were doing an article on dog topiary which was very fashionable at the time. Poodle's shaved into many weird and wild shapes, and the horse was probably the least humiliating, but i used that image because the poems in the book are hybrid poems, they are somewhere between poetry and prose. I think of them as little story poems.
https://poetryarchive.org/poem/christening/
1.1/poetry archive lets you read, but not copy, the first poem in the collection
1.2/i was surprised by the punctuation of Poodle's but i have pasted it here as i found it
2/the covers shown for this book as currently on sale at amazon u.s. and amazon u.k. are not as described in the author's statement - but it can be seen at thriftbooks
https://tinyurl.com/poodlehorse
in my opinion, changing the cover for the paperback publication was a good idea - the photo of the dog on the american edition is more attractive, and the lack of a picture on the british edition is also more attractive
3/while missus charley is away on business this week i am watching nature documentaries about the geological and biological history of the planet on youtube, at double speed - the planet was here before our species, and it will carry on afterwards -
3.5/our friends at wikipedia quote thomas nagel [born july 4, 1937, in belgrade, whose most widely read work is the essay what is it like to be a bat?]
If sub specie aeternitatis there is no reason to believe that anything matters, then that does not matter either, and we can approach our absurd lives with irony instead of heroism or despair.
david north of wsws quotes jonathan swift and has a few remarks on the passing of esteemed statesman henry kissinger
ReplyDeleteHis Grace! impossible! what, dead?
Of old age too, and in his bed! ...
‘Twas time in conscience he should die!
This world he cumber’d long enough;
He burnt his candle to the snuff;
And that’s the reason, some folks think,
He left behind so great a stink.”
The above-quoted elegy composed by Jonathan Swift comes to mind upon hearing of Henry Kissinger's death. Were the principles proclaimed at the post-World War II Nürnberg Trials enforced, he would have died at the end of a rope decades ago.
Kissinger will be remembered in history as a mass murdering strategist of US imperialism. He was personally responsible for bombing campaigns, military coups, and assassinations whose cumulative death toll runs into the millions.