At Four O'Clock in the Morning the Dead Singers Have the Best Voices
While peeling a paper towel used to sop up fourth coat elmers clear glue infused with acrylic ink and gouache so canvas could dry before fifth coat of elmers clear glue infused with acrylic ink and gouache applied it occurred to me that while I've tried different mediums and combinations of mediums I've only used watercolor paper, mostly cold press, for what I'm painting on, here's first paper towel hexjeff on purpose, I can't promise you it will be the last here, I have no say apparently, but will try (today's bleggalgaze abbreviated):
so fuck me o so many ways. Trump's done, said a friend of mine, it's not Labor Day yet, I said, and until Trump strokes out, despite evidence to the contrary, there's still months for crackerchristers to move farther harder right so Dems have a bigger hard right vacuum to, um, joyfully fill. So we're fucked if Trump wins and we're really fucked if Trump loses, she said. Yes, I said. Tsunami was put in my head yesterday, I saw local band Tsunami multiple times in the early 90s, growing up near DC and living the music scene in my 20s and 30s in the 70s, 80s, and 90s one of the singular and fortunate and wonderful treats of my lifetime. This song live, holyfuck
"The following cases represent a small fraction of potential human rights violations committed with American planes, shells, and bombs"
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Israel Says US Has Delivered 50,000 Tons of Military Aid Since Start of Gaza Slaughter
"Republicans and Democrats are both hellbent on exterminating Palestinians. At best they’re merely indifferent to the extermination. Let’s not allow them to also kill our imagination"
A new report documents Israel’s torture of Palestinian healthcare workers from Gaza
You have no idea how insufferable and vicious professional Democrats and their shitlibs we be if Harris wins, or maybe you do, just saying
Zionism and neoconservatism are destroying the planet
Israeli society’s dehumanization of Palestinians is now absolute
"They didn't talk about trans hatred. Or about climate change. Or about wage theft by corporations. Or about police brutality. Or about cutting arms sales for the mass slaughter in Gaza"
I know multiple people who hate Trump & crackerchristers so much they confound visceral tingling at the thought of crackerchristers vanquished with Harris saving them from crackerchristers without (a) remembering she needs run against them in 2028 and (b) see
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For Over 150 Years, Democratic Party Operatives Have Infiltrated, Coopted and Destroyed Independent Political Movements in the U.S.
Tomorrow is a symbolic milepost, I'm reevaluating everything but my relationship with my wife and daughter, not despondantly, not with aims to change, just reevaluating, including here and there and there and there and there and here
PUBLIC CONVOs: “BLUE BIRD” and “TED& SYLVIA& ASA& OTTO”
1/someone liked my comment on the daily mail article headlined ""We stayed at the worst rated Disney hotel - this is what it was like" - i wrote
long ago when i was a child the kind of family vacation we had was going to stay with relatives - - i still visit my cousins these days sixty years later - our grandparents and parents and aunts and uncles are all gone or rather that is who we are now - not everything has to be commercialized all the time
2/re-evaluating one's interests and activities is part of an examined life - in a way my comment published at the daily mail was a call for such a re-evaluation of recreational and travel plans in my plain-spoken evocation of a vanished time, a mid-20th century america of family values when the interstate highway system had begun but not yet reached its full expression, and air travel was much less common for the average person
3/also from the daily mail - tulsi gabbard endorsing trump - she is quoted as saying
"He exercised the courage that we expect from our commander in chief, in exhausting all measures of diplomacy, having the courage to meet with adversaries, dictators, allies and partners alike in the pursuit of peace, seeing war as a last resort.
'This administration has us facing multiple wars on multiple fronts and regions around the world, and closer to the brink of nuclear war than we ever have been before.
'This is one of the main reasons why I'm committed to doing all that I can to send President Trump back to the White House, where he can once again serve us as our commander in chief."
a comment of mine at the daily mail, from a year ago, now has 35 up votes:
when i think of the jeopardy show, i am reminded of a verse by robert louis stevenson - "the world is so full of a number of things i am sure we should all be as happy as kings" - the range of topics - history, literature, popular culture, art, music, geography, science - gives a sense of the joys of the life of the mind - the questions scratch the surface, of course, but hint at the depths within - alex trebek's memory is a blessing, and i am sure ken jennings and all associated with making the show recognize the depth of feeling which many fans have
i asked an unreliable commentator - large language model conversational companion - to haikuize my year-old daily mail remarks about the classic tv quiz show
When mind's vast realms unfold in trivia's game, A Stevensonian verse comes to my mind: "The world is full," a joyful, happy claim, Where knowledge's treasures, endless, we can find.
From history's depths to pop culture's gleam, A tapestry of thought, a mental feast, Jeopardy's questions, like a sparkling stream, Reveal the depths of knowledge, a vast beast.
Alex Trebek, a guiding star so bright, His memory, a beacon, shines so clear. Ken Jennings, a champion of the night, And all who work, our gratitude we cheer.
For in this game, a joy we all can share, A testament to minds both bright and rare.
sonnet and limerick produced by the llmcc were worse - i will not repeat them
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ReplyDelete1/someone liked my comment on the daily mail article headlined ""We stayed at the worst rated Disney hotel - this is what it was like" - i wrote
ReplyDeletelong ago when i was a child the kind of family vacation we had was going to stay with relatives - - i still visit my cousins these days sixty years later - our grandparents and parents and aunts and uncles are all gone or rather that is who we are now - not everything has to be commercialized all the time
2/re-evaluating one's interests and activities is part of an examined life - in a way my comment published at the daily mail was a call for such a re-evaluation of recreational and travel plans in my plain-spoken evocation of a vanished time, a mid-20th century america of family values when the interstate highway system had begun but not yet reached its full expression, and air travel was much less common for the average person
3/also from the daily mail - tulsi gabbard endorsing trump - she is quoted as saying
"He exercised the courage that we expect from our commander in chief, in exhausting all measures of diplomacy, having the courage to meet with adversaries, dictators, allies and partners alike in the pursuit of peace, seeing war as a last resort.
'This administration has us facing multiple wars on multiple fronts and regions around the world, and closer to the brink of nuclear war than we ever have been before.
'This is one of the main reasons why I'm committed to doing all that I can to send President Trump back to the White House, where he can once again serve us as our commander in chief."
a comment of mine at the daily mail, from a year ago, now has 35 up votes:
ReplyDeletewhen i think of the jeopardy show, i am reminded of a verse by robert louis stevenson - "the world is so full of a number of things i am sure we should all be as happy as kings" - the range of topics - history, literature, popular culture, art, music, geography, science - gives a sense of the joys of the life of the mind - the questions scratch the surface, of course, but hint at the depths within - alex trebek's memory is a blessing, and i am sure ken jennings and all associated with making the show recognize the depth of feeling which many fans have
History does not repeat itself, but it very often rhymes. -- Mark Twain
ReplyDeletei asked an unreliable commentator - large language model conversational companion - to haikuize my year-old daily mail remarks about the classic tv quiz show
ReplyDeleteTrivia's vast sea,
Knowledge's depths, a treasure trove,
Joyful minds ignite.
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Jeopardy's Joy
When mind's vast realms unfold in trivia's game,
A Stevensonian verse comes to my mind:
"The world is full," a joyful, happy claim,
Where knowledge's treasures, endless, we can find.
From history's depths to pop culture's gleam,
A tapestry of thought, a mental feast,
Jeopardy's questions, like a sparkling stream,
Reveal the depths of knowledge, a vast beast.
Alex Trebek, a guiding star so bright,
His memory, a beacon, shines so clear.
Ken Jennings, a champion of the night,
And all who work, our gratitude we cheer.
For in this game, a joy we all can share,
A testament to minds both bright and rare.
sonnet and limerick produced by the llmcc were worse - i will not repeat them