Friday, January 23, 2026

Although I Mean It, and Project the Meaning As Hard As I Can Into Its Brushed-Metal Surface, It Cannot, in This Deteriorating Climate, Pick Up Where I Leave Off

This weekend we're scheduled to get sixteen feet of snow followed by seven inches of ice which will cause power outages lasting until April (until which daily high temperatures will not break -50), apt for this, my shittiest winter ever in all but two facets of my life, all caused by my moving from watercolor paper to hardboard treated canvases that don't warp, what a world, this is all my fault, my apologies

Maybe a good thing, not the canvases, my being cut-off from contact with the outside world until April Fools Day: I'm not only incapable of doing it voluntarily I'm incapable of not documenting the all-encompassing and constantly expanding clusterfuck, perhaps you've noticed. I no longer play the "if I was offered a free month in hiking and disc golf course paradise in perfect weather with gorgeous sunsets and primo sativa and fresh crisp bright local pilsners from the deck of a mountain top cottage on the condition I have no contact with the outside world would I?" game, because why play? it will never be offered and I'd never accept it if it was. If you don't believe me please buy me (and L) that vacation, I'd love to be wrong: just found my Renaldo and the Loaf CD stash, perhaps I'd choose to listen to some on that deck watching the sunset, unclusterfucking, I just might be willing to risk it. The test, and the rest, depends on you





I. HATE. MOTHERFUCKING. DEMOCRATS.
This, for example, is what Democrats just bought
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Renee Good’s Murder and Other Acts of Terror
We Are Witnessing the Self-Immolation of a Superpower
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Danish Politician Accuses Stephen Miller of Having ‘Mentality of a Rapist’ Towards Greenland
MAGA’s ‘Manifest Destiny’ Coalition Has Arrived
Zionist Billionaires Openly Acknowledge Manipulating The US Government
Kushner Reveals Dystopic Plan to Build Data Centers on Ruins of Gaza Genocide
The Unconstrained Presidency and the End of American Primacy
Today’s Public Intellectuals Are More Likely to Serve Power Than Challenge It
His final message before he's on an FBI watchlist
Mad and depressed and marinating in dread
Last electionNarrative control made easy
Today's duh: Behind Trump’s Meltdown Over Greenland
"After sponsoring genocide in Gaza, welcoming the kidnapping of Maduro, cheering the bombing of Iran, backing assaults on Lebanon, applauding assassinations, liberal European leaders have discovered international law just in time for the US invasion of Greenland"
Ugliest AmericansReading Third Camp Socialism in the Time of Trump and Xi
Fascists are at war with journalism. Why aren’t journalists at war with fascism?
"This is what you do when you’re running death camps"
Why Aren’t All Americans Protesting?
Yes, I know blaager's blegrells are broken, fuck my free blooging platform
I. HATE. MOTHERFUCKING. DEMOCRATS.
Couple of days ago I was thinking poobah Democrats must have told Wes Moore to cool his jets in the interest of his own career so guess what cynical me's first thought was when I first saw this
I. HATE. MOTHERFUCKING. DEMOCRATS.
"The correct response to Dachau was not better training for the guards"
I. HATE. MOTHERFUCKING. DEMOCRATS.
I. HATE. MOTHERFUCKING. DEMOCRATS.
Zionist 2028 Dem potus candidate resents being asked and thinks it's antisemitic he was asked if he was a Mossad agent when he was vetted (and not chosen) for vpotus in 2024
I. HATE. MOTHERFUCKING. DEMOCRATS.
I. HATE. MOTHERFUCKING. DEMOCRATS.
How to build a radically truthful news outlet
ICE vs YouExporting Genocide
The Most Rancorous Line
I am 7/8ths through Pynchon's M&D, got bogged down around chapter 50 but pushed through
Killing deer not the answer to reducing Lyme DiseaseThe Politics Of Planetary Color
"Jesus famously did not disrupt proceedings at a place of worship and call out religious hypocrisy"
Fellowpagan, be a better Christian than a christer, they know, it drives them bonkers, and that's just the bonus, not the reason to do it
America’s new gambling epidemicFucker shivved
Whau-whauMaggie'sShape of Time
Care w/o coercionList of rivers by age
{ feuilleton }AbandonBlanchot, for those of you who do






THE ICE CREAM WARS

John Ashbery

Although I mean it, and project the meaning
As hard as I can into its brushed-metal surface,
It cannot, in this deteriorating climate, pick up
Where I leave off. It sees the Japanese text
As among the most massive secretions of the human spirit.
Its part is in the shade, beyond the iron spikes of the fence,
Mixing red with blue. As the day wears on
Those who come to seem reasonable are shouted down
(Why you old goat! Look who’s talkin’. Let’s see you
Climb off that tower — the waterworks architecture, both
   stupid and
Grandly humorous at the same time, is a kind of mask for him,
Like a seal’s face. Time and the weather
Don’t always go hand in hand, as here: sometimes
One is slanted sideways, disappears for awhile.
Then later it’s forget-me-not time, and rapturous 
Clouds appear above the lawn, and the rose tells
The old old story, the pearl of the orient, occluded
And still apt to rise at times.)
                                              A few black smudges
On the outer boulevards, like squashed midges
And the truth becomes a hole, something one has always
   known,
A heaviness in the trees, and no one can say
Where it comes from, or how long it will stay —

A randomness, a darkness of one’s own.

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