Tuesday, February 3, 2026

I've Never Been an Old Woman Knitting By a Fire But I've Played One in Images Where It Meant Being Foolish, a Mistress of Distraction's Indirection

My red hat should be finished today. If you'd like one let me know, I know a knitter, there are currently eleven on order so it will be awhile but let me know. Pathetic, me, not wanting to post on Fridays like recently, especially before the Holiest Weekend and Sunday in Helmetballstan. Rest of the monologue in red in the grid. Exene turned 70 two days ago, she's magashit now, the fuck? it was better before before they voted for what's his name, this was supposed to be the new world





"Bipartisan consensus: endless billions for Israel, tens of billions for ICE, a trillion for the Pentagon - while jacking up healthcare premiums on tens of millions of Americans by 200%-300%"
Meanwhile, in the ongoing genocide and ethnic cleansing in Israel
You do realize one of the main benefits of dispatching magagestapogoons on Americans is that Americans lose focus on the ongoing genocide and ethnic cleansing in Gaza
Reading Edward Said in the context of the Gaza genocide
The Pentagon is Quietly Building Trump’s Concentration Camps
I made a mistake when I implied I would be sent to the Williamsport concentration camp, I will be sent to a concentration camp no nearer than West Texas, the Williamsport concentration camp will torture and starve to death lucratively paid protesters from Seattle, my apologies. Being blindfolded, shackled, kicked into position by taunting guards and barking dogs and flown to a destination you will never know where you are kneeling on concrete in the middle of the night and beaten if you slump unless and until you are released a key sadistic first class in your future
Organized oppositionThe appalling vista
"'Rule by sheer violence,’ Hannah Arendt wrote, ‘comes into play when power is being lost.’ She continued: ‘The effectiveness of terror depends almost entirely on the degree of social atomisation, the disappearance of ... organised opposition.’ The resistance in the Twin Cities has not pushed ICE and CBP away yet, but it has turned a supposed projection of state power into a floundering tool of homicidal violence. It has also shown what kinds of rot must flourish in Washington in order to keep the goons in Minnesota
I. HATE. MOTHERFUCKING. DEMOCRATS.
"It's interesting how pretty much none of the Democrats positioning themselves to run for president are actually trying to take advantage of the moment and instead seem to be acting on the assumption that they'll be installed as nominee by the donor class"
I. HATE. MOTHERFUCKING. DEMOCRATS.
How To Message a State Murder Spree
"The latest batch of vomit from the belly of elite depravity is even worse than it looks"
Elite pedophilia isn’t a bug, it’s a feature
"If you want to be in the top echelon of American (or Israeli, and possibly UK) elites they need to know you can be trusted. They need blackmail. You have to make your bones. Once you’ve committed an unspeakable crime, and they have pictures and video (remember, Epstein had cameras everywhere), well you can be allowed in, because you’re not going to use any power you have in any way the betrays elite interests, because they can destroy you any time they want"
How targeting Black independent journalists creates a foothold for broader civil liberties erosion
Fighting for workers in the age of Trump and the tech oligarchy
Staircase of oppressionFruits of anger
I. HATE. MOTHERFUCKING. DEMOCRATS.
Starting to Look Like AI Has Killed the Entire Model of College
"The woke scolds are trying to make this about racism. But Musk is right. It's about historical and scientific integrity. When the God of Thunder disguises himself as a swan to seduce and fuck a queen and the resulting baby hatches from an egg, *of course* the baby will be white. It's just science"
The Legal Academy’s Leading Originalists Remain Breathtakingly Full of Shit
Don't forget xymphoraDon't forget Weldon
Some More Efforts, Comrades, If We Would Be Revolutionaries
MaggieMaximally Perverse Obscurantism
Roland Barthes' Seminar on the Metaphor of the Labyrinth
The beautiful building and beautiful campus that once was the headquarters of National Geographic (long before the abomination that is Kentlands) on 28 near Quince Orchard now home to cops
{ feuilleton }BlatTower of Babble
Right is wrongPynchon's *Shadow Ticket*
Prologue to Gilbert Sorrentino: An Introduction
We're taking a year off from Maine this summer and instead going to the very northern most tip of Michigan's lower penisula (L's in the Traverse City plein air, it's a big deal), I've been Modest Mouse bingeing of late, below is the last Modest Mouse song I will deliberately listen to until late June, Modest Mouse will be the main event in the long drives to hikes and disc golf courses and basic exploration






LIFE'S WORK

Rae Armantrout

1
 
Did I say I was a creature
of habit?
 
I meant the opposite.
 
I meant behavior
is a pile of clothes
 
I might or might not wear.
 
Before all the sowing and reaping
could go on for centuries,
 
before the calendar,
I must have been convinced
 
that my movements
were both mandated
 
and blessed.
 
     2
 
I've never been an old woman
knitting by a fire
 
but I've played one
in images
 
where it meant being foolish
or wise, a mistress
 
of distraction's
indirection.
 
To rock while entwining
is life's work,
 
but I am reckless,
restless

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