Thursday, October 1, 2026

lt literally doesn't exist, no, stay up and go to sleep, unless it falls on the right side of the brain positioned for so many forgeries, moon nugget...

One last thing about blooger's recent rapid enshittification - starting Tuesday this week, each time I open blooger's dashboard blooger's AI bullshitter begs me to use it rather than myself. Fine metaphors abound. Whether related to the improving - more are now updating again but many still fucked-up - blogrolls.... who knows

Rest in Peace, Stanley (after Elkin). As long as we kept the lid up and the bathroom door open he never used the litter box (he would if we left the lid down or accidentally shut the door) until his rapid decline in his old age this past year





Within four years eight of our nine cats died, six of old age, two were murdered, one by an asshole in a car, one by asshole neighbor's asshole dog. Olive still here. Nugget and Spidey arrive from rescue/foster on Halloween


Guess which one's Nugget. Going to Michigan to visit my daughter Wednesday next week, unless something kaboom-worthy, good or bad, happens, or I've forgotten a BLCKDGRD holy day, this will probably be the last post before I leave. I've got myself down to once a week, I did it for you. As always on vacation trips, I have no plans to post and no plans to not post, though being in Michigan weeks before the midterms and Michigan's key and contentious Senate race could be entertaining. Mogwai with Iggy have a good new creepy song?




Donald Trump and the Age of Evil
"On the *same day* the Cornell Seven drugged and raped Jane Doe, Cornell banned four students (including the President of Cornell JVP) from campus for three years for nonviolent, pro-Palestine protests. The same Cornell officials let the rapists off with apology essays"
➥Cracker influencer teams up with shitlib influencer to tell you the dumb bitch asked for and got what she deserved
How Peter Thiel became the Devil himself
Israeli finance minister calls for genocidal war on West Bank, annexation of south Lebanon
Irish Goalkeeper Gavin Bazunu’s Refusal to Play Against Israel Puts Him on the Right Side of History
Updated Google Satellite Images Show ‘Apocalyptic’ Destruction of Gaza by Israel
United States of Assholes, botched execution edition. Assholes
The Criminal Selfishness of Imperial Politics
"When Macklemore is dropped at the behest of the billionaire stadium owner Robert Kraft, it’s an exercise of the freedom of businesses to ‘demonstrate their values’ by deciding whom to platform. But when Ed Sheeran’s fans decide not to buy tickets to his performances, or even demand refunds, it’s bullying, mob behaviour. Since most people are not billionaires and do not own stadiums, they can exercise meaningful power only collectively. The collective exercise of power must therefore be demonised"
The AI extinction narrative is winning out
Why Big Tech Oligarchs Hate Democracy
Meta and Google are focused on obscure local elections
Art and censorship since 9/11Losing his religion
"It's weird how the federal government is constantly being hacked after DOGE gutted the government's cybersecurity agencies"
From shitpost to bullshitJournalism and its shitlord adversaries
Last gasp of the punchcardBalko's round-up
On the fundamental human right to exhibit bad faith
Useful shadowsUS Liberal Media Literacy Guide
The Work of Math in the Age of Artificial Reproduction
Creative Industries Have Been Eviscerated by AI
A Gravitational Battle Within the Earth Is Changing the Length of Days
Earth is tearing apart beneath the Pacific Northwest
YESTERDAY’S INSULTS ARE TOMORROW’S COMPLIMENTS
Why Do Dogs Tilt Their Heads When You Talk?
Familect{ feuilleton }Spectra Plectra
William the Blind on William the Blind's latest novel
Cormac McCarthy’s The Road and the Tradition of Apocalypse
Yeggs, grifters, and revolutionaries scheme and dream
The Monkee who became the original Cosmic Cowboy
An incredible archive of live shows from the 1980s
I vouch vouch vouch for the music of Oren Ambarchi






THE MAUVE NOTEBOOK

John Ashbery

On a set you need bush rebels,
that numbing little chair while passing.
If we knock 'em out
seven precincts are going to show up.
It looks like you don't need oil.
I think it'll be fine.
Did she think that might be good,
or for the man who listens to it,
nothing to be done or thought,
(section pending)?
 
Or for the man who listens to it,
an abrupt yawn, history or the other.
Home economics.  Dr. Singalong
can't find his way back.
I don't know about that, but
at her lamps do you still see
the awkward ceremony, too serious?
Leave it that way, imperfect start beyond
where I was going.
Prison outside the perpetual sonata,
the only anxiety,
since you wonder what they don't do,
from your red zero heart page
waiting to touch your face.
 
Although they know about it and
it literally doesn't exist,
no, stay up and go to sleep,
unless it falls on the right side of the brain
positioned for so many forgeries,
moon nugget...
 
I don't cut 'em any slack.
Assault on a clean front,
that's a lot to be turning into.
 
These residents, they start throwing 'em early.
Continue to open your door to mud!                                                          
 
Take the noon balloon to Rangoon,
gutta percha academy,
to the place of ice cream,
 
because, really, what difference does it make?
When it was time you went home.
Tears and flowers,
 
see how dirty your hands are.
We had a lovely dime.

Soon it will be seven I ask you.

1 comment:

  1. 1/nice to see a picture of stanley, and may his memory be a blessing - a bit surprising that you are currently down to one feline companion - the soon to arrive youngsters are quite photogenic - it's a year since spouse and self engaged a professional poisoner to rid our home of murine companions - i fear a new infiltration and have expressed to my human companion an intention to get a cat or two again if we see unambiguous evidence


    2/last night missus charley and I watched a pbs show about polar ice - narrated by a famous actor with a thick scottish accent - part of it showed an experiment that successfully thickened arctic sea ice in the winter by making holes in it and pumping up water from below - an inuk woman, a young mother from cambridge bay a.k.a. ikaluktutiak, was shown being hopeful about this - optimistic background music was provided - unlike many women from this ethnic group, such the former member of parliament mumilaaq qaqqaq, she did not have facial tattoos, making it easier for the noninuit audience to identify with her

    2.7/i'd call this another tragicomic anecdote from life in the anthropocene - to me this seemed somewhat more moving, and less ridiculous, than the idea that mechanical carbon capture and sequestration - either from combustion exhaust, or perhaps even just from the atmosphere - could reduce CO2 concentration in future - and yet a physics nobel prize winner and former secretary of energy has endorsed this concept

    3/nevertheless, there is beauty in the world, and love - jesus advised letting the tares and the grain keep growing in the same field, and separatinh them at harvest time - a thought-provoking metaphor

    4/happy trails to you, and all who come to read these words, until such time as we may [virtually] meet again

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