The bloggiest days of the Blog Days of Summer + the hardest busiest two weeks of work each year = my tablets on hiatus, my canvases on hiatus, my hiking on hiatus, my discing on hiatus, my fun on hiatus, my sleep intermittent. Not the clusterfuck, I unhappily with perverse glee still witness and document the clusterfuck for those who agree with me because REVOLUTION, up against the wall, motherfuckers
Airplane the single most criminally underrated and forgotten band ever
The grid below is legit though this post is more filler than placeholder, more placeholder that filler. My second of only two proofs of God is my birthday always falls on or right next to the single shittiest day of work each year. This song has been in my head for the last ten days, it happens every August, it's My Shittiest Two Weeks of Work a Year Theme Song, it bells, a good and salving thing
For all the people over the last five decades who called me fuckingnuts for screaming about these magacrackerchrister ofays, tell me you can reason with them like I can't cause I'm fuckingnuts, go ahead
"As if this week were not bizarre enough: Mount Pleasant residents tell me a group of federal agents gathered for a photo-op near a pro-immigrant banner, pictured below, then tore it down. In its place, they left a dildo. A neighbor's Ring camera captured the whole thing..."
"You understand this is just the beginning. In a few months (weeks?), it will become routine for Trump's Gestapo shitheads to start shooting people dead in America's streets. Meanwhile, Dem leaders brag about ... *sending a stern letter* to the murderous fascist regime"
"A senior administration official, as well as other officials, told Rolling Stone that it is a priority of Trump that these kinds of military deployments -- in times of relative calm -- become normalized in American political culture"
"It’s really not appreciated how committed our institutional elites are to making sure there’s never ever another moment like 2020 and the George Floyd protests. They believe this was the lowest point of their lives, they’re embarrassed it happened and they think *they* fueled/started it"
"Firing and demoralizing feminized jobs as enemies of the state while brazenly bribing men with violent jobs that almost instantly puts them into the middle of middle class is very basic gendered warfare. Fulfilling the manosphere’s promise"
Private prison giants now hold 90% of detained immigrants and aim to triple capacity for $1.5 billion in revenue
"Andrew Cuomo is counting on President Donald Trump and top Republicans to tell the party faithful to vote for him if they want to stop Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani from becoming the next mayor of New York"
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"Mamdani tells the press that Cuomo is still running because “Andrew Cuomo is someone who doesn’t understand that no means no”
"It's strange, suspicious even, to see a Democrat enact a policy that's good and popular, without the usual neoliberal trapdoors. You get conditioned over the decades to assume there's a trick, means-testing or something like it, waiting to be sprung"
"If the child were a dog or a cat, everyone would have donated to him"
No. 2 House Democrat Katherine Clark calls Gaza war a "genocide"
"It's awesome that American pundits are just allowed to be racist about me and my 14,000,000 brothers and sisters day in and day out for years and years and years with no consequences whatsoever"
"A virus that was neither mild enough to ignore nor lethal enough to unify a response managed to throw the United States into prolonged disarray causing unnecessary and severe harm"
"IT SHOULD TERRIFY YOU ALL THAT OUR SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS ARE CENSORING AND SUPPRESSING NEWS ABOUT THE ISRAELI GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL WHO WAS ARRESTED IN LAS VEGAS FOR PEDO CRIMES"
A few of people have asked me if I have considered (not asked me *to*) substack instead of the obsolete and dying blooger and no, (a) I'm not asking for money and (b) I knew it was just a matter of time before it was revealed Substack sucked like every fucking platform in late-capitalist dystopia
May 31st, BLCKDGRD traditional bleggalgazing day, chosen because Memorial Day weekend the fourth slowest holiday weekend in Blegsylvania and the official start of The Blog Days of Summer and the birthday of Chris Elliott (65 today), he performed this shitty blog's Official Bleggalgazing Anthem: go to the 32:45 minute mark of the below, Worldwide Pants deleted the standalone skit a few years ago
Driving solo to Michigan Monday for a week w C (two have advised me to not type out any kind of relation - wait, just got an email - no, I don't want to see the best thirteen Trump taco memes - no names if you have to mention it at all and certainly not what your relationship to that letter is). C may or not be Q's initial.
New Swans album dropped yesterday, there are three vacation standards, Swans, Lambchop, Destroyer, and I'm tired of Destroyer, this year's album, it's OK-enough I guess, so lots of Swans. What happens here to be determined per traditional BLCKDGRD vacation rules (good weather less, rain more). I still enjoy doing this - all of it, the gags, the songs, the grid, the burnt aargh, the poetry... Two more Bleggalgazing Anthems then this shitty blogs THEME SONG ONE above the Every Post Notley Poem until further notice
Sincere gratitude to buds, you have other places you could be but you're reading this sentence, thank you. Gonna get worse and never better, the clusterfuck, not you and me, when C, I mean Q, is my age it will be 2058, what world? bark please. Noise from Michigan or not
A short guide on how to starve a population to death
Donald Trump’s War on Gender Is Also a War on Government
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"It reminds us that at the heart of the modern state, the liberal state, is a Deweyite pragmatism that rejects all essentialisms. Currah reminds us that in restoring one of the oldest essentialisms of them all, sex, Trump has sought to roll back the entire Deweyite approach to modern governance itself"
Why the Supreme Court decision on firing independent agency heads is a big deal
"Notice how they gutted everything that had to do with statistics and data first, so it’ll take a long time to prove this callous policy killed women and babies"
"This sociopath destroyed countless lives and made life worse for millions of Americans, sneering at them as he indulged his narcissistic impulsivity. But now he has feelings. What are they and will he feel better soon? We asked in a six-part series. Today in the New York Times"
Infinite Contempt For Working People Is Not an Acceptable Default Position
"I don't know who needs to hear this, but doing ketamine, shrooms, and ecstacy on a daily basis while wielding immense political power and a security clearance is bad on multiple levels, and saying so doesn't stigmatize reasonable uses of these drugs or get Musk off the hook for his behavior"
"NY Times has been given the go-ahead by their Trump admin handlers to publish something that was already well-known before the election"
I read every new novel/short story collection of Updike and Cheever until they died. I read one Carver short story, thought I'd better read a second, confirmed I was right, never read another
Woman with antlers, deer-headed antlered woman in black against black lace, black-headed deer woman, Lady of the mountains whose antlers melt into lace. Lady of the mountains, emerges from my right side and all the lacy scars there, why is she a deer? Because l'm not anthropomorphic, soul of the mountain night. This is my echo from before, from what I had made for you vocally, and from before we acceded to the time line never like lace. Lady the mountain middle of no spatial universe. I have the antlers she says which extend from the deer head in the middle of our echo. Lady of Wild Animals, for whom the animals return, the deer with the heart or breath line, through the mouth to the center echoing. Do you hear the words of the conquerors or do you hear the voices of deer? echoes, can you find a center in an echo? I'm finding, with the finder, the antlers paths leading from my head. I am the center of it, the center of the lady.
That's this shitty blog's Theme Song Two. There are two permanent seats in My Sillyass Desert Island Five Game, David Thomas' projects in general (and there are many - Two Pale Boys, notably) and of course Pere Ubu in particular sit in one of them. More later maybe, I'm hoping for not
My Personal Theme Song One, easily the Ubu song I've played on cassette, CD, digital, YouTube, in my head, and, wait, now the 16th time today, most, cause. Please play it loud
I once thought shitlord planning far more micro than Disaster Capitalism but was wrong, as a macro Disaster Capitalism, a primary requisite requirement for Vulture Capitalism's success, genocidally and sloppily brutally efficient by deliberately reckless design, shouldn't the planning for enshittification be shitty?
No one, and by no one I mean the .0000000000000000001% of people in this world (including those blocs opposing the United States of Assholes bloc) who make decisions that affect my life and yours and everybody else's (hence the simplicity of disaster management of Disaster Capitalism's Vulture Capitalism) has a problem with the elimination of Palestinians and destruction and disappearance of Palestine
Bonus: the digitally-recorded-in real-time elimination of Palestine and Palestinians is an obedience training video they know you will watch and, if not foolish, understand what awaits you if you challenge the power of the .0000000000000000001%
Head shot. First draft before I fuck it up with watercolors tonight. New black, five parts black acrylic ink, two parts burnt sienna and two parts burnt umber acrylic ink, one part fire engine red acrylic ink infused in clear elmer's glue. Yes, I'll probably show it to you if it works out as I hope, have some Weeed
Lindsay Buckingham is 75 today, I'm stupid for his music and this is one of this shitty blog's Theme Songs, fuck if I can remember what number (or even how many they are and I sure as fuck can't name them all, so obsolete is *that* gag):
Iran Attacked Israel Only After U.S. Rejected Its Moderate Stance
"Yet despite this asymmetry of media coverage, it’s never enough for some supporters of Israel, who seem to think that any pro-Palestinian voice on the airwaves is evidence of underlying antisemitism across the media. The Jewish Chronicle, looking to regain credibility after it published made-up stories about Israeli intelligence, went on the attack. Stephen Pollard, its former editor who once described the JC as ‘Israel’s candid friend’, fumed that the BBC’s Today programme gave airtime to an ‘Iranian government apologist, Prof Seyed Mohammad Marandi of Tehran University, to broadcast a series of grotesque antisemitic slurs’
US officials quietly backed Israel’s military push against Hezbollah
"The truth is, the West and above all the United States have not reluctantly gone along with but are actively aiding Israel. A fact that is obvious from even a cursory glance at mainstream media sources. Its war aims, the "neutralisation" of Gaza and destruction of Hamas, reducing and, if possible, defeating Hezbollah, and bombing targets in Syria are American war aims. They want Iran's regional influence pared back, and to see it punished for the assistance it has rendered Russia in its pointless Ukraine quagmire. And the State Department, loyally followed by Germany, France, and the UK, have gone about it in the most underhanded way"
"Everyone understands exactly what this prosecution actually is. Every journalist that has covered my case, everyone in this courtroom, understands what this prosecution actually is. It has nothing to do with punishing people who disseminate pro-Nazi propaganda. It is about punishing political dissent, and intimidating critics into silence. I’m not here because I put a swastika on my book cover. I am here because I put it behind a “Covid” mask. I am here because I dared to criticize the German authorities. I am here because I refused to shut up and follow orders"
PJ Harvey’s Is This Desire?: A darkly beautiful look inward
Out of all the new music I've bought in 2024 listened to the the new Tindersticks most, not close
THE DAY RODIN'S THINKER STOPPED THINKING AND OTHER POEMS
Bill Knott
The main cause of strife down through history is middle names Yes I said middle names damn me Logjam fur was talking to monocle blubber While dripping wax flirts with shipwreck and widowers trained to attack fossils looked on
I mean think of them always straining and sweating To stop your first and last names from coming together So's you could have some emergency peace and be a whole person How many wars did these copulars start these cognomenical cloggomites
No no don't condemn them poor hermaphro-handles crushed in between don't They keep the right holding things in natural balance apart oh Disruptive middle monikers
They sparred argue com- Plained all through that pom-blue betwixting day But none noticed the light pause every now and now and then to strop some rays on their umbilicord (for at evening the west is a sword- swallower) so engrossed were they in this strangely ignored problem
Whelp, I seem to still be here and own my own name
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Ten years ago I would have fretted until confirmed and while I haven't achieved full Fuck-it I am fuckmiles closer now than ever before. Below taken during a root canal in 2016 halfway between full Fuck-it and where Fuck-it plus or minus is now
More signs of the apocalypse - the Grateful Dead are one of this year's Kennedy Center Honorees, so fuck me, and if you think don't think Kamala Harris will adopt and continue to prosecute Joe's genocide - have you been watching the savagery of the neverending Israeli genocide, ethnic cleansing, and land theft behind the fog of Joe's disintegration on live TV, 24-7 coverage, this year's hit tv show - you're a dope, but at least you're not taping a menstrual pad to your ear to support King Cracker, this is the communicative principle, yes? Here's a secret video of the Democrat Party's brain trust directing the flock on offing Joe and what to say after Joe offed
Today's bleggalgaze: the guy above, fifteen years ago I was in a group blog with him and others, I would have been fretting the renewal of domain name then, now I can't even remember the blog's name beyond part of it was Area 51. I think
"Where to go is difficult. If you speak Mandarin and they’ll let you in, China’s not a bad choice. Avoid the UK unless you have no other options: Britain is in terminal decline. In general Europe is in decline and the chance of the Atlantic Meridian Overturning Current (AMOC) stopping makes it questionable for those who are younger or who have children, but while Europe is going down, the welfare state still exists and will take longer to go away, so long as you choose your destination carefully"
DNC’s Plan to Force Biden’s Nomination Is Everything People Hate About the DNC
"The DNC chairman was a lobbyist for Bank of America, BP, Google, Boeing and Big Pharma…and yet some people are suddenly shocked that he’s lying and trying to rig a democratic process, I mean please"
"It will never stop being funny that elected Democratic Congress members and senators are openly telling reporters they’ve just accepted that Biden is losing and when random dipshits like me on Twitter also do this somehow the collapse of democracy is my fault instead"
"Don't let this sad coda to his long career be his only legacy! I prefer to remember him as he was in his prime: a bagman for corporate lords, architect of the racist Crime Bill and the family-crushing Bankruptcy Bill and ardent champion of mass murder in Iraq"
The media are doing this meme again for the Trump shooter lol
"Every new totalitarian system is preceded by some sort of civil war. You can’t just implement totalitarianism out of nowhere. In order to impose totalitarianism on society, you need to tear society apart, pit the masses against each other, foment fanaticism, mass hysteria, and hatred. Above all you need to foment fear. Once you have torn society apart and whipped the masses into a mindless paroxysm of fear and hate and murderous rage, you can implement your new form of totalitarianism fairly easily, as people will be desperate for the restoration of “order.”
It is impossible to overstate what pussies crackerwhisperers think crackers are (and are not wrong)
