Even writing in tablets feels like pointless work now and gives me no pleasure or clarification or solace, so powerful is the Duh of Our Clusterfuckocene
No one is giving *me* a $600M flying palace and it's my fault Newark Airport is so fucked up, my apologies. If and when my daughter is my age it will be 2058, the Earth will still here, what world will be? Neck Gaiters will be the name of my next band, I am telling you three times our reprogramming is far from complete and ever ongoing: SeatSix, Dr Z, and I disced 27 holes at Seneca past Saturday and 36 holes at Middletown past Sunday and we held zero conversations on our accelerating immiseration and enshittification. Resorting to old and trusted gags a self-indulgent salve, true, and too many WFMU DJs now enjoy their mic-breaks more than playing music and too many now like collaging-in dialogues from movies and television shows, this angers me more happily than contemplating my future refrigerator box home down by Rock Creek where RFK Jr swims. The Blog Days of Summer have started, the AI-bots scrubbing me didn't get the memo. Hey, new Gnod
"Federal agents' seemingly universal adoption of neck gaiters worn just below the eyes like they're robbing the railroad is emblematic of this time in the US"
"I wonder how many January 6th pardon recipients and unarrested Proud Boys have gotten a job with ICE over the last few months, I'm sure they'd savor anonymously roughing up black and brown people for free, much less getting immunity and payment for doing so"
Newark’s Mayor Arrested at Protest Outside ICE Detention Center
"There's not a single Democratic Party official, powerbroker, elite, pundit, or politician who has faced any negative political, financial, or social status consequence from their participation in the decisions that resulted in their party losing two elections to Donald Trump"
"If the GOP starts imprisoning Democratic politicians, we know what happens next: Those Democrats will issue statements from prison about how they look forward to working with their Republican friends on bipartisan solutions"
"Democrats reached a deal on a stablecoin bill that will give them a fake amendment on Trump crypto corruption that is designed to fail, so collaborators can say they did the best they could. "Schumer 101," said one source."
"The metamorphosis of J. D. Vance from economic realist to champion of Trump’s grievance-fueled politics reveals how little Democrats have done to connect with working-class Americans
UHC shareholders are suing because after the CEO shooting, the company was “no longer willing” to use “aggressive, anti-consumer tactics” to generate the profits they were promised
Someone said we needed a breezeway to bark down remnants of super storm Elias jugularly. Alas it wasn’t my call. I didn’t have a call or anything resembling one. You see I have always been a rather dull-spirited winch. The days go by and I go with them. A breeze falls from a nearby tower finds no breezeway, goes away along a mission to supersize red shutters.
Alas if that were only all. There’s the children’s belongings to be looked to if only one can find the direction needed and stuff like that. I said we were all homers not homos but my voice dwindled in the roar of Hurricane Edsel. We have to live out our precise experimentation. Otherwise there’s no dying for anybody, no crisp rewards.
Batman came out and clubbed me. He never did get along with my view of the universe except you know existential threads from the time of the peace beaters and more. He patted his dog Pastor Fido. There was still so much to be learned and even more to be researched. It was like a goodbye. Why not accept it, anyhow? The mission girls came through the woods in their special suitings. It was all whipped cream and baklava. Is there a Batman somewhere, who notices us and promptly looks away, at a new catalogue, say, or another racing-car expletive coming back at Him?
The traditional BLCKDGRD Bigass Holy Day Pynchon's Birthday post, he is 88 today: I wouldn't be me without his novels, especially Gravity's Rainbow, Mason & Dixon, and double especially Against the Day. Here, pages 606-608 Bantam mass market 1974 edition Gravity's Rainbow, Pynchon's main theme:
But, if I'm riding through it, the
Real Text, right now, if this is it... or if I passed it today somewhere
in the devastation of Hamburg, breathing the ash-dust, missing it
completely... if that the IG built on this site were not at all the final shape of it, but only an arrangement of fetishes, come-ons to call down special tools in the form of 8th AF bombers yes
the "Allied" planes all would have been, ultimately, IG-built, by way
of Director Krupp, through his English interlocks - the bombing was the
exact industrial process of conversion, each release of energy placed
exactly in space and time. each shockwave plotted in advance to bring precisely tonight's wreck
into being thus decoding the Text, thus coding, recoding, decoding the
holy Text.... If it is in working order, what is it meant to do? The
engineers who built it never knew there were any further steps to be
taken. Their design was "finalized," and they could forget it. It means this War was never political
at all, the politics was all theater, all just to keep the people
distracted... secretly it was being dictated instead by the needs of
technology... by a conspiracy between human beings and techniques, by
something that needed the energy-burst of war, crying, "Money be damned,
the very life of [insert name of Nation] is at stake," but meaning,
most likely, dawn is nearly here, I need my night's blood, my funding, funding, ahh, more more....
The real crises were crises of allocation and priority, not among firms
- it was only staged to look that way - but among the different
Technologies, Plastics, Electronics, Aircraft, and their needs which are
only understood by the ruling elite.... Yes but technology only responds (how
often this argument has been iterated, dogged and humorless as a
Gaussian reduction, among the younger Schwarzkommando especially), "All
very well to talk about having the tiger by the tail, but do you think
we'd've had the Rocket if someone, some specific somebody with a name
and a penis hadn't wanted to chuck a ton of Amatol 300
miles and blow up a block full of civilians? Go ahead, capitalize the T
on technology. deify it if it'll make you feel less responsible - but it
puts you in with the neutered, brother, in with the eunuchs keeping the
harems of our stolen Earth for the numb and joyless hardons of human
sultans, human elite with no right at all to be where they are - " We have to look for power sources
here, and distribution networks we were never taught, routes of power
our teachers never imagined, or were encouraged to avoid... we have to
find meters whose scales are unknown in the world, draw our own
schematics, getting feedback, making connections, reducing the error,
trying to learn the real function... zeroing in on what incalculable
plot? Up here, on the surface, coaltars, hydrogeneration, synthesis were
always phony, dummy functions to hide the real, the planetary mission
yes perhaps centuries in the unrolling... this ruinous planet, waiting
for it Kabbalists and new alchemists to discover the Key, teach the
mysteries to others...
2018 Update: This is the year of the scheduled Against the Day reread, I didn't think it would happen, I don't think it will happen, but I can no longer say it won't happen.
2019 Update: In current rereads I am in the Casino Hermann Goering
2020 Update: Did finish 2019 reread of Gravity's Rainbow, taking this year off not because Pynchon but because me - my eyes seem able to read fiction only on a shitlord's paperwhite electronic reader, I don't want to read Pynchon on a shitlord's paperwhite electronic reader
2021 Update: I'm on voluntary vacation from rereading anything (and involuntary vacation from being able to read any novel), but when I do again voluntarily reread Pynchon again (I can't imagine there will be anything new but the dude still *is* breathing) it's Mason's and Dixon's turn
2023 Update: I am in the zone
2024 Update: post title of course from GV, I am now with the Counterforce. Ed's 2024 Pynchon bday post 2025 Update: as mentioned in the last post, I hope my novel aversion (rimshot), if it still exists in October this year, can be broken by a new Pynchon novel, Shadow Ticket, I'm certainly gonna try
The strangest aspect of the clusterfuck for me is that the shittier & speedier & deeper it descends into the inevitable the bigger & stinkier the duh of typing about it becomes. Document, don't explain, all is serf-evident (sic). Compulsively grid it, me
High Holy Day day-after-tomorrow here, will the guy still be alive in October when his new novel drops and will that be the first novel I attempt to read between then and now? cause I've stopped reading novels as in not even trying any more for reasons more spiritual than physical and I'm going blind. Yes, this is a bleggalgaze, seeing more of them of late around Blegsylvania. Three last Pere Ubu songs, I've listened to everything I own and I own almost everything, this death hurt
"For example, I would suggest that you be careful about nostalgia for a democratic polity that never was. Be careful about activists and organizations appended to the Democratic Party. Be careful about the podcasters who built an audience by caping for Bernie Sanders. Be careful about celebrities who moderate support for Palestine under pressure. Be careful about genocide profiteers in the film and publishing industries. Be careful about the next shiny young politician who comes out of nowhere to save us. Be careful about anti-Zionists who ignore Palestinians. Be careful about anyone who prioritizes the settler’s existential angst. Be careful about anything that tries to make a place for oppression in this world"
"I really, really want people to stop saying Democratic leaders like Jeffries and Schumer are "weak" or "inadequate." They aren't weak; they are morally depraved. They are ACTIVELY colluding in Trump's murderous and evil nihilism.
"It really tells you everything you need to know about the Democratic Party that they can't go after Trump for the most blatant corruption scandal in the history of the presidency because some of them are in bed with the same corruption coin guys"
"The Trump administration's slashing of academic research seems insane from outside their worldview. But what Christopher Rufo says here makes sense when you understand that they do genuinely see the entire concept of science as their deadly enemy"
Trump Will Never Run Out of Ways to Humiliate the Firms That Caved to Him
"for sociological reasons the public messaging from Democratic insiders about abandoning lines of conflict always pretends to be about strategy but it's important to be clear eyed that a core faction of Democrats are *ideologically* opposed to anything vaguely progressive"
Last night the police at UCLA charged into students with batons in hand, arresting several, for attempting a public screening of “The Encampments” documentary on the one-year anniversary of the UCLA encampment
"lol the Zombiecrats are polling even lower than Trump, their "playing dead" strategy working as brilliantly as one would expect"
"Really baffled by Whitmer and Newsom. Forget morality and decency. It's dumb politically. Of all the times to make overtures to MAGA, you're doing it when Trump's polls are tanking, he's getting throttled in court, and weeks before the tariff pain hits?"
Men duly understand the river of life, misconstruing it, as it widens and its cities grow dark and denser, always farther away.
And of course that remote denseness suits us, as lambs and clover might have if things had been built to order differently.
But since I don’t understand myself, only segments of myself that misunderstand each other, there’s no reason for you to want to, no way you could
even if we both wanted it. Do those towers even exist? We must look at it that way, along those lines so the thought can erect itself, like plywood battlements.
Guess what I've been listening to since last Wednesday
First of two last attempts to rematerialize Hamster in our physical world, the second on Friday
David Thomas' death hurt more than any not George not only because of lost future music but because it reminded me of what I've neglected in what once paid a huge return on investment. The fuck is wrong with me. My left eye:
Monologue, like always, in the grid, the post a poem. I have not written one in a tablet in months, a year. As I type this White House officials are calling Jeff Bezos a CCP operative even as Amazon sprints to deny the story that sparked the White House shitfit
Fake news or not viz Bozos, shitlord buyer's remorse *is* kicking in, will not save us. It's not the march to authoritarianism the shitlord's regret it's its execution by the now demented and unreliable grievance-driven narcissistic shit-smelling sociopath, "unreliable" the key word. Trump dumped will not save us. My right eye:
Is this marsupial town? Is this arachnid town? When David Thomas and Richard Thompson played together:
"People used to say that when fascism came to America it would be wrapped in the flag, but nobody realized that it would also arrive in the name of free speech and fighting antisemitism"
Yeah, watch motherschumering Democrats run away from it
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"The reckoning is here. And now that this culture of timidity is on display, these same do-nothing Democrats want to blame our losses on the defense of Black people, trans kids, and immigrants, instead of on their own lack of guts and gumption"
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I guarantee you motherschumering Democrats hate this fat boy more than the fat boy the claim to hate. Guarantee
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I mean, the likelihood that this is grandstanding for 2028 and/or a test balloon rather than a genuine call for revolution is huge and massive, but even if it was OKed as an op by motherschumering Democrats I guarantee motherschumering Democrats hate Pritzker
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Adding, I bet Pritzker didn't say a word about Democrats' full-throated full-walleted full bomb-giving support of the Gazan genocide and if asked would offer some version of "Israel has the right to defend itself"
"The Dem Party coverup of Biden's dementia should be one of the great political scandals of the 21st-c. They lied to their base about Biden for years, while running cover for his Gaza genocide, sealing Trump's victory. Rotten failures from top to bottom"
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I agree with most of this, but they didn't fail - they still have their power and rank in their shitty party and reassured their donors of their sincere corrupt greed
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"Periodic reminder that the media should stop treating the ADL like a legit civil rights organization or a group motivated by concerns of antisemitism. It quite clearly functions as an apologist for Israel and a purveyor of anti-Palestinian racism.
"AOC either flat out lied or was flat out lied to before the convention and if she expects any future in politics she needs to publicly state which was it. Either burn your sources or eat a big plate of shit, but she can’t just ignore this"
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"If you think AOC is simply doing the best she can working within a rigged system, I think it's incumbent on you to consider what she, and by extension you, got in return for co-signing such a murderous lie at the DNC
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I. Hate. Motherfucking. Democrats, but I *really* want to hit this corrupt complicit narcissitic and mega-icky shitsmear in the head with a garden shovel, once to off him, second time to celebrate
Not Taking a Position on Gaza IS Taking a Position on Gaza
"They are having serious debates on Israeli TV as to whether newborn babies in Gaza are innocent or whether they should be killed"
"Yes, this is a heinous thing. But this EEOC investigation was actually started by Biden administration last summer, as one brief passage in the story makes clear. In this and so many other cases, Biden blazed a trail for Trump's turbo-charged weaponization of 'anti-semitism'"
"Agents' had no badges, refused to show warrant, then put him in unmarked van"
Sooner or later, dictators shut down the free press
"A president with a net worth of $4.1 billion employing an education secretary with a net worth of $3.2 billion to confiscate wages and social security from poor and working-class people for education debt is the epitome of America
One of the great ironies of my life is that the greatest kindest smartest coolest awesomest animal on our Earth is the symbol of Asshole-Americans, who when rich enough pay money to kill them
"Earth is 4.6 billion years old. Let's scale that to 46 years. We have been here for 4 hours. Our industrial revolution began one minute ago. In that time, we have destroyed 50% of the world's forests. This is not sustainable"
I divorced DC United after the 2014 season for multiple reasons one of which is that MLS is not a serious profession soccer league, doesn't want to be, never will be, but will always get stupider and sillier
