By the Clanking Behind His Descent

I was going to watch helmetball at this guy's place but I did have to work and I did (do) have a fever so I didn't watch helmetball. I was in the car driving to buy club soda and clementines when I heard Ken and Barbie Countrysinger professionally harmonize the horrible "America the Beautiful" and punched another station in before somebody sang the more horrible National Anthem. I saw twoots on twatter re: Super Bowl because you follow everything or nothing on twutter, I take it from twuuter the militantly homoerotic and IN YOUR FUCKING FACE PATRIARCHAL PATRIOTISM is still profitably mandatory. I think I did everybody a favor by not watching the Super Bowl by myself. Great sentence, fine metaphors abound.

One last reiteration for this year: In no order other than I'm going down the left blogrolls first, here are, as best I remember, the new additions since the last BAD: Nothing to Say and Saying It, Tom Clark, From Wine to Water, Stalin's Mustache, (Notes on) Politics, Theory & Photography, SOUTH/SOUTH, Written Word, Spoken Word, Departure Delayed, Your Man for Fun in Rapidan, Though Cowards Flinch, Big Bald Bastard, Leftwing Nutjob, Indiscriminate Dust, Anarchurious, I Ain't Drunk, Just Drinking, The Aboniblog, Pied Cow Blog, diary von davidly. Check them out. Be Kind.

• Finance, food, and force in U.S. foreign policy.
• When talk of war exceeds idle chatter.
• Runaway train.
• Fixing Hitler, and what we can do.
• Are conservatives more fearful than liberals?
• Go to the long paragraph beneath the quote, substitute Obama for Romney, liberal for conservative, viola.
• He is a frothy mix of fecal matter and lube.
• Einstein students issued flyers on overcoming homosexuality.
• Marion Berry says Little Danny Snyder suxxxxxx.
• I'd never seen this KITH skit until last night.
• Bernhard for those of you who do.
• 73 Morton Feldman albums.
• Beefheart MP3 from 1968.
• On Glass.
• Bill Callahan covers Leonard Cohen.
• Stream some Posies.
• Stream some Apache Dropout.
• Stream the new Shearwater.

EX MACHINA

Linda Gregorson

When love was a question, the message arrived

in the beak of a wire and plaster bird. The coloratura   

was hardly to be believed. For flight,

it took three stagehands: two

on the pulleys and one on the flute. And you   

thought fancy rained like grace.

Our fog machine lost in the Parcel Post, we improvised   

with smoke. The heroine dies of tuberculosis after all.   

Remorse and the raw night air: any plausible tenor

might cough. The passions, I take my clues

from an obvious source, may be less like climatic events   

than we conventionalize, though I’ve heard

of tornadoes that break the second-best glassware   

and leave everything else untouched.   

There’s a finer conviction than seamlessness

elicits: the Greeks knew a god

by the clanking behind his descent.

The heart, poor pump, protests till you’d think

it’s rusted past redemption, but

there’s tuning in these counterweights,   

celebration’s assembled voice.