Charlie sent me a link to the trailer above for a documentary on the cats of Istanbul. I just showed it to Earthgirl, she says we're seeing it after I said I'm frightened to, there will no doubt be cruelty. I can take cat on cat violence, but human on cat violence - and I don't know that there is human on cat violence in the documentary - but I swear, I've started daydreaming of (humanely, a single quick bullet to the head, I'm nor a monster, am I?) killing motherfuckers. It's limited to assholes who hurt animals at the moment - the scars of the rescued Pit Bull I met yesterday on the trail yesterday, such a sweetheart, I'd kill the motherfucker that did that to her - but I believe I can branch out and expand my horizons.
- (A) We're being conditioned to.
- (B) We may have to.
- John McCain is the opposition to Trump in Fakenewsistan. That is, the news Trump calls fake is calling John McCain the opposition, and the news Trump calls fake has called McCain a true and honorable beyond dispute moral beacon despite evidence for decades he's fake (psst - the fake news knows, so great McCain, the goat of fakers, the fake news holds).
- Psst. McCain is not opposing Trump.
- Keep straight for 440 miles. I don't like long drives anymore. Did I ever? Fake!
- The Waynesburg Sheetz was a traditional piss-stop going to and from Gambier to visit Planet. All along 79 through Greene County were billboards bitching at Obama for destroying the coal industry.
- The Madness of King Donald.
- There's profit in detaining refugees.
- Lambs to the slaughter.
- All-Star Sunday.
- In case you need one, another
overview and historyobit of Neoliberalism. - Sam Ronan?
- The creativity of nihilism.
- Maggie's weekly links.
- { feuilleton }'s weekly links.
- Elliott Green?
- David Bowie and Egon Schiele totally nude, naked.
- Kedi, The Cats of Istanbul, we're going this coming Saturday night, let me know by tomorrow if you want to join us. It's at E Street, we'll eat first.
- New The Necks, yo.
MIND
Richard Wilbur
Mind in its purest play is like some bat
That beats about in caverns all alone,
Contriving by a kind of senseless wit
Not to conclude against a wall of stone.
It has no need to falter or explore;
Darkly it knows what obstacles are there,
And so may weave and flitter, dip and soar
In perfect courses through the blackest air.
And has this simile a like perfection?
The mind is like a bat. Precisely. Save
That in the very happiest intellection
A graceful error may correct the cave.
...a documentary on the cats of Istanbul. I just showed it to Earthgirl, she says we're seeing it after I said I'm frightened to, there will no doubt be cruelty. I can take cat on cat violence, but human on cat violence - and I don't know that there is human on cat violence in the documentary...
ReplyDeleteNow, Torun is far from a gritty filmmaker — you won't see these cats killing birds or hear talk about neutering — and she gives everything an idealized icing.
http://www.npr.org/2017/02/15/515188621/ode-to-the-street-cat-kedi-follows-istanbuls-famous-felines