- Daily obamapostasy
- Had the Democratic Party ran as coordinated, savvy, angry, and vindictive a campaign against Trump in 2016 as they run their 2020 campaign against Sanders the 2020 campaign season would be all about the Republican primaries.
- Buttigieg, Klobuchar, now O'Rourke, especially Warren all campaigning to be the running-mate of a dementia-addled at best probably Alzeimer-struck at worse war-monger hankering to cut Social Security in his few lucid moments, all think the quickest path to the presidency Biden's election and early death
- There will be no Biden presidency
- To be afraid of songs
- I worked in a carryout pizza parlor run by a minor Russian mobster in this strip mall in the late 1970s!
- Words without vowels
- Poem below and MORE
THE ARTIST MUST INCLINE HIS HEAD JUST SO
Matthew Zapruder
Often I have an idea and say it immediately.
If people praise me I wear the world
shyly on top of my head.
At times I'm compelled
like a fever to float
without any distinctions,
a sea of tin cans, love letters and greed.
The world is good for my pleasure and consumption.
I admire it totally, it stands
like a mountain inside and outside me.
Some art may be good, some dishonest.
There's no pressing need for conscription or liberty,
though a carful of people rides down the highway
too fast, clouded in song.
My lack of compassion astounds me,
and must not come to know itself.
It's true, I've never done anything
quite like striking you across the face.
There is of course the question of fate,
and whether it can be angered.
Example: when not overpowered by grief
there are proper and improper ways to mourn.
In such cases my gestures are shadows
cast far from myself
by one who crawls through the library,
touching the books that she touched.
I have dream after dream and forget each one.
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ReplyDeletei like the colours - i am reminded of the mix of frozen sweet pepper strips sold by trader joe's under the product name Mélange À Trois
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i too doubt the probability of a biden presidency - we'll know more later
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Have pity cried the Protestant preacher
Listen to these lonesome words I sell
From inside the fire someone is trying to reach you
The secret is - but only time can tell
The secret is - but only time will tell
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyrJdxOQ_DA&list=RDnyrJdxOQ_DA&start_radio=1
in a seach for something tatesque i got to
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BY DEAN YOUNG
This time I’m not going to say a thing
about deity. It’s not the blizzard,
it’s three days after. Trinkle from thawing
roofs, ruined crocus pronging through.
Ruin, I promise, won’t be mentioned again.
Trees, sure, still begging in the road, split
to the bole but this isn’t about the chainsaw.
A pruning saw will have to do. The puppets
aren’t hanging themselves in each other’s
strings. Everyone’s easily identifiable
beneath the funny mask. Somewhere in Oregon,
Mary has another month to go, she’s comfortable
in any position for thirty-five seconds. Lulu,
we know you’re in there but no one’s
blaming you for reluctance to come out.
Poetry is the grinding of a multiplicity
throwing off sparks, wrote Artaud
and look what that got him: toothlessness
and shock therapy. Your dad, who has the worst
teeth of anyone I know, once ordered eggplant
in a steakhouse. Do not order eggplant
in a steakhouse turned out to be more
than aphoristicly true. Do not spend a lot
of time in an asylum writing cruel poems
if you can help it, one Artaud is enough.
In Kandinsky’s Blue 2, there’s a shape
in two rows of shapes that seems okay
although to the right’s a capsized canoe
full of mathematicians, to the left a bow
about to launch the killer astrolabe.
By what manner is the soul joined to
the body? How about climbing a ladder
of fire? No thanks. On TV, a rhino’s
lying in some red dust, munching a thorn.
You wouldn’t think he could ejaculate
for half an hour straight, but you’d be wrong.
See that cloud, it might weigh 10,000 pounds
which is about average for a cloud.
Happy birthday, happy birthday to you.
Tony says Mary is always writing about the sacred.
Talcum powder, binoculars, this decimated
planet. I know, a promise has been made
but Tony’s been sick for years and no one
knows with what. Flax oil, bark tinctures,
corticosteroids. He’s not exactly someone
you’d trust to drive your car, but still.
Something awful’s coming, isn’t it?
Would it help if I said Amen?
Dean Young, “Acceptance Speech” from First Course in Turbulence. Copyright © 1999 by Dean Young.
MFPD
ReplyDeletelambert strether [not his real name] writes at nakedcapitalism.com
Wasserman Schultz [on endorsing Joe Biden]: “It was a very easy decision. We need to make sure that we put the best candidate forward who can not only bring the nightmare of the last four years and the Trump presidency to an end, but make sure we elect a president who has a real track record of fighting for the values and the priorities of folks in Florida.”
• Wasserman Schultz actually had to resign as DNC after rigging 2016 for Sanders, as proved by her email correspondence. That this story is treated as an endorsement, as opposed to a hilarious millstone of a non-endorsement, tells you all you need to know about the Democrat Establishment.
Lambert Strether (the name of the protagonist in Henry James' Ambassadors*) is a digital bud, his anti-MPPD creds are impeccable, and Wasserman is a very MFPD if not as an important one as she thinks she is.
DeleteDennis Perrin is right:
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It's interesting how the Democratic misleadership is actually so adept at losing elections. It's easy to see that four more years of Trump is coming our way, which is too bad really. If his first term was awful, just wait till we see the second one. You can bet the Democratic misleadership is going to love what Trump will be doing. Social Security will be on the chopping block, more raping of wilderness areas that are supposed to be protected, more war, and the Dems will love it. It's what they wish they could get away with. So why should they care if they win or lose because they win either way. And any way, focusing on Trump is fucking stupid. He's not the problem. Trump is a spineless moron with the IQ of a dead duck which makes him perfect for our owners. They can get him to do whatever they want. I suppose one could hope that this particular election cycle would show everyone what a farce our elections are. But I wouldn't count on it.
Robert Payne - you and dennis perrin might be right
Deleteon the other hand, best selling historian and talking head jon meacham, speaking on msnbc earlier this morning, characterized biden's primary victories as growing out of the public's desire to return to normality, and expressed the belief that a significant number of anti-hillary trump voters from last time would go for biden this time
maybe that will happen - the world is so full of a number of things, i'm sure we should all be as happy as kings
my weekly donations to tio bernie will continue for a while longer
nevertheless, my mental jukebox is playing 'the dream is over' segment of a john lennon song in which he repudiates belief in a number of things - including gita, zimmerman, the beatles
what do i believe? i find much to agree with, or at least hope is true, in the thought of pierre teilhard de chardin, sj
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Pierre-Teilhard-de-Chardin
for his service as a stretcher bearer in world war i, de chardin was awarded the legion of honour
my mother's father was in the trenches during that war - he was awarded a purple heart
the last paragraph of the britannica bio of de chardin:
Theologically, Teilhard saw the process of organic evolution as a sequence of progressive syntheses whose ultimate convergence point is that of God.... Evil is represented by Teilhard merely as growing pains within the cosmic process: the disorder that is implied by order in process of realization.
It wouldn't surprise me regarding Trumpists voting for Biden since I believe a lot of people that voted Trump last time did so more out of dislike of the Dem elites than any love for Trump. However a Biden presidency would be pretty much as awful as four more years of Trump. What does surprise me even though I should know better is how well the propaganda against Bernie has worked.
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