Was going to wait to post the grid below after tonight's State of the Shitshow speech which (has the potential to deserve its very own grid of outrage) I will not watch or listen to, have the grid now but not before a self-portrait of me vaguely remembering when I did not feel this ever-present frenzy of anxiety and seething that I will be living in a cardboard box down by the river by the time I'm 70 after my life savings and Social Security are stolen (provided I'm not first beaten to death in prison serving my life sentence for typing *fuck crackers* and especially *fuck christers,* you'd think my adamantly and relentlessly typing I. Hate. Motherfucking. Democrats (upgraded to MOTHERFUCKING DEMOCRATS ARE THE ENEMY in the grid below) would earn me slightly less harsh daily beatings but my jailers will be weird and creepy grievance-filled vengeful and sadistic cracker and christer white men)
Is also my daughter's birthday present to be delivered when we're in Michigan the first week of April should the world still be here then, the above just one of the dozens of layouts the two pieces, both double-sided, can make. She won't see it here, she and my son-in-law established and have maintained a media blackout of Daily Life in the Clusterfuckaboomocene in an attempt to live a semblance of a quasi-normal life in the United States of Assholes so she most definitely no longer reads this shitty blog. At the other place I've stopped listing the ingredients of each hexjeff because fuck Jeff, that guy who keeps typing I am telling you three times we are being reprogrammed, doesn't he know that it's wrong, it makes him anxious
"There’s more outrage and media coverage over Trump shouting at Zelenskyy than Israel deliberately starving Gaza by withholding humanitarian aid"
People totally underestimate how much Trump deliberately and provocatively breaking kayfabe wins him adoration and devotion from Asshole-Americans and, as or more importantly, greases the normalcy of his daily fuckton of outright deliberate lies
"This cri de coeur from Rory Stewart, a fancy part of the Anglo-American establishment, shows how the 80 years of propaganda about America's love for democracy, etc. was less about fooling the plebes than allowing the people at top to live with themselves"
"We need a term for a cultural tendency, above all in drama, where the narrative tension depends almost entirely on the characters being unbelievably, unrealistically thick, obtuse, obdurate and incommunicative. Idiodrama? Thickodrama? Writersarelazyhacksdrama? I hate it"
"Major news organizations are making a conscious choice to frame Israel’s total violation of the ceasefire agreement as Hamas rejecting it. This is a demonstrable lie & has been through the entire duration of Israel’s war against Gaza. Israel is rejecting the deal it signed"
"Trump is definitely a victory for accelerationism. Harris would have dragged out the end of American Empire. So in a sense I'm very grateful to Trump"
"Just so we're clear, announcing that you will starve a civilian population in order to alter the terms of a ceasefire deal is a flagrant war crime of the highest order. You would not know that from U.S. headlines"
"Democrats are really going to get into the streets to prolong an unwinnable war but wouldn't be caught dead at a rally to stop a genocide that has resulted in the deaths of over 200,000, mostly women and children"
"After spending years of talking about how Trump is so corrupt, so monstrous, so misogynistic, to have anyone in our party suggest that Andrew Cuomo has a role to play basically makes our leaders look like cynical do-nothings who have no morals”
"The US MAGA Nazis have declared "open season" on US Republicans not loyal to the Trump regime or Musk. Calls them an invasive species in latest genocidal speech. MAGA is going for internal cleansing to remove any remaining opposition"
"I keep thinking of the hundreds of thousands of hardwood trees downed in hurricane Helene. If we have another hot dry summer, all that timber becomes tinder, & could ignite the largest regional wildfires of the modern era. When people say climate breakdown is a polycrisis, this is what they mean"
"Democrats fractured their voter base just to help a war criminal who actively wanted Trump to win the election. They sacrificed the rights of women, immigrants, and LGBTQ+ people to facilitate a genocide and uphold apartheid"
"I will note that while Elon appears to be wearing a bulletproof and stabproof vest, the toddler Musk carries around as a human shield is not protected. Which would say a lot about Elon's priorities"
1/today i listened to bachman's "into the outside" - guitar, mostly, but artfully altered
2/today i read wilbur's "advice to a prophet" - this poem has been called:
A commentary on the nuclear age and the threat of global destruction A reflection on the human condition and our relationship with the natural world A meditation on the role of the prophet and the power of language
2.5/today i asked about xanthus and was told:
In the poem, Xanthus refers to the River Xanthus, a river in ancient Greece, specifically in the region of Lycia, in what is now modern-day Turkey.
In Homer's Iliad, the River Xanthus is mentioned as a place where the gods intervened in human affairs. However, the reference to Xanthus in the poem is more likely alluding to the river's association with a famous story from Greek mythology.
According to legend, the River Xanthus was said to have been diverted or dried up by the gods as a punishment. In the context of the poem, the phrase "As Xanthus once" suggests a catastrophic or transformative event, where the natural order is disrupted.
The image of the "gliding trout / Stunned in a twinkling" implies a sudden and dramatic change, where the tranquil and peaceful environment of the river is disrupted. The poet is drawing a parallel between this mythological event and the potential consequences of human actions on the natural world.
3/today, and every other day of the 21st century so far, i am enrolled as a registered democrat - and i have given up on the party, and on politics - it's too late, baby, it's just too late
4/today i learned that the word "bulldozer" is older than the machine
5/today i watched jon stewart analyze the vance/trump tag team attack on zelensky as a professional wrestling match:
1/today i listened to bachman's "into the outside" - guitar, mostly, but artfully altered
ReplyDelete2/today i read wilbur's "advice to a prophet" - this poem has been called:
A commentary on the nuclear age and the threat of global destruction
A reflection on the human condition and our relationship with the natural world
A meditation on the role of the prophet and the power of language
2.5/today i asked about xanthus and was told:
In the poem, Xanthus refers to the River Xanthus, a river in ancient Greece, specifically in the region of Lycia, in what is now modern-day Turkey.
In Homer's Iliad, the River Xanthus is mentioned as a place where the gods intervened in human affairs. However, the reference to Xanthus in the poem is more likely alluding to the river's association with a famous story from Greek mythology.
According to legend, the River Xanthus was said to have been diverted or dried up by the gods as a punishment. In the context of the poem, the phrase "As Xanthus once" suggests a catastrophic or transformative event, where the natural order is disrupted.
The image of the "gliding trout / Stunned in a twinkling" implies a sudden and dramatic change, where the tranquil and peaceful environment of the river is disrupted. The poet is drawing a parallel between this mythological event and the potential consequences of human actions on the natural world.
3/today, and every other day of the 21st century so far, i am enrolled as a registered democrat - and i have given up on the party, and on politics - it's too late, baby, it's just too late
4/today i learned that the word "bulldozer" is older than the machine
5/today i watched jon stewart analyze the vance/trump tag team attack on zelensky as a professional wrestling match:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OeUZI5RnYGg