Yeah, that was easy, but it's a great song plus I truly didn't do proper by Richard Thompson's birthday, so songs today. I've read Romney's new spearhead is Obama being caught on mic promising he doesn't give a flying fuck about public opinion beyond the necessary winking bullshit needed to get reelected, wait until after the election when we Corporate assholes can operate as the Corporate assholes we are, Romney's attack so perfectly apt and correct and prismatically ironic I hope it fucking works from now until November since it will be true next January no matter which Corporate asshole is elected.
- Van Fucking Jones.
- Robert Scheer is a fool.
- Sure, Obama is .06% less-shitty than Romney. He could be 10% less-shitty if he wanted to be. He doesn't want to be.
- Biden says No to populism.
- Polarization.
- SCOTUS' body-cavity fixation.
- Panopticon.
- Of course they are. I point this out to remind me how much I eagerly contribute to my own surveillance.
- The agoraphobic homeworld.
- Wholly Thursday.
- Holy Thursday.
- Things you might have missed.
- Mumblecore?
- Chicken shit.
- On rhetorical devices.
- Lit links!
- Lit links!
- This is true! Earthgirl gave up on The Unconsoled precisely at my favorite scene in the novel. I'm almost through my rereading, btw, it's still the most remarkable novel I've ever read, though it's not been as much fun this time, which is on me. I am thinking about what to read next, which I interpret as both a good sign and a desperate sign.
OUR NATURE
Rae Armantrout
The very flatness
of portraits
makes for nostalgia
in the connoisseur.
Here's the latest
little lip of wave
to flatten
and spread thin.
Let's say
it shows our recklessness,
our fast gun,
our self-consciousness
which was really
our infatuation
with our own fame,
our escapes,
the easy way
we'd blend in
with the peasantry,
our loyalty
to our old gang
from among whom
it was our nature
to be singled out.
