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Hum Invading zing · king fool Dismiss your doubt Blam · sing sarcasm troll
Wake up, do the chores you need to do, and look at the weather. While learning that it was raining this week … a lot … I see a news report on the side of the page. Thomas Eugene Robbins died. He made it to 92, which is rather remarkable for someone as chemically adventurous as TER. The best tribute I can give him is to write. This piece will go in the slot of a haiku reduction that has little to do with it. TER gave me hours of reading fun, which is the best gift a writer …
MOTHER… FUCKIN’ QUEER! · BUT Y’KNOW I UNDERSTAND · SIGH … UNIVERSE? MAN?
I have done my duty. I sat through a youtube rerun of the super bowl halftime show. It is time to talk about Robert Dennis Crumb, who is still alive, despite the ordeal of being a counterculture icon. Do you want to know what a hippie is? Someone who dresses like Tarzan, wears his hair like Jane, and smells like Cheetah. I thought I was not going to say anything more about the halftime show, but you know about good intentions. Kendrick Lamar Duckworth is 37, which is the rap equivalent of RD Crumb’s 81. Zap comics caused hip-hop …
RAT LIFE THERAPY · SING PHILOSOPY! LIKE IT? · IDIOCY! NERDS?
You have every good intention of writing your way out of your sadz on this rainy tuesday morning but first you have to fight off the distractions. There is that comic strip making subtle philosophical points, with the excellent graphics that will be easy to pervert for your purposes. Seeking the “perfection of a kind” that Auden wrote about is deceptively easy. You go through the motions, do what looks good, and is, after all, a 5-7-5 haiku, but you have to make one change. To make that change, you have to change three other things. Soon, you get …
DUPLICATE MASH NOTES!! · LITTLE SLIMY PRINCIPLES! · MY BIG SARCASM?!
It is time to start hitting the snooze button again. On facebook, you have the option of snoozing someone, meaning you will not see anything from this person for 30 days. When the advent of the 47th POTUS, I started to snooze anyone I knew who said anything negative about Donniepooh. Not that I like the orange haired adderal addict, and if this thing degenerates much further may actively despise him, but the woke/anti-trump rhetoric has got to go. It is beginning to have the opposite effect on me. I don’t want to be taken in by their distraction.
VISIBILITY? · NO DANGER YOU? PROBABLY · AT LEAST BUY PIZZA
I just muted my first person on bluesky. I don’t kn0w how that cartoon got in my feed. It shows two stick figures, one red and one blue. One of them is a NAZI, and one of them is not. We are supposed to hate the non-NAZI, because she is still friends with the NAZI, so she is a NAZI sympathizer. If you follow this logic very far, then you won’t be able to associate with anyone, because everybody is either a POOPYHEAD, or a POOPYHEAD sympathizer. The lady I blocked works with animals, and might not have human friends.
twee culture fitful · multifarious language · drive by what they do
John Hamilton McWhorter used to be someone that I enjoyed listening to. I do admire his skill at marketing his word product … not enough to read any of it, or, God forbid, buy one of his books. There are several causes of this impending pundit-listener disengagement. First, John does not seem to realize that racism is BORING. I think deep down he does, but the gravy train keeps demanding fresh meat. The second, and more serious problem, is John’s support of the Israeli effort to rid Gaza of Palestineans. Those beachfront resorts are going to be so fabulous …
THINKING CULT HUMAN · WHAT-HAVE-YOU … HELPLESS VICTIM · INTERESTING HUH??
This is today’s featured picture. Usually, this is a historic photograph, but today is a deconstruction by Dennis Crumb … Dennis fits his personality so much better, and he really is a menace. The modern celebrity is in a position of people taking everything he says seriously, and allowing whatever drug addled bilge seeps out of his head as great thought. We should not be careless with our gendered pronouns here, because this is a problem for lady celebrities as well, although there was never any doubt that Dennis is a cis-male. Which reminds me of that Super Bowl Halftime.