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SING EAT CHECK IT OUT! · DUNNO READY ROUGH OUT THERE…? · WHATEVER HOOKUPS
I was repeating a post about CS Lewis, who I still may get around to reading some day. It was about unkind comments that Ayn Rand … who I am much less likely to read … wrote in the margins of a CSL book. The original post was lost to digital antiquity, so I googled the phrase “Ayn Rand Really, Really Hated C.S. Lewis.” One result was from “THE AMERICAN CATHOLIC Politics & Culture from a Catholic Perspective.” On top of the page was a youtube intermission, “C.S. Lewis vs The New Atheists” by Peter S. Williams (Book Promo 1)”
REPUBLIC TRICKY! · RIGHT! ANTI-DEMOCRACY · NEED TO KEEP SOMETHING!
I foolishly clicked on a facebook post by Transcendental Meditation®. TM® had been “liked” by a fbf, triggering fb’s algorithm . When I copied the url … I keep a list of sites that I visit … a popup screen appeared. “What’s the main reason you’re leaving this page?” My options included “I need more details before deciding, The content was unclear or confusing, I’m interested but not ready to book yet” When I finished pasting the url onto my document, there was a second popup ad. “Mariam A Real Live Person” opened a chat window on my page. “Can I help you?
Animal scribe rant · strategy Nazi nation · exterminate fest
I was trying to focus on a task, but Yahweh got in the way. I was going to say God, but “Yahweh” rhymes with “got in the way”. The conflation of God with Yahweh is one of our problems. People make a big deal about whether you do, or do not, believe in dog spelled backwards. When you phrase it as “do you believe in Yahweh,” it becomes less imposing. The truth is, Yahweh was a minor deity that looked over metallurgy. Through a miracle of BCE marketing, Yahweh became THE LORD. She was now the only game in town.
strong ass feminine · evolution kind of trans · beyond anything?
The original goal of this format was to use haiku reductions as writing prompts. The first three colors of this rainbow were random drabbles, inserted under an unrelated reduction. A strong ass feminine would not do that. Using ass as an all purpose extra syllable is a part of american english that I find bizarre. One time, I saw a letter signed by some someone called “University of Michigan student with nappy ass hair.” If her posterior is covered by nappy hair, keeping her clothes on is a good idea. Maybe this is devolution, not evolution, slouching towards trans identity.
RENT UNIVERSITY · JOKE SCHOOL WHERE LOW DANCING COULD · INTERPRET WIPE OUT
There is an old joke. You don’t buy beer, you rent it. I used to drink pitchers at a place in the control tower at PDK, and the men’s room was 45 steps down the hall. This may be why the airport management told them to ditch the hippie beer joint and have a civilized place where they sell sandwiches. That was 1977. In 1982, I went in one night, after arriving at the gas station a minute after the quit selling beer. As soon as I walked in the room, everyone looked around, and shouted STRANGER. I drank my beer and …
you don’t know bro simp · tit fluctuates lesbian · aligned with fluid
@IonaItalia An important statement of our principles at @Quillette, by my boss, editor-in-chief @clairlemon … “Heterodox” does not mean a fucking thing. @Quillette is a self proclaimed “Heterodox” defender of what they call liberal values. @Quillette is also an unapologetic defender of Israel’s campaign of mass annihilation against her neighbors. At the same time, @Quillette supports the military industrial complex in a proxy war against Russia in Ukraine. I left this comment in the thread … OTOH, Israel is destroying her neighbors, with American support. The crimes against Palestinian/Lebanese/Syrian humanity are staggering. @Quillette defends this. Liberal shmiberal
THE ORCHESTRAL TWIST · AMERICA ULTIMATE · ERADICATION
This is going to be the featured picture today. It is a reduction of a reduction. A haiku reduction is where we take some unspecified block of text, and eliminate enough characters to create a 5-7-5 enviornment. A featured picture … the image that will appear on facebook, twitter, and bsky … is (measured in pixels) starts with an image 720×720. This a square, like many of the people we know. You take a chunk out of the middle, measuring 720×405. This is a 9/16 format, which is favored by many electronic devices. Is this an ORCHESTRAL TWIST, or ULTIMATE ERADICATION?

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.