Luigi Drabble
tit nit decadence · shameful ass ally screw off · stupid behavior
The local custom of using haiku reductions as writing prompts continues to devolve into nitwit depravity. Today’s twist is the drabble, a short short story that is exactly 100 words long. Using google docs as a measuring guide is the latest techno-cultural appropriation. The misuse of digital tools to enable decadent perambulating is the latest stupid behavior to appear smart. Is it smart, is it art, can you buy it at K-Mart? The last one is unlikely, since the blue light special has flickered into memory, replaced by the nonstop shart of Walmart consumption. The TrickyDick seventies did have culture.
honor? again? this? · act ignore time guilt? What just… · prove need today? joy
This image was inspired by “12 Questions Nobody Asks Before Burnout (But Should) TQNABB is another instance of what some unkind people call motivation porn. Since they were numbered, there is order to the haiku. This all proved challenging to the reduction perp. Choose at least one word out of each cell, with seven having one beat and the remaining five going beat beat. Beat on the brat with a baseball bat is another cure for burnout, even if cleaning up afterwards is a job for mister clean. You have honor? at one end, and unpunctuated joy at the other.
immediacy · overproduced vulgar mess · opera poet
Modern life is an overproduced vulgar mess. There is a routine, which helps to make sense of the devolving chaos, ensure that your teeth are brushed and meds consumed. Some need canned entertainment, others prefer recreational quiet. When you have a shared space between a person who enjoys quiet, and a person who needs commodified entertainment, there will be drama. May the biggest mouth win. These authority asserting struggles can be so unpleasant, but seem to be a part of life in a tribal setting. When you confuse who has the strongest will for being RIGHT, there is drama.
Goddess pagan ass · celebrate usual change · Death tarot magick?
The modern holiday season brings memes to the dinner table. Solstice is always a reason for the season occasion, and a time for passive aggressive digs at the ill mannered jesus worshiper who feels that their holiday is the only true one, and that all others are wrong. The end of the four season cycle is the death of the old order, with a promise of a spring rebirth after a tasteful cold season. The pagans know this, and celebrate accordingly. Wait until after the holidays to touch up their purple hair, and shop for tofu at the neighborhood collective.
arguing minors · rush push transition doctors · they question bigots
Part of the process at chamblee54 is the internet break. When you are at a stopping point, you leave the machine and check out facebook, bluesky, twitter, youtube, reddit, and other less wholesome destinations. Occasionally there are gems, like this: @tao_lin To all the unmerry people out there. The lonely, the disgruntled, the grumpy, the depressed, the spurned, the people in chronic pain, the severely autistic, and so on, I wish you a day—you do not need to be merry, you’ll make it through this Christmas, it’s almost over. This tweet does not mention gender dysphoric minors.
Luigi lust feel · “great” go bankrupt need heroes · murder hot as f-ck
Ninety years ago, Americans were angry at bankers. Many banks failed during the depression, leaving millions broke. When John Dillinger started to rob banks, and get away with it, he became a hero. After Mr. Dillinger died, rumors about his sexual prowess only made people admire him more. There is even a rumor, heard by every eighth grade boy in America, that his pecker was on display at the Smithsonian Institute. Today, Americans feel cheated by health insurance executives. Luigi Mangione made a choice about this inequity. We do not know if the Smithsonian will get his Dillinger.
Unpunished
losing blaming doubt · waiting hating look too good · eat impostor truth
Belief based culture dominates our society. It is more important to look good than to do good. You fake it till you make it, and the faking is more appreciated. No good deed goes unpunished. You need to believe in yourself, and that belief is based on belief.
water systems pub · industrial arthritis · real MELANIA
It is a truism that you don’t buy beer, but rather that you rent it. The water systems pub cuts out the middle man, and can lead to arthritis on a grand scale. The only truth is found in a Slovenian lady, who married her way into the White House.
election felon · the most dangerous voters · ick Republican
In the Boys in the Band, your ick is the some total of your negative personality traits. In America, that is a political prosecution of a businessman/criminal/politician, who the electoral process landed in office. The danger was the Democratic idiots who thought Kamala Harris was a good idea.
Rogan is hosting · pseudo YouTubers speak up · intellectual
Joe Rogan is not an intellectual. Rather, he is a curious pothead who knows how to shut up and listen. He produces compelling shows, by getting guests that have something to say. Today it is Quinton Tarantino and Roger Avary, who bicker like an old married couple.
queer sensation boast · quick screw access whipped out hog · models butt bracelets
A whipped out hog is the apt metaphor for today’s entertainment. Pigs lead a tough life, especially those growing fat under industrial conditions. The sensation boast is to be living your life ankle deep in pig shit. Modelling butt bracelets is the only alternative.
Jesse Derangement · rapist identity but · it’s awesome transphobes
Jesse and Katie are a part of Monday morning, a time which is properly hated by millions of people. Assuming an identity is one way to deal with the carnage, only to be labelled an awesome transphobe by the same chunderheads who watch MSNBC.
L5PB December
The December Little 5 Poetry Bash was held in the doorway between Java Lords and 7 Stages. JL had festive lighting, and turned the performers red, blue, green, and white by turns. This was especially flattering for L5PB majordomo Han Vance, who was dressed like an Elf. Han read selections for a stack of chap books, and was highly entertaining. There is something about being in the same room as someone, and able to hear them clearly, that just adds to the enjoyment of the evening.
Mitchell Padgett was the feature, and read for a while. Since there were only a handful of poets, you could read as much as you wanted to. Mitchell later expressed disappointment at the sparse crowd, which I could only agree with. Performing for your own enjoyment has its limits.
As I said, it was a tiny crowd, consisting mostly of fellow performers. We did have a newcomer, Johanna Smith. It is always fun to have more people, and maybe it will happen next month.
L5PB is not without disappointments. On my last visit to the fabled JL bathroom, the thumb lock was stuck, and the door was jar for my last piss of the night. If I had to shit, it would have been show time. Or I could not shit, and go blind instead. Stevie Wonder does not recommend this option.
After finding my vehicle intact and unbooted, I made my way up to N. Highland. When I got to the exit for the Ex-Pres-way, I took a left. You only die once, and the potholes come faster on the freeway, instead of the agonizing death of a thousand jostles on Briarcliff Road. Meanwhile, I was button pushing on the radio, and found a new episode of Drabblecast. Strange stories, by Strange authors, for Strange listeners. Unfortunately, this was not one of their better episodes, and I turned to this month’s New Yorker fiction podcast, which sucked in it’s own NPR-listening way. Sometimes free downloads are worth what you pay for them.
The last disappointment came on the trip home. I cherish my L5PB junk food run, and could already taste the ambrosial mystery meat from Taco Bell. Unfortunately, this facility is now only open 9am – 3am on Sunday. I backtracked across North Druid Hills, with it’s Byzantine construction projects, to the Burger King, next to the Arthur M. Blank hospital. BK is part of the hospital supply chain.
Sutra Concern
dark thin empty gaze · remember creaking clomping · nothing but himself
Robert Lee Frost wrote the motto of the fencing industry, and never recieved a dime in return. Of course, RLF has been dead 61 years, which may have something to do with this. RLF is not well known to the younger generation, but was quite a force in his day.
teenage Buddhism · understand Sutra concern · will raise man warning
There are a lot of warnings in the manosphere these days. The spectre of teenage Buddhism is attaching itself to the carnal corporal copulation, while inducing somatic suffering and existential eggheads. When you understand … or oversit … these concerns, you will be blessed.
SCAM ORIGINATES · RUNAWAY COLONIAL · FAT INDIGENOUS
The headline of this all-caps eyesore is “IN THIS HOUSE WE BELIEVE.” Of course, the middle three letters of BELIEVE is LIE, but don’t worry about that one. It is all a SCAM, and if you BELIEVE enough you will revert from slender Euro-American to FAT INDIGENOUS.
JD Vance normal · became radical they/them · resents deranged me
Actually, JDV is the closest thing to normal in the new odor order. He is already radical, no matter what pronoun he uses. JDV is going to bring back using initials to identify politicians, in the tradition of FDR, JFK, and LBJ. Never mind that the last one did not work out so well. The resentment of Trump deranged America will not go away.
racism models · #BlackWoman consequences · mediocre bet
This is about the phenomenon of Kamala Devi Harris. She is 44% Jamaican, and yet was aggressively marketed to the voting public as a #BlackWoman. If you point out the Indian mother, then you were a racist. KDH became Democratic Presidential nominee after a bizarre set of circumstances which nobody fully understands. KDH ran one of the worst campaigns in recorded history, including youtube ads … with no opportunity to skip … where she screams “And when we fight, we WIN!!!” Maybe somebody was impressed by these ads, but the net effect is to blow through untold billions of dollars and elect the antichrist former POTUS to a second term. Mediocre is a compliment when talking about a corrupt hack like KDH.
his op-ed sexist · transphobic harassment con · young men art problem
Part of the fun of #Politics2024 is phrases like “manosphere.” Apparently, saying anything other than white men are the source of all the world’s ills is tantamount to platforming neonazis. Saying that prepubescent young men should not take puberty blockers women is transphobic harassment. The woke-apocalypse is at hand, and all those who resist will be forced to watch Kamala Harris campaign videos on endless repeat, with no opportunity to skip.
The D-List
November 4, 2024 was the day before this year’s election from hell. It was also the first monday, which means Little 5 Poetry Bash. Last night saw five people in the audience. The emcee, the feature, the feature’s business manager, and two poets.
Manley Pointer was one of the supporting poets. With little new material, he sought refuge in the archive. The verses were divided into groups. Poems to be proud of. Poems of varying quality.
At the bottom of the barrel, The D-List reared its gnarly head. Doggerel that should be burned, but would release toxic fumes. Underground poems, that are so bad they need to be buried. Sonnets that would make the corpse of Willie Shakespeare weep. Iambs that would make the pentameter hide in shame. The D-List was the source that Manley Pointer chose this dark and stormy night.
Under Powerless Alienation (Acrostic)
morphodite democratic delusion · cracker employment asylum martyr
killer media self is an illusion · if you assume everyone is smarter
needle on fingers of an open grope · noodle protest against humidity
opiate the futility of hope · not smiling idiot stupidity
lilac never be dishonest weasel · under powerless alienation
testosterone altruistic people · hear affirmation find inebriation
eager starvation somnambulist · rocking and rolling materialist
Donald Trump Spam
little kim jong un of north korea · a disgusting lie unprofessional
radical islamic diarrhea · catastrophic and unacceptable
it could have been so easy now a mess · publicity seeking lindsey graham
famously got caught lying to congress · an authority on donald trump spam
crooked hillary clinton it was great · enthusiastic dynamic and fun
general pershing of the deep red state · will again be the best in world war one
dems would do are just wasting time · don’t believe fake news nursery rhyme
Devil Gooberhead #whyiwrite
having so much culture thrown at me · can’t sing dance or draw little rabbits
stay away from less healthy habits · novel that maybe two people will read
conversation with voices in my head · becoming socially acceptable
ignore a reality tv vegetable · possession by a devil gooberhead
no one listens to me when I speak · stun people with pretentious rhetoric
im not really good at anything freak · rant roast or a judgmental limerick
go listen to idiots having fun · bringing my nightmares to everyone
Am I Blonde Today #DeepThoughtsFromKimKardashian
why am i famous for just being me · did thesaurus live in jurassic park
when can i see through peoples clothes · what direction should i name my next kid
what does science have to do with math · why does that much dirt get left in a hole
someone told me orange is also a fruit · am i blonde today is this my moment
bad directions on a shampoo bottle · is indonesia a sleeping disorder
if cameras have a round lens model · why is the picture square with a border
if you never wear underwear neighbor · then you will never need toilet paper
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