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.
Prayer Shaming
This is a repost from 2015. “Thoughts and prayers” is now seen as a laughable cliche. … Prayer shaming entered the vocabulary this week. Some moving lips were offering “thoughts and prayers” to the victims of the latest commodity shooting. Some pundits thought it odd to offer T&P. Many of the people offering T&P are shameless attention mongers.
Many religions have prayer. The idea is that you talk to God. Sometimes it is a public ritual, sometimes it a private conversation. The star of the Christian religion, Jesus, is quoted as favoring private conversations. This does not stop his believers from making a grotesque spectacle of prayer.
The sad truth is that many of the praying perps talk too much. Telling them to talk is like telling an alcoholic to take a drink. Talking is seen as taking action, while listening is seen as being passive. This is just one of the problems in our culture.
Whenever there is a mass shooting, people say a lot of silly things. They argue the semantics of terrorism. There is two wrongs make a right rhetoric about race. In america, if you can’t say anything worthwhile, you talk about race. Pictures today are from The Library of Congress.
United States Of Amnesia
I stumbled onto a podcast of Allan Gurganus speaking at a literary event in Key West. Mr. Gurganus, bless his heart, is a good writer. As a public speaker, the jury is “out.”
This particular literary event concerned historical fiction. Tom Robbins went on a tear once, comparing animal husbandry to history. With one, you combine blood lines to create a superior breed. With the other, you mix “facts” to create an inspiring story. With both animal husbandry and history, you are frequently up to your ankles in shit.
Mr. Gurganus trotted out a bunch of quotable lines. ”Liars like historians and politicians tend to overdocument.” ”Myth is gossip grown old.” ”the term historical fiction sounds as pitifully redundant as, say, creative writing. … It’s like having ‘oxygen breather’ stamped on your driver’s license.” ”History is agreed-upon hearsay granted tenure.”
The first time I tried to listen to the Gurganus speech, the cliche slinging got too thick, and the player triangle was turned into the parallel lines. Or maybe it was the parallel lines turned into the triangle. In any event, the speakers quit making sounds. This option is not available live.
The second time I tried to listen to the Gurganus speech, the line about hearsay granted tenure stuck. Mr. Google was consulted, and found a nice website for the literary event. Another speaker at said event was Gore Vidal. Finally, Mr. Gurganus wore out my patience. It was time to download the appearance by Mr. Vidal.
The emcee said, “I don’t want to steal your jokes, but you said that this is the United States of Amnesia.” Mr. Vidal said, “I don’t remember that.” This is going to be fun. Photographs for this repost are from “The Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University Library”.
Odor In The Court
Odor In The Court was a blog post fourteen years ago. OITC is a collection of real things that people, and attorneys, said under oath. They are allegedly taken from a book, Disorder in the American Courts … If you look at the one-star comments, you learn that this is a book of cartoons, with courtroom quotes for captions. This is why God Google supplies a list of these items.
q: : What is your date of birth? a: : July fifteenth. q: : What year? a: : Every year.
q: : What gear were you in at the moment of the impact? a: : Gucci sweats and Reeboks.
q: : This myasthenia gravis. Does it affect your memory at all? a: : Yes.
q: : And in what ways does it affect your memory? a: : I forget.
q: : You forget. Can you give us an example of something that you’ve forgotten?
q: : what was the first thing your husband said to you when he woke up that morning?
a: : he said, “where am i, doris?” q: : and why did that upset you? a: : my name is susan.
q: :Are you sexually active? a: :No. I just lie there.
q: :any suggestions as to what prevented this from being a murder trial instead of an attempted murder trial? a: :the victim lived.
q: : Do you know if your daughter has ever been involvedin voodoo or the occult?
a: : We both do. q: : Voodoo? a: : We do. q: : You do? a: : Yes, voodoo.
q: : Trooper, when you stopped the defendant, were your red and blue lights flashing?
a: : Yes. q: : Did the defendant say anything when she got out of her car? a: : Yes, sir.
q: : What did she say? a: : What disco am I at?
q: : How many times have you committed suicide? a: : Four times.
q: : Have you lived in this town all your life? a: : Not yet.
q: : How far apart were the vehicles at the time of the collision?
q: : Doctor, did you say he was shot in the woods?
a: : No, I said he was shot in the lumbar region.
q: : Were you acquainted with the deceased? a: : Yes sir. q: : Before or after he died?
q: : : “What happened then? a: : He told me, he says, ‘I have to kill you because
you can identify me.’ q: : Did he kill you? a: : : “No.
q: : Can you describe the individual? a: : He was about medium height and had a beard.
q: : Was this a male, or a female?
q: : Doctor, how many autopsies have you performed on dead people?
a: : All my autopsies are performed on dead people.
q: : All your responses must be oral, OK? What school did you go to? a: : Oral.
q: : Do you recall the time that you examined the body?
a: : The autopsy started around 8:30 p.m. q: : And Mr. Dennington was dead at the time?
a: : No, he was sitting on the table wondering why I was doing an autopsy.
q: : Doctor, before you performed the autopsy, did you check for a pulse? a: : No.
q: : Did you check for blood pressure? a: : No. q: : Did you check for breathing? a: : No.
q: : So, then it is possible that the patient was alive when you began the autopsy? a: : No.
q: : How can you be so sure, Doctor? a: : Because his brain was sitting on my desk in a jar.
The @MichaelChabon Story
@tcboyle While searching the New Yorker stories, I stumbled across this shot from the distant past by Richard Avedon. We call this one, “The Noble Savage.” (Avedon himself kept fluffing out the hair in back to achieve the desired look.) @chamblee54 The first time I heard of you was in a New Yorker fiction issue. You were in a group picture, and you were rocking the desired look. The only other one I remember was Michael Chabon. Why would a gay man remember him?
When typing that reply, I wanted to include an x-address for Mr. Chabon. Google did not want to give me one, but it did have a link. After abandoning Instagram in disgust, @MichaelChabon is speaking his mind on Twitter When you click on @MichaelChabon, you get a familiar message. “@michaelchabon This account doesn’t exist Try searching for another.”
The link aroused my curiosity. Before I could get to the story, there was a pop-up ad in the way. “Get the latest news on antisemitism … Sign up for crucial updates on antisemitism in our region and how the crisis in Israel and Gaza is impacting our local Jewish community. … Join 16,000+ readers who stay informed with J. The Jewish News”
When you get around that digital roadblock, the story has a “header.” “INTEREST-FREE DEBT CONSOLIDATION LOANS … HEBREW FREE LOAN … INTEREST FREE LENDING SINCE 1897″ The logo for HFL has a Star of David. The center, and three of the triangles are green. Three of the triangles are blue, and connected to semi-circles. The three blue arrows go round and round.
The article was published August 18, 2021. It is dated. “First selfie on @verotruesocial. Impressions so far: attractive interface. Takes about 5 mins to grasp fundamental differences from IG. Really easy and convenient to post book, film/tv and music recs. AND, Huge: You can paste a *clickable* link directly into a post! Also: owner is not evil.”
“I thought, I’ve had this Twitter account forever, and I had some followers that accumulated over the years even though I never tweeted, so let me go over to Twitter and see what that’s like. … While Twitter “has not been a paragon of integrity,” he asserted that the company has done a “much better” job than Facebook of protecting its users and their data. Plus, “they [permanently] banned Trump, and I appreciated that.”
In the last 213 weeks, a few things have changed. @MichaelChabon has gone to the land of ex-tweeters. 18 hours ago, michael.chabon displayed a picture of his wife’s arm tattoo on instagram. mollyjongfast “Why do I want a tattoo now?”
Pictures today are from The Library of Congress. Russell Lee took the featured photograph in May 1942. “San Juan Bautista, California. Schoolchildren who were collecting scrap metal for war.”
Racist Romance Writer Smackdown
In twitterland, there is a list of trending topics. The other day, the top trend was #IStandWithCourtney. The trend topping #ISWC tweet: Jingle Elle Maruska (they/them) @ellle_em “#IStandWithCourtney Calling out racism is not being racist Pointing out someone’s unethical behavior is not being unethical I stand with Courtney because white feelings are in no way more important than fighting for marginalized people’s right to exist in any & all spaces.” If you think you know where this is headed, you are probably correct. This is a repost from 2019.
Perez Hilton puts it all in a nutshell. “What’s it all about? It’s about racism, injustice, and of course erotic tales of ribald fantasy. Yep, it’s drama in the world of romance novelists! This month the Romance Writers of America suspended author Courtney Milan (presumably asking her to turn in her badge and her quill) over what they called a violation of their code of ethics.”
“So what had Milan, the author of such historical Harlequins as A Kiss For Midwinter … done to deserve this literary excommunication? Apparently fellow novelists Suzan Tisdale (Secrets of the Heart) and Kathryn Lynn Davis (Too Deep For Tears) filed a formal complaint over a twitter thread … in which Milan — a Chinese American author — called out one of Davis’ books for being racist.”
Smart Bitches has more on this bodice-ripping badass, with documentation galore. Davis complaint, Tisdale complaint I, Tisdale complaint II RWA ethics committee report “whether it’s a publishing house deciding that a contract with a white supremacist is a good idea, or a writer’s organization deciding that white supremacy is the right decision ethically.”
The twitter thread is can’t-miss reading. @courtneymilan read a sample of Somewhere lies the moon. There was a twitter reaction, that will live in infamy. @courtneymilan “And we’ve been talking about Sue Grimshaw? Someone sent me a link to a book written by the other editor, Kathryn Lynn Davis, and is a fucking racist mess.”
The Davis complaint notes that the Milan opinion is based on reading a sample of SLTM. By her own admission, @courtneymilan did not finish the sample, much less read the book. @courtneymilan “Here’s the book. I didn’t finish the sample. I didn’t need to.”
Racism smackdown fans are probably asking, what was so fucking racist messy about SLTM? The accuser is Chinese-American, as is the racially besmirched character. No forbidden words, beginning with N, were used. It is not that type of racism.
The damning nanoagressions are documented in a series of tweets. Here are a few. The part following a link is by @courtneymilan. Transcribed screen shots are identified as (SS). If you click on the link, you can see the entire screen shot. This might help you understand the situation better.
@courtneymilan “This book is like a bingo card of OH GOD DID YOU REALLY. Start out with the heroine, who is the obligatory blue-eyed half-Chinese woman.” (SS) “Lian was twenty-five, tall and lithe, with the thick black hair and bronze skin of the Chinese”@courtneymilan “I mean…. that doesn’t really happen. (Genevra is half-Indian and also blue-eyed.) But also… like. Of course. This is like such a standard racist trope. WHY.”
@courtneymilan “Here is our half-Chinese woman remembering her past, where she is explicitly told that the future is the West, and that for Chinese women, compliance is the rule. SIGH.” (SS)”I am a captive of my own history, but I have raised you to be free, to move forward toward the future – and the future is the West.” “I was no’ askin’ what your parents wanted, but what ye want for yourself” “It is not important. It is not a question I ask myself. In China Shun, compliance, is the rule for women”
@courtneymilan “Here she is, meeting another Chinese family in London. I’m gonna be honest: I don’t know how I feel about “bronze” as the “standard” for Chinese skin (prior tweets), but I *do* know how I feel about “yellow.” And about almond eyes.” (SS) “…their thick blue-black hair and bronze faces, turned slightly yellow by the London climate, were unmistakably Chinese, as were their slanted almond eyes” @courtneymilan “Note that this in Lian’s point of view. She was raised in China. She only describes the Chinese people by skin color/eye slant, not the white people. She’s literally describing absolutely normal people to her as if she were a white woman talking about a foreigner.”
@courtneymilan “Oh, I was searching for something else and found this: In China, women didn’t learn anything.” (SS) “In China, no woman was taught much more than cooking and sewing and the graceful art of pleasing her husband.” Pictures today are from The Library of Congress.
Perfection
You didn’t grow up · adult duties how hard harsh · figure out feel you
It has been a great morning so far. It would be even better if I can get outside in that cold, wet, December air. Unfortunately, I need to finish writing this post.
ought perfection myth · ability just forgive · happiness toxic
WH Auden wrote a poem once. Epitaph on a tyrant started by saying “Perfection of a kind, was what he was after.” I know this poem because Tom Rapp based a song on it, Footnote. In the alternative version, “burst with laughter” became “laughed at his feet.” The latter version works much better for me, which tells us about the shortcomings of perfection.
mere players exit · Mewling puking whining creep · Mad bubble justice
This haiku had men in the first part, which gave it an extra beat. To make a proper haiku, the men had to go. This is an analogy of the role of gender in modern society. To fit into a formula, men have got to leave the picture. The 5-7-5 feng shui is more important than mere men.
aria talents · regard their crackpot fool who · rant their loyalty
The comparison of an aria … the showstopper solo in an opera … to the ravings of the common media myrmidon, endlessly braying about what their sponsors want to hear … can make the a crackpot fool seem like a prophet in his own land.
American rig · chic society edges · Republican smash
Rig is a word with many uses. Rig rhymes with the first syllable of popular six letter word, and is sometimes used as a euphemism. When chic society edges towards its Republican climax, powered by the American rig used to inject hard drugs into quivering veins, edging with delight at the anticipation of another fix of TRUTH, then one can only marvel at the spectacle.
sorry traveler · looked down under the other · grassy passing worn
Bobby Frost was lucky to be born when he was. He does not see one of his best lines corrupted by the fence building industry. He was a 20th century traveler, looking down from under the other, on his way to the grassy, passing knoll. The other is used to it.
My Bad
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This is a repost from the murky past. The college on N. Indian Creek Dr. is now known as “GSU Perimeter College – Clarkston Campus” The Watering Hole was torn down, and is now Top express car wash. Abortion has been legalized, and re-criminalized. Atlanta still has a lot more Peachtrees than peach trees. … · There is a tray. I found it at a yard sale, or thrown away, years and years ago. It sat unused in the tool shed until Mac got sick, at which point it became invaluable. I am giving it another shot with the bluetooth mouse, and it might just work. · JP Morgan can decide who they want to have as customers of course right because they’re private company and so it’s this it’s this slight of hand that happens it so it’s basically it’s a privatized sanctions regime that lets bureaucrats do to American citizens the same thing that we do to Iran kick you out of the financial system and so this has been happening to all the crypto entrepreneurs in the last four years this has been happening to a lot of the fintech entrepreneurs anybody trying to start any kind of new banking service um because they’re trying to protect the big Banks um and then this · @chamblee54 today’s holiday repost is a tale of turkey, satan worship, and a family that just doesn’t understand. If you think your racist, fox news watching uncle is a problem, read this bit of flash fiction and see how it could be much, much worse. link in the comments. · @captivedreamer7 This is a great little video, barely a minute long – i encourage all of you to watch it. This was the moment that Bernie Sanders and his movement completely lost in 2015. “Democratic Socialism” was destroyed by leftist “identity politics.” · This is a repost from 2017. The events of the last seven years make Tales of the City look like Dick, Jane, and Sally … · “Babycakes” was published in 1988. At one point, the wife of a famous designer asks Mary Ann Singleton what Ivana Trump is like in real life. I would say you can’t make this up, but Armistead Maupin did. The spell check suggestion for babycakes is beefcakes. · “Mr. Timothy Levy Crouch, a Rogerine Quaker, living in Ledyard, Connecticut, finishing up his Thanksgiving dinner. Mr. Crouch is a stonemason by profession and lives on his farm where a little farming is done.” Jack Delano took the photograph in November 1940. · Why is there a light in the fridge and not in the freezer? Why does Goofy stand erect while Pluto remains on all fours? They’re both dogs! If quizzes are quizzical, what are tests? If corn oil is made from corn, and vegetable oil is made from vegetables, then what is baby oil made from? Link in comments · ‘If man could be crossed with a cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat.” This item turned up in a giftshop poster about cats. It was credited to/blamed on Mark Twain. A lady said, in the comments, this is one of my favorite quotes from Mark Twain. The Twain wikiquotes does not have an entry with deteriorate. There are five references to cat, all in a single quote from “A Tramp Abroad.” “You may say a cat uses good grammar. Well, a cat does — but you let a cat get excited once; you let a cat get to pulling fur with another cat on a shed, nights, and you’ll hear grammar that will give you the lockjaw. Ignorant people think it’s the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain’t so; it’s the sickening grammar they use.” · “If man could be crossed with a cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat.” Twain’s wikiquotes has 5 cat references, all from “A Tramp Abroad.” “… people think it’s the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain’t so; it’s the sickening grammar they use.” · Frank Zappa and the Mothers played at Frenchy’s House of BBQ, Hayward, CA, May 6-26, 1966. On May 21, they were the backing band for Neil Diamond. Link in comments. · “Tuning ’77” – a seamless audio supercut of an entire year of the Grateful Dead tuning their instruments, live on stage. Chronologically sequenced, this remix incorporates every publicly available recording from 1977, examining the divide between audience expectation and performance anxiety. · today is #WorldAidsDay. This is a list of men that I have lost. It is not complete, and not Aids-exclusive. The good news is that this list is not updated very often. Link in the comments. · Alan Burnett~Bill Gaddy~Bill Medlock~Bill Meneely~Blaze Mills Buddy Conine~Calvin Bunn~Danny Fields~David Chewning · David Hadden~Charlie Hall~Dwight Dunaway · Freeman Waldrop~Gary Hunton~Gene Haynes · Gene Holloway~Gibson Higgins~Glenn Krause~Greg Scott · Harold King~Hawk~Jerry Pyschka~Jim Anderson~Jim Ferguson · Jim Woodward~Joe Kenney~Joe Vickery~John Kelley · John Harllee~Jon Gordon~King Thackston~Larry Jackson · Layton Gregory~Lee Mullis~Les Friessen~Mac Wilson · Manfred Ibis~Mark Keenum~Mark Rosen~Martin Isganitus · Michael Dollins~Micheal Mason~Mike Perling~Moon Moore · O’Gene Donohue~Purl Sudds~Ron Davis~Sam Mitchell · Skeeter Smith~Steve Bedworth~Stuart Davis~Ti Barfield · Tom Aderhold~Tom Selman~Tom Williams~Trion · Winston Morriss · Robert and I went to Chastain Park yesterday. There is some major construction work in the middle of our path, and we had to illegally slip across it. It was sunny when we started, but rapidly getting darker as we progressed. Taking pictures is too much work. · Pictures today are from The Library of Congress · selah
Natural Foods
I used to eat a lot of natural foods until I learned that most people die of natural causes.
The best way to make sure you are removing a weed and not a valuable plant is to pull on it.
If it comes out of the ground easily, it is a valuable plant.
The easiest way to find something around the house is to buy a replacement.
Never take life seriously. Nobody gets out alive anyway.
There are two kinds of pedestrians: the quick and the dead.
Life is sexually transmitted. It is always fatal.
If electricity comes from electrons, does morality come from morons?
Health is merely the slowest possible rate a which one can die.
The only difference between a rut and a grave is the depth.
Some people are like Slinkies. Not good for anything,
but you still can’t help but smile when you see one tumble down the stairs.
Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing.
Have you noticed since everyone has a camcorder these days,
no one ever talks about seeing UFOs anymore?
Whenever I feel blue, I start breathing again.
All of us could take a lesson from the weather. It pays no attention to criticism.
In the 60’s, people took acid to make the world weird.
Now the world is weird and people take Prozac to make it normal.
Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession.
I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.
How is it one careless match can start a forest fire, but it takes a whole box to start a campfire?
Who was the first person to look at a cow and say,
“I’m squeezing these dangly things here, and drinking whatever comes out?”
Who was the first person to say, “See that chicken there?
I’m eating the next thing that comes outta its bottom.”
Why is there a light in the fridge and not in the freezer?
Why does Goofy stand erect while Pluto remains on all fours? They’re both dogs!
If quizzes are quizzical, what are tests?
If corn oil is made from corn, and vegetable oil is made from vegetables,
then what is baby oil made from?
Pictures are from The Library of Congress. This is a repost.
Thanksgiving Story
Thanksgiving was a time our family cherished. It was the only time all of us got together under one roof and mingled. Except for me. ~ I was the the family embarrassment. They were Catholic, and disliked my way of life. I played guitar, loved Heavy Metal, and worshiped Satan. ~ All this explains why my family shunned me. In their eyes, I was the flaw of a nearly perfect gem, but in mine, I was the cream of the crop.
I should’ve known they had something awful in mind when they asked me to join them somewhere. They drove me to the very corner of the ranch. ~ “What the fuck are we doing back here,” I asked. My only reply was, “Shut up you blaspheming fool.”
At last we got to the destination. My father, mother, and sister were standing around, wearing funeral clothes. ~ In the middle was a shallow grave. “What’s that hole for?” I asked dumbly. “Take a guess you satanic fucker!” Was the reply from my father.
I felt a thud on my head. I hit the ground with a loud thlap. I turned in spite of excruciating pain to see my uncle wielding a shovel. ~ I touched the back of my head to find my fingers coated in blood. I suddenly grew light headed and passed out. When I woke up I inhaled dirt. ~ Luckily, my family didn’t know how to properly bury someone so I was able to dig myself out. I sat there and puked for about fifteen minutes.
When I got back, it was Thanksgiving night. through the window I could see my family, sitting there, saying grace like the sheeple they were. ~ Seeing them praying made my hate for them and all Catholics grow. It went from a smouldering, muddled anger, to a flaming, outrageous hatred.
I ran into the garage and found my uncle’s shotgun, sitting there, waiting for me, beckoning, saying, “Go ahead, make these fuckers pay.” ~ “Hi Mom!” I shouted as I pulled the trigger, I started laughing uncontrollably as I continued firing at my family until I was empty.
“WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU?!” My father asked, wounded, shot in the gut. “Wrong with me?” I asked calmly. “What’s wrong with you?” ~ With that I threw the gun away and dined. Not on Turkey, but on raw human flesh. It was the best Thanksgiving ever. ~ Twitter serialization by @creepypasta_txt. Pictures are from The Library of Congress. This is a repost.
The Day CS Lewis Died
It is a cold saturday before turkey day. Since I am too lazy to write fresh material, I will recycle. The product is a book report of Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas, by Thomas Eugene Robbins. When you read TER, you start to think, which can cause trouble in both Little China and Big Muddy. Just editing a book report from five years ago can have that effect.
A note on context. A load of laundry is in the machine, and will require a maintenance visit. The good news is that the device is working properly, and the drain is sending all the water to the county, without leaving any overflow on the floor. Somewhere between 19 and 39 minutes from now, the load will be done, and it will be time to hang it to dry in the back yard.
The music in the background is by JS Bach. The internet archive is chock full of high quality music by the gentleman. I can go back to listening to more recent music when the time is right.
In the text, the word arcana appears. It should not surprise anyone that a text about TER will have the word arcana, which rhymes with banana and Savannah … jfc, I hit the cntrl button instead of shift when spelling Savannah, and google docs had a hissy fit because it thought I wanted voice typing, and this device does not have a microphone … arcana is not recognized by spell check. The suggestions are canary, canard, narc, NASCAR.
So, the post is finished and posted. On a good day, it will get a viewer. I am posting almost exclusively for my own enjoyment. A Dick Cavett guest once said that reading and masturbation were the only solitary pleasures, but he never wrote a blog.
It is now 2315, roughly 14 hours after I started this. I originally thought I would write and write and write, but now the get up and go has done got up and went. Maybe it was when I got in from hanging the laundry out to dry. I decided to go for my morning walk, and put a bottle of water in my bag. Unfortunately, the cap on the bottle wasn’t shut all the way, and about half the bottle wound up in my bag. I had to empty the bag, set half of the contents out to dry, and take the bag out to the clothes line to dry. That was the high point of the day.
@The_Kyle_Mann Everyone remembers where they were the day CS Lewis died @chamblee54 I was in fourth grade. What really tore me up was Aldous Huxley. … Aldous Huxley was tripping on acid when he met his maker. JFK was dreaming about having a quickie with this girl he was going to meet after lunch, while Jackie was getting her pillbox hat retooled. As for CS Lewis, it was really an allegory for Jesus getting offed on the cross. Some people just know how to have a good time.
Maybe a few notes more about HAIFP are in order. The first time I read HAIFP was early 1996. I was taking a break from smoking pot, and wondering if I was going to make it. After six weeks of misery, I was reading HAIFP one night. One character said, in the house of your mind, the pictures are all upside down. I walked over to a poster of Grace Jones, pulled the push pins out, and put it upside down. At that point, I realized that marijuana detox was going to work, but not until I finished my peanut butter and raw garlic sandwich. Pictures today are from The Library of Congress.
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.
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