psy•cho•sis, nloss of contact with reality: a psychiatric disorder such as schizophrenia or mania that is marked by delusions, hallucinations, incoherence, and distorted perceptions of reality.Microsoft Encarta Is it too soon, for decency, or too late, because things move fast nowadays, to speculate on the potential for an Omar Thornton fan page? Due to theContinue reading “What is (a) hate (crime)? I”
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It’s our secret! Never teach the Wu Tang!
An Untethered News Services (UNS) exclusive: The following video was reportedly smuggled out of a meeting of the highly secretive group known as “Journolist.” According to the former member who provided it to UNS on condition of anonymity, it shows a “far too common” ritual used for purposes of initiation and punishment. Untethered cannot vouchContinue reading “It’s our secret! Never teach the Wu Tang!”
Your Presence is Not Required
This is going to end badly.Here I am slouching through middle-age; sexually I am hors de combat, as if by some secret but final decree. I lament it but the sentence is just–and just as well (I wouldn’t join any club that’d have me for a member, and I wouldn’t conjoin with anyone who’d haveContinue reading “Your Presence is Not Required”
In Memoriam
Originally posted on June 25, 2009 The Multitude Killed the Video Star But I am invented too for your entertainment and amusement. And you, poor creatures, who conjured you out of the clay? Is God in show business too?–”Arthur Frayne”, Zardoz We played the grooves off of that record. My girlfriend had Michael Jackson’s OffContinue reading “In Memoriam”
New Chemical Brotherhood
Chemical Brothers, K+D+B Kind of chokes you up, doesn’t it? Ah, youth! We’re no match for it! These guys are pretty impressive too:
Alternative America Phrasebook
“Your guide to the idiom of mass delusion.” Pragmatism, n. blogspeakThe murder of principle by expedience.See also compromise; bipartisanship. Consensus, n. hackspeakAn agreed upon delusion.
Cadence Song
Me? I hope to go out singing, defiantly. Like DeNiro’s redneck Nemesis in Cape Fear, warbling in tongues as the rising tide consumes him. I want to play myself over this way, a segue between shows, until the dirty water fills my lungs. It’s not bravery, it’s denial; and denial gets a bad rap. DenialContinue reading “Cadence Song”
Basketball is Basketball, Equality is Excellence, War is Peace
Boldly now comes the WNBA’s television campaign for its new season, to accompany the NBA playoffs. Interspersing footage from both leagues the spot creates the illusion the men and women are playing together. For example, a WNBA player makes a pass; we cut to an NBA player hauling it in on his way to theContinue reading “Basketball is Basketball, Equality is Excellence, War is Peace”
Alternative America Phrasebook
“Your guide to the idiom of mass delusion”Thoughtfulness, n., blogspeak:1. Cowardice or careerism taken or presented as reflection, meditation, or contemplation.2. Deference to convention or power; self-censorship to avoid offense or the degradation of one’s professional prospects.3. Intellectual conformance driven by a fear of social ostracism. Thoughtful, a.Milquetoast; mealy-mouthed; compliant; harmless; irrelevant; boring; lemming-like; chicken-shit;Continue reading “Alternative America Phrasebook”
re-runs
An inborn dread, a sort of latent panic familiar to my line, preceded me. This inherent conviction that things must go wrong will not be loosed by any device of socialization, rebellion, or medication. Ironically, this same fixedness in the breast of its unfortunate host makes it perfectly portable, and impervious to geography–maybe this isContinue reading “re-runs”
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