“You know, sometimes we’re not prepared for adversity.”–The Reverend Jesse Jackson Could this be the “decrepitude and what promises to be an entertaining public dementia” I so carelessly wrote about last year? It’s always easier to imagine despised public figures suffering personal indignities than to witness it. There’s no pleasure to be drawn from theContinue reading “Keeping Hope Alive”
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Untethered’s Theme
Wax Tailor, I Don’t Know
Summer Re-runs, Again
Fourth of July, Summertime 08 Acid Flashback RemixHistory may be written with blood and iron, but it is printed with ink, and it is made real and dangerous when it is put on film, the alternate literature of our times…History is not over yet, and history collects its debts. —Gustav Hasford, Vietnam Means Never HavingContinue reading “Summer Re-runs, Again”
note (liveblogging the killing spree)
(updates should be read from the bottom up) update, 7.1.08:1145Montana. Not going well. This state is practically empty, of humans that is. Stopped at the side of a remote road to relieve myself and was chased off by what I think was a rutting moose. Relief accomplished. Took my Bushmaster into a country store intendingContinue reading “note (liveblogging the killing spree)”
The Magical, Mysterious, Absorptive Alchemy of Success
Time, time, time is on my side, yes it is…–The Rolling Stones Regarding this Freddy Gray post at TAC, I wouldn’t assume that today’s stenographers of the royal court aren’t correct about the perception, if not the truth, of current events as they will be viewed a generation on, at least here in the States.Continue reading “The Magical, Mysterious, Absorptive Alchemy of Success”
Asylum
A narcotic debauch of two or more months came to a close one month ago. Too small and unexceptional to warrant detail, a mere echo really of the self-inflicted catastrophe that is my past. Aftershocks years after the collision of youth’s flight with reality’s hard ground, growing progressively fainter as they pass through in expandingContinue reading “Asylum”
Partial text of recovered captain’s log, circa 1750
Called all hands on deck to address fanciful talk arising from previously noted sudden sightings and inexplicable disappearances of what some in the crew are calling a “phantom ship”. Interrupted by lookout’s sighting of upper masts in fog bank about a half mile off starboard, due north. Called crew to quarters. Damn poor timing! AllContinue reading “Partial text of recovered captain’s log, circa 1750”
Aphex Twin, Avril 14
The Ecstasy and the Apostasy
I’m just retrograde enough to think that voting for Barack Obama because of the gesture it constitutes, whether to Black America’s or the world’s historical resentment, is an absurd way to go about selecting a president (and the source of a nifty political gimmick for a campaign already low on substance). But one can’t denyContinue reading “The Ecstasy and the Apostasy”
Maverick Jettisons the Constitution
Some will remember that John McCain’s vaunted independence once included more than just a sneering disregard for conservative concerns and bullying impatience with opposition to the neo-liberal economic orthodoxy that is his path of least resistance to power–notably skepticism toward liberal intervention and nation-building. Those days are of course long gone, and the man’s storyContinue reading “Maverick Jettisons the Constitution”
untethered 