Saying hello

Been noticing some folks coming at me from a couple different sites, and thought I’d return the favor.  (Although probably to a far lesser degree.)
I know Dr. Benjamin from the old days at the Try-Works, and if you ain’t reading his blog, The Mahatma X Files, well, you sure as hell should be.
And here’s to [...]

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Hell hath no fury like a punk shiteater spurned

Little elfin freak (and former Colorado governor), Bill Owens, tries to shake Ward Churchill’s hand, and is told to get fucked.  Crying and whining ensues.
From the Rocky Mountain News.
Former Gov. Bill Owens on Friday compared one-time University of Colorado professor Ward Churchill to a famous moviemaker – and it wasn’t a compliment.
“In retirement, he’s starting [...]

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Never go full retard

The still’s from Nathalie Djurberg’s “Secret Handshake”, pilfered from a great New York Magazine article.
I have a soft spot for art that, in terms of subject matter and material, is in bad taste. It’s art that pushes against psychological and social expectations, that tries to transform decay into something generative, that is replicative in a [...]

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Happy way-fucking-late Robert Burns day

Since we’re doing poetry.
Nine Inch Will Please a Lady — Robert Burns
Come rede me dame, come tell me dame,
My dame come tell me truly,
What length o’ graith when weel ca’d hame
Will sair a woman duly?”
The carlin clew her wanton tail,
Her wanton tail sae ready,
“l learn’d a sang in Annandale,
Nine inch will please a lady.”
But for [...]

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As good as any

From the New York Times.
Requiem — John Updike
It came to me the other day:
Were I to die, no one would say, 
“Oh, what a shame! So young, so full
Of promise — depths unplumbable!”
Instead, a shrug and tearless eyes
Will greet my overdue demise;
The wide response will be, I know, 
“I thought he died a while ago.”
For life’s a [...]

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