Everybody Knows They Are Nowhere
I hope therefore you will not only readily accept of this rude essay as a token from your friend, but take it under your more immediate protection, as being dedicated to you, and by that title adopted...
View ArticleBallerina
If I can’t dance, it’s not my revolution. —Emma GoldmanThe Occupy Wall Street people are not...
View ArticleThe Said Admiral Is Dead
They say it came first from Africa, carried in the screams of the enslaved; that it was the death bane of the Taino, uttered just as one world perished and another began; that it was a demon drawn into...
View ArticleGun Rites
The nonsense with the bodies: it just won’t stop.Recently I wrote of the Doritos inventor who was buried with his corn chips scattered on and around his corpse. Which followed the special dispensation...
View Article"The Keystone Of The Whole Convention"
Video footage showed Gaddafi, dazed and wounded, but still clearly alive and gesturing with his hands as he was dragged from a pick-up truck by a crowd of angry jostling group of government soldiers...
View ArticleA Little Spin
So. NASA is now going to build gas stations in space.That’s not what the NASAoids are calling them—”propellant depots” is the preferred euphemism—but that’s what they are.Says the New York Times:By...
View ArticleDo The Right Thing
(Various different one Kossacks have suggested from time to time that I publish this piece here. Tonight I figured: Halloween, why not? In many traditions, this is the time of year when the scrim...
View ArticleThere, There
We did what we could but it was not enough because I found you here. All of you are not just names on the wall, you are alive. Your blood's on my hands, your screams in my ears, your eyes in my soul. I...
View ArticleLark Ascending
Occupy Wall Street was born of this image. That is what it is about. That is its power.The United States Supreme Court, when, in the early 20th Century, it moved to codify restrictions on free speech...
View ArticleThe Cain Scrutiny
I never really got the Herman Cain thing.From what I could tell, he was a guy who looked up one day while making a pizza, and decided he wanted to be president. That part I could sorta understand. For...
View ArticleYet Shall We Be Merry
Dark wizard Albert Grossman deliberately assembled the folk-singing trio Peter, Paul, and Mary to rake in coin amid the urban folk-revival of the early 1960s. He wanted“a tall blonde, a funny guy, and...
View ArticleLegend Of A Mind
It is Known that Rick Perry is a farm animal, the result of a failed Dr. Moreau-type experiment that sought to cross a man with a steer.It is further Known that this experiment was pursued by...
View ArticleDespertar Al Alba
(And so this is solstice. A time when humans, over many tens of thousands of years, have devoted themselves to Deep Thoughts. In the spirit of which, a piece that examines the "Ultimate Answer to the...
View ArticleI Had Her Heart In My Hands
A year ago today a grievously mentally ill man shot Congressmember Gabrielle Giffords in the brain and killed six people who had come to see her outside a Tucson, Arizona Safeway.This site was a...
View ArticleSilenzio
My arm is in a sling. It was my turn to beat Mrs. Drew and in my excitement I pulled a muscle in my forearm. I should make more of an effort to control my emotions....
View ArticleWindage And Elevation
(Among the weirdnesses that have appeared on this site of late have been dueling diaries furiously contending about the proper understanding and explanation of the winds and the clouds and contrails...
View ArticleThe Great Sun That Makes Me Drunk
Love is what they all want. And lack of love is what makes them the way they are....
View ArticleThe Dead
A few light taps upon the pane made him turn to the window. It had begun to snow again. He watched sleepily the flakes, sliver and dark, falling obliquely against the lamplight. The time had come for...
View ArticleMoney, It's Nothin': The Kills For Free
What horseshit.$50,000 for a dead child. And $11,000 for one who is merely "injured."What horseshit.My daughter, injured, gravely, permanently, for the rest of her life, not intentionally, but through...
View ArticleBabies At Birth
I have no name I am but two days old— What shall I call thee? I happy am Joy is my name— Sweet joy befall thee!...
View ArticleIt's Just Silly
There was this big ferment, back in the 1940s, as to whether the "yogi" or the "commissar," was Most Right.Still, this muck, fermenting today.Back then, abridged best, in a written conversation between...
View ArticleThe Unbearable Cheeselessness Of Nicolas Sarkozy
Tomorrow the French go to the polls to vote in the first round of their presidential elections.The French, they vote on Sundays, because, as is well known, they are against God.They are also against...
View ArticleQuantum Voting
Occasionally on this blog I encounter people of the glum, who have determined that the Obama presidency is of the bungled and the botched, and so they can no longer support it.Instead, they have...
View ArticleUnderpants Nation
I have decided that what claims to be “news” is in fact a figment—not Real at all.My suspicions in this area have been growing for some time. But the events of the past ten days or so, culminating in...
View ArticleSilver Apples Of The Moon
There is a piano now, here in the Manor. It arrived this morning. A little Baldwin spinet, birthed in the 1960s. It is a sturdy and game little being. We are learning each other.There is a great poem...
View ArticleThrowing Stones
Science Men are having an Excitement about a chimpanzee named Santino, who is currently interned in Sweden in a heavily fortified compound known as the Furuvik Zoo.These Science Men have subjected...
View ArticlePolitics Is Just A Story. Reality Is At Home.
Thanatos: coming for my companero Anthony, for his lover Janice, invading her brain with tumor, coming for her life.I can't concentrate. I could say stuff about the presidential campaigns and all of...
View ArticleDisturbance At The Heron House
George II, in one of those many moments when he veritably hooted and scratched and dragged his knuckles across the ground, memorably referred to the people of Greece as “the Grecians.”In this, at...
View ArticleWild Geese In The West
(The first third or so of this piece appeared here for Memorial Day 2011. The rest did not.) ∞ ∞ ∞ ∞ ∞ ∞ ∞ ∞lay down last night lord i could not...
View ArticleThe White-Hot Pincers Of The Age
(A last-ditch motion filed this morning to try to save somebody from a three-strikes sentence of 25-years-to-life. Thought maybe some people might be interested, in what it's like, out here in the...
View ArticleAll Out Beyond Horizon
My daddy was a union man. Represented by CWA. Communication Workers of America.We're talking mid- to late '60s. Feisty, the union, then.Every two years or so, almost like clockwork, a strike.During...
View ArticleThe Green Light
The very most interesting thing about the United States is that it died even as it was born.As expressed in Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, which must serve as the "great American novel," for there...
View ArticleTwitch And Smoke And Rotate Endlessly
(A few days ago Meteor Blades put up "Thoughts Ahead Of Independence Day." That was a good Diary. It reminded me somewhat of something I'd penned myself, back in the 1990s. Not nearly as polished and...
View ArticleThe Opera House
Whoever lives two or three generations, feels like the spectator who, during the fair, sees the performances of all kinds of jugglers and, if he remains seated in the booth, sees them repeated two or...
View ArticleThe Monkeys And The Monkeys
Years ago I was searching for the biggest rooster I could find and heard about a guy in Petaluma, California who had owned a rooster called Weirdo that weighed thirty pounds. Sadly Weirdo had passed...
View ArticleTwo Hearts
to, for, and from ala ∞One time—this was years before, his sons were young, in grade school—Joe was sitting around with his pals in...
View ArticleThe Said Admiral Is Dead
They say it came first from Africa, carried in the screams of the enslaved; that it was the death bane of the Taino, uttered just as one world perished and another began; that it was a demon drawn into...
View ArticleCode Unknown
Ten days or so ago the spirit vacated the corporeal container known as "Russell Means."This is what his Kossack companero, cacamp, had to say here about Means:Russ was my brother-in-arms He and I were...
View ArticlePositively Fourth Street
It is wonderfulness, that the Daily Kos people, they recognize that the nation is changing, that people of color, and other traditionally downpressed peoples, are ascendant.Wonderfulness that they, the...
View ArticleI Want You To Leave Them Alone
November 19, 1863, and the newshounds burdened with receiving those remarks of Abraham Lincoln that would some time thereafter become known as "The Gettysburg Address," had no tape recorders, no video...
View ArticleYet Shall We Be Merry
Dark wizard Albert Grossman deliberately assembled the folk-singing trio Peter, Paul, and Mary to rake in coin amid the urban folk-revival of the early 1960s. He wanted “a tall blonde, a funny guy, and...
View ArticleShimmering And White
I became Old Man Shouts At Cloud at a too early age.In my very early 20s. When I was first assaulted by the word “facilitate.”To this day, I do not know what that word actually “means.”And that is the...
View ArticleDo The Right Thing
(A belated birthday present for my brother, who yesterday would have been some age or other. He always liked this piece, and is identified therein as Tector. He was supposed to accompany me on this...
View ArticleThe Wheel
(Sunday. Two days removed from the December 7 Sunday observed as Pearl Harbor Day. So let's try this one.) ∞ ∞ ∞ ∞ ∞After this world war, the...
View ArticleChristmas Lights
Don’t think that life is somewhere over the rainbow. What you’ve got right now, with your family, your friends, your house: this might be as good as life is ever going to be.Life is not happening on...
View ArticleHedges First
Jesus, he gets the good press, because of the resurrection.First, it is said, he raised from the dead Lazarus.And then, so it is further said, he raised from the dead himself.It is nowadays said, by...
View ArticleI Think That We Will Be Able To Communicate Soon
George, don’t make no full moves. Please make it quick, fast and furious. Please. Fast and furious. You get ahead with the dot dash system. Oh, oh—dog biscuits! And when he is happy he doesn’t get...
View ArticleNothing Human Disgusts Me, Mr. Shannon, Unless It's Unkind, Or Violent
for ala. who went there too. ∞Without John Huston’s 1963 film The Night of the Iguana, there would not exist today the gringo...
View ArticleAll The Guns Are Going To Go
Now that it is clear that all the guns are going to go, daily we are deafened by the howlings of the living-in-fear bitter-clingers, who ululate without surcease that any attempt to bring Sanity to the...
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