There Are Starving Children Left on Your Plate

My apologies, let me move Momcat from top-billing with today's awoogayodel (trademark), my not posting since wasn't bleggal mourning but my deliberate attempt to not awoogayodel daily as effective but repetitive reaction to shitlord organs' incessantly reprogramming me to lockstep accept my (and yours) rapidly approaching immiseration and eventual slaughter

Yesterday my senator from Maryland, Chris Van Hollen, called the IDF war criminals for starving Gazans, I was surprised and stunned, Chris Van Hollen? I tweeted:

This was my first reaction (Van Hollen is my senator, Maryland). my second reaction that there had to be a cynical motherfucking professional Democrat decision to pick him to speak now so it's borderline evil at best, my third reaction, the fuck is @RepRaskin, moral coward?

Second reaction the correct reaction of course and should have been the first, the fuck wrong with me. Early this morning he voted to give Israel more money for Israel's western shitlord sanctioned genocide. Joe Biden's having aides tell reporters that Joe is really really mad and calling Netanyahu an asshole in a pathetic effort to gaslight his genocidal glee while demanding his party give said asshole more money to buy US bombs, Bidenomics!

I've been yodeling since October 8 that a major goal of the US proxy genocide in Gaza is to gear-up prepping the American public for the horrors of the coming global wars over resource scarcities and accepting as patriotic the sociopathic death-drive shitlords have to either unilaterally control the world or destroy the world if they can't. This is from eight years ago

Meanwhile, professional motherfucking Democrats and their shitlib zombies can't decide which narrative to adopt as primary, that the special counsel (designated by Biden's own AG) lied about Biden's senility versus Sure Biden is diminished and demented, but Trump. Why doesn't Trump's increasing dementia (Biden will rename Pennsylvania if reelected, for example) get the same 24-7 obsessive play as Biden's, a shitlib former professor of mine demanded of me, when I said because even if Trump is as feeble or feebler than Biden Trump is not currently sending weapons to Israel to ethnic cleanse Palestine, steal the West Bank, and kill all child-bearing age Palestinian women and already born Palestinian children to eliminate the next generation of Palestinians while simultaneously tempting a broad Mideast war that would almost certainly lead to a world war, that's why, this probably the last time my former professor ever asks me anything again

Meanwhile, in my complicity, we're driving to Michigan Thursday to visit our daughter (so this post might sit atop for a while), HEY! did you know Wayne Kramer made an album (MUBUC5, get it?) with Pere Ubu in 1998? It's true, you can hear it here, no youtubes to post from that album but here, have this instead

What and how helmetball serves: The Super Bowl Massacre
The Crisis at The New York Times
⇧	"It has been evident to many of us since the genocide in Gaza began Oct. 7 that Israel risked asking too much of those inclined to take its side. The Zionist state would ask what many people cannot give: It would ask them to surrender their consciences, their idea of moral order, altogether their native decency as it murders, starves and disperses a population of 2.3 million while making their land uninhabitable. The Israelis took this risk and they have lost. We are now able to watch videos of Israeli soldiers celebrating as they murder Palestinian mothers and children, as they dance and sing while detonating entire neighborhoods, as they mock Palestinians in a carnival of racist depravity one would have thought beyond what is worst in humanity—and certainly beyond what any Jew would do to another human being. The Israeli newspaper Haaretz reports, as American media do not, that the Israel Defense Forces covertly sponsor a social media channel disseminating this degenerate material in the cause of maintaining maximum hatred"						⇧
Excellent article on Finkelstein and vital reminder to not make heroes, make allies
Biden administration signals it is open to Rafah offensive as it looks to press Netanyahu on hostage deal
JOE BIDEN OWNS THIS GENOCIDE
"In The War Of Propaganda, It Is Very Difficult To Defeat The United States”
JOE BIDEN OWNS THIS GENOCIDE
As do motherfucking professional Democrats
A longform reflection on the interplay between obedience & disobedience in the modern corporate university
Hell’s Endless Trails from the USA
Something's gotta give					After this after this after this
Bluesky CEO Jay Graber Says She Won’t ‘Enshittify the Network With Ads’
Ten years into his college teaching career, students stopped being able to read effectively
Why Animals Talk: The New Science of Animal Communication
⇧	"Do animals have language?’ is a bad question. They talk, concludes Kershenbaum, but not in the way we do. We are pathologically linguistic. We chop the world up into propositions and, if we’re not careful, examine those rather than the world itself. The behaviourist Temple Grandin speculates that non-human animals might rely on mental images rather than something tantamount to language to conceptualise ideas (as people like her, with autism spectrum disorder, do). We can’t know, but Kershenbaum is sympathetic to the notion.						⇧
Maggie's weekly				Killing the planet
This christercracker shitminister looks like my brother Elric
Wayne Kramer’s Rage Against the Prison Machine
{ feuilleton }'s			SOCIALIST VEGANISM
An excellent collection of songs for Damo Suzuki

MAD LIB ELEGY

Ben Lerner

There are starving children left on your plate.

There are injuries without brains.

Migrant workers spend 23 hours a day

removing tiny seeds from mixtures

they cannot afford to smoke

and cannot afford not to smoke.

Entire nations are ignorant of the basic facts

of hair removal and therefore resent

our efforts to depilate unsightly problem areas.

Imprisonment increases life expectancy.

Finish your children. Adopt an injury.

           ‘I'm going to my car. When I get back,

           I'm shooting everybody.'

                                [line omitted in memory of_______]

70% of pound animals will be euthanized.

94% of pound animals would be euthanized

if given the choice. The mind may be trained

to relieve itself on paper. A pill

for your safety, a pill for her pleasure.

Neighbors are bothered by loud laughter

but not by loud weeping.

Massively multiplayer zombie-infection web-games

are all the rage among lifers.

The world is a rare case of selective asymmetry.

The capitol is redolent of burnt monk.

           ‘I'm going to my car. When I get back

           I'm shooting everybody.'

                                 [line omitted in memory of _______]

There are two kinds of people in the world:

those that condemn parking lots as monstrosities,

‘the ruines of a broken World,' and those

that respond to their majesty emotionally.

70% of the planet is covered in parking lots.

94% of a man's body is parking lot.

Particles of parking lot have been discovered

in the permanent shadows of the moon.

There is terror in sublimity.

If Americans experience sublimity

the terrorists have won.

          ‘I'm going to my car. When I get back

          I'm shooting everybody.'

                                [line omitted in memory of _______]

Rest in Peace, Momcat

Momcat just hit by a car and killed. I picked her up off the street and wrapped her in a towel and put her in a Chewy's box and put the box on the backporch, the screendoor closed to keep coyotes and foxes and dogs from eating her. The ground too frozen to dig to safe depth, I'll take her to the vets for cremation tomorrow

Some man walking his dogs yelled hello, crouching over a painting I thought it was my stomach growling with gas and then the neighbor banged and banged and banged on the door, said a black cat, I knew it was Momcat, I knew it wasn't Frankie 

I tried to say to L (last night before I typed this) and C (this morning) and succeeded more than failed how my processing always starts with gratitude I know how and when my feral cats died and they never just disappear and are never seen again so I never have to imagine day after day (and I would imagine day after day year after year) what horrible death they suffered and just process the hard death they had

I'd promise myself I'll never have ferals again as if I have a say and as if I'm not delighted to be adopted by them, dogs and cats have found us for forty years, more will again and good

Each Night He Must Be Carried Through Artificial Tunnels and Dream Recurrent Dreams

Back on fountain pen ink on canvas, see below, back on pencil in tablets (and canvases, though not the one below). Back on valkyrie for more than just rollers, yesterday, two steepest downhill holes at Woodsboro clanked drive off baskets, closest aces yet. I'm not back on Facebook though I've received multiple emails telling me they've received my request to reset my passwork, I had an account for four days back in Facebook's earliest days twenty years ago, all it took for me to say no, I thought I'd deleted the account, someone wants in, is not me. I consolidated all blooger sub-projects into one archive last week so I can find things I need to and so I can quick delete everything when I finally want to, 21 posts tagged since the consolidation by blooger with content warnings readers need click through to view, the fuck? 

Never off the hexjeffs. Never off the sideways though definitely sidewaysier day by day. Death by gerontocracy is by design. There IS no next generation planned. Reminder: when my daughter is my age it will be 2057, the earth will still exist but will the world? Reminder: if you got no Mojo Nixon than your store could use some fixin', and a reminder that this is ever true:

Democrats Are Demented Genocidal War Sluts
Gaza Method: The West’s evolving blueprint for controlling a poly-crisis world by mass-murdering and subjugating the poor, the rebellious, and those deemed “superfluous"
The Resistible Rise of The New Normal Reich
"The U.S. seemingly aims to find a way to hurt Iranian and Resistance forces just enough to show that Biden is ‘very angry’, yet without perhaps doing real damage – i.e. it is a form of ‘militarised psychotherapy’, rather than hard politics."
Shhh! Bodies of Palestinian detainees who were handcuffed, blindfolded discovered in plastic bags near northern Gaza school
Debunking the myths of Israel/Palestine
GAZA IS A CRIME SCENE
In The Middle East The U.S. Has Reached The End Of Its Abilities
The Liberal Justices Should Be Talking More Shit
The Real Reason Your Grocery Bill Is Still So High
Enshittification is coming for absolutely everything
New Study Links Optimism To Lower Cognitive Abilities
Maggie's weekly				Unlearning machines
Metaphors make the world
Cats and human supremacy
{ feuilleton }'s			Seeing animal eyes
Elizabeth Bishop born 113 years ago today
Rest in Peace, Mojo Nixon				Rest in Peace, Stevie

THE MAN-MOTH

Elizabeth Bishop

Man-Moth: Newspaper misprint for “mammoth.”

Here, above,

cracks in the buildings are filled with battered moonlight.

The whole shadow of Man is only as big as his hat.

It lies at his feet like a circle for a doll to stand on,

and he makes an inverted pin, the point magnetized to the moon.

He does not see the moon; he observes only her vast properties,

feeling the queer light on his hands, neither warm nor cold,

of a temperature impossible to record in thermometers.

                     But when the Man-Moth

pays his rare, although occasional, visits to the surface,

the moon looks rather different to him. He emerges

from an opening under the edge of one of the sidewalks

and nervously begins to scale the faces of the buildings.

He thinks the moon is a small hole at the top of the sky,

proving the sky quite useless for protection.

He trembles, but must investigate as high as he can climb.

                     Up the façades,

his shadow dragging like a photographer’s cloth behind him

he climbs fearfully, thinking that this time he will manage

to push his small head through that round clean opening

and be forced through, as from a tube, in black scrolls on the light.

(Man, standing below him, has no such illusions.)

But what the Man-Moth fears most he must do, although

he fails, of course, and falls back scared but quite unhurt.

                     Then he returns

to the pale subways of cement he calls his home. He flits,

he flutters, and cannot get aboard the silent trains

fast enough to suit him. The doors close swiftly.

The Man-Moth always seats himself facing the wrong way

and the train starts at once at its full, terrible speed,

without a shift in gears or a gradation of any sort.

He cannot tell the rate at which he travels backwards.

                     Each night he must

be carried through artificial tunnels and dream recurrent dreams.

Just as the ties recur beneath his train, these underlie

his rushing brain. He does not dare look out the window,

for the third rail, the unbroken draught of poison,

runs there beside him. He regards it as a disease

he has inherited the susceptibility to. He has to keep

his hands in his pockets, as others must wear mufflers.

                     If you catch him,

hold up a flashlight to his eye. It’s all dark pupil,

an entire night itself, whose haired horizon tightens

as he stares back, and closes up the eye. Then from the lids

one tear, his only possession, like the bee’s sting, slips.

Slyly he palms it, and if you’re not paying attention

he’ll swallow it. However, if you watch, he’ll hand it over,

cool as from underground springs and pure enough to drink.

In the Sound That Abounds and Resounds and Rebounds Off the Ceiling, or: Rest in Power, Wayne Kramer

as i think of rolling up the dogends

The universe can barely contain the depthless contempt and loathing motherfucking professional Democrats and their zombie shitlibs have for you, you fucking hippie. They despise you more than they hate Trump and his zombie magaturds, they despise you more than Trump and his zombie magaturds hate you


Impressive motherfucking professional Democrat 2024 campaign strategy, demanding an FBI investigation of a major party constituency. Do not underestimate how much FUCK YOU, SHUT THE FUCK UP YOU DIRTY FUCKING HIPPIE OR ELSE is a major motivating factor in Genocide Joe's every single fucking policy decision. They would rather Fat Hitler (who has NOT overseen and funded a genocide but will in the future) rule than admit you are right about anyfuckingthing ever. The nicest thing that could be said about them is they are just following shitlord directions, but temper that with the knowledge that they love (and are well-compensated for) despising you, it's (besides the well-compensated part) their favorite part of their job

Today in my self-interest: Screed above shat out to get it out of my system, notebook-wise, a temporary but welcome fix
O, and to remind you - also to get it out of my system - we are being prepped for a major Mideast war that will likely spread into a world war, please please please, please don't start until after our long vacation in Maine this summer (and may we be on Mount Desert Island when Russian and/or Iranian and/or Chinese nuclear warheads incineration DC and our house four miles north of DC, today in my complicity
Happiest days of their lives and the cherry on-top the Fuck You!
Arab Americans Won’t Be Shamed into Voting for Biden
Has International Law Survived, or Has the Western Political Class Killed It?
War on the Middle East: the Time of Monsters
"Biden-Dems 2024 running as the party of war, genocide, record oil&gas production, and now an immigrant-repression program that’s to the right of Trump in his first term"
"Joe Biden is figuring out exactly how racist and xenophobic to be to win over zero Trump voters who think he’s a kid sacrificing pervert and alienate a couple million of his own ostensible voters. The perfect Democrat fuck up"
"I hope the Gaza genocide makes this clear: do we send our cops to Israel for IDF training because the IDF is so fucking good at fighting? No, we send the cops on Israeli vacation (and foot the bill) so they can learn to regard your town as Gaza"
"The Biden Administration's cutting off critical funding to UNRWA is the default form of collective punishment of Clintonian liberals, where the denial of humanitarian aid is used as a weapon to punish (ie., starve) people who have no responsibility for the alleged transgression"
Inside the collapsing U.S. political-media-industrial-complex
The Meme-ification of American Politics
What if it’s not really about democracy?
What happened to David Graeber?
On W.E.B. Du Bois - Marx or Jefferson?
If humans have souls than elephants have souls (though if elephants have souls it doesn't mean humans have souls)
What is incoherence?					MAGGIE'S
Avedon Carol's occasional links
{ feuilleton }'s			Reprint Heaven: Brutality
The scholarly journal as puzzle: On time, collaboration and closure
In which I don't make a category and try not to make an allegory
Joy Williams on Leonora Carrington
Completely Subjective: Anne Carson’s “A Fragment of Ibykos Translated Six Ways”
Ahead of Time: on poetry and mourning
Robert Wyatt, force of nature, born 79 years ago yesterday

PRATHEORYCTICE

Tom Raworth

as i think of rolling up the dogends
looking for papers i see this terrible thing
thought of as a better life
sometimes i wonder
what is introspection
red white and blue
or through mud and blood
to the green fields beyond
which were the colours on a tie