Whootowoot

I should write about yesterday's joyous outburst of United blarg, the exhilarating glee it gave me to write about United.

I should write about the distinction between contempt and loathing, how shitclouds of contempt at my own at least implies a continuing damn and don't lessen the loathsomeness of the loathsome. I'm not ceding my liberties to David Addington; I'm not going to cancel my vote that cancels a pig's vote for a pig.

As for United, yesterday's furious spurting, as proxy for my mwarg at Democrats plus my skunksticky pissedoffedness at my duh-political markdom, reminds me of the mixed blessings of scratching my black and red markdom.

But holyfuck!it was cathartic to scream.

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Why was Liverpool wearing United kits yesterday in Marseilles?

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And why was Marseilles wearing Dynamo kits?

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• The human ick that is Gerson appropriates MLK for pigwank.
• I've met the "dumbest fucking guy on the planet" (he teaches here at Hilltop), and while I haven't talked enough with him to confirm he's as stupid as advertised, I can confirm that he's the type of guy who moves his tongue around the insides of his cheeks as he listens to you before saying, "ah." He and Michael Gerson probably like each other.
• Conrad Black snark!
• On obedience.
• This was my first thought too.
• On the establishment candidate.

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• Malcolm Lowry: Modernist.
• Speaking of modernism.
• Do you belong to All My Bum?
• The Millions Year in Reading 2007.
• Salon's top ten books.
• On bookblogs.
• PGWP's top eight albums of 2007.
• The most important thing you'll listen to today.

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Eibbil has been badgering me to read this poet, who happens to be Poetry Daily's today:

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ORIENTATION WEEKEND

August Kleinzahler

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At the Hotel Oblivion, Airport Drive
  Mezzanine, Conference Center B
    PowerPoint presentation no. 1
Career Enhancement Strategy
  Mary-Ray's pink ice service trembles
    In the aftershock of some astral seizure
      So remote and faint
        Only the weevil's foreleg dares say
          Yes, yes, yes, it's true
            Next up
Team Building Exercises
  Woof, woof
    Burgundy carpet, big yellow dots
      That new smell, glycol ethers
        4-phenylcyclohexane in the latex backing
Break: Free Coffee, Light Snacks, Get Acquainted
  Uh, pardon me, Miss Carnoustie
    Is that your panty line
      Or a silken esker of longing
        Have an hallucination, have a bagel
          We had an issue under discussion here
            Regarding the lighting, I believe
              That tenebrous strip beyond the chandelier's orb
                Hey, help me out here
                  Not now, Peg, I'm teething
                    Are we ready for the evening
Thought Shower
  Hold on, the jacaranda's gone missing
    Waiter, some more Vitamin Water, and hurry
      Wow, here comes
        Thirty-six thousand blasts of ink per second
          In four, count 'em, four brilliant colors
            And with no telltale digital trace
              I see a hand up
                Mr. Gomez, are we still on the same page?