Again an obamapawn an obamapunk an obamapest an obamaprat an obamaprop an obamapimp an obamaprank an obamaplot an obamapostate an obamapologist an obamapieceofshit. Truly, eight fucking years of daily monitoring my obamabarometer stanks of obamapoop.
Growl and purr, no one charts the fluctuations of my narratives but me, and I'd sooner engineer another cloverleaf to self-indulgence than coordinate my grids with a mimicry of consistencies that don't exist.
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- The Hard Case.
- Brad DeLong picks a fight with David Harvey. (h/t)
- Tortured Phish.
- Who won't be running for President in 2012.
- This Blog Is Not a Safe Zone.
- The word you're looking for is pussy.
- The horror that is Europe.
- Coming soon (h/t)
- New Frank Bidart poem, an Italo Calvino story from 1968.
- Barbara Guest poems.
- New Rae Armentrout poem. Armentrout reviewed. (h/t)
- Jesse Ball?
- For the sake of filmic clarity.
- Down at the bottom of the right hand yellow column, archives of recent live in-studios at KEXP by Juana Molina and Chuck Prophet!
I've posted a live version, here's the album version
Big fuck-you to District. When they tear down RFK, what happens to that neighborhood? One would assume that they might recognize what MCI/Verizon Center did for Chinatown. Even Navy Yard area is getting a boost from that overpriced beisbol monstrosity. I guess the view isn't so good when your head is up your ass.
DCNG needs a new armory. Tear down DC General and put it there, build a new stadium on the old armory site, and build a new community on the RFK parking lots. The RFK site itself would make a nice circle/park/memorial to something or another (it would have been perfect for a MLK memorial), and everybody wins...
But Jack Evans doesn't give a shit about the quality of life in DC south or east of Dupont, and he has some magical ability to push through incredibly huge taxpayer-funded projects for the good of DC's cracker minority, at the expense of DC's non-cracker majority (and in spite of all the whiteys at DC United matches, it is still considered a "minority" sport, what with all the spics and negroes there). And Fenty is a scrotumless douchebag totally lacking in foresight.
PG United will not be a success, and the huge rise in ticket prices will chase away the majority of casual fans and latinos.
It's all a moot point anyway, since MLS inexplicably strayed from their successful business plan and forced financially struggling clubs to sign washed-up internationals for ridiculous salaries while paying homegrown talent less than the average part-time JiffyLube "technician". Is there a single MLS team that even comes close to breaking even? I seriously doubt it.
I doubt if the league will survive the upcoming lockout/strike thing, especially in this FUBAR economy. Enjoy it while you can, and tell your grandkids about it.
Sounds entirely plausible to me. And you thought I was the doomier one.