It Is a Spar in a Far Mine

I suggest that HOLYFUCKINGFUCK! isn't tomorrow, that my placing posts about Planet's college visits next to posts proclaiming each day's tomorrow is HOLYFUCKINGFUCK! based on each day's yesterday's OMFG! is not only logically incoherent (though a proven if overplayed gambit to maintain if not increase pings), it demonstrates a level of calculated dishonesty by all of us digitally competing to be the bestest diagnostician of HOLYFUCKINGFUCK! ever. Asses.

This past Friday I sent in my deposits for next year's United full-season plan. I'll be back with another HOLYFUCKINGFUCK! post by Thursday at the latest. Click Fleabus, yo.

• More on this.
• Endless lies, endless sucker-plays.
• If Obama had turned down the Nobel as this fucking asshat says he should have, the same fucking asshat's column Monday would attack Obama for his narcissism in turning down Nobel.
• Here's a guy I used to read writing about the asshat in above link. Been blegpondering, remembered this guy, nothing more. Or there is, but meh.
• UPDATE! Vietnam and Afghanistan as Dada-ist Installations.
• The cost of Corporate Capitalism.
• UPDATE! Marx was an excellent diagnostician.
• What is/to be done.
• On Zombies. I'm paraphrasing (and perhaps misunderstanding), but insatiable but not hungry sounds right.
• When pressed, he acknowledged....
• In which Montag concern trolls confused Liberals.
• Confused Liberals.
• OBAMAVATAR!
• What I've been saying for years, said better.
• On that dumbass George Will column from last Sunday.
• UPDATE! Major blegpondering. Best of everything, Frieda.
• Your photoshop of the day, with extra gravy.
• Is Helmetball any different than dog-fighting?
• Sharpton and Jackson should STFU!
• Inside MOCO: when someone says North Potomac, they mean Rockville. (When someone says North Bethesda, they mean Rockville.) Fuckers.
• This post told me this bus route is the busiest in MOCO, but I've been thinking a lot about how MOCO is actually composed of dozens of distinct countries, and Veirs Mill Road, spelled Viers Mill Road on certain public street signs, between Wheaton and Rockville, is one of the oddest roads in MOCO. I'm blegpondering about writing about MOCO. I'll get over it, but nothing has made me more aware of how small is as infinite as large as thinking about MOCO.
• UPDATE! Veirs Mill goes by Aspen Hill.
• UPDATE! I support the ACLU even when they defend a fuck like Fucking Fobin Ricker.
• Thyraphobia, part thirteen.
• Reviewing a book of essays that advise aspiring fiction writers, Dan finds only two essays of special worth, one by poet D.A. Powell.
• State of American poetry. (h/t this and next link)
• My current favorite poetry anthology reviewed.
• UPDATE! Wowee! Ed's sitemeter's a-popping. (And who the hell posts clips of old KITH skits? Oh.)
• Acocella reviews Wolf Hall: But now the excellent novelist Hilary Mantel has joined the tournament, with “Wolf Hall,” a five-hundred-and-thirty-two-page novel portraying Cromwell as a wise minister and a decent man. Mantel is not new to revisionist projects. In her 1992 novel “A Place of Greater Safety,” about the French Revolution, she performed the amazing feat of making Robespierre a sympathetic man. Her interest is in the question of good and evil as it applies to people who wield great power. That means anguish, exultation, deals, spies, decapitations, and fabulous clothes. Mantel recently told an interviewer that she had long planned to write about the Tudors: “Almost all the stories you might want to tell are lurking behind the arras.” Some are quite bawdy, which, if we can judge from the Tudor playwright Shakespeare, is true to the period. A waiter at an inn advises Cromwell not to order the pottage: “It looks like what’s left when a whore’s washed her shift.” A Place of Greater Safety is terrific.
• This past Saturday was Monk's birthday.
• Born 54 years ago yesterday. Let me into your Temple.
• New Sea Wolf! (h/t)
• Mood Tuesday.
• UPDATE! This made me think about this.
• Today's Listening Assignment.
• Today's Listening Assignment.
• UPDATE! Boatload of new release MP3. You did give to KEXP, yes?
• Today's Listening Assignment.
• Today's Listening Assignment.
• New FLAMING LIPS! I've always loved the Lips.

UPDATE!

• One of the new songs is called Silver Trembling Hands, which of course makes me think of Trembling Blue Stars.
  

democrac

D.A. Powell

does god discriminate, slashing some flags, amendments

ever farther about the chapels, pale heaven expires

morter the mosque means build not bomb - the moral center gives

only an honest fellow [please provide] might renounce

christ, this machinery of helmets, prosthetic limbs, human skin

refusing, louder than the drone above the disputed zones

all ages are difficult ages: flight, the bits of metal raining down

clarity never arrives, it is a spar in a far mine, it costs us dearly

Another one of dozens of my five favorites songs ever:

Know what? Theme Song October 2009