Tomorrow Was Yesterday

Tpwrtz, I can't escape the noise because I don't want to escape the noise. I love the noise, I'm sick of pretending to pretend I don't, and now, now that the pigs are piggying faster than even Democratic wussying can keep up, the noise will be splatastic!

Holyfuck, Democrats can't suck more at being professional counter-fuckwads. I understand why professional Republicans loathe them. My contempt glows hot red meh.

Consider this another attempted molting out of my .06% less-shitty roobiskin.

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• Power in America.
• What I keep saying.
• Getting worse more slowly is still getting worse.
• Afghan scenarios for when, not if, we fail.
• Paying off the warlords.
• Sorry.
• Pastor Gerson envies dictators.
• It bears remembering that America's patriots on the Right envy the clergy in Iran their Basij street vigilantes, which is why the Right fears the clergy in Iran.
• They also envy Islamic terrorists, which is why they fear them.
• They fear The Constitution.
• UPDATE! Credit for saying it.
• Obama is deeply stoopid if he thinks killing Khalid Sheikh Mohammed will shut pigs up.
• Obama lacks "blood impulse" for what America is about, presumably because Obama is not like Islamic terrorists (or at least not openly).
• Obama as Polanski.
• Barack Obama: Is He the Devil?
• Please please please please please!
• UPDATE! Please please please please please!
• Bow Mao.
• Cowardly fuckwit.
• Your Fucking Washington Post.
• Your Fucking Washington Post.
• You can't spell slaughter without laughter.
• Another reason to not watch helmetball.
• Directional Rider Flows on Metro.

• Herndon, not Kensington, is the most obscene city in America.
• CCT! A 14-mile light rail line between the Shady Grove Metro station and the Clarksburg area is estimated to cost $999 million, and a busway is estimated to cost $533 million, according to a state analysis. Heh, not $1B, $999M. Marketing! suckers.
• ICC! Move to allow upscale Toyotas on road advances.
• My future hell.
• Elric's father, when head of the math dept at Churchill years ago, argued for this.

UPDATE! (Via Bromark) On next season's United kit:

I'm not allowed to share anything that you probably really want to know yet, but, I can say that we will have both a new home & away kit in 2010. Our home kit will remain primarily black, with away being white. There will also be no third kit in 2010. From what I've seen our kit doesn't use the exact same silhouette as any of the adidas World Cup kits or any of the other new MLS kits. Some design elements are shared here and there but overall ours will be unique. We actually just did a photo & video shoot of the new home kit today that I won't be able to share until 2010, but I think they turned out well.

Can't vouch for any of this - I've no idea who DCU Merchandise is, though Bromark says he works in the team store at RFK - but, from a marketing and sales POV, why wouldn't you release at least images before Giftmas?

• Redesign the Redskins helmet?
• I can't summon the damn to say much about Garber's babble other than of course there's going to be a strike.
• Van Persie to treat hurt ankle with horse placenta!
• UPDATE! Fuck the French. This is true: Thierry Henry, when at Arsenal, was once one of my favorite players. Cheater. (And fuck FIFA for CHANGING RULES IN THE LATE STATE OF THE TOURNAMENT and rigging the draw to ensure there was no way for France to draw Portugal in the knock-off.) (So fuck Portugal too.)
• New USMNT WC10 shirt? Is? Ugly as sin. USMNT = United States Men's Nike Team.

• The publishing industry and the Bolaño myth.
• On the coming Bolaño Backlash.
• Bolaño's Distant Star.
• Hemon reviews Nabokov's Laura.
• Silliman's always generous lit-links.
• The spell against spelling. (h/t)
• Two new Marilyn Hacker poems.
• On Ashbery. (h/t)
• NME's Top 50 Albums of the Noughties. Now, for one thing, the Noughties don't end until 12/31/10 (a battle I'll never win and surrender to having made that statement). Second, The White Stripes? Seriously? Two albums in the top 19? I understand that I don't get Arcade Fire and don't begrudge them their two albums, but fucking Jack White, twice?
• Chuck Prophet!
• February 4, not 14. Who's in?
• Three-way.
• Today's Listening Assignment.
• But you're in every song I know.
• KEXP's MP3s of this week's new releases.
• Shitfaced, they're all undressing.
• Today's Listening Assignment.
• When we kiss it feels like a flying saucer landing.
• Today's Listening Assignment.
• They breathe coke and have affairs.
• Today's Listening Assignment.
• UPDATE! Well, this was just put in my head, be in yours.
• It makes you blind, it does you in.
• Today's Listening Assignment.
• Cause I got wheels and you want to go for a ride.
• Today's Listening Assignment.
• Come here baby and kiss me like you mean it.
• Today's Listening Assignment.
• Why do we keep shrieking when we mean soft things?
• Today's Listening Assignment.
• I've enjoyed making you miserable for years.
• Today's Listening Assignment.
• Some of it just transcendental, some of it is just really dumb.
• Serendipity: New TINDERSTICKS!
• I will stay if you let me stay.

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HUM

Ann Lauterbach

The days are beautiful.
The days are beautiful.

I know what days are.
The other is weather.

I know what weather is.
The days are beautiful.

Things are incidental.
Someone is weeping.

I weep for the incidental.
The days are beautiful.

Where is tomorrow?
Everyone will weep.

Tomorrow was yesterday.
The days are beautiful.

Tomorrow was yesterday.
Today is weather.

The sound of weather
Is everyone weeping.

Everyone is incidental.
Everyone weeps.

The tears of today
Will put out tomorrow.

The rain is ashes.
The days are beautiful.

The rain falls down.
The sound is falling.

The sky is a cloud.
The days are beautiful.

The sky is dust.
The weather is yesterday.

The weather is yesterday.
The sound is weeping.

What is this dust?
The weather is nothing.

The days are beautiful.
The towers are yesterday.

The towers are incidental.
What are these ashes?

Here is the hat
That does not travel

Here is the robe
that smells of the night

Here are the words
Retired to their books

Here are the stones
Loosed from their settings

Here is the bridge
Over the water

Here is the place
Where the sun came up

Here is a season
Dry in the fireplace.

Here are the ashes.
The days are beautiful.

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Yes, again: