"Are you-who make your living snooping-sneering at my curiosity about people and my attempts to satisfy it ( Read more... )

Justice has further argued that...

And who can argue with justice?

When I was a kid, every once and a while I'd get my hands on a comic book. You know, one of those old 24-page mother fuckers, barely room enough for anything to happen at all. Sometimes I'd get a 48- or 64-page special: actually a lot of the time. Those tended to be the ones that looked most appealing on the shelves. This was the nineties, so ( Read more... )

What is the inverse of annihilation ( Read more... )

fulsere quondam candidi tibi soles

Ah, they'll never, they'll never reach the moon,
At least not the one that we're after.
It's floating broken on the open sea, look there my friends,
And it carries no survivors.
But let's leave these lovers wondering
Why they cannot have each other,
And let's sing another song, boys,
This one has grown old and bitter.
-- Lenny Co'

Well, I got the meanest woman, the meanest woman you most ever seen,
She sleeps with an ice pick in her hand and fights all in her dream.
I'd rather be sleepin' with the devil,
I'd rather be sleepin' with the devil,
I'd rather be sleepin' with the devil,
My woman don't love me no more.
---Sonny Boy Williamson I

...see him wrap his arms around a girl with long blond hair...

Perhaps someday I shall have the opportunity to write an essay on meter entitled "Sex and the Material Signifier"

Perhaps I shall demarcate chapters of my life by the book of the Iliad I'm reading. Such that these last few months have been the bullshit interpolated part of my life that nobody likes. It can only go up from here.