age - wanting a nap - offensive to 2 year olds, offensive to 90 yr. olds, accepted by every age in between
not wearing deodorant on the plane - farting into the white noise
axe body spray - the sign of a rapist (GHB)
economics of sluts, supply and demand
Sunday, October 21, 2012
This Week
it represents what
he wasn't able to do
in his real life
he's the one
the one that she thinks of
when she thinks of love
Sunday, September 23, 2012
Sunday, August 19, 2012
Sunday, August 12, 2012
Neoclassical Warrior
That morning she discussed Two Trax on the phone with a very close friend from the institute. An incoming call from her brother beeped exhaustively, ignored in its tracks. Just a few phone calls would have revealed her recent departure to him.
As a child her chosen tactic toward her brother's snide remarks had been to spit on him. It came to define the extremes of her irreverent and saucy character. Ten years later she found herself regretting those choices and many others.
Llewellyn was wearing a pink lined blouse. It was a gift from her grandmother and she had kept it out of courtesy with no intent to ever wear it. It happened to be the only decent article of clothing left to her since her expulsion from the institute. The rest had been burned in a political maneuver by the institute's staff.
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Outside the restaurant, Llewellyn ambled by Fat And Happy eying the freshly dropped cigarettes of passersby and retrieving the ashing butts which she would inhale to an even unhappier nub.
"Not quite fat enough for the circus," a patron lady remarked after Llewellyn.
Llewellyn loved making married women happy. In her pleasant reverie she never expected to catch a glimpse of him bounding through the strip mall's parking lot. If only he had known about Llewellyn sooner. Unbeknownst to him, the final decision had been his.
As a child her chosen tactic toward her brother's snide remarks had been to spit on him. It came to define the extremes of her irreverent and saucy character. Ten years later she found herself regretting those choices and many others.
Llewellyn was wearing a pink lined blouse. It was a gift from her grandmother and she had kept it out of courtesy with no intent to ever wear it. It happened to be the only decent article of clothing left to her since her expulsion from the institute. The rest had been burned in a political maneuver by the institute's staff.
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Outside the restaurant, Llewellyn ambled by Fat And Happy eying the freshly dropped cigarettes of passersby and retrieving the ashing butts which she would inhale to an even unhappier nub.
"Not quite fat enough for the circus," a patron lady remarked after Llewellyn.
Llewellyn loved making married women happy. In her pleasant reverie she never expected to catch a glimpse of him bounding through the strip mall's parking lot. If only he had known about Llewellyn sooner. Unbeknownst to him, the final decision had been his.
Looking Down
Wedding attire—business majors—and the familiar clack of yuppy on concrete. If only something could remind them of their youth or the fact that they'll be lucky enough to see the next half-century. And to stay in fashion, you have to run at more than a trot. And that in itself makes them important.
The man with the sunflowers knows exactly what he's investing in.
The man with the sunflowers knows exactly what he's investing in.
Double Happiness
"I remember," he drooled "mushroom caps." Frankly he didn't give a damn. But Daft really, really wanted to stay married this time, if not for the rest of his life. And at this moment, he would have settled for the rest of the night.
Daft had been anxiously driving around town and at midnight he promised himself a quick stop. He had to eat. He had never listened to Gloria's advice before, but for some reason he was now taking her advice, when no one would know, and while it would no longer matter if he told her.
Gas station bananas. The staple of a very lost bachelor. On previous occasions he had argued with Gloria about the deliciousness of a brown gas station banana. He'd pontificate on the sacred sweetness of the potassium-enriched fruit.
Stuffing the banana's innards into his stubbled and gaunt cheeks, he grabbed another and gestured the strokes of a rigorous masterbatory session out the window of his Turbo-Saab convertible. A few onlookers stared blankly at his obvious grab for attention, then turned away in pity and disgust.
Leaving the gas station, Daft got a stroke of inspiration. He turned his car onto the main road and drove in a familiar direction.
Pulling up to his secret box-shaped building, he caught a glimpse of his latest "ex-venture." The only factor making this "venture" tangible being her recent employment at Just A Handful—his favorite titty bar. Daft had not once dated a woman in the city, but he would frequently find girls and follow them around town. It made him feel powerful to witness their intimate moments in secret. He had first found Lurline considering her darkened reflection from the reverse side of a window. Daft totally unseen. Lurline vulnerably exposed. Framed in a window that was painted with faded red pigment sun-dyed to pink, he thought she looked beautiful and tragic.
Daft had been anxiously driving around town and at midnight he promised himself a quick stop. He had to eat. He had never listened to Gloria's advice before, but for some reason he was now taking her advice, when no one would know, and while it would no longer matter if he told her.
Gas station bananas. The staple of a very lost bachelor. On previous occasions he had argued with Gloria about the deliciousness of a brown gas station banana. He'd pontificate on the sacred sweetness of the potassium-enriched fruit.
Stuffing the banana's innards into his stubbled and gaunt cheeks, he grabbed another and gestured the strokes of a rigorous masterbatory session out the window of his Turbo-Saab convertible. A few onlookers stared blankly at his obvious grab for attention, then turned away in pity and disgust.
Leaving the gas station, Daft got a stroke of inspiration. He turned his car onto the main road and drove in a familiar direction.
Pulling up to his secret box-shaped building, he caught a glimpse of his latest "ex-venture." The only factor making this "venture" tangible being her recent employment at Just A Handful—his favorite titty bar. Daft had not once dated a woman in the city, but he would frequently find girls and follow them around town. It made him feel powerful to witness their intimate moments in secret. He had first found Lurline considering her darkened reflection from the reverse side of a window. Daft totally unseen. Lurline vulnerably exposed. Framed in a window that was painted with faded red pigment sun-dyed to pink, he thought she looked beautiful and tragic.
Saturday, August 11, 2012
Lean, Mean, Biothermy Machine
Foreseen. A device that converts your fat into lean. The energy of the conversion is used to power your electronics/machines.
Friday, August 10, 2012
Start-up
Daft's wife chased him out of the driveway, screaming "I wish you dead. I wish I had never met you. Die." Punctuating her latest epithet, she quickly grabbed an old hand-weight from the unused pile next to his office and chucked it at his car. The weight landed in the middle of his Turbo-Saab-canvas-convertible top, and quickly sagged until it tore a hole the size of her angry fist.
Unfazed, Daft continued to lurch the car backward off the driveway and coax it onto the main road. He had known that his marriage was a single shred of wheat. But he began to consider that he might truly be unloved. And not only that, he was acutely aware that Sex is the only reason to Do anything. Let alone: create, think, innovate, build, dream. And Love is the only good reason to sex. (There are other reasons, but it's the only good one.)
Daft was failing. And he had the distinct sense that it was about to get much worse.
Unfazed, Daft continued to lurch the car backward off the driveway and coax it onto the main road. He had known that his marriage was a single shred of wheat. But he began to consider that he might truly be unloved. And not only that, he was acutely aware that Sex is the only reason to Do anything. Let alone: create, think, innovate, build, dream. And Love is the only good reason to sex. (There are other reasons, but it's the only good one.)
Daft was failing. And he had the distinct sense that it was about to get much worse.
Friday, June 29, 2012
Tuesday, April 10, 2012
Monday, April 2, 2012
Business Magazines
Harvard Business Review
Forbes
Fast Company
BusinessWeek (Bloomberg)
The Economist
Entrepreneur
Fortune
Inc.
Kipliner's Personal Finance
Money
Barron's
CeoWorld Biz
CNN Money
Smart Money
Commodities Now
Business Finance
Credit Union Journal
Credit Union Times
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Wired
American Demographics
Consumer Reports
Time
National Journal
Legal Affairs
Forbes
Fast Company
BusinessWeek (Bloomberg)
The Economist
Entrepreneur
Fortune
Inc.
Kipliner's Personal Finance
Money
Barron's
CeoWorld Biz
CNN Money
Smart Money
Commodities Now
Business Finance
Credit Union Journal
Credit Union Times
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Wired
American Demographics
Consumer Reports
Time
National Journal
Legal Affairs
Friday, March 30, 2012
A Chink in the Armor
Part of being a teenager is rebelling to find your own identity. The other (and very necessary) part is getting adults to prove that adulthood works. Prove your power, prove your freedom, prove you have the answers.
Friday, March 16, 2012
I'm in love with the WORLD'S OLDEST MAN
Every spot is rising
Covered with the hopes
and dreams of a new connection
love dripping, sopping wet,
sopping over the edges
sun kissed hills and royal blue waves
cities filled with young hopeful entrepreneurs
activists and poets, artists and infamous criminals
all waiting to tickle our brains
all the way to bed and back again
i heard you speaking
the warm rush of difficult syllables
falling on unwelcoming ears
except mine—open, loving, expectant
i saw you reaching out
first with the smallest gesture,
smiles, and manly deeds
stimulating unwanting thighs
except mine—hoping, yielding to your touch
Landscapes rolling before us
The most beautiful in the world
moments of sheer mirth dripping from our supple minds
Fully felt, deeply dreamed and wanted and yearned and cried and screamed and frustrated with life, and hopeless, and compassioned for
Covered with the hopes
and dreams of a new connection
love dripping, sopping wet,
sopping over the edges
sun kissed hills and royal blue waves
cities filled with young hopeful entrepreneurs
activists and poets, artists and infamous criminals
all waiting to tickle our brains
all the way to bed and back again
i heard you speaking
the warm rush of difficult syllables
falling on unwelcoming ears
except mine—open, loving, expectant
i saw you reaching out
first with the smallest gesture,
smiles, and manly deeds
stimulating unwanting thighs
except mine—hoping, yielding to your touch
Landscapes rolling before us
The most beautiful in the world
moments of sheer mirth dripping from our supple minds
Fully felt, deeply dreamed and wanted and yearned and cried and screamed and frustrated with life, and hopeless, and compassioned for
Friday, March 9, 2012
Monday, March 5, 2012
Moby Dick Notes (Part 1)
Valley of Saco
the poet of Tennessee
Rockaway Beach
brother of Jove
Archangel Gabriel
snow hill
"The act paying is perhaps the most uncomfortable infliction that the two orchard thieves entailed upon us."
old hunks
Old Manhatto
Tyre/Carthage
Leviathan
harpooning (how does it work?)
pea coffee
palsied
Euroclydon (wind) zephyr
hob
copestone
Lazarus
Moluccas
Squitchy
Hyperborean
Cape-Horner
founder
Nathan Swain
Javan Seas - Cape of Blanco
monkey jacket
grego, wrapall, dreadnaught
bosky beards
bombazine
scoria
the Cave of Elephants
Goodwin Sands
brevet
verdure
Quebec (leaving him impregnable…)
Ehrenreitstein
Censtaph
confabulation
vitiated - spoiled/debased (lat. vitio)
Sag Harbor
Tit-bit
Medes
galliots
Becket-bled - Canterbury Cathedral
Thorkill-Hake
buckler
chapters/foreign destinations
tille/turnstile wheel
footmanish
Belial bondsman
the idol Bel
Bel is a dragon mentioned in the Old Testament "Book of Daniel"
It was the object of veneration and worship in the Babylonian Empire where Daniel was held captive
palavering
plaudits
puissant
quoggy
Outward portents and inward presentiments
ahasuerus
Anacharsis Clooty
binnacle lamp
genera
bilocular heart
penem intrantem feminam mammis lactantem
gnomon
hartshorn
ferule
"Oh time, strength, cash, and patience"
hustings
abstemious
that wild Logan of the woods
standers-of-mast-heads/Egyptians
carking
Iron Crown of Lombardy
iron way
demomorgan
the poet of Tennessee
Rockaway Beach
brother of Jove
Archangel Gabriel
snow hill
"The act paying is perhaps the most uncomfortable infliction that the two orchard thieves entailed upon us."
old hunks
Old Manhatto
Tyre/Carthage
Leviathan
harpooning (how does it work?)
pea coffee
palsied
Euroclydon (wind) zephyr
hob
copestone
Lazarus
Moluccas
Squitchy
Hyperborean
Cape-Horner
founder
Nathan Swain
Javan Seas - Cape of Blanco
monkey jacket
grego, wrapall, dreadnaught
bosky beards
bombazine
scoria
the Cave of Elephants
Goodwin Sands
brevet
verdure
Quebec (leaving him impregnable…)
Ehrenreitstein
Censtaph
confabulation
vitiated - spoiled/debased (lat. vitio)
Sag Harbor
Tit-bit
Medes
galliots
Becket-bled - Canterbury Cathedral
Thorkill-Hake
buckler
chapters/foreign destinations
tille/turnstile wheel
footmanish
Belial bondsman
the idol Bel
Bel is a dragon mentioned in the Old Testament "Book of Daniel"
It was the object of veneration and worship in the Babylonian Empire where Daniel was held captive
palavering
plaudits
puissant
quoggy
Outward portents and inward presentiments
ahasuerus
Anacharsis Clooty
binnacle lamp
genera
bilocular heart
penem intrantem feminam mammis lactantem
gnomon
hartshorn
ferule
"Oh time, strength, cash, and patience"
hustings
abstemious
that wild Logan of the woods
standers-of-mast-heads/Egyptians
carking
Iron Crown of Lombardy
iron way
demomorgan
Monday, February 20, 2012
I'm Acting
I'm acting like small town
in the biggest little small town
in the scope of hope
inspired
retired
I'm tired
of working for expired
old men
then ten
more teens
directing the world
unseen
the machine
touching my va-geen
letting you in
just to let you out
drought
no rain it's a problem
no water
can't drink
won't think
my brain
is a solid hole
sink
then drown
get a gasp
come to surface
in the biggest little small town
in the scope of hope
inspired
retired
I'm tired
of working for expired
old men
then ten
more teens
directing the world
unseen
the machine
touching my va-geen
letting you in
just to let you out
drought
no rain it's a problem
no water
can't drink
won't think
my brain
is a solid hole
sink
then drown
get a gasp
come to surface
Thursday, February 9, 2012
Flicker Flit Glow
touch tongues, mind fuck, tingling electricity, warm rolling earthquakes on a deeply swelling sea, soft slobbering sensuality bulging eyeballs and smooth, soft skin rolling weight laying meaningfully on the breast tweaked nipples and gently straining muscles flexing in harmony
Drug of Silence
He used his penis to pound morse code messages into my vagina.
I realized too late that I could have saved his life.
I realized too late that I could have saved his life.
Film Notes
The word "image" has two conjoined meanings: an image is an optical pattern, it is also a mental experience "multistable figure"
whatever education our ears undergo in order to perceive reality is sufficient to perceive recorded sound
"saccades"
boveated vision
read images
physiologically
ethnographically
psychologically
-------
semiology
the study of systems of signs
poetry - signifiers/signifieds
the dance between sound and meaning
"A film is difficult to explain because it is easy to understand"
-----
what if you made an object that wasn't necessarily what it appeared to be but treated it as what it appeared to be
circumscribed
the process of intellection
a single frame is not the smallest unit of meaning
a shot contains as much information as we want to read in it
whatever education our ears undergo in order to perceive reality is sufficient to perceive recorded sound
"saccades"
boveated vision
read images
physiologically
ethnographically
psychologically
-------
semiology
the study of systems of signs
poetry - signifiers/signifieds
the dance between sound and meaning
"A film is difficult to explain because it is easy to understand"
-----
what if you made an object that wasn't necessarily what it appeared to be but treated it as what it appeared to be
circumscribed
the process of intellection
a single frame is not the smallest unit of meaning
a shot contains as much information as we want to read in it
The Hell Of It
Humour as a condition
Part of a conditioning process
As Pavlov would have
Flipping through memories
Good for a laugh
It annoyed the piss
out of them
other behaviors in another
My wonderment begins
I became this person or that
With some little success
to invoke or stimulate
Acquired a persona
fit for a beautiful lady
It would have been unnecessary
to pursue other baser titles
"Clown" or what have you
And so it is my suspicion
I have been conditioned
to take on strange behaviors
Part of a conditioning process
As Pavlov would have
Flipping through memories
Good for a laugh
It annoyed the piss
out of them
other behaviors in another
My wonderment begins
I became this person or that
With some little success
to invoke or stimulate
Acquired a persona
fit for a beautiful lady
It would have been unnecessary
to pursue other baser titles
"Clown" or what have you
And so it is my suspicion
I have been conditioned
to take on strange behaviors
Wednesday, February 8, 2012
Certainty Compulsion Corpses
I'd like to shed the strictures of adulthood and make maturity an optional result of a freely lived and human life, not the necessary path to power and success, lorded over by the depressed, overweight, unimaginative masses
Parting the Waters
Tom Watson
George Wallace
Julian Bond (SNCC)
Hosea Williams
John Lewis
Rev. Ralph David Abernathy (SCLC)
Andrew Young
Lawrence Guyot (?)
Hartman Turnbow ("a man who covered all the ground he stood on")
Amzie Moore
Fannie Lou Hamer
Roy Harris
John Patterson
Lonnie King
Ben Allen
Glenn V. Evans
Jonathan Daniels
Sheyann Webb
James Farmer > (FOR); Salt March, "War Without Violence" -- investigation, negotiation, publicity, demonstration
"wade-ins" at public beaches
Fred Shuttlesworth
Ted Jemison
C.K. Steele
Sam Williams
Rev. A.L. Davis
C.G. Gomillion
Franklin McCain
Ezell Blair Jr.
David Richmond
Joseph McNeil
"Paul's Letter to American Christians"
James Lawson
James Forman -- "Black Manifesto"
Bob Mosea
Amzie Moore
Pat Waters "Down to Now..."
Boynton Case - Supreme Court Ruling
Simeon Booker
William Harbour
BIRMINGHAM: THE BATTLEGROUND STATE
George Wallace
Julian Bond (SNCC)
Hosea Williams
John Lewis
Rev. Ralph David Abernathy (SCLC)
Andrew Young
Lawrence Guyot (?)
Hartman Turnbow ("a man who covered all the ground he stood on")
Amzie Moore
Fannie Lou Hamer
Roy Harris
John Patterson
Lonnie King
Ben Allen
Glenn V. Evans
Jonathan Daniels
Sheyann Webb
James Farmer > (FOR); Salt March, "War Without Violence" -- investigation, negotiation, publicity, demonstration
"wade-ins" at public beaches
Fred Shuttlesworth
Ted Jemison
C.K. Steele
Sam Williams
Rev. A.L. Davis
C.G. Gomillion
Franklin McCain
Ezell Blair Jr.
David Richmond
Joseph McNeil
"Paul's Letter to American Christians"
James Lawson
James Forman -- "Black Manifesto"
Bob Mosea
Amzie Moore
Pat Waters "Down to Now..."
Boynton Case - Supreme Court Ruling
Simeon Booker
William Harbour
BIRMINGHAM: THE BATTLEGROUND STATE
Wednesday, February 1, 2012
The Brothers Rico
Calcutta
Cape Fear
Caught
"Any man who goes to a party like that has just one idea. And that's one idea too many for me."
Casablanca
Christmas Holiday
City Across the River
Clash by Night
Crack Up
Criss Cross
Crossfire
Cry Danger
Listen, darling, when you drink as much as I do, you gotta start early.
The way this guy holds onto a dollar, you'd think they weren't printing them anymore
Anything else?
Yeah. BUrn that tent you're wearing and get yourself a suit.
If I make you feel necessary, I'm making a mistake.
I was just getting ready to take my tie off wondering if I should hang myself with it.
Be smart, Charlie. Act dumb.
It was his story against mine, but of course I told my story better.
I always heard you had some kind of talent.
That was last year. This year I'm trying to make a living.
Calcutta
Cape Fear
Caught
"Any man who goes to a party like that has just one idea. And that's one idea too many for me."
Casablanca
Christmas Holiday
City Across the River
Clash by Night
Crack Up
Criss Cross
Crossfire
Cry Danger
Listen, darling, when you drink as much as I do, you gotta start early.
The way this guy holds onto a dollar, you'd think they weren't printing them anymore
Anything else?
Yeah. BUrn that tent you're wearing and get yourself a suit.
If I make you feel necessary, I'm making a mistake.
I was just getting ready to take my tie off wondering if I should hang myself with it.
Be smart, Charlie. Act dumb.
It was his story against mine, but of course I told my story better.
I always heard you had some kind of talent.
That was last year. This year I'm trying to make a living.
Monday, January 30, 2012
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