two phrases i haven't escaped from today: "It would complicate the question of mourning a living subject." from www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi... "To resist despair in this world is what it is to be free" from Operation Ivy's Soundsystem. What a life!

is there a difference, Erika, between two different things?

Just remembered as Atlantic City came on the shuffle that, in a dream last night, my father was in the process of deciding to become a Nebraska guy. Uninterpretable! Still, helpful, looking inward at the space inside myself. Happy holidays!

The world is dark and terrible and prone to loneliness but I got to see Sebulba tonight.

Well, season 2 of Joe Pera remains a perfect work of art.

SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going— SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti— SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE

“I am so bored by AI. One of the things I love about the theatre is AI can’t do it.” Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻

"Michael, I figured out a way to make money *while* I'm working."

Pile and Ren

the sweater kills me, i can't lie.

"children believe in their own souls, despite our best efforts to commoditize their pale husks"

can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot

Anyway it's Benedick's hypothetical perfect woman from Midsummer, Prospero's epilogue, and Larkin: Morning, noon, and bloody night Seven sodding days a week I strive a filthy work that might Be done by any book-drunk freak It goes like this til I kick the bucket Fuck it, fuck it, fuck it, fuck it

grotesque pales in comparison.

prompt for rubes, honestly. it's *all* poetry, you've just been learning to call it by other names. no tea! no shade! no pink lemonade!

"can't you guys just let me be riiiiich"

It's the better option than what's inevitable for them, but they've built their existence to protect themselves from all of the world's fires, already raging. They've known for years that it's two generations, max, before the world gives up the ghost, they intend to enjoy the remaining time.

People say it's hard to make new friends when you're middle aged, and those people aren't even trying to make new friends who are Randy Newman fans.

We learned a lot during the initial COVID reaction. We learned the UBI works, that working from home is possible for most jobs, and that the country survives on the hardworking people of retail, service industry, transportation, and nursing. Then we promptly forgot all that shit.

6-fold ward against AI-induced psychosis

"stop trying!"

I've been long anticipating the era of electeds and appointeds getting in trouble for, like, first wave fbook posts. Lack of creativity on my part, I s'pose.

Realizing that the difference between myself and 70-90% of the strangers I meet is the ability to grasp metaphor has been helpful and gut wrenching.

Zach, of all people, tells you to suck a lemon and get a life.

Hell, I'll judge a *magazine* by its cover.

You know what, I'm just gonna re-up this post

wait til y'all hear about *sandwiches*

lol you losers keep clicking on these things

I'm older than most trees.

TRUMP: and this Daniel, he went into the den? MAMDANI: The lion's den, yes TRUMP: surely they ate him MAMDANI: Here's the part where it gets a little Broadway: they didn't TRUMP: Unbelievable

while I’m being cranky, access journalism needs to go. When the president does his “I’m alpha because I insulted you” thing somebody needs to fall on his sword and say “what the fuck is wrong with you, old man?” on a hot mic. the hero of the wizard of Oz is Toto.

"i had no idea that when i took a job hawking the word of christ it would backfire in the long run"

When suffering counts as good news.

mr president sir theres a story coming about how you intervened to help a sex criminal. no sir, not that sex criminal you helped….no not that one either…sir, please stop guessing sex criminals that you helped. ill give you a hint sir, hes a trafficker. no sir, not that trafficker a different one

KLAXON KLAXON KLAXON

Do you have any idea how cool it feels to tell people that you and your kid put on Stereolab records for dinner music? Weaponized, I feel, by myself.

Marvel movie ass level of critique from the Atlantic finding the plot holes in the presentation of abject evil because it doesn't match childhood imaginings

starting to wish i had been a j6er at this point just think of what you could get away with

I grew up thinking betting on dog racing was a degenerate activity. I've met people who care more about dogs than they seem to about unhoused people. I dunno, guys.

He's still hip

Every time I'm sad about inspiration I remember that at least half of the good shit out there is 'for my ex girlfriend' in code language

I'm about to break open the plastic on an '84 copy of True Stories to spin while I cook dinner, alone. It's older than me. Pleasures and their subtleties, what a world.

If being rich can seduce and corrupt you this bad, oh baby, wait til you hear about *absolute* power. Shit ain't even subscription based, what are you, a dipshit?

Something deeplys, strangely satisfying in knowing my @themountaingoats.bsky.social birthday song.

But where will they see Charlie Kirk if not in Valhalla

Lol at 'believe' okay we're giving up I guess

Solution: illiterate ICE agents, they're way ahead of us.

Where I live now.

never considered the 'peeing on yourself' overton window but well nevertheless