Code for show; write specs for dough.

Cash is a little cooler than Dylan and more the twice as cool as Dylan plus Springsteen

This is the truth. There are a lot fewer mechanical systems in an electric car. Among the mechanical systems, the brakes get used a lot less because the electric motors can slow the car down. You will need to maintain the suspension, but mostly, you'll have to refill washer fluid.

Saying "bipartisan" today is like saying "union" in 1858: both were recently taken for granted to be good and valuable, but now require a valid justification defending their use.

It is kind of a funny mental image to imagine Vance looming over an unconscious Trump on life support being like come on, fucking DIE already… I killed the pope for this.

Fun summer. Get 'em next year.

An old saying: If you shoot the past with a pistol, the future will shoot you with a cannon.

"Illusion. When peace and plenty are once again taken for granted, at your most languorous moment of maximum surrender, the true state of affairs will be borne in upon you. Swiftly and without mercy." From "Against the Day" by Thomas Pynchon, 2006

They said the same things about U. S. Grant, and he worked out fine

The squirrels and I have come to terms

Today in therapeutic misprision: Sherman's March and The Power of Now

Read me

Strictly functional over here

The sun is up, or it was

Long, but funny www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z60V...

It's six hundred years old. Imagine how many times people have chosen to keep it

Kitchen table project idea:

Tomato Nation, 2025.

Just posting this to note that The Menil Collection in Houston is one of the best museums you are ever going to see. Do not miss it if you have a chance; add a day to your trip if you have to.

Some names from Against the Day

Did they figure out Adjusted Gross Intelligence yet?

I was born in 1968, and it seemed like nothing much happened until 1989, then 2001, and the rate has been doubling ever since. Major things are happening all the time now, but time, that pitiless bastard, passes unchanged.

Moon, tonight

What will have been the use of them if they do not?

Looking for a color, a small history

Sadly, it leaks

I imagine poems about data structures, but maybe forms are data structures, like mad-libs with feet, and you can use them like keys in other poems that are like locks, and I wonder what a multi-dimensional mad-lib poem would be and imagine an empty underscore on a page marked "sonnet" not "adverb."

I'm reading "Against the Day" which I pre-ordered in 2006, and, while I'm enjoying it, it presents an unbounded world of possibilities that feels out of reach in a sad way today.

It’s a team sport

Someone I know won a prize!

I'll play: they're going to trot out JD in a wig with a clown nose on and tell us it's fine, he's fine

Another racing in traffic on one twenty eight mobile.

Whither Cordelia and when do we get the scene with the mad king begging door to door for shelter?

One day—not so long from now—you will hear a symphony of car horns honking, and people cheering in the street, and music loudly playing in all directions. And after a brief moment of being perplexed, you will know exactly what has happened.

ennuibriated, to quote a dear old friend

In 1850, if you wanted to move a piano from Cincinati to Manhattan, you would put it on a barge, float it to New Orleans, put it on a boat, and sail it around Florida and up the coast to New York.

It's about as tall as I am, which is what I wanted

The big complaints about the Soviet Union were domestic surveillance, arbitrary hassle at borders, disappearing people, and fraudulent economic statistics, so they kind of have to forget the animosity. In Soviet Russia, smartphone watches you doesn't have the old absurdity, does it?

I ask again how one could live one's entire life in Ronald Reagan's America and not believe with absolute certainty that enchantment is real.

Giffords fire, tens of miles distant

quote this with a book you read way too young that explains why you are the way you are.

beta.weather.gov is back online and forecasts do not get more accurate than that

Yup. And The New York Times and the New Yorker's forty years of sneering an anyone who had the temerity not to live in Manhattan brought Trump to us as sure as night follows day.

Lidded tomato cage asks why have a garden anyway?

We call ourselves The People