i appreciate the iconography of Martians but not necessarily the entities themselves

in like 2004 my mom spent two weeks in the West Bank & mostly stayed in caves with some of the most gracious & hospitable people she's known. i think often about the enormous disparity in the dignity displayed by people of relatively simple earthly means & that of a cruel & deeply decadent behemoth.

abridged excerpts from Norm Finkelstein's "Beyond Chutzpah: On the Misuse of Anti-Semitism and the Abuse of History"

*Tony Soprano trying desperately to remember the name of a full-time Zachary Morris impersonator*: DA PRO ZACK

the US pop psych anti-bullying campaign consensus went from "it's ok to be gay" to "it's ok to not be ok" to "it's so gay to not be ok" in like a matter of years it's not looking good

in like 2004 my mom spent two weeks in the West Bank & mostly stayed in caves with some of the most gracious & hospitable people she's known. i think often about the enormous disparity in the dignity displayed by people of relatively simple earthly means & that of a cruel & deeply decadent behemoth.

abridged excerpts from Norm Finkelstein's "Beyond Chutzpah: On the Misuse of Anti-Semitism and the Abuse of History"

internalized anti-cracker proclivities

to cat-sit predator

the u.s. is uniquely solipsistic, so it makes sense that many ppl would rather centralize & accentuate their own grievances & suffering, but i feel that this comes at a terrible cost; ppl learn to detect for dehumanizing language, but often only for that which applies to the identities they occupy

a state felt emboldened to sexually assault greta thunberg et al on a globally-followed aid mission after years of systematically using Palestinian boys and men as objects of perversion, desecration and unspeakable indignity largely in the shadows of cowardly silence. the depravity is unconscionable

militant u.s. atheists who claim to despise the "unique evils" of religion are telling you not only that they find the world's 2 billion Muslims to be antiquated & helpless brutes, but that they consider their faith itself to be an intrinsic desecration of the planet that must be uprooted entirely

Americans will spend more time ruminating over the salad days of Scholastic Book fairs gone by than they ever will thinking about an ongoing scholasticide

many make the calamitous mistake of thinking that the Serenity Prayer is meant to be an admission of solipsistic acquiescence

the broader world of SNL's shameless & simpleminded starfuckery is among the most nauseating elements of show business i know of

Amazing. Liberals cannot engage with what’s in front of their noses; they just block and hope all the victims of their favorite Democrat(s) just—fingers crossed—fade from public consciousness.

militant u.s. atheists who claim to despise the "unique evils" of religion are telling you not only that they find the world's 2 billion Muslims to be antiquated & helpless brutes, but that they consider their faith itself to be an intrinsic desecration of the planet that must be uprooted entirely

i was 5 when i saw helicopter footage of a Columbine student being forcibly pulled through a shattered school window pane on a local newscast & that same day i saw a guy from down the block carted away on a stretcher badly burned from a lighter fluid attack; this nation has a wicked sickness to it

yeah ok man

the u.s. is uniquely solipsistic, so it makes sense that many ppl would rather centralize & accentuate their own grievances & suffering, but i feel that this comes at a terrible cost; ppl learn to detect for dehumanizing language, but often only for that which applies to the identities they occupy

when i find myself ensnared by a person of the Silent Generation or early period Baby Boomer i just start raving about the madcap comic hijinks of 1963's "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World"

they gentrified UPN and tore down the block to build the snobby, tawdry CW and it's been game over ever since

yeah ok man

goddam this was 20 years ago today: i was 12 & remember watching this episode with my sisters. First Impressions of Earth was the first album that came out when i was a proper little devotee & the boys had me geeking

Why are so many people still holding on to what they want AOC to be and what they feel she could be instead of paying attention to people that are already voting the way that they wanted AOC to vote? Summer Lee, for example. Summer Lee gets a fraction of the attention.

Kathy Bates was always a babe

i was 5 when i saw helicopter footage of a Columbine student being forcibly pulled through a shattered school window pane on a local newscast & that same day i saw a guy from down the block carted away on a stretcher badly burned from a lighter fluid attack; this nation has a wicked sickness to it

my mom’s been a committed activist for a quarter century & still she devotes her Monday nites 9-10PM to rachel maddow, so i pray for the materfamilias to one day see the light & alter her — occasionally — empty-calorie media diet. i've told her Rach mourned Cheney & propagated Russiagate & NAFO bait

me when ppl disparage the 3rd Strokes album

Obama as an aspirant bear: let me be hairy queer

glad i trusted my gut when i despised her adam friedland appearance. some of the prominent buzzfeed-pilled upper middle class white 2nd-gen feminist podcasters tried to paint her as an unwitting victim when it was known from the start she had no compunctions about consorting with demonic entities

time of year when i dreamily gaze out the window at the myriad cats who roam Dearborn's sun-kissed sidewalks and brood over the fact that i do not own a sign that reads "i am not a peeping busybody — i am only admiring the coterie of cats and their tireless pursuit of low-stakes exploits"

in undergrad i dated my first flat-chested pawg & she used to recite the Shakira line "lucky that my breasts are small and humble / so you don't confuse them with mountains" but i didn't know that those were Shakira's words so i was under the distinct impression that my lover was caked up AND poetic

ppl talk about the premeditated rejoicing when the big man eventually perishes but not enough is made about the fact that many of us will likely be fortunate enough to witness both Hugh Jackman & Ryan Reynolds bite the big one

the preternaturally cantankerous element of the Silent Generation's bitter, withered silverscreen stars will forever be uproarious in my eyes

the preternaturally cantankerous element of the Silent Generation's bitter, withered silverscreen stars will forever be uproarious in my eyes

Coachella is trying to wipe all of the footage of The Strokes protest set so I’m gonna post it here. The last images on the screen made me cry.

This is what Israel has done to Bint Jbeil, my hometown in southern Lebanon

Oh, what a precious sight. Very familiar, too. I'm sure my Dad would agree. 😂

just because you drop sick beats DOESN'T make you DJ Nana

from Alawite to all the whites, no one likes a party foul

Haley Stevens is booed as she takes the stage at the Michigan Democratic Party Convention in Detroit. She spoke over people screaming "shame" and other comments, many about Palestine, through most of her remarks. "Democrats, I love you, even when we disagree," Stevens said.

being a middle-aged white & still clinging to self-victimhood is a calamitous state of affairs

Norm Finkelstein's blistering contempt for Elie Wiesel & the cynical deployment of historical trauma & the breathless exceptionalizing of one's pain sustains me

in undergrad i dated my first flat-chested pawg & she used to recite the Shakira line "lucky that my breasts are small and humble / so you don't confuse them with mountains" but i didn't know that those were Shakira's words so i was under the distinct impression that my lover was caked up AND poetic

By the way @monicagoldberg.bsky.social you work for an environmental NGO or something, eh? Weird to support a state that routinely kills indigenous fauna, though I get after all those villages were destroyed and their residents murdered of exiled they really wanted to plant pines on top.