Lug Rig

Fundamentally, are wearers of Meta glasses any different than the proverbial Peeping Tom looking in windows

So much lying and grift, I’d boycott all that appalls me, but it’d put me into Neolithic lifestyle. But seriously, Apple, Amazon, Google, wtf

Not just that, he broke my faith in humanity

Like many dinosaurs, besides being pissed it’s heavy work dealing with the betrayal and sense of loss living in this country rn

What’s the saying, ‘they got us by the short hairs’? Fuckers

Sea lions sunbathing

Sunday afternoon at the cove

How is the question of Trump’s unpopularity even a question? Which qualities do people find laudable?

I just read Stoner, a sad book that swings between selfishness and helplessness. Posits life is a great sorrow with flecks of relief. I found it beautifully and thoughtfully written but not uplifting. Tale of cloistered acquiescence.

Five +
Thomas Pynchon
Henry Miller
Vonnegut
PK Dick
Charles Portis

Someone tipped me off to screaming underwater, sound is extremely muffled there, and I’ll do that on swims without much self consciousness

End USAID program, but send a floating hospital to a place that already has healthcare that Trump wants to acquire, is any act not cynical and disingenuous?

Blackbeard was more moral..wtf?

I have to admit I didn’t finish, got a bit more than halfway. Found the writing very strong but the subject revolting. Can only take so much sanctimonious sleaze these days. Jumped ship to Adam Johnson’s epic. I’m intending to get back to JDM’s Florida noir books, and to read Krasner next.

By their plundering ways the regime is explicitly unaware its mission is to prove Tocqueville absolutely wrong

shades of John D. Macdonald, “One More Sunday”

Betting market bet on day he’s called madder than the mad hatter

Gazebo, Gary Simmons

Sergio Suarez

Two worlds in black and white

“There Will Be Blood”

I won’t and couldn’t explain to my young grandson why kids his age are in detention centers. Why, America, why?

Three figures in lines

You will be visited by three spirits

The gap between concerns of daily life and machinations of administration is beyond absurd into the new theater of cruelty

The legacy media’s obsession with presidential elections is a disease that is killing us. For one thing, it deflects people’s energies into hopeful anticipation of the future rather than into the efforts we have to be making now. Also it props up the false personality cult of “the leader.”

@stchris.bsky.social I suppose you should see this asap, and listen too- ICYMI

The power of successive dynasties can treat US glory like the ‘It girl’ of supermarket tabloids

Where’s the infographic showing how many people wouldn’t mind if their own child gets raped or sex trafficked?

So- it should follow that….
And- why isn’t it…?

He was the OG Frank Burns, among a hundred other real ones

Even Invasion of Body Snatchers cameo was gold

Perpetual woe over fact that US population *could* end this nightmare today, but don’t take the steps

“Tom can you get me off the hook…for old time sake”
“Can’t do it…”

I’m traveling now in So Cal, so densely populated, fixations on toned bodies, big fast cars…seems a vast indifference to pervasive perversity loose in the world