> @covie93.bsky.social
There really was a time when politics was almost fun. RIP.
youtu.be/CXIAEUtORvw?...
Ok, this is not even close to the most important thing going on right now, but hearing the Melania "doco" called "Triumph of the Shill" is the best political wordplay I've heard since the Bundys were called "Y'all Queda".
If shit were even the tiniest bit less stupid and dangerous, this photo would leave me feeling nothing but abject pity for this man. The fundamental psychic damage expressed by this photo is genuinely crushing.
Ok. That's a damn fine headline.
There is high cinematic potential in the image of an aged Steven Tyler whisper-singing "I could stay awake just to hear you breathing" into a forkful of couscous.
The thing about being raised in a deep red state: it doesn't matter how far you travel, there are just gonna be weeks when the featured earworm is gonna be "There Is Power in the Blood".
I hate this fucking timeline because it allows sentences like "Trump's desire to name things after himself hints at insecurity" to be passed off as newsworthy.
I usually don't much go in for that manifesting crap but fuck yeah.
Why in the hell am I surprised by any depth that poster child for American malignant narcissism sinks to? And yet, here I am, actually surprised he's found a way to sink to an even lower low.
...I don't think it a phenomenon limited to SK.
I keep hoping that maybe the algorithmically diluted nonsense we're being fed right now will finally push a permanent wedge between art and commerce, but I suspect that's an unrealistically optimistic take.
I've read a few of Kim Hyesoon's books (in translation...my Korean suffices for everyday tasks and not much else) and it definitely tracks to hear her blast the mass-market here in South Korea...but, though it is amplified by very strong social pressure to conform in thought, deed, and appearance...
I mean, as zeitgeist songs go, it stands pretty far removed from what "Don't Stop" was in the 90s, so...
Aaaand...it's only fitting that at least in their case, the most recognizable product of their collaboration came from a woman who penetrated the core of their group and said, "Um, while you were jerking each other off, you dropped something...". Which raises the question, where is our Mary Shelley?
Then again, if Shelley was right about unacknowledged legislators, the fact that most of their output *was* rhetorical may actually make it --worse--.
I mean, Byron and Shelley and that crowd spring immediately to mind when you talk about self-sequestering misunderstood geniuses and florid horrors, but at least most of their output was rhetorical in nature...
This is how I learned of Tom Stoppard's death.
I'm gonna go ahead with a working conclusion that the 21st century is fundamentally anti-human.
...and Empty G, whose apologies struck me as calculated, but seem far less so with decision to resign...almost like there's not so much winning on that side of things just at present...
There once were two children. They lived. They died. The end.
I'm so sorry, Rocket. Her warning didn't reach me before the work day started.
Good luck avoiding Wham and Mariah Carey for the next month and a half!
Exactly.
I still don't understand what about these people strikes 33% (or so) of Americans as charismatic. There was never any point in time when they looked like serious alternatives to me, and my working theory remains that it's 100% a troll that's gotten way out of hand.
I dunno, man...any opportunity I might have to deny Bezos a take would automatically make the book worth more to me. Doubly so given that I live...not stateside.
"It could have been--it didn't have to be obscene.... It could have been--a bird out of season, dropping bright-feathered on my shoulder.... I was prepared. But it's this, is it? No enigma, no dignity, nothing classical, portentous, only this--a comic pornographer and a rabble of prostitutes...."
There are probably contexts in which any jazz song needs the volume cranked up, but the amazing thing about Fela's "Zombie" is that there's pretty much no context in which it *doesn't* need to be cranked up.
I don't know of any politician that I agree with 100% of the time, but I am nodding violently to the sentiment in this post.
Grateful for this.
In SK, it's a bit of a losing battle -- they wired in hard re: the internet and are doing much the same with AI: I expect shockwaves when the smoke and mirrors finally get exposed as, well, smoke and mirrors -- but I do at least caution my students to *check* what AI offers them.
I think those are for Rocket. You know, to start pretending it's the holidays.
