Bill Merklee

“If you think you’re enlightened, go spend a week with your family.” ~ Ram Dass.

The New Mastersounds in Brooklyn on Saturday. OMG.

Points well taken. But let’s remember that near the end of the cartoon, Franklin joins everyone else in the back of Charlie Brown’s parents’ station wagon for a ride to Charlie Brown’s grandparents’ house.

@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social We showed up in droves. We gave you the momentum. And what do you do? You roll over. The party is less than useless.

Sunrise over the island of St. Kitts, taken from a cruise ship.

St. Kitts morning.

Well done, New Jersey. ❤️

PSA: A vote for Republicans is a vote for fascism.

Don’t know why, but rewatching “Six Feet Under” seems to be what I need right now.

Fantastic album.

Seems like a good day to rewatch HBO’s “The Leftovers.”

Stop me if you’ve heard this before:
The First and Second Amendment
Walk into a bar.
Only one walks out.

No one
Deserves
To be shot, but
Do not expect me
To mourn him; I’m too busy
Mourning school children.
You know — the acceptable losses.

Happy Birthday, Tommy!

Bastards of Young…🎸

@washingtonpost.com Cowards.

Patel always looks startled, like his mom walked in on him masturbating.

Again I defer to Clarence Darrow.

@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social Put up a fight or get out of the way.

Love seeing herons in the twilight.

YouTube video by Haskell Wexler Matewan Union Speech

Happy Labor Day

Reading Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner. Rewatching The Leftovers (again).

Why did it take me so long to discover rewriting on the front porch as the sun slips away and the crickets start to sing?

A lot of people are fucking stupid.

The bullshit never ends.

So yeah, that quote about taking pleasure in reading some obituaries turns out to be from Clarence Darrow, not Mark Twain. But it still applies today.

Same. Sadly out of print, and expensive when you can find them.

At the heart of any art is process — what the artist goes through (mentally, physically, emotionally, spiritually) to express something that needs to break free of the artist. A.I. doesn’t do that. It merely creates content.

There already.

Happy Birthday!

Congrats!

Question for Mike Flood: With $450 million being allocated to Alligator Alcatraz, and ICE burning through $8.4 million a day to illegally detain people—How much does it cost for fascism? How much do the tax payers have to pay for a fascist country?