Pat Nolan

Got "Shoes" in the queue.

The Fall of America (after Larry Rivers and Bruegel, the Younger)

Poetry can be lethal.

Something for the "spirit" of the day: "Every time I catch one the other two getaway."

it is characteristic of American genius that the casual eye does not easily distinguish it from charlatanry. Purity of intention lies at the center of American achievement. Modern American writing is about honesty. The American tradition is to offer discovery, not virtuoso performances. H Kenner

Carved outta stone with his bare hands. Crude, rude, and mood.

"Neoliberalism was the system that managed to convince everyone in the world that financial elites were the only people capable of managing or measuring the value of anything, even as in order to do so, it ended up promulgating an economic culture so irresponsible that it allowed those elites to bring the entire financial architecture of the global economy tumbling on top of them because of their utter inability to assess the value even of their own financial instruments." . - David Graeber

Back in 2010, David Graeber wrote, Against Kamikaze Capitalism

This is a quote from that piece.

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Raymond Chandler, Raymond Queneau, Raymond Roussel walk into a bar.

"In the case of slave mode of production, the exploiters directly own the primary producers; in feudalism, both have complex relations to the land, but the lords use direct jural-political means to extract a surplus; in capitalism, the exploiters own the means of production and the primary producers are thus reduced to selling their labor power. The state, in each case, is essentially an apparatus of coercion that backs up these property rights by force." . - David Graeber

Modern capitalism has more in common with Feudalism and the oldstyle slave-system than most people realize.

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"The colonized is indebted to the colonizer for being colonized."

David Graeber speaks about the brutality of Debt in history.

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"The media will always talk about how, say, a transport strike is likely to inconvenience the public, in their capacity of commuters, but it will never occur to them that those striking are themselves part of the public, or that whether if they succeed in raising wage levels this will be a benefit to the same public." . - David Graeber

In 2011. David Graeber wrote the book: Revolutions In Reverse.

A lesser known book than his other books, but still a good source to teach us about how the system works.

Amid These Words I Can Know | The Brooklyn Rail Alice Notley (November 8, 1945–May 19, 2025) was an American poet, widely considered among the greatest (and most loved) writers of narrative, epic poetry of her time. She was the author of more than ...

Terrific poems & remembrances of Alice Notley at The Brooklyn Rail by Anne Waldman, Eleni Sikelianos, Eileen Myles, Brenda Coultas, Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Evelyn Reilly, The Friend, & Lee Ann Brown.

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Look what come my way today. Can't say I'm disappointed (didn't think I would be).

yahaddabethere--Kathy Acker was.

Opportunity missed, I almost choked the pretension out him in the back seat of a cab, North Beach, c. late 70s.

“Pick your picaresque heroes; Pat Nolan’s Carl Wendt stakes his claim on the streets and in the clubs, libraries and bedrooms of SF. Ode to Sunset is many things, not least of which a hilarious send-up of Bay Area poetry’s poseurs.”
—Dan Coshnear, author of Occupy

“Raymond Chandler, Raymond Queneau, and Raymond Roussel walk into a bar.”
—Keith Kumasen Abbott, author of Mordecai Of Monterey, and The Next Thing Coming

"Eliminating guaranteed life employment for people doesn’t really create a more effective workforce, but it is extraordinarily effective in destroying unions and otherwise depoliticizing labor. The same can be said of endlessly increasing working hours. Nobody has much time for political activity if they’re working 60-hour weeks." . - David Graeber

Neo-liberalism cannot have its biggest victims being politically active.

I think there has been a war of the imagination over the last several years. I was thinking a lot about what there might be to be optimistic about and I came to the conclusion that this feeling of hopelessness that everybody has is a manufactured product, and that’s what Neo-Liberalism is really about. Neo-Liberalism isn’t just an economic program, it’s a political program designed to produce hopelessness and kill any future alternatives." David Graeber

Hopelessness is an important element of Neo-Liberalism

"In fact, almost everything worthwhile that has come out of British culture for the last century, from music hall, to street kebabs, to standup comedy, rock 'n' roll, and the rave scene, has been primarily a working-class phenomenon. Essentially, these were the things the working-class created when they weren’t actually working. The sprouting of British popular culture in the 60s was a product of the UK’s then very generous welfare state….and a surprising proportion of major bands later to sweep the world spent at least some of their formative years on unemployment relief." David Graeber

It is good to remember this every time when logging into Twitter.

It is good to remember this every time when logging into Twitter.