Brent E. Cunningham

When you read a lot of excerpts from Booker prize longlisted novels it can start to feel, with some of them, like maybe modernism and postmodernism forgot to happen.

This is the govt entity in charge of keeping the food supply safe for all Americans posting a bald faced lie. These are the people we are need to trust during an e-coli, listeria, or salmonella outbreak. This level of partisan manipulation is really bad for everybody in the US, physically bad.

Here is the Uhaul from last night's action at the entrance to Coast Guard Island being driven out of the scene.

Coast Guard fires at U-Haul in Alameda, 2 struck after daylong immigration protest The FBI is investigating a shooting that occurred late Thursday night near the entrance to Coast Guard Island in Alameda — the same location where a day-long protest against a called-off federal immig...

So this happened right next to my work. Scene, including my work, shut down as FBI investigates. www.ktvu.com/news/coast-g...

Coast Guard seems to have given up for the moment on Coast Guard Island. Great work Oakland! I stand corrected on the tear gas, it was a pepper bomb. And flashbangs.

Coast Guard Island in Alameda shut down for now. Some tear gas and flashbangs have been used. No idea why these idiots decided ICE HQs in the Bay Area should be located at a spot with one entry/exit point, easily closed by just a few protesters.

Reminder email from Jules's middle school not to door dash your kid some food...apparently that's happening?

Some Notes on the City of Angels and the Nature of Violence I think maybe it's begun, the bigger fiercer backlash against the Trump Administration which is itself a violent backlash against every good thing that's happened over the past several decades – the a...

For those not following the drama earlier, it's for sharing this piece advocating for nonviolence (but not being judgy about how targeted people respond either). And saying some things about governmental/ institutional violence.

I feel like a lot of philosophers have a lot riding on my ability to imagine a perfect circle.

I can only hear Trump's "Vladamir, STOP!" in Parker Posey's White Lotus voice.

Easily the most under-quoted line from Allen Ginsberg's Howl: "Who digs Los Angeles IS Los Angeles!"

in the chat group How to Defeat Godzilla: "hey guys who is GZ?"

Day #80 of inventing new aphorisms until one catches on: "Consciousness is just a more alert masochism."

Day #79 of inventing new aphorisms until one catches on: "Maintain a lie for fifteen years and a generation will call it the scenery."

Day #78 of inventing new aphorisms until one catches on: "If people could accurately judge their prospects there wouldn't be any."

Day #77 of inventing new aphorisms until one catches on: "Nobody wins at porcupine frisbee."

Day #76 of inventing new aphorisms until one catches on: "It's never summer in a snow globe."

Day #75 of inventing new aphorisms until one catches on: "Anticipation is the pleasurable absence of nostalgia, dread is the suspicion nostalgia lies."

Day #74 of inventing new aphorisms until one catches on: "You won't find Cinderella at the Clown Shoes Ball."

Day #73 of inventing new aphorisms until one catches on: "Pharmacies aren't meaningfully different from take-out restaurants."

Day #72 of inventing new aphorisms until one catches on: "There's no silver bullet for a werewolf epidemic."

Day #71 of inventing new aphorisms until one catches on: "A.I. companions solve the problem of loneliness not costing enough."

Day #70 of inventing new aphorisms until one catches on: "Sports science begins with the hypothesis there should be sports."

Day #69 of inventing new aphorisms until one catches on: "Mousetraps are made of mouse behaviors."

Day #68 of inventing new aphorisms until one catches on: "Debauchery is a fondness for rapidly-decaying pleasures."

Day #67 of inventing new aphorisms until one catches on: "At Hell's dinner parties you'll be seated between someone who tells you their dreams and someone who tells your their theory of dreams."

Day #66 of inventing new aphorisms until one catches on: "It takes some fine tweezers to juice a peppercorn."

Day #65 of inventing new aphorisms until one catches on: "Technically all tests are Rorschach tests."

Day #64 of inventing new aphorisms until one catches on: "Ain't no mudfish at a cotillion."

Day #63 of inventing new aphorisms until one catches on: "You can't slack in trouser pants."