green screen blue sky

“Beano is still in an asylum” ~ Nathanael West, The Imposter  

A Device

Which makes your body a resonator

ASMR

No power

Millennial tower

Wexler mid-century high design as lubrication for surburbia

Waters not keeping the dust from blowing (back to Degas) sprinkler system 

It was dead before we were born

This guys a little bit of a fascist. Land beneath the feet. 

Jah Befoore I Royal Petcare the Interceptor, looks like a repurposed traffic cop cart, can you buy those on the open market? Or maybe just a golf cart

The infamous Park Your Fleet depot. We are deep in “cash for diabetic strips” territory here

(In jokes, local jokes, local references)

Sandwich of All Meat

Why did I think the holly was attached to a squirrel hide?

Mussolini-Libya, Thatcher-Falklands

Electric blues pants and a du-rag, gesturing in air, speaking into cell phone “I am not a fuddy duddy person” with a slightly desperate tone which implied this was not the first use of fuddy duddy in the conversation 

FDB and 147th: the horizontal parking that unfailingly signals police presence and sure enough, a block long Police Service Area on the east side of the block, with a dozen or so black windowless transit vans - what purpose?

Canyonical 

They’re unreal but made of real things

Protecting it (self) like an asset

You have so many babies it’s ridiculous 

From City of Quartz: “The old liberal paradigm of social control, attempting to balance repression with reform, has long been superseded by a rhetoric of social warfare that calculates the interests of the urban poor and the middle classes as a zero-sum game” 

Something of the centrifugal force of 2016 which first drew me closer to people and then, flung me farther away

Parks Department Teal

“Ego-documents”: letters, diaries, testimony, autobiography…wow

Representation (art, politics)

Excesses of late capitalism as potlatch 

My dream 4.5.23: St. John the Divine new peacocks, camera pecking, new Westside market, artisanal crispy chicken sandwiches, am I feeling guilty?

Modern wedding as potlatch

“We repent; you decide”

Aimee Semple Macpherson

The joining-revival meetings, klan meeting, from K to Q

1983: Sodomy and the Pirate Tradition 

The (ass) scent of MTG

Shaking your head while holding two fingers to someone’s neck: universal (tv) sign that someone is dead

In the absence of actual Hitler

10 minute wait for the C train, Friday morning still-rush hour. Woman next to me is ticking, like a bomb

If you need help, ask a cop

                               Ask a barista 

Rumors in Dorchester that the cat ate it

Hardy burned unwillingly; Kafka not burned

Meatverse vs metaverse

Savoir and savior (Le Collège de Sociologie and Musée de l’Homme)

The word “gag” has 2 meanings. Choose wisely.

15 may 2023