Damn...that assclown at work was right.

Coffee is for Closers

McCain/Palin canvassing meeting in Manchester, NH 10/30/08.

(In) Syria: US choppers attack village near Iraq border

I think we might get our October Surprise after all.

As you consider the implications of Syria becoming the Laos/Cambodia of Iraq, listen to the soundtrack of the last war that had gone off the rails...once Vietnam had truly become a bloody proxy for an ideological struggle within our own country. Turn it up. Good times.



It is a good representation of "letting go" in the context of powerful forces beyond one's control (also used to good effect in 1972 by John Waters...Pink Flamingos).

My friends...

...I hate you all with every fiber of my being.

My friends, once again you seem to have underestimated both my reckless ambition and my deep seated sense of entitlement. My friends, I don't think you have the capacity to understand how much I loathe all of you; the media, politicians, and especially you sniveling, pathetic voters.

I'm John Sidney McCain...bitches!

EPIC

(Getty | Chip Somodevilla)

Perfect!

Privatize Profit, Nationalize Loss

Always Be Closing.

Not Political

Or not entirely. As you listen, (and view the stills) remember that John McCain was in a box when Iggy performed this precursor to Shake Appeal.

God Bless America!

More Like This

I think now would be a good time to drop the "McCain is an admirable person" crap and stick to his less than admirable performance as a corrupt and duplicitous Republican Senator .

Soulsville, USA

Obama's rebuttal to Marge Gunderson.

When I was a teenager I had a Maverick.

I knew it was a shitty car.
















To make it less shitty, I had my stepfather help me convert the "three on the tree" to a stick shift on the floor. I also installed an 8 track tape player.

It was always going to be more Pinto than Mustang. You know...shitty.

They care...a lot...

Errand boys sent by grocery clerks.

August 29, 2005

















Hopefully those in Gustav's path wont require the same degree of compassion offered by these guys last time.

Endtimes...

...for Republicans, I hope.

The Bush administration has been so corrupt and incompetent that the "elect me" fictions currently being generated by the McCain campaign and down-ticket Republicans are so artfully false that they should be funny, but they aren't.
Sadly, I fear that the pooch has been screwed so thoroughly by these guys that most citizens/voters simply believe that dishonesty, thievery and cynicism is a necessary part of government service. Some would argue that, all along, the goal of Republicans was to govern so badly that their "small government" philosophy would be made real by voter revulsion with both parties. We're getting there.

I need some punk rock...

Dallas, Texas
January 10, 1978

Whatever...

Time to restart this blog.

A short film by Anthony Balch with William S. Burroughs:

Aren't we all? [UPDATED]

It occurs to me that despite all our efforts to be solid, grounded and true, we are, nevertheless, deeply flawed. I see this blog as a place to reflect on what is irrefutable about being human; we are fucked up. Our politics and culture are always in a chaotic flux; progress and advancement never entirely stabilizes. Human culture, in its totality, is organic, and like any organism, functions imperfectly, has vulnerabilities, suffers from illness, dies.
This blog will be a forum for me to explore this phenomenon as it plays out in politics and culture; a place to focus on the inevitable, ubiquitous, but often unacknowledged slippage we experience everyday.

UPDATE: Actually the blog title suggests something more than just a straightforward take on human imperfection. What fascinates me and drives me nuts goes beyond the foible or the gaffe; I am interested in how politics and culture reflect those events that are driven by individuals who are aggressively wrong or...bristling with flaws.