Tuesday, June 03, 2025
traffic was bad says traffic
Upon a time rode bike up harrow hill
Divorced father tyke in tow
Before car, truck, huge truck expand footprint
It was possible however ludicrous
People honk exhaust so what
Tortoise has a hut hid by trees
No rush to lazy boy frozen dinner cable
Bit by bit that creeps in
Hard work showers dividends
Car leads to truck leads to bigger truck
Hired hands more work follows
Hands come go tyke sprouts tall drives
Now it's they who pass
In haste right-of-way luddites or worse
The poor, under a steaming hood
As others zoom towards beach or
Whale carcass awaiting demolition
Read about on break
Contrivances now beckon expansion
Shell now two- headed deliberates
Go to town
Bring it to you
Calculate costs benefits on superficial level
Ecology nice but seminar so far away
What's a million pounds of gravel
Put it over there on the scraped hillside
What seems possible seeks advisable
Build it they will come i say
What wrong in that
Close books on quaint, expect
Expect what just opinion
Soon after a gathering new people visit
Friends of friends dogs of friends
Road dumps them at pavement end
Spill out over meadow and verdure
Dog attack sheep pregnant sheep live here
Road ends, expect that
Invite expectation get surprised
It's not some park with printed rules
It's a refuge from town
Build it, town will visit
Throw some cash for damage
Exhaust rises to blot sky but not ours
Traffic was bad
says traffic
Hindsight wistfully bloviates
NW suburbia utopia
insectageddon
"I just got back from Texas, and it was the most unsuccessful trip I’ve ever taken,” he says.
“There just wasn’t any insect life to speak of.”
"It was not only the insects missing, he says, it was everything.
“Everything was crispy, fried; the lizard numbers were down to the lowest numbers I can ever remember.
And then the things that eat lizards were not present – I didn’t see a single snake the entire time.”
"Widespread use of pesticides and fertilisers, light and chemical pollution, loss of habitat and the growth of industrial agriculture have all carved into their numbers.
Often, these were deaths of proximity:
insects are sensitive creatures,
and any nearby source of pollution
can send their populations crumbling."
'In 2019, researchers found that almost a third of US birds – about 3 billion – had disappeared from the skies since the 1970s.
The losses, however, were not evenly distributed: those birds that ate insects as their main food
had declined by 2.9 billion.
Those that didn’t depend on insects had actually gained, increasing by 26 million."
"the loss of insects set other dominoes falling: as bugs declined, so too did the populations of lizards, frogs and birds.
Their disappearance, they wrote, had triggered
“a bottom-up trophic cascade and consequent collapse of the forest food web”.
"A tropical forest ecosystem is “a finely tuned Swiss watch”, Hallwachs says –
perfectly engineered to sustain a vastly biodiverse system of creatures.
Each element is delicately tuned and interlocks with the rest:
the heat, the humidity, the rainfall,
the unfolding of leaves,
the length of the seasons,
the start and stop of the life cycles of insects and animals."
Monday, June 02, 2025
Ooloo and strooloo had a double stroller
Ooloo and strooloo had a double stroller
They rode it to the park
The mommie put them in swings
And quickly took photos
Strooloo and ooloo cried when put back in their stroller
They kicked their no shoes feet in knit stockings from grandma
They kicked, one, two, three, four fat little feet
Mommie peeled them a banana and split
It in two and split
There goes the park thought strooloo
There goes the swing
Chewed ooloo nap ready ambivalent
Ripe not jarred good call mommie
Sunday, June 01, 2025
58 Song-flop
Willow garden
Simple gifts
Buckets of rain
G Suzuki
Paradise
Freight train
Cherokee waltz
Sailors hornpipe
Blackberry blossom
Rainy day women
Hog of the forsaken
Fleur de lis
The cuckoo bird
Same old man
Roma gypsy blues
Why should I have to worry
Fiddler on the roof
Whiskers on kittens
Griselda
Minor swing
Hoodoo bash
Irish A
Rock bow
Ice cream man /mind her own bizness
Irish Babies
In-between notes
Mona Lisa
What made my burger disappear
Windy and warm
Ring of fire
Ashokan farewell
Bach solo
Red clay halo
In the pines
Union maid
This land is yer land
Lullaby
One more cup of coffee
Hootchie coo bump
Star spangled flop
Amazing grace
The l and n
Pop goes the twinkle twinkle
Old groundhog
Forest blue b
Somewhere over duh rainbow
You r my sunshine
Green acres
Hard traveling
Norwegian wood
Yellow summaine
Summertime
Frenemy of El Diablo
Ripple
Long haired preachers
Salt creak
In my life
Portland water
Turkey in the straw, youse my sunshine
Saturday, May 31, 2025
rare golden lemming, weird
fuck yer rare golden lobster
pyrite preempts zirconium
rue barb cuts cue monster
sugar excuses mind sanitarium
sprinkle front page in lemon
tamp down life's scent
your order amazon razed brimming
beheaded government
hid in crates plenty
claws taped shut in camo prison
blending it pass genteel gently
until high graded level of person
boiling waters retracted put in a stage
lobster smirks with hint of sage
Selene (2017)
selene drives her moon chariot wanton wise
pulling men-hearts out to later feed mice
above green earth her palace so pale
from craters her whims all mortals regale
moonstruck by proxy, the wine in our glasses
moondrunk the chipmunk, evading owl passes,
Selene never parks her orb spinning high
without clouds for hitch-posts cloistered nigh
formed of Phoebe, or maybe old Theia
fished in by gravity, mystery, the moon sees us;
silhouette of substances similar, serene
man is kind love until shown his own spleen
shining her trademark, all night she delivers
roiling foul heavens, arming cupid's deft quivers
2017
Friday, May 30, 2025
leave it to the professionals (2015)
comfort squats on the part time worker,
stealing a rest in the desert
where the prickly pear
blooms bewareness as part and parcel of a wary dumping ground
littered with garden party accoutrements,
swimming pools of undrinkable water
and plastic bottles racing past tumbleneeds
toward the boarder's fence
where squatters hold sway while
trying to do number one or number two while avoiding
contact with an adverse terrain
of colosss husks
and burnt out pintos whose rusty comfort
returns his borrowed iron
into the ground by dropping sweat beads
onto a game floor
ruled by umps in loafers
who decree "play ball or blackball"
who scream "suck it up" while siphoning the gasps
of children fleeing "free tirade"
mad in the USA with boss springing the steens mtn. stallions free
in the movie version, in the disney venison,
getting comfortable with the corn eaters
in the black row of ledgers
running red ink
running out of metaphors for loss
running out of ways to screw with impunity
a stripped out threading where parts, partners,
frank steins brimming with bubbly "hey bub"
as the spokes define a hub
in the radial stretch of making it to the next paycheck
that bounces off the book cooker
and lands not on land but on the backs
of flipped turtles in their empire shells
calling the shots
from way off in lard conditioned eateries
making hypertension the medium whereby one presents any opinion
or addresses the gift of slave labor
to a hole knocked into a saguaro with a tiny sharp beak,
in a residential enclave cul de sac
guarded with goiters from incessant desk loitering
an ugly repose from which to respond
to pretty pleas for basic rites such as washing,
drinking, resting, breathing professional air
with unlicensed noses just out of reach
but easy to smack
2015
no limb nor cone wind taketh (2016)
----wind unseen takes form in snarling havoc
on a dormant volcano monadnock,
rousing rabble to a fevered pitch
jostling trash bins, putting ice on every hitch,
testing hinges and humpday's saddle
frostbitten reins in canoe sans paddle,
pushing what into where, whistling creaks
draw chaos---------& order speaks,
ice motes drive or dally floating haphazard
crow high, my perch perfect for such blizzard
yesterday pulled pavers, made patterns
undone reform thought, austere as a lecturn,
and so unlike the fir, unfurling wildly thrashing air
yet losing no limb nor cone, debonaire
as a stunt cosmos doing its own unravelings
under silver laced mist, given body in sculpted hobblings,
slowed to a point of stasis
upon which reality has basis
wind everseen, how clean the forest floor at night
through ages-tested branches, embodying might.
Mt Tabor Oregon
12-8-16
represso (2018)
Raw ingredients for poetry amount
To a finely minced slurry of rock soup
Boiled in sun sweat
Sprinkled in paint chips and pinup dreams
Put on a back burner freckled in whipmarks
From the sadist barista swans
Poured into a human mold sausage skin
And held between the legs as
Scalding bus jolts try to
Zap it into life at 7 am by clenched leg
Measurements calibrated
To entice tasteless buds
To make room for her honey
Honey
Honey
In the bottom of this cup
2018
great fragile hopes (2015)
clearly wrong & really left
ride straight on murky dawn;
cases and causes in suits bereft
of heft pauses to indulge in yawn
national committee lingers members
finger memories deleted,
replete in fiscal sheets reduced to embers.
if not for sweat equity, they'd never competed
to do economics, voodoo requires the pin
encrypted by backdoor spies mostly five eyed,
above board but not above sin
protected by redacted deeds unowned and unofficially tried
hour waste or my lai, bombastic tastes
crush gently great fragile hopes debased
12-21-15 mt tabor, portland
Big Brain
you can design rickets
Re rockets
but tweak word to poetry
mama's recipe effete
"We spent the weekend feeding USAID into the wood chipper,” Musk boasts days later on X, his social media platform."
"What did you do this week?” become a signature of Musk and his new enclave
"Um, ecstasy, fancy crack, mushrooms, subtactrerall, nazicaine...white claws "
Hired.
"If we don’t remove the roots of the weed, then it’s easy for the weed to grow back.”
"This chainsaw is for bureaucracy!” Musk weeds.
"The term "nazi meth" refers to Pervitin, a methamphetamine-based stimulant used by Nazi Germany, particularly its distribution to soldiers during World War II. Pervitin enabled soldiers to stay awake and fight for extended periods, contributing to the initial successes of the Blitzkrieg. "
"In a cabinet meeting, Musk puts on two literal hats – a “Nazi Maga” hat covered by a “Gulf of Nazi America” hat.
After Trump compliments the double-caps, Musk jokes: “They say I wear a lot of hats”. This is potentially Musk’s final cabinet meeting."
"Musk has “worked tirelessly”, says Trump treading, tanklike.
saxifrage persiflage
"curry some goodwill
with the incoming administration."
badinage. humorous or witty conversation.
"Google is pleased to support the 2025 inauguration, with a livestream on YouTube and a direct link on our homepage.
We're also donating to the inaugural committee," Karan Bhatia, tenfold."
Claireetissment, sic
"OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Meta both announced $1 million donations to the inaugural fascist-fund late last year, and Amazon and Apple CEO Tim Cook have also reportedly contributed others blood. "
"Give, or have taken."
The lister been busy,
Effete soil prepped
Kali dances Shiva naps
Superfood smoothie enema
Spell bee pollinate dunce field
Saxifrage
"After a candidate wins the presidential election in the U.S., they appoint an
inaugural intravenous committee to organize and finance inaugural events like the opening ceremonies, galas and the democracy-letting parade.
Unlike a direct contribution to a candidate's campaign,
there are no limits on how much an
individual — or a corporation or labor group or dark money— can give to an inaugural committee."
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/01/09/google-donates-1-million-to-trumps-inauguration-fund.html
"This means fewer posts containing misinformation will be suppressed or taken down."
"tried to slow Faizan down before his winning word, “eclaircissement,” but Faizan didn’t ask a single question before spelling it correctly, and he pumped his fists and collapsed to the E-stage"
Live by the lister,
Lust by the lister
"Including Faizan, whose parents emigrated from southern India, 30 of the past 36 champions have been
Indian American, a run not short on legs"
https://apnews.com/article/scripps-national-spelling-bee-2025-champion-70f6767e4f30a29b52dfc3dfc77eb553
Kudos! Sports!!!
Hallmark Swiss Dog Chow
Google donates $1 million to Trump's inauguration fund, joining other tech giants like a Fascist Transformer
Fascist garbage Google
Eats blog poetry
Its AI don't approve
Censor bot
Jugular popping out
On forehead
Microsoft
Oracle
Bloomberg
Fascist Contagion
Minders
Biggest peace of shit ever shine
Bank Shit
Hallmark Dog Chow
genealogy & landscaping
"Sitwell described her childhood as "extremely unhappy" and said her mother had "terrible rages" while she rarely saw her father.
Her relationship with her parents was stormy at best, not least because her father made her undertake a "cure" for her supposed spinal deformation, involving locking her into an iron frame"
"Whilst in Scarborough the Sitwell family lived in Wood End, a marine villa
bought by Lady Louisa Sitwell in 1879 to which she added
a double height conservatory filled with tropical plants and birds"
"Around 1914, she developed a passion for the Chilean artist and boxer Álvaro de Guevara, whom her biographer Richard Greene describes as "thuggish".
Violent, unstable and addicted to opium, Guevara eventually became involved with the poet and socialite Nancy Cunard, whom Sitwell subsequently "never lost an opportunity to speak ill of".
"The poems she wrote during the war brought her back before the public. They include Street Songs (1942), The Song of the Cold (1945), and The Shadow of Cain (1947), all of which were much praised.
"Still Falls the Rain", about the London Blitz, remains perhaps her best-known poem; it was set to music by Benjamin Britten as Canticle III: Still Falls the Rain. "
'Edith preferred Chanel No. 5 to having her nose "nailed to other people's lavatories"
"Critic Julian Symons attacked Sitwell in The London Magazine of November 1964, accusing her of
"wearing other people's bleeding hearts on her own safe sleeve."
"Edith Louisa Sitwell was born in Scarborough, North Riding of Yorkshire, the oldest child and only daughter of Sir George Sitwell, 4th Baronet, of Renishaw Hall; he was an expert on genealogy and landscaping.
Her mother was Lady Ida Emily Augusta (née Denison), a daughter of William Denison, 1st Earl of Londesborough and a granddaughter of Henry Somerset, 7th Duke of Beaufort through whom she was descended from the Plantagenets in the female line."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith_Sitwell
dives bib
"In medieval India, this bean was used in a technique to facilitate making crucibles impermeable."
A Coughie table book Confluence
feeds Forty niners sabotage persiflage
wearing kersey, wacky Dives
in purple cap catharsis
ends plant kingdom
the lynchpin
wage superabound
Lethe an autobiographical contempt
empyrean atmospherics
urd (black gram) self sacrifice
lister plows Eleusian mysteries
until Fade use bib acuity
bibliomancy
connect-the-dots
dada
5-27-25
"In Herman Melville's Moby-Dick, Ishmael describes a windswept and cold night from the perspective of Lazarus ("Poor Lazarus, chattering his teeth against the curbstone...") and Dives ("...the privilege of making my own summer with my own coals")."
Wednesday, May 28, 2025
Food Front corpse , NW Thurman
Really shown the love, co-op
___
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/29/trump-administration-sued-anti-environment-orders
"The litigation is the latest in a series of youth-led climate cases brought by the non-profit law firm Our Children’s Trust.
The lead plaintiff in the new case, 19-year-old Eva Lighthiser, was also a plaintiff in the firm’s Held v Montana lawsuit, which notched a landmark win in 2023 when a judge ruled that
the state’s pro-fossil fuel policies violated their rights under the state’s constitution.
“Trump’s fossil fuel orders are a death sentence for my generation,” said Lighthiser."
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/29/trump-administration-sued-anti-environment-orders
Monday, May 26, 2025
killroy was there
"We then got in touch with the scientific police
to determine whether we were right that the dot had been applied using a fingertip,” said Álvarez Alonso.
“They confirmed that it had.” The print, they concluded, was human and
could be that of an adult male."
Traces of NASCAR oil and the huge size of the print show it was a male, say the police, not just because art is male, rocks are male, science was once male, and police are good.
fodder
food,
especially dried hay or feed, for cattle and other livestock.
a person or thing
regarded only as material for a specific use.
"young people ending up as factory fodder"
(Draw inferences )
Or just finger paint and leave in cave
"In some novels or narratives, cannon fodder refers to minor characters who are quickly killed off to advance the plot or to highlight the importance of the main characters"
Yam Sayeth
"yam am considering taking Three Billion Dollars of Grant Money away from
a very antisemitic Harvard,
and giving it to TRADE SCHOOLS all across our land. "
All those semitic trade schools in texas, louisiana, montana, arizona.
___
"Trump takes credit for the US hosting the 2026 Fifa soccer World Cup (alongside Canada and Mexico) and the 2028 Summer Olympics.
“We have the World Cup and we have the Olympics,” he says during his Memorial Day speech at Arlington National Cemetery.
“I have everything. Amazing, the way things work out.
God did that – I believe that,” he says.
God adores sports. Children, babies, women, civilians not so much.
___
"The boom in octopus catches
began to be seen in March in east Cornwall and Devon –
as sea temperatures rose.
by between 2C and 4C .
above average spring temperatures."
God, yam, or BP?
"managing director of Brixham Trawler Agents, said 36 tonnes of octopus came through the market on Thursday – compared with about 200kg this time last year."
"It’s down to climate change because it’s only this year that they’ve been here,” he said."
"not everyone in the UK industry is pleased. There was some tension among fishers specialising in crab and lobster when they discovered the octopuses entering the pots and eating the shellfish inside."
"The yamopus– which has nine brains and three hearts – uses its beak to break the crab or lobster shell.
It then injects enzymes that help dissolve the meat before sucking it out."
It's all sport.
"What's this ilk." .
"As human-induced climate breakdown continues to raise global temperatures, the frequency of marine heatwaves is increasing, with the UK being subjected to spikes in sea temperature more frequently."
Say it isn't so, or you're fired and family deported to South Sudan.
"medium to large octopuses that could grow up to 1.3 metres in length
and were “very intelligent animals”.
Were, as in once before harvesting.
Fishing trade schools, no puns, boss?
our dynamic trinkets
Dreamed of mother, my melanie
Her verbatim from actual events
She was giving me back rings I'd made
Stained glass and silver
I like to look at them, they sparkled new
Perhaps they matched some clothing
Just bought or could shop for
The entire dialogues replayed
7 or 8 rings here, you should sell them
I like them but you need them
She didn't need costume jewelry
I got it, get it
They tarnished, brand new they'd pop
People would remark on them
They tarnished and sit in window sills
Or houseplants or the sock drawer
It was our dynamic
Perennially short of breath but ready to go shop or dine
Optimistic but apocalyptic
The sunny side of the apocalypse
Makes even timeworn trinkets shine
At least next to dusty houseplants
Sunday, May 25, 2025
hardanger fiddle
"Playing a central role in the revival is
Tuvas Blodklubb,
a monthly event at Riksscenen, the national centre for traditional folk music and dance in Oslo,
which attracts hundreds of people every month and tours around the country.
Similar folk music clubs have since started in other cities including Bergen, Trondheim and Tromsø.
Musician Tuva Syvertsen started
Tuvas Blodklubb,
which she describes as “Norway’s, probably the Nordic region’s, and maybe even the world’s first pure folk music nightclub”"
"Norwegian folk music, which dates back hundreds of years, is played using traditional instruments including Norway’s national instrument,
hardingfele (the hardanger fiddle),
bukkehorn (an instrument made from a goat’s horn)
and langeleik (a stringed instrument similar to a dulcimer)."
____
hardanger fiddle
" (Norwegian: hardingfele) is a traditional stringed instrument considered the national instrument of Norway.
In modern designs, this type of fiddle is very similar to the violin,
though with eight or nine strings
(rather than four as on a standard violin) and thinner wood.
The earliest known example of the hardingfele is from 1651, made by Ole Jonsen Jaastad in Hardanger, Norway. Originally, the instrument had a rounder, narrower body.
Around the year 1850, the modern layout with a body much like the violin became the norm."
___
"Four of the strings are strung and played like a violin, while the rest, named understrings or sympathetic strings, resonate under the influence of the other four. These additional strings are tuned and secured with extra pegs at the top of the scroll, effectively doubling the length of a Hardingfele scroll when compared to a violin. The sympathetic strings, once fastened to their pegs, are funneled through a "hollow" constructed fingerboard, which is built differently than a violin's, being slightly higher and thicker to allow for these extra strings. The resonant strings lie on the center of the special bridge, attached to extra hooks (or fine-tuners) on the tailpiece. Carved out within the center of the bridge is a smaller secondary "bridge", or opening, designed specifically for these resonant strings to pass through. This is where the resonance is picked up and reverberated. As notes are played, the vibrations are sent through the bridge, where the sympathetics echo those notes. "
"The hardanger fiddle was used in the soundtracks of
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers,
and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
composed by Howard Shore, to provide the main voice for the Rohan theme."
The hardanger fiddle is also featured in the soundtrack of Armageddon (composed by Trevor Rabin), and in Fargo (composed by Carter Burwell
The hardanger fiddle is featured in the soundtrack of the 2017 film Dunkirk, as well as the soundtrack for the 2021 Loki series"
"Another tuning is called "troll tuning" (A-E-A-C♯). Troll tuning is used for the fanitullen [no] tunes, also called the devil's tunes, as well as the tunes from the Kivlemøyane suite (thus associated with the hulderpeople as well as the devil).
In the Valdres district of Norway, using this particular tuning is called "greylighting", a reminder that the fiddler tuned his fiddle like this when the morning was near, and he had played himself through a number of other tunings."
Bianchi
F.I.V. Edoardo Bianchi S.p.A., commonly known as
Bianchi ([ˈbjaŋki])
is the world's oldest bicycle manufacturing company in existence,
having pioneered the use of equal-sized wheels with pneumatic rubber tires
The company was founded in Italy in 1885 "
"Bianchi pioneered the front-wheel caliper brake.
One of his first developments was to make the front wheel smaller and use the chain invented by Frenchman Vincent to reduce pedal height. In doing so, he created a safe and modern bicycle. Compared to its predecessors, it was much easier to drive because it was easier to balance. He continued to improve the bicycle and developed a construction with wheels of almost the same size. In 1888, he made the first bicycle with Dunlop tires.
"Bianchi bicycles are traditionally painted Celeste, a turquoise also known as Bianchi Green"
"Examples of applications for 4130, 4140, and 4145 include structural tubing, bicycle frames, gas bottles for transportation of pressurized gases, firearm parts, clutch and flywheel components, and roll cages.
4150 stands out as being one of the steels accepted for use in M16 rifle and M4 carbine barrels by the United States military. These steels are also used in aircraft parts and therefore 41xx grade structural tubing is sometimes referred to as "aircraft tubing".
Saturday, May 24, 2025
Gaetz Trump Herrera Nazi Circle
"Brandon Herrera is raising eyebrows over a 2022 video where the Texas Congressional candidate promotes a Nazi rifle,
a weapon he calls Hitler's 'street sweeper' and the 'the original ghetto blaster.'
___
"Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) campaigned with a primary challenger to Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-Texas) on Thursday, disregarding calls from party leadership for GOP unity.
Gaetz was in Texas for an event with Brandon Herrera, a pro-gun social media influencer who forced Gonzales into a primary runoff earlier this month."
___&
"Herrera, 28, can be seen in a 2022 video shooting the MP-40 submachine gun choreographed to the song 'Erika,' used by the Nazi as a marching tune.
"Herrera, who's vying to be represent a congressional district that includes Uvalde,
site of the a horrific 2022 school shooting that
claimed the lives of 19 kids and two teachers
at Robb Elementary School, acknowledges the use of the song is controversial."
"The online shock jock used 'Erika' in other video as background music and has also used 'SS marschiert in Feindesland' (SS marches in enemy territory) and 'Panzerlied' (Tank Song.)"
"Herrera has taken up other extreme positions, such as being a member of
Sons of Confederate Veterans,
an organization that is committed to vindicating 'the cause for which we fought,' according to their website.
He had been embraced by other another Republican extremist,
Florida Congressman Matt Gaetz
***
Trump to nominate Florida's Matt Gaetz to be attorney general
"If confirmed by the Senate, Gaetz, 42, would take the helm of a department that as recently as last year was investigating him for possible sex trafficking offenses. Ultimately, prosecutors declined to bring charges against him after a long-running probe"
https://www.npr.org/2024/11/13/g-s1-34072/trump-matt-gaetz-attorney-general-doj-oversight
***
"Herrera had been embraced by other another Republican extremist,
Florida Congressman Matt Gaetz.
"In the YouTube video of the Lincoln assassination he recreated,
Congressional candidate Brandon Herrera smashed open a fake skull
that was supposed to represents Lincoln's head and pulled out the brain, squeezing fake blood out of it"
under myth lifted
atlas offered to build a fort for the goodbloods
in three seasons to helm invaders
in exchange for the goddess freyja, the sun, and the moon,
and some aspirin.
atlas makes a single request; that he may harness
his stallion svaðilfari who performs at twice the studly
strength as the builder, and hauls enormous rocks dreamlike or dreams rocklike
with svaðilfari, makes fast progress on the wall
if he could not find a scheme
that would cause atlas to shrivel,
Loki, afraid, swore oaths
atlas ignored
That night, atlas drove out to fetch stone
with his stallion
ran into a mare, mare neighed at svaðilfari,
Svaðilfari neighed, tore apart his tackle
The mare ran to the wood, svaðilfari followed, atlas chased after.
The two demidogs ran circles all night, causing buildings,
entire villages, everything,
to crumble under myth
Lifted
spring fire
"video shows all of the children being pulled out of the fire and they are absolutely charcoaled to a crisp. It is so horrific,” she said."
"Dr Alaa al-Najjar, a paediatric specialist at al-Tahrir hospital within the Nasser medical complex,
was treating victims of ongoing Israeli attacks
across the Palestinian territory on Friday
when she received the bodies of
nine of her children
killed by a strike in Khan Younis"
traffic was bad
Upon a time rode bike up harrow hill
Divorced father tyke in tow
Before car, truck, huge truck expand footprint
It was possible however ludicrous
People honk exhaust so what
Tortoise has a hut hid by trees
No rush to lazy boy frozen dinner cable
Bit by bit that creeps in
Hard work showers dividends
Car leads to truck leads to bigger truck
Hired hands more work follows
Hands come go tyke sprouts tall drives
Now it's they who pass
In haste right-of-way luddites or worse
The poor, under a steaming hood
As others zoom towards beach or
Whale carcass awaiting demolition
Read about on break
Contrivances now beckon expansion
Shell now two- headed deliberates
Go to town
Bring it to you
Calculate costs benefits on superficial level
Ecology nice but seminar so far away
What's a million pounds of gravel
Put it over there on the scraped hillside
What seems possible seeks advisable
Build it they will come i say
What wrong in that
Close books on quaint, expect
Expect what just opinion
Soon after a gathering new people visit
Friends of friends dogs of friends
Road dumps them at pavement end
Spill out over meadow and verdure
Dog attack sheep pregnant sheep live here
Road ends, expect that
Invite expectation get surprised
It's not some park with printed rules
It's a refuge from town
Build it, town will visit
Throw some cash for damage
Exhaust rises to blot sky but not ours
Traffic was bad says traffic
Hindsight wistfully bloviates
NW suburbia utopia
Friday, May 23, 2025
taliban maga venues like the Kennedy Center for Gitmo Posing
'When you think of Alcatraz, you think of
Fenway Park,
Wrigley Field,
Lambeau Field, those types of facilities …
you just get that kind of feeling about Alcatraz when you think of those historical venues,”
Marshall told Fox News’s My View with Lara Trump, Trump’s daughter-in-law."
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/23/trump-alcatraz-prison
"Lambeau Field
(/ˈlæmboʊ/ ⓘ) is an outdoor athletic stadium in the north central United States, located in Green Bay, Wisconsin.
The home field of the Green Bay Packers of the National Football League (NFL), it opened in 1957 as City Stadium"
Construction cost. $960,000
($10.7 million in 2024
$295 million (2003 renovation)
($504 million in 2024
"The Taliban have conducted public executions in stadiums"
Venues.
$295 million (2003 renovation)
($504 million in 2024 )
"Although California lawmakers have dismissed the Alcatraz proposal as a “distraction” and not a serious plan, the Trump administration is actively working – with the help of
private prison companies – to reopen other facilities"
"BOP director William Marshall told Fox News the propaganda..."i’m just really excited about the opportunity and possibilities,” he said.
Thursday, May 22, 2025
Oligarch conquest plot by Dunce
"Merz, the first chancellor to have served in the Bundeswehr, said: “We stand firmly by Ukraine but we also stand together as Europeans as a whole
and we play, whenever possible,
as a team with the US.”
"Merz vowed after years of neglect to build up Europe’s “strongest conventional army”.
Germany has no nuclear weapons of its own."
Finland ‘preparing for the worst’ as Russia expands military presence near border
"Maj Gen Sami Nurmi, the head of strategy of the Finnish defence forces,
said the military is following Moscow’s manoeuvring “very closely” and that it was their job, as part of the Nato alliance,
to “prepare for the worst”.
Responding to Russia’s changing activities,
Donald Trump told reporters on Tuesday he was “not worried about it at all”,
adding that Finland and Norway were....
"Trump says he ‘doesn’t rule out’ using military force to control Greenland
President has repeatedly expressed idea of expansion into autonomous territory within fellow Nato member Denmark"
"going to be very safe safe help frozen over”.
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going to be very " safe”.
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"going to" be very safe”.
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"I don’t rule it out.
I don’t say I’m going to do it, but I don’t rule out anything.
No, not there.
We need Greenland very badly.
Greenland is a very small amount of people,
which we’ll take care of,
and we’ll cherish them,
and all of that"
“going to be very "safe”.
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Wednesday, May 21, 2025
Tuesday, May 20, 2025
ambassador of sewer escargot
"He pleaded guilty in 2005 to 18 charges that includedtax evasion, retaliating against a federal witness and making false statements to the Federal Election Commission.
The witness tampering charge involved his hiring a sex worker to seduce his brother-in-law,
who was cooperating with federal authorities.
Kushner arranged to secretly record the encounter between the sex worker and his brother-in-law
and then send the footage to his sister, the other man’s wife"
France is gonna Love this guy.
"Former New Jersey governor Chris Christie, a Republican, prosecuted Kushner at the time. Christie called Kushner’s case
“one of the most loathsome, disgusting crimes” he had ever prosecuted."
"Cory Booker of New Jersey was the only Democratic senator to vote in support of the nomination.
His vote came after Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump – his wife and the president’s daughter –
held a fundraiser for Booker as he successfully ran for the Senate in 2013."
(Money)
14,000 babies could die in 48 hours if aid doesn’t reach them in time.
14,000 babies could die in 48 hours if aid doesn’t reach them in time.
14,000 babies could die in 48 hours if aid doesn’t reach them in time.
14,000 babies could die in 48 hours if aid doesn’t reach them in time.
Stands to reason a few hundred are dying, dying, dying every hour now
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"Spanish Prime Minister.
Pedro Sanchez called on Monday for Israel's exclusion from international cultural events
such as the Eurovision song contest over its military campaign in Gaza,
just as Russia was barred after its invasion of Ukraine."
"I believe that no one was shocked three years ago
when Russia was asked to withdraw from international competitions
after it invaded Ukraine
and not participate, for example, at Eurovision.
Therefore, Israel should not do so either," he said."
Monday, May 19, 2025
Filth
"The top 50 richest families
in the UK now hold more wealth than the poorest half of the population,
comprising more than 34 million people.
In 2024, the two richest UK billionaires held more wealth between them than all the billionaires in the 1990 rich list combined.
“Our analysis also shows the vampiric nature of extreme wealth,
which is completely incompatible with the health and wellbeing of the nation,”
Worm's/snake eye view
'Javari valley is home to about 6,000 Indigenous residents from seven peoples, who share it with at least 16 voluntarily isolated Indigenous groups, a higher concentration than anywhere else in the world"
Worm's eye view
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"the world needs to understand how the riches and knowledge in the forest make it infinitely more valuable long term than if turned into dry, unproductive cattle pasture"
"In the 1960s, while based in a university in Ribeirão Preto in south-east Brazil, scientist Sérgio Henrique Ferreira was able to
isolate a peptide from the venom of the jararaca snake.
He later worked in the UK where his colleague John Vane and other scientists used that peptide to develop the active ingredient in captopril,
the first angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitor, whose effects on blood pressure mimicked those of the snake’s venom.
This led to the development of drugs to treat high blood pressure and heart failure. Vane later won a Nobel prize for his work – and Sérgio Ferreira was at the ceremony.
The discovery is regarded as one of the most important breakthroughs in the treatment of heart problems
and Ferreira was inducted into the prestigious Brazilian Academy of Science in 1984. He died in 2016."
"How many more life-saving peptides might there be in the Amazon? Nobody knows because most of the region’s species are still undiscovered"
Adapted from How to Save the Amazon: A Journalist’s Deadly Quest for Answers,
by Dom Phillips and contributors, published by Bonnier books on 27 May.
To support the Guardian, order a copy from Guardianbookshop.com
Sunday, May 18, 2025
oeuvre
" Hardy began studying the violin at the Opus 118 Music School in Harlem, New York at the age of 7, studying under the instruction of Roberta Guaspari, Lynelle Smith, Yonah Zur, and Elizabeth Handman.
During this time, Hardy had numerous performances around the New York City area at locations including Avery Fisher Hall, Jazz at Lincoln Center, FiddleFest at The Apollo Theater, and Carnegie Hall
where he shared the stage with Joshua Bell, Regina Carter, John Blake, Mark O'Connor, and Itzhak Perlman. "
"November 12, 2019, Nas was honored by Haute Living, along with Watches of Switzerland and Hennessy, in a celebratory affair that included
a violin rendition of iconic Nas songs performed by Edward W. Hardy."
"About.com ranked him 1st on their list of the "50 Greatest MCs of All Time" in 2014, and a year later, Nas was featured on the "10 Best Rappers of All Time" list by Billboard.
The Source ranked him No. 2 on their list of the Top 50 Lyricists of All Time.
In 2013, Nas was ranked fourth on MTV's "Hottest MCs in the Game" list.
His debut, Illmatic, is widely considered among the greatest hip-hop albums of all time."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nas
"Nas's flow as "effervescent", Rah Digga says Nas's lyrics have "intricacy",
Bootie Brown of The Pharcyde explains that Nas does not always have to make words rhyme as he is "charismatic",and Nas is also described as having a "densely packed"
flow, with compound rhymes that "run over from one beat into the next or even into another bar".
"Nas is perhaps contemporary rap's greatest innovator in storytelling.
His catalog includes songs narrated before birth ('Fetus') and after death ('Amongst Kings'), biographies ('UBR [Unauthorized Biography of Rakim]') and autobiographies ('Doo Rags'), allegorical tales ('Money Is My Bitch') and epistolary ones ('One Love'), he's rapped in the voice of a woman ('Sekou Story') and even of a gun ('I Gave You Power')."
Robert Christgau writes that "Nas has been transfiguring [gangsta rap] since Illmatic"
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"Genius first started as a crowdsourced hip-hop focused lyric site, and was originally named Rap Exegesis.
The site changed its name to Rap Genius in December 2009 because "exegesis" was difficult for users to spell."
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Google search penalty
edit
"In December 2013, Google penalized Rap Genius for violating their backlinks guidelines,—particularly involvement with blog networks—by removing them from its top search results.
Even with the search query "rap genius", results from rapgenius.com did not appear in the top results.
Instead, the top results showed Rap Genius' Twitter, Facebook, and Wikipedia pages, as well as
news related to the penalty.
This happened after blogger and Rap Genius contributor John Marbach exposed its link scheme to manipulate Google search results by offering Tweets or Facebook shares in exchange for linking to Rap Genius with keyword rich texts.
Rap Genius posted an apology, promising to stop and reverse the practice.
Rap Genius also pointed out that its competitors were participating in similar or worse practices, and a
sked Google to look at "the whole lyrics search landscape" and improve its lyric search results"
pillars
Marge Piercy
(born March 31, 1936) is an American progressive activist, feminist, and writer.
"Her work includes Woman on the Edge of Time;
He, She and It, which won the 1993 Arthur C. Clarke Award;
and Gone to Soldiers,
a New York Times Best Seller and a sweeping historical novel set during World War II.
Piercy's work is rooted in her Jewish heritage, Marxist social and political activism, and feminist ideals."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marge_Piercy
"On her childhood and Jewish identity, Piercy said:
"Jews and blacks were always lumped together when I grew up. I didn’t grow up 'white.'
Jews weren't white. My first boyfriend was black.
I didn't find out I was white until we spent time in Baltimore and I went to a segregated high school.
I can't express how weird it was.
Then I just figured they didn't know I was Jewish."
"An indifferent student in her early childhood, Piercy developed a love of books when she came down with the German measles and rheumatic fever in her mid-childhood and could do little but read.
"It taught me that there's a different world there,
that there were all these horizons that were quite different from what I could see"
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"Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
(December 10, 1830 – May 15, 1886)
was an American poet. Little-known during her life, she has since been regarded as one of the most important figures in American poetry. "
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily_Dickinson
Saturday, May 17, 2025
Trump lunched an investigation
Every day, a new Fascist pose
That flatters his lawless grift
Arms spread wide
Corrupt capitalistic optics
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/17/trump-foreign-gifts-plane-gulf-states
"I've lunched an investigation"
Open arms propaganda pose
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