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" 

___

"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."   

__&

 

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" 

____  

"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

beaver oasis 2020

  

  

 

Once  

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  

  

  

Chatter From Clam Oracles

  

Print the omega hole vortex for democracy 

It looks like a bloated white hole

Hands funnel in optics a new nazi salute

Self pleasuring in graft

Repulsive magnet eats 

 

"He knew exactly what that meant. 

 A child would know what that meant.  

If you were the FBI director and you don’t know what that meant – that meant assassination.  

It says it loud and clear.

Now, he wasn’t very competent, but he was competent enough to know what that meant. And he did for a reason." 

She sells seashells by the sea shore. 

She sells seashells by the sea shore.

She sells seashells by the sea shore. 

How much can can a Trump dump dump

if a Trump dump could Dump Trump.  

"8647” was originally meant as a form of silent resistance to Trump and his policies. 

 Others have suggested it could be a call for impeachment.'"

"According to the pitch, contestants from various backgrounds and countries would arrive at Ellis Island in New York, greeted by the host – a “famous naturalized American” 

 - and proceed to ride around the country by train  (like Hunger Games)

to compete in regional specific “cultural” challenges,  

such as collecting gold from mines in San Francisco 

 and assembling a car in Detroit.  

The winner would be sworn in as an American citizen on the steps of the US Capitol." 

___ 

"Springsteen made a series of vehement speeches on stage in Manchester as he kicked off his latest tour, arguing that  

Trump was “an unfit president” heading up “a rogue government”.  

He said that in the US, “the richest men are taking satisfaction in abandoning the world’s poorest children  

to sickness and death … they’re taking sadistic pleasure in the pain they inflict on loyal American workers …  

They are abandoning our great allies and siding with dictators 

 against those struggling for their freedom.” 

atheist kitten names

 

Reposted, as someone found this today 

 See also: 101 Names of God

yazat ("Worthy of worship.")

harvasp-tavãn ("Omnipotent.")

harvasp-âgâh ("Omniscient.")

harvasp-h'udhâ ("The Lord of all.")

abadah ("Without beginning.")

awî-añjâm ("Without end.")

bûnastah ("The origin of the formation of the world.")

frâxtañtah ("Broad end of all.")

jamakh ("Greatest cause.")

parjahtarah ("More exalted.")

tum-afayah ("Most innocent.")

abravañt ("Apart from everyone.")

parvañdah ("Relation with all.")

an-ayâfah ("Incomprehensible by anyone.")

ham-ayâfah ("Comprehensible of all.")

âdharô ("Most straight, most just.")

gîrâ ("Holding fast all.")

acim ("Without reason.")

cimnâ ("Reason of reasons.")

safinâ ("Increaser.")

âwzâ ("Causer of increase. The Lord of purity")

nâshâ ("Reaching all equally.")

parvarâ ("Nourisher.")

âyânah ("Protector of the world.")

âyaîn-âyânah ("Not of various kinds.")

an-âyanah ("Without form.")

xraoshît-tum ("Firmest.")

mînôtum ("Most invisible.")

vâsnâ ("Omnipresent.")

harvastum ("All in all.")

husipâs ("Worthy of thanks.")

har-hemît ("All good-natured.")

harnekfareh ("All good auspicious-glory.")

beshtarnâ ("Remover of affliction.")

tarônîs ("The triumphant.")

anaoshak ("Immortal.")

farashak ("Fulfiller of wishes.")

pazohadhad ("Creator of good nature.")

xavâpar ("Beneficient.")

awaxshâyâ ("Bestower of Love.")

awarzâ ("Excessive bringer.”)

â-sitôh ("Undefeated, undistressed.")

raxôh ("Independent, carefree.")

varûn ("Protector from evil.")

a-frîpah ("Undeceivable.")

awe-frîftah ("Undeceived.")

adhvaî ("Unparalleled.")

kãme-rat ("Lord of wishes.")

framãn-kãm ("Only wish is His command.")

âyextan ("Without body.")

â-framôsh ("Unforgetful.")

hamârnâ ("Taker of accounts.")

snâyâ ("Recognizable, worth recognition.")

a-tars ("Fearless.")

a-bîsh ("Without affliction or torment.")

a-frâzdum ("Most exalted.")

hamcûn ("Always uniform.")

mînô-stîgar ("Creator of the Universe spiritually.")

a-mînôgar ("Creator of much spirituality.")

mînô-nahab ("Hidden in Spirits.")

âdhar-bâtgar ("Air of fire, i.e. transformer into air.")

âdhar-namgar ("Water of fire, i.e. transformer into water.")

bât-âdhargar ("Transformer of air into fire.")

bât-namgar ("Transformer of air into water.")

bât-gelgar ("Transformer of air into earth.")

bât-girdtum ("Transformer of air into girad, i.e. gathered.")

âdhar-kîbarît-tum ("Transformer of fire into jewels.")

bâtgarjâi ("Who creates air in all places.")

âwtum ("Creator of most excessive water.")

gel-âdhargar ("Transformer of the earth into fire.")

gel-vâdhgar ("Transformer of the earth into air.")

gel-namgar ("Transformer of the earth into water.")

gargar ("Artisan of artisans.")

garôgar ("Bestower of wishes.")

garâgar ("Creator of man")

garâgargar ("Creator of the entire creation")

a-garâgar ("Creator of four elements)"

a-garâgargar ("Creator of clusters of the stars")

a-gûmãn ("Without doubt.")

a-jamãn ("Without time.")

a-h'uãn ("Without sleep.")

âmushthushyâr ("Intelligent.")

frashûtanâ ("Eternal protector-increaser.")

padhamãnî ("Maintainer of padman, i.e. the golden mean.")

pîrôzgar ("Victorious.")

h'udhâvañd ("Lord-Master of the Universe.")

ahuramazda ("Lord Omniscient.")

abarînkuhantavãn ("Of the most exalted rank in the power of maintaining the origin of the creations.")

abarîn-nô-tavã ("Of the most exalted rank in the power of rendering the creations anew.")

vaspãn ("Attainer to all the creations.")

vaspâr ("Bringer of and attainer to all.")

h'âwar ("Merciful.")

ahû ("Lord of the world.")

âwaxsîdâr ("Forgiver.")

dâdhâr ("The just creator.")

rayomañd ("Full of rae-lustre-splendour.")

h'arehmand ("Full of khoreh, i.e. glory.")

dâwar ("The just judge.")

kerfagar ("Lord of meritorious deeds.")

buxtâr ("Redeemer, saviour.")

frashôgar ("Restorer through increase of the soul 

 

http://motes.blogspot.com/2017/12/call-me-ishmael-etc-etc.html

Kittenface?  

...Nah....

Appropriate, in degree towards bullshit

  

"The only thing 

 that is appropriate to say in this time 

and to a group this large 

 is a recognition of the atrocities 

 currently happening in Palestine.” 

Rozos told the crowd that 

 “as I search my heart today in addressing you all”, 

 it is his “moral and political commitments [that] guide me” 

 into condemning Israel’s onslaught on Gaza,  

which has killed at least 53,000 Palestinians over the last year and a half. " 

Rozos went on to say:  

“The genocide currently occurring 

 is supported politically and militarily by the United States, 

 is paid for by our tax dollars

 and has been livestreamed to our phones for the past 18 months. 

 And that I do not wish to speak only to my own politics today, .

but to speak for all people of conscience, 

 and all people who feel the moral injury of this atrocity.” 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/15/nyu-withholds-diploma-israel-gaza-speech

"Rozos’s anti-war speech was met with widespread cheers and applause from students across the auditorium. 

 Some attendees booed Rozos, with one person appearing to yell “bullshit!” from the crowd." 

"He lied about the speech he was going to deliver and violated the  bullshit commitment he made to comply with our bullshit rules. The university is withholding his bullshit diploma while we pursue  bullshit disciplinary  bullshit actions." 

___ 

At least 80 people have been killed by Israeli airstrikes and artillery shelling on targets across Gaza as faltering talks on a new ceasefire continued and Donald Trump said he wanted the US to “make” the devastated territory “into a freedom zone”.

"Trump’s statement recalled the plan he put forward in February for the US 

 to take control of Gaza  

to reconstruct it as a luxury leisure and business hub. 

 The scheme implied the 

 possible permanent displacement  

 of many or all of the territory’s 2.3 million people 

 and triggered global outrage.  "

possible permanent displacement 

possible permanent displacement  

possible permanent displacement  

Possible genocide washing 

Possible genocide washing  

Possible genocide washing  

Feed machine Qatar 

Feed machine Qatar 

Feed machine Qatar  

Monarch chrysalis fascism eats constitution

  

"It was then passed down through an evil aristocratic family of the 18th century, the Lowthers,

 who then gave it to Thomas Clarkson, who was the leading slavery abolitionist.

 And then, through Clarkson’s estate, it went to this fellow, Forster Maynard, who was a first world war flying ace, 

 who ended up as the commander of the airbase on Malta at the start of the second world war.  

The provenance of this document is extraordinary.” 

'Magna Carta, originally granted by King John in 1215, was

 the first document to put into writing 

the principle that the king and his government were not above the law." 

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/may/15/harvards-unofficial-copy-of-magna-carta-is-actually-an-original-experts-say 

 

Trump Compares Himself to a King While Defending Private Jet Gift  

"Trump argued that Air Force One is “almost 40 years old” and nowhere near as cool as the planes 

used by monarchs in Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Qatar.

“This is like a totally different plane. It’s much smaller, it’s much less impressive—as impressive as it is. 

 We are the United States of America. 

 I believe that  we  

should have the most impressive plane,” Trump said. 

___ 

"Justice Samuel Alito questioned New Jersey’s solicitor general on the broader implications of allowing nationwide injunctions,  

painting district judges as “monarchs” in their courtrooms.

“There are 680 district court judges, and they are dedicated and they are scholarly... but sometimes they’re wrong,” Alito said, describing what he called an 

 “occupational disease” among judges "

"Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson pushed back on the idea, touted especially by Kavanaugh, saying 

 nationwide injunctions 

are doing a “conceptually different thing” than class actions.

"Class actions give those covered within the class an enforceable right against the government, she said.

But such rights are not granted to people nationwide with nationwide injunctions,

 she said. Instead, those people are just benefiting from an order

 that requires the government to

 stop doing an unlawful thing, 

she added."  

___

"In 2018, Donald Trump appointed Snyder to the President’s Council on Sports, Fitness, and Nutrition.  

This month Snyder signed up to Hulk Hogan’s Real American Freestyle wrestling league, which is due to start in August.

Snyder has spoken of the importance of his faith in the past. “[God has] given me his spirit who lives inside me so I can live this way. 

 Any accolades I acquire in this life are meaningless, (convict)

 but the  muscle growth I experience spiritually is what means the most,” Snyder told Sports Spectrum Magazine in 2019." 

Olympic champion Kyle Snyder to

 focus on ‘Lord Jesus and family’ 

 after prostitution arrest 

____ 

"When Bobby lies, children die,” and “Anti-vax, anti-science, anti-America”. 

Ben Cohen, the co-founder of Ben & Jerry’s ice-cream, has been charged with “crowding and obstructing” others 

Joe Hill of beans

  

 

gobble hands time out in box tooth glue

  

 

"The entire planet that's mine.

Only force keeps this belly from going outside the body and consuming.

Loud mouth, inward cupped gobble hands." 

 

NHL suspends Florida Panthers minority owner for ‘51st state’ posts 

"Doug Cifu,  

minority owner and vice chairman  

of the Florida Panthers.... Cifu also serves as the Panthers’  

alternate governor chairman  

of the Florida Panthers.

Cifu is also barred President of Florida, talking his way back into non exile, one body language at a crime, rounding out an agenda of conquest, intimidation, belittlement, and scalped ticket skimming to pay for his Ice capades s & m dungeon theme park expansion.  " 

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/may/13/doug-cifu-florida-panthers-minority-owner-suspended#img-1 

"opposition on accepting the plane extends beyond party lines, notably from some pro-Israel Republicans long angered by Qatar’s diplomatic role on Israel’s years-long military campaign in Gaza, and its close communication with Hamas." 

Now I could be a stupid person and say: ‘Oh no, we don’t want a free plane,’” Trump told reporters at the White House. “I would never be one to turn down that kind of an bribe.” 

not-feel ejecta

   

Questions eat world as moth old scarf

As slug scour forest floor of insect hull

As server station process a zillion asinine 

As coal truck scurry as mine collapse

World feeds itself to itself

          Where you came from, death

      Where yer qwine, death

There's a disco accretion ejecta known in circles as life 

As sun casts mirror glims off the eye

It's old scarf nonetheless 

Mammoth hide, lemming skin, mole sack

Chat gtp where i leave my car:

The crusher, to feed AI 

Incinerate the incineration complex

Rain shows up, starts new fire

Ask why all ya like, moth 

Enjoy yo answers

Chew twice swallow once 

____ 

Eat chocolate, wash in milk

Makes you (feel) good

Fat mirror, pimple 

Makes you (seem) bad

Do some laps, pull ups 

Makes sweat laundry 

Go work to pay for sweats

Good/bad sweatshops mostly horrid hum

Nike empire sells milk

First log the jungle

Poison River that feeds tribe 

Now they got six arms, eight legs (good)

For goods 

More sewing machines

More logging machines

Replaceable parts in steady supply

More/less tree frogs to slow cogs

More Bezos/less Amazon 

More Knight/less day

Windowless box filled w/ chocolate

Good profit 

Makes you not (feel) 

____

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/13/rfk-jr-swim-rock-creek-washington-dc

"The US health secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr, has revealed that he went swimming with his children in a Washington DC creek that authorities have said is 

 toxic due to contamination by an upstream, ageing shit system.

The “Make America healthy again” crusader attracted attention for the

 Mother’s Day dip.    ( in shit)

 Dumbarton Oaks Park  

with his grandchildren Bobcat and Cassius"

 

In The country per se

  

 

 

 

hobohippoid (2011)

  

new land of towering tree and bike

hobohippoid redundancies 

gentile flawscapes

germymandered boundaries 

(regarding decent ineptitude,

old flotsam in sterile barrels

wharfs buried on flat quests

slack under standing tall'er not 

depending the incoming bullshit

zeno's froze up arrow

false dichotomy in a salad roll

every plebe a grebe on reprieve

heel yes i wear the indian jewelry of poverty

under your alcoved grassy knoll

archie bunker ashtray  

June 11, 2011

wet piles of pet wiles (2012)

let's be productive, let's produce new crap

here is your fresh did i say new product

does it reinforce yer world vision of supreme harmony

or fill the spiritual void with its krumpled donut

all the old crap has been lost

to the grinders of time or it is now unfashionable shit

even free can't sell wrapped in gold foils

the newest bestest stuff is lining the arctic shelf

we have armies guarding their barcodes

we have predator drones thanking the tracks of shipments

we have inflatable santas by the crate

the best product we export is poverty!

when deadpoor, all the crap looks great!

can we eat the new crap

or will edibles germinate in its shadow?

we can sure wait to see

the promise of a did i say new trojan pegasus

its paint is still wet

does a leafblower dry wet crap?

lets order a dozen and see!  

December 5, 2012 

1 trillion semantics

  

"Back in January, Prince Mohammed said that Saudi Arabia would invest $600 billion 

 (£450bn) in the US over the next years. 

 However, Trump has already said that he'd like that to rise to  

$1 trillion, including purchases of more US military equipment.  

Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund, the Public Investment fund (PIF), which controls assets worth $925bn, already has numerous investments in the US.  

These include Uber, 

 gaming firm Electronic Arts, and electric car firm Lucid.

Meanwhile, the UAE has already committed to investing $1.4tn in the US over the next 10 years, in sectors such as AI, semiconductors, energy and manufacturing " 

Transparent as south pars

Transparent as anti trans

Transparent as a ruptured pipeline in Gulf of shit Fascism

Transparent as windows in dubai 

Taped too transparent tape

 

moments before

 

Toast mole 

Moments later hunting machine momma

  

 

Sage and their kittens 

Nazi Ice Maga 2025 Ras

  

"politicians have accused the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) of reopening the detention facility, in contravention of local ordinances and without the necessary permits.

It is the largest such facility in the north-eastern US,

 and was the first to open after Trump’s second term of office began in January, 

 according to the Ice website." 

"federal officials blocked his entry, a heated argument broke out, according to Viri Martinez, an activist with  

the New Jersey Alliance for Immigrant Justice.  

It continued even after Baraka returned to the public side of the gates.

“There was yelling and pushing,” Martinez said. “Then the officers swarmed Baraka. 

 They threw one of the organizers to the ground. 

They put Baraka in handcuffs and put him in an unmarked car.” 

" Ice is out of control,” she said. “Ice thinks it can intimidate all of us. And it cannot intimidate any of us. And  

we the people will make sure

 that this administration adheres to the rules  

that separate us from dictatorships and other third world countries.”   

"Video attached to the tweet shows the 

 Congress members inside the grounds 

of the center talking to employees. Other clips show them 

 being threatened with arrest for trespass by  

Nazi Maga Trump clown uniformed

"officials." 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/09/newark-mayor-ras-baraka-arrested-ice-protest-detention-center

Ras Jua Baraka  

(born April 9, 1970 

 is an American politician, author, and educator. A member of the Democratic Party, Baraka is the 40th and current 

mayor of Newark, New Jersey. 

"Newark native, Baraka is the son of poet and activist  

Amiri Baraka  

(born Everett Leroy Jones) and his wife Amina Baraka " 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ras_Baraka 

"Baraka was featured on singer Lauryn Hill's 1998 The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, as the narrator of several interludes on the album.

 He also recorded the intro to The Score, the Fugees' second album. "

"He succeeded Luis A. Quintana, who was completing the term of Cory Booker, who had resigned after being elected to the United States Senate in October 2013" 

Politico has described Baraka as "one of the most progressive Democrats in New Jersey, and possibly the nation"  

"2014, the city initiated a Valentine's Day building lot sale in which  

married couples could purchase housing plots in the city for $1,000,  

provided they built a house on the lot within 18 months.Nearly 100 plots were sold"

Fretless

  

"in Wim Wenders’s documentary about him, he said: “Revolution. Don’t be afraid of the word.”  

A word that for a while has been accompanied by a smirk or a sarcastic air-quote hand gesture even in progressive intellectual circles.  

That smirk is the sign of our loss of faith in humanity and the beginning of our submission to the darkest cloud.  

Whereas the pope smiled when uttering the word – big difference." 

The Guardian 

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/10/cloud-fascism-understand-resist-hard-right 

Well jeez, what's a Pope have to fret 

barbed wire richard the second, winningstad theater

 

Richard the Second as isis

flower sculpture as free range

"The Winningstad is a flexible, intimate, courtyard-style theater that plays host to a wide variety of performers. With 304 seats, the seating and stage can be set in a variety of ways to allow for truly unique experiences. Performances in the venue can extend off the stage and into the balconies, and seats can be removed to create additional staging areas. In a sense, the whole room is a stage, and the audiences become part of the drama."   

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_III_of_England 

"raditionally, Shakespeare distinguishes social classes by having the upper classes speak in poetry while the lower classes speak in prose. In Richard II, there is no prose, but Richard uses flowery, metaphorical language in his speeches, whereas Bolingbroke, also of the noble class, uses a more plain and direct language. Shakespeare uses lengthy verses, metaphors, similes and soliloquies to delineate Richard's character as analytical rather than active. He always speaks in tropes, using analogies such as the sun as a symbol of his kingly status. Richard is obsessed with symbols: his crown, the symbol of his royal power, is of more concern to him than his actual kingly duties" 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_II_(play) 

flagstone loves

  

all four, picture by momma nat

the Dalles  

"I leveled those", Gale's Ridge Silverstein job

daddy and kids the Dalles

  

daddy and kids, the Dalles, Or 

Outsider Pope Snock Scribble

 "Today, it is the site of the papal conclave, the process by which a new pope is selected. The chapel's fame lies mainly in the frescoes that decorate its interior, most particularly the Sistine Chapel ceiling and The Last Judgment, both by Michelangelo." 

"Well, I paint a design

On a sign for you, mister

I paint a design

Pretty good

I paint a white horse

Or a fire breathin' dragon

I paint a design

On your wagon

[Verse 1] 

I've been around, I've been

Workin' this town

Till the sun and moon

Moon went down

Best kind of

A woman I found

Can never bring you up and

Won't let you down, Lordy 

paint a design

On a sign for you, mister

I paint a design

Pretty good

I paint a white horse

Or a fire breathin' dragon

I paint a design

On your wagon

[Verse 2] 

The sweetest thing that

I ever seen

Was just where she

Looked at me

And in them eyes I

Fold and foreseen

And I can't paint a picture

Of sweet mercy, well

[Chorus] 

I paint a design

On a sign for you, mister

I paint a design

Pretty good

I paint a white horse

Or a fire breathin' dragon

I paint a design

On your wagon 

[Verse 3] 

Back when they had that LA

Big earthquake

I paint the bridge and the

Cable break

I prayed for mercy and cried

Oh, heaven's sake

And I can't paint a picture

Of your heart when it break, real

[Chorus] 

I paint a design

On a sign for you, mister

I paint a design

Pretty good

I paint a white horse

Or a fire breathin' dragon

I paint a design

On your wagon

[Verse 4]

The crazy mama that I

Used to know

She followed me

Wherever I go

Name I remember but the

Number gone

She never had no number

For very long, well 

[Chorus] 

I paint a design

On a sign for you, mister

I paint a design

Pretty good

I paint a white horse

Or a fire breathin' dragon

I paint a design

On your wagon" 

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 "Snock initially sought to engage assistants who were more well-versed in fresco-painting, but he was unable to find suitable candidates and determined to paint the whole ceiling alone" 

"Among the Florentine artists whom Michelangelo brought to Rome in the hope of assisting in the fresco, Vasari names Francesco Granacci, Giuliano Bugiardini, Jacopo di Sandro, l'Indaco the Elder, Agnolo di Domenico, and Aristotile.

Michelangelo soon began his work, starting at the west end with the Drunkenness of Noah"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sistine_Chapel_ceiling

 

Black Smoke Black Smoke Black Smoke Eight Track 

Black Smoke Black Smoke Black Smoke Eight Track  

Black Smoke Black Smoke Black Smoke Eight Track 

Stint Hurley

  

Two shows I played with Michael Hurley, Holocene and Cherry Sprout Market. Sprout was packed with admiring young audience sitting rapt on floor. Snock started playing the piano and did several. I flailed on fiddle, he never mentioned it. The one poor, in my opinion, segment of performance from me in our 30-40 shows, as he played piano. I saw a video of it and was aghast.  

The Holocene show was our second time there, or first of two shows I got to join Snock/Reisch.  Sally Ford opened for Michael. Are you kidding? She's something else.

"Sallie Ford and the Sound Outside was an American rock band from Portland, Oregon. 

The band has been described as "Rockabilly", or as having a "raw soul" 1950s rock-and-roll energy sound. Sallie Ford describes it as "Rock n Roll" and that people find it "more rockin’ than they expected." 

The group received positive reviews from USA Today's music critic Whitney Matheson and from The Oregonian critic Ryan White. 

In 2011, they signed a record deal with Partisan Records and released their first full-length CD Dirty Radio in May, began a US tour in June, and in August,

 performed on the Late Show with David Letterman." 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sallie_Ford_and_the_Sound_Outside 

1. Sally Ford and the Sound Outside 
2. The Decemberists
3. Jolie Holland 

     4.Terry Robb 

Some bands/performers Michael opened for, or shared the bill with, in my near two year stint with Snock

Pickathon---- so many other bands

Batwater----many others 

The show with Terry Robb was a house party. Played alongside Alexa Wiley several times too, and Jake Ray. I organized the Maryhill Museum music one year and featured Jake solo on a set, Hurley/ Forest the next.  

Alberta Street Pub, that followed a house party in Eugene, Alexa played both and I played with both her, Hurley.

Laurelthirst Pub 3 different shows.

The Mint Erin Glenn winery, the Dalles, twice

Papa G 's vegan deli, Portland, Snock  played 2-3 times (forest accompany)

Michael Hurley at Ekone, outside Goldendale, Wa 

 

The Press Club, Hurley/Forest played 3-4 times. Sometimes with Reisch too

 

I don't have access to some photos or the recordings I made. Snock played at the Last Chance Barn Dance, I talked him into that one. He had a hoot, went on for three days. Two dozen bands? Don't remember exactly. Quick and Easy Boys were there, from a car crash in Hood River I think.

(Add more or redact as  time wanders on)

Oh, Snock opened for Jolie Holland at Ace Cleaners Hotel. Lewi/Forest accompany Snock

Hurley/Reisch/Forest opened for the Decemberists in Astoria, Liberty Hall

2-3 Hurley shows at Astoria Visual Arts center, several people opened those shows, including Wiley. 

Blue Catfish studios, Astoria

Mississippi Studios, Snock/Forest opened for Vetiver.  Played together for Antonia celebration on another occasion.

*

"How should I play, Michael?" Before the first time ever playing together, AVA

"Just play natural, like you always do" Snock said  

He kept me included for a good stint.

Rickshaw

 " The Rise of the Submission Industrial Complex "

"the data we see at Chill Subs, our platform that tracks thousands of literary magazines and submission calls, paints a pretty clear picture: 

submission fees aren’t the exception anymore, they’re the rule at the top. 

 Across all the literary magazines we track, about 13% charge fees. 

 Zoom in on Brecht De Poortere’s top 1000, and that number jumps to 24%. 

 Narrow it further to just the top 100 most popular magazines, and it spikes to 56%. 

 That’s not a slippery slope. It’s a cliff. The higher the prestige, the more likely it is that writers are paying just to be considered." 

"By 2015, several of the top names in the industry, including Ploughshares and American Short Fiction, had begun charging fees. 

And it snowballed from there. You can see the appeal. Multiply that $1.86 by thousands of submissions per month and it becomes one of the only consistent revenue streams a lit mag can rely on."

"Karan Kapoor, a writer from India, explains:

When I first started sending out work about six years ago, it was brutal. A $3 submission fee (slowly becoming $5) might seem like pocket change in the U.S., 

but thanks to conversion rates and a little thing called late-stage capitalism, 

in India it can buy you a full meal, a rickshaw ride to and back from the restaurant, 

 and a lecture from your mom about saving money. If you’re submitting to 100 magazines a year—which, let’s be honest, is what it takes to get two or three acceptances if you’re lucky (and I do mean lucky, not talented)—that’s $300. " 

*

"Benjamin Davis is the cofounder of Chill Subs, a platform used by over 50,000 writers to discover, track, and submit to literary magazines.  

He runs Sub Club, a top-selling Substack newsletter about opportunities in literary publishing, and co-created Forever Workshop, a monthly writing education series. 

 His work in the literary community has been featured in Electric Literature, Publishers Weekly, and Brevity and he’s written about the economics of indie publishing for Lit Mag News, The Writer’s Co-op, and more."

The Rise of the Submission Industrial Complex 

https://lithub.com/the-rise-of-the-submission-industrial-complex/ 

  

 

 

Tug of war, Tie. 

wanting toy

 "Trump has attempted to play down fears that the threat of supply shortages from his tariffs may lead to fewer toys for US children. 

He argued last weekend that “a young lady” wanting a toy “doesn’t need 37 dolls” and may be “very happy with two or three or four or five”. 

_____ 

Nine golf club sets

An inbred partridge in an Asian pear grove

True love co-signed for me

A normal doll in normal clothes

With normal Velcro in a normal cargo ship

Passing a normal gulf of American canal

Full of not bashed on fire teslas from China

Two or three or four or five slave robots

Young lady needs to woke up  

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Carney says Canada ‘will never be for sale’ 

and Trump responds ‘never say never’ –  

Never never never never never never never never never never never never never never never never never never never never never never never never never never never never never never never never happens when someone is         like people 

will never be for sale 

Can I get it on credit at the never store

Shelves full of never

Shelves empty of never 

Always say never say never

Sometimes never say Always say never say never  

vicious never fascist capitalism  

____ 

"It’s always important to 

 distinguish want  

from reality,” Carney said last week.    

"Feed fascist baby

Arms spread-eagle 

Take a potshot, socialist " 

"The meeting between the prime minister and president is probably the most closely watched summit in Canada’s history, 

 amid fears of further diplomatic and trading friction between two countries 

 which have traditionally shared political and cultural values." 

"Donald Trump has said he “just want[s] to be friends with Canada”  

No, Trump threatened to take Canada repeatedly. "Never say never "

Greenland, Panama, Gaza....Canada

Don't provide Fascism any window dressing like this bogus " just friends" Guardian 

Jim Boyer cabin, last days 2020

  

 

Jim Boyer cabin, 2020 

 

 

 

 

 

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