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Archive for September, 2009
In Case You’re in NYC…
September 30, 2009A Memory of Her Lodged in Air and Skin
September 29, 2009A MEMORY OF HER LODGED
IN WET AIR AND SKIN
If the slightly wet air in the skin is the hillside
is wherever I have to forgive what I have forgotten
is error unretrieved from clouds over ponds
is we’re going swimming she said.
What I can’t remember is what I can’t feel —
the same moist air almost going as the cloud from hill to hill
and what she looked like when we had hung about indifferent to time
and place.
We had to forgive the backs of knees when it rained
and you can’t go in during a storm she said
you can’t go swimming after lunch and waiting for her to turn around
in the wet air through the length of a 40 years’ day.
Martha Ronk
(What, you thought me?! HA!)
Two Things
September 29, 20091. Done with Mamet! Praise Be to G-d!
2. I think the entire world ought to give the cast of The Hills and any of its spin-offs the silent treatment. Who’s with me?
My Roommate is a Goddamn Genius
September 24, 2009She thinks TSS is a conspiracy designed to make women afraid to keep a tampon in for too long, thus forcing them to buy more tampons. Have you ever actually met anyone who has had TSS? I think someone told me this girl at my camp had it, but I never heard it from her. I’m going to track her down. I think her name was Abby. Stay tuned…
Want to Raise a Handsome Rogue?
September 23, 2009According to the still-venerable baby name book Beyond Jennifer and Jason…
“Good looking names for boys can be divided into two categories: nice guys and not-so-nice guys. The nice guys are sensitive and sweet and tend to offer a goodnight kiss at the door; the rogues don’t call the next morning, although women usually wish they would.”
Handsome Rogue Names
Plus some free association, by me. Obviously. It’s my blog. I get to say what I want. Fuck off.
Addison
Ash
Austin
Bailey
Beau
Brady
Brock (Hudson? Gay, right? And by Brock I meant Rock. Sorry, D. You know all the gay idols.)
Chad (Will never be the same after that election)
Clay
Clint (Eastwood.)
Cody (My mind immediately thinks Gifford, and that’s always funny.)
Dallas
Dalton
Darcy (Do these count if they’re last names, too? I think of Pride and Prejudice. My roommate hearts Mr. Darcy like woah.)
Davis
Denver
Devon
Dylan
Flint (A lot of these names are old guy names)
Gavin
Gray
Hart
Hunter
Jackson
Jasper
Jefferson
Jesse
Judd (Nelson)
Keil (I’m still thinking about Cody Gifford. Ahhhhhahahahahahaha.)
Lex (Luther?)
Logan
Luke
Quinn
Rex
Sebastian
Shane
Wiley
Wolf (Grrr!)
Wyatt
Zack
Zane
My Happy Place
September 22, 2009
Inside Shakespeare & Co. bookstore in Paris
Holocaust Porn
September 22, 2009So I thought I came up with Holocaust Porn, which isn’t a real thing, but two words, in their essences meaningless (as all words are) when, said one after the other, cause an intense reaction in others. An experiment, of sorts. Of course such a thing doesn’t exist; just invoking its empty name implicates the listener, whose mind is in control of what images or ideas or symbols come forth.
Using my intellect to justify being willfully iconoclastic. Happy Monday!
Also I think it would be funny to tell people at parties that you’re currently working on a screenplay. “Essentially, it’s erotica that takes place at Auschwitz.” Just watch their faces.
Again, I thought I came up with it. But no, guess again! You’re right –– our friend David Mamet!
In a chapter entitled Sadomasochistic Phenomena; or, the Two Chelms
“The masochistic and sadistic imagination engages in fantasies wherein the cryptosexual delight of unlimited power is experienced (equally and perhaps interchangeably) as victim and perpetrator.
Holocaust films and slave epics are, essentially, these sexual fantasies. Their viewer is permitted, by the rectitude of the innocent sufferer’s cause, to engage in fantasies of submission, simultaneously enjoying fantasies of dominance.
…
Anti-Semitism is a profoundly sexual fantasy — a sado-masochism founded on religious or pseudoreligious (e.g. Marxist or Nazi) views, which views are variously called ‘social’ or ‘racial.’ It is (consider the bizarre paraphernalia of the Nazis, the impossibly intricate illogic of the Holocaust denier) a fantasy capable of being worked out endlessly in everyday life; quite literally, a dream come true.”
WOAH, David Mamet! You…are nuts.
Exhaustion
September 21, 2009Two poems by Richard Brautigan, which I first read lying in a hammock in Brazil…
The Nature Poem
The moon
is Hamlet
on a motorcycle
coming down
a dark road.
He is wearing
a black leather
jacket and
boots.
I have
nowhere
to go.
I will ride
all night.
Widow’s Lament
It’s not quite cold enough
to go borrow some firewood
from the neighbors.
If I Had a Twitter Right Now…
September 19, 2009it would say, “ID is thinking it’s a shame she doesn’t have enough money to buy really expensive lingerie.”
…Had A Twitter, or just Had Twitter?
A Very Funny Exchange
September 18, 2009(The subject, BTW, is pacifism.)
DHG:
just read in this morning’s new york times that the state of ohio spent 2 hours trying to kill a man yesterday, and they could not find a vein they could get the needle into, and now they are RE-SCHEDULING killing him next week. my jaw dropped. that there is a death penalty here is barbaric in my view –we are among the few “civilized” nations that have it, as you probably know; our neighbors like Mexico are appalled–but to strap a man down and try to kill him for HOURS and then decide you’re going to do it to him again next week is torture of the most rarified kind. far worse than putting someone on the rack and snapping his tendons and connective tissue. in other words, makes medieval methods look like child’s play. you’d think that if the state failed to kill someone right–or at all–that they then forego the right to kill him. but they’re using a 1946 ruling to justify it–apparently it’s not unconstitutional. yeah well, neither was slavery.
and to answer ID’s about muktananda’s philosophy, yeah, non-violence entirely.
LH:
See, all I thought was Jesus, how lame can Ohio be that we can’t even get a vein? Is this because of the budget problem??
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