Public toilets at Serengeti National Park.

Zimmerli museum, Rutgers.
George Segal

Princeton

Princeton

Autumn in Princeton

For the London Review of Books I read the work of the novelist, story writer, & poet Percival Everett, author of Erasure and The Trees, and thought about names, mimesis, antiquity, Brandon, Joyce Carol Oates, Pynchon, Coetzee (neither on Twitter), the Richard Wright debate

lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v44/…

Why is United making a reference to a Joyce Carol Oates story about the devil?

do Texas & other red states abolishing abortion still allow spaying for animals by veterinarians?

I have never believed much in luck, and my sense of humor has tended to walk on the dark side. Muhammad Ali, one of my very few heroes, once took the time to explain to me that “there are no jokes. The truth is the funniest joke of all.”
— Hunter S. Thompson

Peacock
Joni Mitchell
1967

To fight for #ClimateActionNow , I'm throwing this Van Gogh painting at an Andy Warhol rendition of soup. #JustStop_Oil

self-exhibiting in the guise of activism.
martyrdom without fear of actual punishment.
activism as gesture, theater--an end in itself.

(at least on Twitter we toss off mere words against an implacable screen--futile but harmless.)

'leaning right' means supporting the party that wants to ban abortions, cut back on women's rights, cut back on protecting the environment, actively promotes guns & misinformation. as mainstream media rouses indignation against these positions, yet it supports them tacitly.

'leaning right' means supporting the party that wants to ban abortions, cut back on women's rights, cut back on protecting the environment, actively promotes guns & misinformation. as mainstream media rouses indignation against these positions, yet it supports them tacitly.

Black Cat poets.org/poem/black-cat by Rilke
'Sneaking Night' by Vladimir Kush (Russia, b. 1965)

'Portrait of Natasha Lancere with a cat' 1924. wikiart.org/en/zinaida-ser…

This is me DodgePoetryFestival trying to explain how society's lack of encouragement (when I was a young man) for gays to love, marry, and raise children has made me pessimistic about happiness, but the world can be different.

as the NY Times leans right on virtually every issue, presenting liberal/ Democrats in the least attractive light, it seems pointless to focus on each specific micro aggression. over all, Big Business = GOP, just as every cliché would have it.