no peanuts in church…

"You might as well face the music. You've tried everything else…" -Sun Ra.

  • Walz/Vance Debate

    Vance presented as a slick one-man focus group. He even managed to scan as A Real Boy at times, as opposed to the unholy Yarvinite Egregore he is in reality (and online, and at rallies, and probably everywhere else). Very good at lying, but not at convincing. Not so much a Gish-Gallop as a Gish-Avalanche. Continue reading

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  • Wacky Schemes

    RFK Jr, Kennedy scion, friend to Billionaires, would-be Election Spoiler and future Trivial Pursuit question apparently had a wacky scheme to jam up voting machines in Wisconsin by forcing the State to cover his name on the ballot with stickers. Stickers which would then gum up the voting machines, with the ensuing hilarity somehow leading Continue reading

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  • “Plastics!”

    One word, kid… “Plastics!” Gene Wolfe in 1988, putting on his Engineer Hat with this rather prescient thought… Wolfe: There are more than two paths we can head down. I feel both optimistic and pessimistic about what we’ve been doing with technology. As you say, it has already been used to produce both wonderful and Continue reading

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  • The Precipice Year: 2024

    I really don’t want to end up writing long form political posts all the time. In fact, I deeply resent having to spend so much time following politics, at all. I dream of an America with a boring, boring Politics. But, in this era of the ‘Industrial Disinformation Complex’, one kind of has to become Continue reading

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  • “Brother, can you Paradigm…”

    I haven’t posted much music online, but I do seem to have been recording things, here and there. Hours of it. So here’s one of them. Noise. Drone. Shimmer. Wandering beat. Two-track, direct into the Tascam DP-008ex. Seasoned a little in Ableton Live. There’s a Neutron in there, somewhere. And an S-1. And some drummy Continue reading

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