February 2012
3 posts
Bolano, King of Avalon Hill
War games on the beach.
Adventures of a slack jawed bafoon; or, How I...
As a teenager I had a long commute to high school via a rural school bus route. At over six feet tall, I could barely fit in the seat. I used to read The Portable Nietzsche, the thick volume wedged between my cramped knees. (Take a second to think about that sentence.) It gave me the oppurtunity to fimiliarize myself with Top 40 country music. In a way, I was lucky it was not a right wing talk...
Emperor in bad jeans
A recent article by Charles Duhigg and Keith Bradsher in the New York Times about why iPhones are not manufactured in the United States is getting a lot of buzz lately. It is essential reading in the same way that Kafka is essential reading. It would be hard to find better examples of Orwellian double-speak or the ubiquitous penetration of capitalist ideology in the symbolic order. But I’ll...
January 2012
1 post
Dune Wood
…the essential ugliness of the 80s science fiction/comic strip project—hitherto concealed beneath the sweetness-and-light of patriarchal morality—has risen to the surface: witness the obsessive violence of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom and the pervasively sick imagery of Gremlins (which Spielberg “presented”). Dune is the culmination of the exposure of...
December 2011
1 post
The Adventures of Bimbus and Nimbo!
Bimbus: beer and football
Nimbo: I’m gonna try to read. I wasn’t sure where else to go.
Bimbus: reader
Nimbo: Tim Tebow!
Bimbus: poopinator
Nimbo: Why do you keep saying that?
Bimbus: i’m obssessed with poop. Ur fault.
Nimbo: Why is it my fault?
Bimbus: u love poop
Nimbo: What? You never explained why I love poop?
Bimbus: you are obsessed with ur poo
Nimbo:...
May 2011
2 posts
I wrap your "real world" in soft pink magick pony...
I had a professor in college who hosted an informal philosophy discussion group. It was fun undergrad bullshit. I was a real stupid ass then. It’s fun to be the ass. But some of the things the professor said have stuck with me over the years. A few of his ideas ring like maxims in my mind. I don’t know if I agree with them, but they reoccur in my thoughts over and over and find myself using...
Steve (Jobs)
At my work I daily deal with people on the edge: of sanity, of homelessness, of death, of decency.
Did you think this blog was going to be about something else?
In other news, the Supreme Court has ruled the police have the right to kick your door in.
April 2011
2 posts
A Sad Vacation
This weekend is filled with sorrow for me as:
- It’s Earth Day. And still we have a political party that wants dissolve the EPA. Why is the EPA even necessary? Protecting our Earth, our home, our mother and father, should be our premise, not our afterthought. I solute the people of Bolivia for legislating the rights of the natural world.
- It is the anniversary of the accidental death, or...
THE SOUTH: still defined by hate and...
Nashville made the South proud on April 5th when Metro Council passed an ordinance banning Metro contracts with businesses that lack anti-discrimination policies against LGBT people. Then the state of Tennessee shamed itself, or I should say the Tennessee House of Representatives shamed our state, by immediately voting for legislation to override all such ordinances throughout the state.
...
March 2011
5 posts
Most of these have already passed
There are several bills which are currently under debate:
HB159/SB136: Prohibits public employees from having a payroll deduction to a political action committee or for dues for membership organizations that use funds for political activities.
HB130/SB113: Abolishes teachers’ unions ability to negotiate terms and conditions of professional service with local boards of education.
HB367/SB 0624:...
The first poem I am written in months if not years
HEADLINES 03/10
Frist family ranks as TN’s richest with $3.6 billion
TN Senate advances plan for forever ban on income tax
Nashville’s lack of low-income housing leaves working poor with no permanent place
Unions fight for the rights of workers, still
About the current union busting efforts, it is clearly a nationwide conservative strategy, a plan to be implemented at all levels after the midterm elections. It is an ideological attack to strip public workers with the right collectively bargain in the states where Republican governors were elected: WI, OH, and TN. Yes, TN which doesn’t get much news coverage because of...
HBGary and Gerald Vizenor
I’m pretty sure my ADD and chronic forgetfulness are due to clinical depression but this new research explains why I feel like I am tripping all the time. SHIT PUDDLE.
It says creative people have easy access to memories, dreams, and things that happen in your mind that ARNTimporTANT. That creative people can switch between ARNTimporTANT and really fuckin portent HBGary shit like real...
February 2011
2 posts
Flesh sea.
Should I be concerned that my ADD is so severe I cannot pay enough attention to play Wii tennis? Like by the time the computer serves I’m gone. I imagine this started when my orgasms started feeling like acid flashbacks. Flesh sea.
net cut
Since we now know that nearly half of rural America lacks broadband internet access, I want to personally thank the United States House of Representatives in voting block the FCC from enforcing its (already laughably weak) net neutrality rules. Nothing will help those that lack broadband better than ensuring it will be slower and cost more. Thanks again GOP.
January 2011
2 posts
Considering a dream
I’m considering recording my dreams in this space. Thoughts?
Walked out on Cronenberg’s Naked Lunch the other night. Because I love Burroughs, I hate that movie.
What else could I right about tonight?
Still have olde blog post rotting in my head. Still not excavating it yet. I’ve been listening to The Knife’s Deep Cuts lately. “Heartbeats” still makes me weep every time I hear it. The Knife’s communist lyrical reference endear me. The production is bedroom techno rough but that gives the whole affair more heart. I find so very few tender hearts these days.
While...
November 2010
2 posts
Party for your right to fight.
Good luck to the people of Haiti today as they engage in their first presidential election since having their nation piledrived by earthquake and disease. Maybe someday their bureaucratic infrastructure will be stable enough for them to elect a mindless fascist puppet like Ronald Reagan. One thing the Republican party learned from Bush Light was that if you are going prop up a middle aged white...
I am thankful for ANGELS (and being taught how to...
I’ve been putting off writing about a number of cultural happenings but now nature has forced my hand.
Of course, I am speaking of the death of Peter Christopherson, whose death cast a pale over an otherwise fruitful holiday. As a founding member of Throbbing Gristle, Psychic TV, and Coil no artist has affected my life more. If I had a hero it was Peter. Though his music touched me so...
September 2010
2 posts
What do you do with your free time?
August 2010
10 posts
Dune Rights & Wrongs
Dune angel. Envelop me. As my fascination with Dune texts grows to clinical proportions, I thought I would take a moment so showcase the history various games that have blossomed out of the original Dune text. Games are particularly fascinating as the degree of “user” input fluctuates greatly. Not only is there imagination. There are also rules. Bittersweet dangerous rules. Before...
Gimme that old time marketing religion
In a display of extreme boredom the ENnie Award for Best Game went to Paizo Publishing’s Pathfinder role playing game. The ENnie’s are the Oscars of rpgs. Pathfinder is yet another 350 page rule intensive hardback in a generic fantasy setting. This is the equivalent of the Titanic winning best picture. (Did Titanic win the best picture the year it came out?)
In protest to this inanity...
A text I got today...
“So im looking for something about african americans and bdsm or about torture and bdsm like abu gharib or something. If u know of anything good”
COIL camp
Coil’s massive Colour Sound Oblivion box set arrived this year. Discs 15 and 16 of said set are the video projections of each incarnation of their live show and accompanying “rhythm” tracks. The audio and video could be played in sync or each separately. The contents of these discs were released under a Creative Commons license with the intention of public recontextualization.
...
An exchange within space
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(12:27:33 AM) Jacky: let’s use GURPs to create a unicorn rider game
(12:27:53 AM) Tina Marie: okay but you will have to tell me what GURPs is (12:28:05 AM) Tina Marie: games U role play/ hehe
(12:28:36 AM) Jacky: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gurps
(12:28:44 AM) Jacky: you were...
July 2010
9 posts
2 tags
Dune too
My obsession with the film Dune (1984) continues. These days if I’m asked to name my favorite film I don’t hesitate to say, emphatically, Dune. Is Dune a bad film? Yes, it is. I am a bad man. I like bad films. Many refer to Dune as a failure, both financially and artistically. It was supposed to be a “sci-fi epic.” The meaning of this I am not sure of, but what comes to...
reboot
we are purring like a kitty cat. excuse me while i grunt fuck.