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a loaf of bread, a container of milk, and a stick of butter. poet & nyeusiphile. author of 4 poetry collections, not that many seem to care 😒.
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*just runnin the literary scales* proust in the shell... the proust of christmas past proust-rider... the proust ran up the clock... preprousterous... p̶r̶o̶u̶s̶t̶ p̶r̶o̶u̶s̶t̶ g̶o̶o̶s̶e̶ juproustic park... proust-apocalypse... im black & im proust... who ya gonna call? proustbusters!
*the video says S5, E1, and wiki says it was terminus, so, yeah, no need for confirmation, i got it. i did watch all the way to season 10, but it was half-assed watching at best. even after negan, who was a great villain but everything was too over-the-top for me by then.
i dont recall what episode or season this was (somethin somethin terminus, maybe?) - but this was THE moment the show jumped the shark and i was about done: carol & her million-to-1 lucky ass flare shot. i hated this so much. youtube.com/shorts/ajGZI...
The difference between the text of the post and the headline of the article below it is staggering
Stop, you're turning off the normie democrats with defund police & not brutalizing homeless people & letting trans people live their lives. You know better, we're supposed to accept nothing because it's better than the alternative nothing.
heinz was photo'd holding hands with cholula on a south american beach this past weekend, reuters.
djt is Spoof of Life...
sons of kemet (featuring moor mother & angel bat dawid) PICK UP YOUR BURNING CROSS youtu.be/Dw_YbYpOPzo?...
under moon my mind is uncondensed my breath billowed so to thee i kneel or else im naught — a knell in unnoticed dark, but known.
Nabta Playa - Wikipedia share.google/GNq4iOQfoqIZ...
"i be a nabta playa playa, playa." - me, speaking directly to the cigar smoke & hymnal hum wafting without visible source from the darkest corner of the bedroom.
shabaka & the ancestors THEY WHO MUST DIE youtu.be/rpyoP3x9-hk?...
angel bat dawid SUNDAY MEETING OF COLORED PEOPLE AT CHICAGO youtu.be/u_44bo-QHPI?...
oh, my dismissal of vance isnt a dismissal of the republican party or the gullibility of american voters — we are all cooked regardless. im just saying vance will be even more of an puppet than trump, but the same evil agenda.
checks & balances in the 21st century: depositing checks that bring our balances out of the red.
i dont know how this happened but the original version that wouldnt post is actually being liked by people and im baffled - or at least the bsky bug is showing ME that version as the one people are responding to.
no one fears him, tho. he isnt respected or held on a pedestal as trump is. not that he *couldnt* be a threat but most of appalachia absolutely hates him; he's not the one the party would rally around... if marjorie taylor green runs in 2028 then she'd be the one to do the most damage.
the one hopeful thing is just how extremely disparate the right fringe actually is. i simply recall how the gop had 16 candidates on a primary stage in 2014/5, each with their own extremist base & couldnt unite over anything. trump became their common thread. if he's gone, do they return to that?
it's gonna depend on who their party rallies around... marjorie taylor green is the one i fear the most right now; how she ascends out of trump's shadow will be telling.
im sure this was all coincidental... or maybe bsky's algorithmic ai had deduced something sinister in my post - which is how it still seems. altho ive seen some folks post some (beautifully) wild shit about the wellbeing of dictators... and i am here for it!
the far-right fractions was a disjointed mess until trump gave them a commonality & they all rallied under him (less than 50% of registered republicans approved of his nomination in 2016, but he was their strongest candidate). no one else has that sheisty forrest gump cult status.
for the record, i had SEVERAL server errors that kept this from posting... it wasnt until i removed the word "lethal" (describing the philosophy of the rightwing) and changed a certain monogram from "j" to "x" that this finally processed and cleared.
this isnt to say the gop scrapyard wouldnt still be a threat to democracy... fox news & past republican favorites like cruz & rubio have the most to gain with any debilitating trump illness.
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we forget how tenuous the republican leadership really is (this doesnt mean it isnt still dangerous) - the 2016 gop primaries was a 17 candidate shitshow where ted cruz & marc rubio were prime contenders. dxt (who years earlier wanted the democrat nomination) united the far-right fringe
this isnt to say the gop scrapyard wouldnt still be a threat to democracy... fox news & past republican favorites like cruz & rubio have the most to gain with any debilitating trump illness.
we forget how tenuous the republican leadership really is (this doesnt mean it isnt still dangerous & lethal) - the 2016 gop primaries was a 17 candidate shitshow where ted cruz & marc rubio were prime contenders. djt (who years earlier wanted the democrat nomination) united the far-right fringe
exactly. the republican party is a gravy train — most elected or appointed trumpites are only gonna go as far as financial security takes them. fox news will be the biggest foreseeable winner in a djt demise. murdoch & musk will be key figures again.
he might be more evil (as many others would be as well) but he lacks the financial & social clout to whip those who disagree with him "into shape"... this isnt about policy, this is about power and the air whooshing into the power vacuum would laugh at him.
vance will be the lamest of ducks to ever duck a lame.
stephanie mills was robbed. #stephanieismydorothy
my ONLY gripe with The Wiz is that Evillene really doesnt feature enough in the film.
The Wiz is 100% a live-action Studio Ghibli flick. someone with high production values should remake this as an animated series.
the wiz HE'S THE WIZARD youtu.be/kN3toBeRUuM?...
"togoty"?
boils down to what americans are allowed to romanticize - which is a foundation for culturalism nationalism, and who receives privilege or priority within that culture/nation. just imagine if obama hooped as much as trump golfs... diversity & multiculturalism destroys racist gatekeeping.
“My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people.” — Patricia Highsmith
*"sthe" was intentional af... i dare anyone to prove it wasnt! 😤
i love yall, fam; enjoy sthe day. zapp BE ALRIGHT youtu.be/UvZAt7VnJls?...
Last Labor Day weekend, cops handcuffed me & threw me in the back of their van & I was held on an involuntary hold in psych facilities for a week. I even had something on my calendar I missed while I was in there. And it's a marvel how I actually put myself back together somewhat a year out.
No but seriously 8k would save my blood pressure yeah!!
is this mf using a sweatshirt as a sling
that’s the look a man gives you at the bar when he’s trying to seem sweet and harmless before he rufies your drink
hi, i know im not active on here but if anyone has extra to spare to help get me out of the negatives + pay overdraft fees, i would really appreciate it! thank u 💕💸 #HelpSky #MutualAid chuffed.org/project/1209...
ah, he was so funny & culturally relevant back then...
oh shit! i remember this commercial! and NOW i get the reference!
im on that dark cosmic shit where 60 minutes is an hour that radiates a noir, hence = who i was an HOIR ago.
good bet, tho, that i never play this again in life unless accidently stumbling across it again... 😂
never heard of this band, song, or video until an hoir ago and now im mildly obsessed with it... this is a great video (and a really good tune). dirty vegas DAYS GO BY youtu.be/M51rijkxa_4?...
goodnight, fam. tom tom club GENIUS OF LOVE youtu.be/aCWCF19nUhA?...
so be it.
well... i guess more like 3 months ago. dang, time acts funny af.
i didnt even know about it until six weeks ago... i was not expecting as much as i got from it.
the original has the most iconic individual scenes, but 3 - front to back - is a more solid story.
🤔🤔🤔 ... 🤔🤔🤔 ... i 🤔🤔🤔 😯🫨... yes... 🤯😱 ... alien 3 ... **IS** ... actually better ... than the original.
if you havent already then check out The Spine of Night - a very worthy successor to Fire & Ice... youtu.be/HS5wCkg_aI4?...
thay i caint tell if this is the 80s trailer or the 2025 trailer is a plus in its favor!
even if trump did die we would just go from fascist apocalypse to zombie fascist apocalypse because that fucker has obviously channeled every circle of hell to be in the position he's in.
it's "eat the rich: celebrity edition"
😂
*proposes to leg pillow*
got a new pillow (expensive little bastards!) so there's an extra one floating around the bed... i normally sleep on my stomach, but i turnt on my side & the top leg landed on top the spare pillow and... OMG THIS FEELS HOLISTIC &/or WHOLISTIC AF! i did NOT know i needed a leg pillow til just now!
I’m here to serve the community in whatever way I can. #meme #70s
but where's the goose that lays the golden eggs? it's integral to this story....
these are poems most likely written spur of the moment, specifically for Anvil Tongue, so i never really "sat" with them or did any editing, tho a line or two did resurfaced in later poems. here's the link: anviltonguebooks.blogspot.com/2021/09/sele...
"the shoes of the fisherman's wife" **actually appearing** in one of the poem titles... so it looks like the work in progress, We, The Umbra, will have several new additions... so... (dementia-addled brain aside) score? 😂
i ask because theyd ask for poems 4 years ago & i sent some, but had totally forgot about them, not just the submission BUT THE POEMS AS WELL! so now i have new poems that missed being in 2023's The Second Stop Is Jupiter and wont be in The Shoes of the Fisherman's Wife dropping in 6 weeks despite
what happened to Anvil Tongue Books? werent they on bluesky? did they disband / dissolve / say or do something discourseful?
goodnight, fam... cameo WORD UP youtu.be/MZjAantupsA?...
everytime a victim gets shot up by machine gun in a movie and they do that shimmy, shimmy, shoulder to shoulder shake before dying i always sing that chorus from cameo, "do your dance, do your dance quick, mama!"
i just posted the youtube link. it doesnt appear to be with any other streaming service.
always outnumbered is free to watch on youtube and doesnt appear to be streaming anywhere else... youtu.be/TpMLbKoD8Vg?...
always outnumbered, always outgunned was okay. it couldve used a bigger production budget, but, overall, i liked it.
The first three Alchemy Lecture Books. I am so proud of these books. This series. This collaboration. Please read.
*Coming October 2025!* I'll Get Right On It: Poems on Working Life in the Climate Crisis. I'm proud to be one of the co-editors in the Land and Labour #Poetry Collective. Preorders open now. Check out the @fernpub.bsky.social website for more details: fernwoodpublishing.ca/book/ill-get...
good afternoon, yall... jungle brothers WHAT U WAITIN 4? youtu.be/26e7RSNH5Zw?...
lessee... if i were to cast a remake or sequel to Devil In A Blue Dress then, for Easy Rawlins, id consider: John Boyega or Donald Glover... but i just can't imagine who id cast as Mouse... ten years ago i wouldve said Sterling K. Brown (but i cant see him pulling off a southern accent)
see, thats exactly my thought... no one else has the actual grit to play mouse but don. everyone i think of is too "hollywood pretty" to play him correctly. maybe im missing someone.
so, alongside Patsy Riffe (who has a ridge named after her), crys is related to some of the most prominent black folk in Central Kentucky. crystal's surname is from the same white family that gave us a governor, wallace wilkinson. is crys state royalty? maybe she should should run for governor.
crystal's great aunt, Lovester (Aunt Lo) passed nearly 2 weeks ago and i just found out her ancestors founded the small town of Boneyville where she lived; founded by Napoleon Bonaparte Hayes (named for him) & Alfred Simpson, both formerly enslaved Union soldiers. Aunt Lo descended from both.
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i was on my best shit 10 yrs ago...
i only confidently remember the names of 2 teachers from kindergarten to 12th grade - mr. turner in middle school and ms. brown in kindergarten & 1st grade. both were black. but do i only recall them bc of their race or bc turner was the only teacher to swat me & ms. brown only had one arm... 🤔🤔🤔
ms. hemmingway? ms. hollingsworth? ms. greentree? (nah, not that one... but close. maybe?) this gon' plague me for the rest of the day...
there was 3 seasons of Hap & Leonard (based on joe lansdale's detective novels) which was "aight", but it featured michael k. williams ...and what show was never made better by his presence?
“Bingo Long” was so full of joy and life. It captured a time both as a film and story. It’s a movie close to my heart.
it's original title for years before publishing had been A Poet in Favor of War.
**i hate having a shit memory. wait... was i hit in the head with a 3 pound metal stapler in english class?! 🤔 the world may never know.
but that was tame compared to our english teacher (why cant i remember her name?! ms. holloway**? no. ms. ...nevermind) - if her back was turned & kids talked in class she would whip around, grab & throw her heavy metal stapler in the general direction of where the talking was coming from.
*mr. turner asked me to repeat my fuck up and i again said Wymaho so innocently & self-assured... he thought i was being a smart-ass, the class was in tears! it wasnt until after he gave me the swat in the hallway that i realized i'd mixed Wyoming & Idaho.
delroy was in 1996's Soul of the Game but i keep placing him in Bingo Long whenever i think about it. like, if i were to ever appear on Jeopardy & the answer was "delroy's baseball movie" i would 100% say Bingo Long w/ the same confidence of my saying Whymaho* when given its capital in 7th grade
one of my favorite films is 1977's The Bingo Long Traveling All-stars and Motor Kings and Delroy was playing a 62 yr old back then... AND HE AINT E'EN IN THAT MOVIE!
3 easy rawlins films wouldve changed the entire american landscape.
based on... youtu.be/XEAtuD_U6RE?...
i only watched it for the first time a couple years ago and never finished it... not because i didnt like it, i just never returned to it.
Her words still ring true, as we are *still* fighting for basic rights for ALL. “Asking you to give me equal rights, implies that they are yours to give. Instead, I must demand that you stop trying to deny me the rights all people deserve.” - Elizabeth Peratrovich, Alaskan Civil Rights Activist.
[This post is trying to sell you something. Feel free to skip!] Hey, Fam, my Doctor Who novella is finally in the world. Available at all good outlets and some bad ones.
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Well, here we go This is the op-ed in which I denounce the Riesman Center for Harvard Hillel Pray 4 Josie harvardindependent.com/avoid-the-bu...
