Empowerment, n. Liberation for psychopaths.

Last week, I spoke briefly with a random forty something white woman sitting next to me at a work conference. I had just come from the bookstore and she asked me what I’d bought.. said she LOVES reading. I showed her the Borges and Bolaño in my bag and asked her what she likes to

Saturday

They come up like fireworks, explode and then dissipate. Those that are vivid today will be gone the next time I walk by.

9.23.2017 - Seattle, WA

Nothing like an arpeggiated major triad blasted out the bell of a brass instrument to help you remember life is sacred

Gm. French people are all gay?

They are always watching you, the people with extendable eyeballs

Some people tweet like they are in an ongoing conversation with themselves, giving us, the readers, only half of the dialogue. I am at once frightened and fascinated by this genre of posting. Like.. should I call in a wellness check or make a bag of popcorn?

Read a pamphlet and it turns out there is hope for you after all

Every day, companies to their corporate employees: Are you ready to sacrifice it all for incrementally more REVENUE YoY?!?!

The jesters were more intelligent than their kings. In this new world of swarthy kings, the white man will be the jester. That’s all.

it was strangely revelatory when, several years ago now, i looked up the definition of “time” and was first explicitly confronted with the fact that it’s simply the means by which we come to recognize change if nothing ever changed, there would be no time — no sense of sequence

la poesía es más valiente que nadie (poetry is braver than anyone) — Roberto Bolaño

The book of Revelation reads like a little kid telling the most fantastical story he could possibly imagine. ..and den anudduh angel came.. and den anuddah one.. and den all duh trees got burned up..

Summary: you wouldn’t get it and you never will. You can never feel sorry enough for what you’ve done. Now bow down before it’s too late.

In this house, everything spoke to the dignity of those who had lived in it, to their worth, their discreet knowledge, their modesty, their taste for those solid traditions that one generation knows to pass on to the next it it has not lost all self respect.

Come to find out, the only real terrorist is the one I created in my mind. I am now asking for $200,000,000,000 to continue the regime change war within.