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This Week's Writing 7/14/23

We got a bunch of new followers this week, so hello! Hope you are enjoying the blogging. I post most days, including writing on politics, film, music, and whatever else crosses the transom. Until I get tired and yawn dangerously (see cat pic above.)

I usually post a cat pic a week, but! In an effort to boost sales and maybe give the cat pic fans what they want, for this week I thought I would post one (1!) pet pic for each new paid subscription I get. So will I post one pic? Five? Thirty?! It’s up to you whether my pics stay on the desktop or whether I need to follow the kitties about and torment them for more.

In the meantime! Here’s what I wrote last week!

If You Read One Thing By Me This Week Read

Contra the Social Network, Mark Zuckerberg isn’t sad. We are. (EIH)

Politics

Senator Tommy Tuberville shows how obstruction allows the GOP to impose minority rule. (Public Notice)

Underestimating Biden isn’t smart political strategy for the GOP. (Independent)

An interview with Helen De Cruz about how philosophy can address marginalized identity. (EIH)

Criticism

The shallow genre trash of Claire Denis’ Trouble Every Day. (EIH)

Gus Van Sant’s Psycho is a camp critique of Hitchcock’s homophobia. (EIH)

The Out-Laws wants you to like it, and I did pretty much. (Chicago Reader)

Kamalink pursues its own path to enlightenment. (EIH)

Star Trek’s “The Apple,” in which the feds promise to only interfere for good. (EIH)

No Depression’s list (to which I contributed) of the best roots music of 2023, so far. (No Depression)

My list of The Best Roots Music of 2023, So Far. (EIH)

Poetry

A sad poem about being spurned for a zine on being spurned. (Gnashing Teeth)

The Great Work Goes On
My wife
Said, “Cinquains seem
Like a nice hobby.” Oh,
Wife! You are cruel and I collapse
On cue.

War and art and dada and haiku. (dadakuku)

War on War on Art on Art
Truth. Is
Jesus, Karl Marx
Emasculation and
The spawning wreckage of freedom
Fallen.

An ode to social media. (Five Fleas)

Bluesky

Twitter Spill Spoutible
Facebook Notes Threads
Instagram TikTok Tumblr
Mastodon cohost reddit

Somewhere someone
will like this poem.