This Week's Writing 6/14/26
Orange cat is noble—plus what I published this week.
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Okay! Here’s what I published this week.
Politics
Todd Blanche is a fascist sycophant. (Public Notice)
Why Sam Moyn’s Gerontocracy in America is a bad book. (Washington Monthly)
Incompetence makes fascists more dangerous. (EIH)
Cultural criticism
Edward Said and neurodivergence. (EIH)
Kraken is a great monster creature feature. (Splice Today)
Samantha Fish’s new live blues album is great. (No Depression)
The Christophers and mediocre art by aging artists. (EIH)
Hokusai and natural disability. (EIH)
Why reading doesn’t make us human. (EIH)
A Dry White Season and white saviors. (EIH)
Poetry
A surreal stream of consciouness. (Shine Poetry)
Poem Beginning With a Line By Vasko Popa
One is the nail, another is pliers.
One is the ocean, another is a vast web of plastic.
One is the pliers, another is rust.
One hammers and hammers on the roof of a bat’s head.The bat is shrieking until all the rust flakes off.
And at last there is no ocean, only the plastic
breathing and breathing in its smooth and pulsing tides.
The shark is caught in it. The shark with teeth like nails
that are not really like nails, but built out of
someone else’s petroleum, reflecting
someone else’s colors. Pull them out of the wood.
Steal them for yourself.
A poem appearing here for the first time!
Dada Bird Call
Tzara! Tzara!
