This Week's Writing 9/15/24
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Okay. We will turn away from the Creature and her plight for a minute while I list what I published this week.
If you read one thing by me this week, read:
Why did W.E.B. Du Bois support Zionism and Stalinism? (EIH)
Politics
Why do people want to come here if it’s so horrible? (EIH)
Trump is lying when he says he has a concept of a plan. (EIH)
The media pretends Biden is less fit than Trump because they know he’s more fit. (EIH)
Culture
Booger shows grief is a small-budget emotion. (Splice Today)
The Becomers is a great, weird low budget invasion of the body snatchers riff. (Chicago Reader)
His Three Daughters is a glib, stagey melodrama. (Chicago Reader)
Professor X isn’t MLK. He’s Booker T. (EIH)
Some books by me that you can buy. (EIH)
Poetry
A little absurdiku. (dadakuku)
LAKE ISLE OF MEMO
I got more devotional
about the chartered constipation
re: social justice nanotech
A couple little cynical poems. (Five Fleas)
CRITIQUE
I don’t think you should end a poem with
“My life has changed.”
The great struggle of writing
is to see the truth
in your bank account.
And just a reminder; the cat is still upside down. Contribute to turn her right side up!
The final poem makes me think of Wallace Shawn at the beginning of _My Dinner With Andre_
"I grew up on the Upper East Side... and when I was 10 years old I was rich, I was an aristocrat riding around in taxis, surrounded by comfort and all I thought about was art and music.
Now I'm 36, and all I think about is money."
hoping my existing contribution will make a difference to the great creature turning as well ❤️ a worthy cause!
(thank u for your reporting as well)