Maus author says he was told the comics giant – whose chairman is a prominent Trump supporter – was trying to remain apolitical
Saturday, August 17, 2019
Friday, August 16, 2019
NR-0026: PIECEMEAL by N Casio Poe - OUT NOW!
NR-0026: PIECEMEAL by N Casio Poe - OUT NOW!
PIECEMEAL IS NOT A NOVEL. It is an unfiltered exercise in Cringe-Fiction. Inherently dangerous and lyrically pornographic, PIECEMEAL is constructed using the remnants of old corpses found in the dirt of ditches dug too deep – musical lyricisms, explosive flash-fiction, short stories that scream, experimentations of the Eros… all the sinew of one artist’s starvation for storytelling, stewed into one last meal for consumption. NO explanations. NO excuses. NO compromises. N. Casio Poe deconstructs the decadency of his own psyche and uses the pieces to compose a battered book of broken and beautiful prose – cut-up, spliced-in and blown-out.
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PIECEMEAL IS NOT A NOVEL. It is an unfiltered exercise in Cringe-Fiction. Inherently dangerous and lyrically pornographic, PIECEMEAL is constructed using the remnants of old corpses found in the dirt of ditches dug too deep – musical lyricisms, explosive flash-fiction, short stories that scream, experimentations of the Eros… all the sinew of one artist’s starvation for storytelling, stewed into one last meal for consumption. NO explanations. NO excuses. NO compromises. N. Casio Poe deconstructs the decadency of his own psyche and uses the pieces to compose a battered book of broken and beautiful prose – cut-up, spliced-in and blown-out.
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Thursday, August 15, 2019
U.S.A.! U.S.A.! vol 198. / Awwwww Yeah vol. 124
U.S. Rep. Steve King told the Westside Conservative Club on Wednesday that humanity might not exist if not for rape and incest.
"What if we went back through all the family trees and just pulled those people out that were products of rape and incest? Would there be any population of the world left if we did that?" he said at the event in Urbandale, Iowa.
"Considering all the wars and all the rapes and pillages taken place and whatever happened to culture after society? I know I can't certify that I'm not a part of a product of that."
The Kiron Republican was defending his position of not allowing exceptions for rape and incest in the anti-abortion legislation he tried to pass in Congress.
U.S. Rep. Steve King:
If not for rape and incest,
'would there be any
population left?'
Wednesday, August 14, 2019
Tuesday, August 13, 2019
U.S.A.! U.S.A.! vol. 197
Trump official revises Statue of Liberty poem to defend migrant rule change
A top US immigration official has revised a quote inscribed on the Statue of Liberty in defence of a new policy that denies food aid to legal migrants.
The head of Citizenship and Immigration Services tweaked the passage: "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free".
The official added the words "who can stand on their own two feet and who will not become a public charge".
Monday, August 12, 2019
We Are The Sprocket Holes vol. 345
In it, DiCaprio plays rude, standoffish Derek, whose standout lines are: “Do you girls masturbate at all?” and “I’ll f–king throw a bottle at your face, you goddamn whore.” He does then throw a glass — at Amber Benson of “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” fame — in a cringe-inducing scene meant to scare the actress away from the set.
Maguire’s character, Ian, meanwhile, in one scene — which was cut from the final version of the film at his behest — reveals his unusual masturbation habits
Maguire’s character, Ian, meanwhile, in one scene — which was cut from the final version of the film at his behest — reveals his unusual masturbation habits
In depositions given as part of a 1998 lawsuit — which resulted in the film being banned in the country — DiCaprio and Maguire said it was because they never meant for the film school-like project to become a full-length feature.
In the aftermath, DiCaprio moved on to unimaginable fame and star-studded projects, and Maguire got his big break as “Spider-Man.”
But the others involved, like Wheatley, had to live with the fallout: ruined careers, destroyed friendships, divorce and thoughts of suicide.
The lost movie Leonardo DiCaprio doesn’t want you to see
Saturday, August 10, 2019
Awww Yeah vol. 121
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The person described the injuries from Epstein's first alleged suicide attempt as small abrasions around his neck, and said that while protocols were followed, Epstein had received no preferential treatment afterward.
He did get a cell to himself in the unit, where the rich man “lived like a pig in a sty” after that attempt, the person said, eating his meals off of the floor and constantly requesting more toilet paper.
In conversations with other inmates, he at times asked for their inmate numbers, presumably to put money into their accounts.
Jeffrey Epstein Is Dead After ‘Suicide Watch’—and Feds are Scrambling for Answers
Friday, August 9, 2019
U.S.A.! U.S.A.! vol. 196
Grinning Trump gives thumbs-up with baby whose parents were shot dead in El Paso terror attack
Infant was brought for photo op at hospital where patients refused to meet president
Thursday, August 8, 2019
Wednesday, August 7, 2019
Tuesday, August 6, 2019
U.S.A.! U.S.A.! vol. 195
A 2015 study from the researchers Jonathan Meltz and Kenneth MacLeish of Vanderbilt University found that "less than 3% to 5% of US crimes involve people with mental illness, and the percentages of crimes that involve guns are lower than the national average for persons not diagnosed with mental illness."
And when it comes specifically to mass-shooting events, James Knoll and George D. Annas wrote in a chapter of the 2016 book "Gun Violence and Mental Illness" that "mass shootings by people with serious mental illness represent less than 1% of all yearly gun-related homicides," while "deaths by suicide using firearms account for the majority of yearly gun-related deaths."
Because people with diagnosed mental illnesses commit such a tiny percentage of shootings that harm other people, Knoll and Annas wrote that "laws intended to reduce gun violence that focus on a population representing less than 3% of all gun violence will be extremely low yield, ineffective, and wasteful of scarce resources," partly because "perpetrators of mass shootings are unlikely to have a history of involuntary psychiatric hospitalization" in the first place.
Trump said people with mental illness should be 'involuntarily confined' if necessary to prevent mass shootings, despite research showing a lack of connection between mental illness and gun violence
hey if it means his votes will take a hit in 2020, sure why not?Negation Aspiration vol. 176
Now one of Betts’ bandmates, Jesse Creekbaum, 25, is taking the recordings down. He says he’s removing them out of fear the vulgar music he produced will make a cult hero out of the murderer, who was killed by police at the scene. He’s also received death threats online because of his association with Betts.
Creekbaum, who has been writing and recording music under the name Menstrual Munchies for more than five years, says he did it mostly as a joke and now is sickened that Betts apparently took it all seriously.
“I feel shitty having let him be in the band, doing those lyrics,” Creekbaum said. “Because I know, like, whereas I saw it as a joke — like, ‘Let's play this and we’ll shock some people,’ and then the people that we know laugh — he didn't see it as a joke. He was like, ‘Fuck, yeah. We're gonna do this.’”
“It's like, Jesus Christ, how much of this was like real life for him?” he said.
EXCLUSIVE: DAYTON SHOOTER WAS IN A “PORNOGRIND” BAND THAT RELEASED SONGS ABOUT RAPING AND KILLING WOMEN
EXCLUSIVE: DAYTON SHOOTER WAS IN A “PORNOGRIND” BAND THAT RELEASED SONGS ABOUT RAPING AND KILLING WOMEN
Sunday, August 4, 2019
Saturday, August 3, 2019
Negation Aspiration vol. 174
What is a “doomer?” A character archetype first fleshed out on 4chan last year, the doomer is a depressed, purposeless 20-something usually depicted smoking a cigarette and wearing a beanie. The doomer isn’t necessarily a NEET — that is, a basement-dwelling, unemployed loser “not in education, employment, or training,” as the acronym suggests. He simply doesn’t believe he, or his society, or, for that matter, the planet have much of a future. He has, to use the 4chan phrase, been “black-pilled” into nihilism and despair. This deep, black-pilled despair — plus the doomer’s lack of faith in the ability of contemporary liberal-democratic politics to give him a future — plus also the fact that he’s probably a weird guy who spent too much time on message boards in high school — is why, at least in some incarnations, the doomer turns to highly reactionary or hard-left revolutionary politics, inwardly fantasizing about a catastrophic restructuring of society even as he goes through the motions of participation in society at large. Out of their nihilism, doomers construct barely coherent fusion ideologies, some of which are listed in the artist Joshua Citarella’s study of Politigram. What is this ambiguously ironic, endlessly shifting kaleidoscope of abject nihilism and new or forgotten world-remaking political tendencies? The many claimed ideologies of the most vocal doomers can seem less like proper visions of an ideal society, and more like, as Citarella observes, the performances of highly individuated identity you’d find in “the identity politics culture of Tumblr.” My sense is that “Libertarian Neo-Monarchism” and “Dharmic Eco-Reactionaryism” (to pick out two examples) aren’t really two different philosophies, but two manifestations of a broader ideology — a “doomerism” that’s recently taken root in the internet’s weirder, darker corners.
Is Andrew Yang the Doomer Candidate?
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