Tuesday, November 26, 2019

U.S.A.! U.S.A.! vol. 214

Melania Trump Booed by Children at Youth Opioid Summit in Baltimore


i'd like to live long enough to see a first lady who is actually warm, vivacious, worldly, and effortlessly sensuous ala Emmanuelle rather than some made-to-order real doll fresh off the white slave pageant circuit.

Friday, November 22, 2019

Negation Aspiration vol. 190

‘Worthless Shit’: Prosecutors Reveal Vicious Texts Sent by Boston Student Charged in Boyfriend’s Suicide

Inyoung You, a 21-year-old student from South Korea, pleaded not guilty Friday after she was indicted last month by a grand jury on an involuntary manslaughter charge.

Thursday, November 21, 2019

Awwww Yeah vol. 135

A young woman slowly rotates around a neon green, nylon-bristled broom pressed into the center of a ragged pink towel taped to the floor. As she revolves around it, a scraping noise crackles from a speaker set somewhere off to the side. After a long minute of methodical rotation, she picks up the broom and begins smoothing it across the towel in long strokes, as if sweeping away invisible particles. The amplified scrapes and whooshes shift with her movements, a sonic mirror to her careful choreography.
The performer creating this surreal vignette is St. Louis-based noise and performance artist Grace Smith, a.k.a. Janet XMas, a.k.a. JANET. Dressed in a sheer negligee, thong underwear, black combat boots and a leather dog collar and bracelet, Janet reads as a twisted version of those stock characters of heteronormative fantasy, the sexy maid or oversexed housewife. Yet, wielding her sexuality as she does her broom when performing, Smith appropriates the tools of domestic reproduction to her own, unproductive ends: non-narrative performance art and abstracted, grating noise.

St. Louis’ Janet Xmas Bridges Noise Music and Performance Art to Provocative Effect 

#gorenoise vol. 1

Archaeologists in Ecuador have uncovered evidence of a previously undocumented funeral ritual, in which the heads of recently deceased infants were adorned with the skulls of other children. Scientists can only speculate as to the reasons why.
The new study, published earlier this week in Latin American Antiquity, is understatedly titled “Unique Infant Mortuary Ritual at Salango, Ecuador, 100 BC.”

Infant Skeletons Wearing ‘Helmets’ Made of Other Children’s Skulls Stun Archaeologists

NERRRRRRRRD! vol. 94

What have led you to create V for Vendetta? What were the influences and ideas passing in your mind at that time?
I’m afraid that for a few years now, I have felt that since I am apparently not allowed to own the work that I created in the same manner that an author in a more grown-up and worthwhile field might expect to do, and since my protests at having my work stolen from me are interpreted by a surely young-at-heart and non-unionised audience as evidence of my “grouchiness” and “cantankerousness”, then the only active position that is left to me is to disown the works in question. I no longer own copies of these books and, other than the earnest creative work that I put into them at the time, my only associations with these works are broken friendships, perfectly ordinary corporate betrayals and wasted effort. Given that I will certainly never be reading any of these works again and that I have no wish to see them or even to think of them, it follows that I don’t wish to discuss them, sign copies of them or, indeed, have anything to do with them. As I would hope should be obvious, to separate emotionally from work that you were previously very proud of is quite a painful experience and is not undertaken lightly. However, having to answer questions about my opinions regarding DC Comics latest imbecilic use of my characters or stories would be much more harrowing. And, of course, it’s not as if I don’t have plenty of current work to be getting on with.


Moore on Jerusalem, Eternalism, Anarchy and Herbie!

Sunday, November 17, 2019

U.S.A.! U.S.A.! vol 213

“Yesterday AG Barr addressed a radical political group and gave one of the most vicious partisan screeds ever uttered by a US cabinet officer,” Pascrell tweeted. “Barr says trump should have king-like powers. Barr is a liar and a fanatic and should be impeached and stripped of his law licenses.”

Calls for AG Barr’s Impeachment Intensify After ‘Lunatic Authoritarian’ Federalist Society Speech

Friday, November 15, 2019

U.S.A.! U.S.A.! vol. 212

The colorful trial in Washington, D.C., lasted for nearly two weeks and featured references to "The Godfather Part II," threats of dognapping, complaints of food poisoning and a gag order.

Roger Stone, confidant of Trump and WikiLeaks connection, found guilty on all seven counts

The GOP operative was charged with making false statements, obstruction and witness tampering tied to his pursuit of Russian-hacked emails in 2016..

Friday, November 8, 2019

Awwww Yeah vol. 133

‘The Pickup Artist’ Goes Inside the Sleazy World of Men Who Try to Manipulate Women into Bed

A new documentary watches up close as pickup artists con gullible men into paying thousands for “techniques” that will trick women into sleeping with them.

Wednesday, November 6, 2019

U.S.A.! U.S.A.! vol. 210 / Negation Aspiration vol. 189: Trump at 1095 (Year of the Scold)

Trump at 365 (Year of the Horde)


who needs to win elections when you can personally reestablish the rightful social order every day on Twitter and Facebook? where you can scold, and scold, and scold, and scold, and scold. that's the future, and it's a satisfying one; a finger wagging in some vulgar proletariat's face, forever. 
- from Rendezvous with Oblivion by Thomas Frank. 

in the last three years i've been sharply dressed down with barely concealed prejudicial hostility for reasons that oscillate between the roughly valid and the emotionally misaligned. the common thread between these articulated baby-shakings has been the overriding instinct across all the ideological spectrums to unforgivingly pummel anyone in a whiff of opposition to their micro-specific agendas into unconditional surrender or, failing that, existence scrubbing exile. 

i've inadvertently alienated friends and family because i lack the tools one needs to feign politeness when they reveal their emphatic devotion to studiously ghoulish overkillers who would only urinate to extinguish the flames of a burning pediatric hospital if their bladders were loaded with kerosene. because the thought of otherwise decent people being enthralled to the point of faculty-debilitating mania with these excretea-glowering choad-spores... even when their malignant loathsomeness is held to be self-evident...has driven me to a state of being where the only diet of input that keeps me regular... that comforts the compacted junkyard dunes in my content-battered cranium... would be a steady stream of meticulously investigated true sex crime ASMR dialogues. 

that's how frustratingly unproductive i find my occasionally renewed attempts at navigating the landmine marathon of interpersonal connection to be in these wit-excoriating hard red days, where even the most cadverously irredeemable are in lopsided possession of a cosmo-numerical supply of tireless advocates, a self-replicating shock load of legalese dadaists who would spontaneously combust into into a perma-expanding burst of molecular unicorn sparkles before condescending to waver in their contrarian obstinance, sneering belligerence, "alternative" fortitude, and creakily undergirded resistance-favoring arguments... all pointedly targeted at naked-faced reality.  



Saturday, November 2, 2019

U.S.A.! U.S.A.! vol. 209



Trump lures GOP senators on impeachment with cold cash

The president is tapping his vast donor network to buck up lawmakers whose support he badly needs — but who also need him.

Friday, November 1, 2019

NERRRRRRRD! vol. 92

Among other things, our immersion into the dark world of Joker cures us of politically correct illusions and simplifications, like sexual consent for example. In this world, you cannot take seriously the idea that consent to sexual relations makes them truly consensual. The ‘consent discourse’ is itself a huge sham. It is a naive effort to overlay a neat-and-tidy intelligible egalitarian language of social justice over the dark, discomforting, relentlessly cruel, traumatic realm of sexuality. People do not know what they want, they are disturbed by what they desire, they desire things that they hate, they hate their mothers but want to fuck their mothers, and so on, for eternity. We can easily imagine Joker reacting with wild laughter to the claim that ‘it was consensual, so it was OK’, since that’s how his mother ruined his life.


Don’t insult Joker by comparing him to Trump

What Todd Phillips’s film tells us about protest movements


Negation Aspiration vol. 187

Inside the Very Disturbing Jeremy Renner Allegations: Death Threats, Drug Abuse, and Biting Their Baby