The new adult Hitchcock pulse-quickening edge-of-your-seat thriller remake: Rear Sphincter.

jingle bells
batman sells
robin for his body
now the pimp mobile's
got gold wheels
'cause joker paid for lay.

(a little email thread i saw one day)

> just clicked on to really commit

> the visa order for the new

> replacement microwave oven.

> now i sorta have that

> post-coital feeling of angst

> and the void and aimlessness.

There's a century of consumer capitalism, all wrapped up in one little
poetic whimper.

stop look and listen oh boy i read the news today /
porn stars tweets gay boy eagle scouts preggers ceo of fame /
the media through history has decided what we'll say /
around the cooler but now instead connect the dots seance the dead read counterpunch harpers listen to kpfa

history is bunk we are all so very pop /
who cares what came before unless it makes money /
money cash is what they care about at the top /
history is cash go drop ship auction it all off honey

you know marilyn spoke from the grave just yesterday /
she said yes yes i stripped for jfk /
i even read some stuff about the bay /
cardona got roasted instead of cochinos on that day

pyramid power focused through mary kay /
dreams of being financially okay /
but schemes go bust at the end of the day /
now whose left borrowing against their 401k?

once i dated a republican once i dated a democrat /
but both when it comes to money are the same /
take from the prison military industrial complex then target minorities vilify frame lay the blame /
i decided i will not give them play so i broke up with no delay

muse gave me this song in a dream to relay /
she said get outta bed you bum don't delay /
strictly mid-brow lyrics will be perfectly ok /
then again maybe though kick it up lets not be too tame

for example consider bankers' pay /
cool billion dollars in crime flow every day /
human trafficing, drugs, and guns i say /
most none of them one percenters get arraigned

turns out people really are the same /
push comes to shove they pass the blame /
i was only following orders is the claim /
orders to fill so who cares who lives, dies, or gets maimed

greed is the root of all evil yesterday tomorrow and today /
liquidation economics apparently are our only way /
sustainability is a bullshit marketing ploy /
ha ha make you look the other way

people abducted off my own fucking suburban street /
nobody wants to go up against cops empowered with military heat /
to protect and to serve i thought they used to say /
more like serve up the nintey-nine, sell 'em or lock 'em away

whole damned ocean is now a blooming blight /
entirely due to fish eating human rapacious might /
rapacious as in to rape plunder slight /
carbon dioxide sinks are full it's all over we're good as dead oh so sorry good night

even if you didn't want to fuck up the world /
it is too late too out of control you don't count /
strangers pretty much run the whole of our once pure globe /
your pleas for life liberty justice inevitably drowned

yesssss sir or madam i'm pessimistic /
only ignorant fools can't be hysteric about this /
what can you do aren't you just another stupid pawn /
we kill the dodos dolphins whales now ourselves dying dead i sometimes wish we were already gone

now if you and i actually what a laugh cared /
we'd say screw that bawk bawk chicken shit i'm not scared /
i'll stand up fuck yeah and even take a bullet /
live in your shit or die in your blood

seriously now love stop this admittedly platinum track /
it could be your time right right now to contribute some payback /
i hope your sense of justice isn't dry yet has a thirst /
phone up an eco terrorist, greenpeace, or earth first

shee-oot you are just going to do nothing just like before /
i know because i am the same i suck as much as you if not more /
you hear stories about people who stood up and got taken down /
dechristopher smith peltier jamal females africa summerman

oh yeah yeah you don't have time to take any stand /
other than in your head while listenting to the am frequency band /
work and kids and bills and your latest sit com season /
reasons enough to remain part of the problem how utterly sad

the terribly compelling, pulse-quickening story of an office worker who goes into the kitchenette to get some candies that he doesn't really need, given the utter lack of exercise in his life, and the fact that he already has been snacking too much in general, and is over 40 so is doomed, metabolically speaking, and who returns to his cubicle only to drop one of the candies while sitting down. the candy falls and bounces off one of his shoes, and goes rolling under the cubicle desk. so he puts one hand on the chair seat and tries to crouch down to get down under for the candy, but the - and this is where we really turn up the heat! - chair is too close to the desk so he is momentarily stuck, half-crouched, and then sort of leans back a tad to push the chair back to make room, but of course the chair is on roller wheels and might just scoot suddenly so far back that he'd really fall down and break something. and then appear as either an Onion article, or something in the Darwin Awards, or maybe just in some silly little blog posting somewhere.

an ethnic restaurant where the menu is all misspellings, the result of crowd sourcing up all the misspellings on ethnic menus around the world e.g. chicken warp instead of chicken wrap.

tv news, at least in the united states, is pretty much utter crap. i think there are two important reasons why. first is that The Powers That Be have an interest in the masses not actually knowing jack shit about what of importance is going on in the world. second is that even if the news told us, we would only end up feeling powerless and feeling depressed and would tune out.

so i think one way to fix it might be to have news which includes proactive things you can do. like, the news organization would go out of its way to make it as easy as possible for you to register your desired outcome to your governmental reps. of course, this ignores how the reps get to be the reps in the first place, but maybe that would be resolved as a knock-on effect of improving the news.