a few more lingering images from the darkness …
a few more of the house around the corner with the tree through it. the tree is now gone (mostly). you could almost say the same thing about the house. i saw the resident today, walking around picking up debris with a bandage on his right hand. these coon-asses are tough …
.
after the rain has fallen, looking back, gustav was a pretty incredible experience. if leaving california, leaving los angeles, leaving topanga, shipping my shit, finding a place to live, gutting my bathroom, starting a phd program, getting poison ivy really bad, etc etc. etc. was not enough … i have lived through a major hurricane. even as i type this, the street around the corner (with the smashed house seen above) still has no power. we’re still under curfew because many of the traffic lights in town are still out. the english building still has no a/c. none of our debris has been cleared. but except for you fine americans who visit this blog as a beacon of unbiased, hard-hitting content, all this is just not known …
from what i have heard, the media has been really intoxicated with sarah palin. and i understand … i mean how many pentecostal mayors from a town of 5-7K (according to census data) speaking in tongues with retarded babies born long after the junk has gone bad because they’re too irresponsible to manage birth control (or their abstinent teen-aged daughters) get the opportunity to be a heart beat away behind the oldest #1 who has ever run and, of course, has had melanoma four times?
i’m from a town of 5-7K people. it wasn’t in a sophisticated state like alaska, though. just illinois. mt. zion, il. jim price was our mayor. as i remember, jim price was a nice enough guy. but who am i kidding? jim price might have been a real prick, how the fuck should i know? i think mayor price made his rent selling life insurance. the thing about being mayor of a town of 5-7K people is that nobody knows/cares/pays any mind to what you’re doing at any time, ever. if you don’t make the fall pancake breakfast at the presbyterian church, people might talk, but other than that, you’re pretty much on your own to surf the web and drink coffee with the rest of us. i think (or maybe secretly hope) mayor price’s primary duty was to fax a daily image of his dick and balls to the mayoral office over in that shithole of a town down highway 121 we disparagingly called sullivan. fuck you, sullivan. with your little town theater and your high school choir and your proper downtown square. here’s a facsimile of deez nuts and a pork stick for ya’ ass. courtesy: jim price, mayor, mt. zion.
the point is … what.in.god’s.name.is.going.on?
why, again, are we listening to pentecostal politicians?
i mean. i know i live in the deep south and everything, but even down here the people who speak in tongues keep to the fringes. if your religious view can be seen as marginal in baton rouge, louisiana, you have no right to speak for anybody other than your fellow sect members. and, ideally, this communication should come in the form of a xeroxed newsletter to be distributed to the windshields of dollar general patrons in the outlying counties that surround your church. these are your people. they fuck a lot and don’t read books unless they have the word ‘bible’ in the title (and they really don’t read those either. as dr. carl freedman says, ‘yeah, there’s a lot of copies of that book lying around, but no one actually reads it.)
or … you could always start a blog.
Tags: hurricane gustav · southdowns6 Comments
6 responses so far ↓
In response to your Palin rant I thought you’d like this story from CNN:
Former GOP senator calls Palin a ‘cocky wacko’
(CNN) – Former Rhode Island Sen. Lincoln Chafee was known for keeping a low-key profile on Capitol Hill, but the Republican -turned -Independent is making waves with his exceedingly blunt comments on newly-minted Republican VP candidate Sarah Palin:
She’s a “cocky wacko,” he told a Washington think tank earlier this week.
Chafee, the lone Senate Republican to vote against the Iraq war who endorsed Obama’s White House bid earlier this year, told an audience at the New America Foundation in Washington Tuesday that Palin’s selection has energized Obama backers.
“People were coming into my office, phone calls were flooding in, e-mails were coming in, ‘I just sent money to Obama, I couldn’t sleep last night’ — from the left. To see this cocky wacko up there,” he said.
He also described McCain’s candidacy as “lackluster” and described the selection of Palin as a throwing “this firestorm, this tornado, into the whole presidential election.”
Chafee, whose father served as senator from Rhode Island from 1976 until his death in 1999, narrowly lost his re-election bid two years ago to Democrat Sheldon Whitehouse amid that election cycle’s wave of anti-Republican sentiment.
Chafee made a stir earlier this year when he directly called out Democrats who supported the Iraq war and were now expressing regret for their vote.
“I find it surprising now, in 2008, how many Democrats are running for president after shirking their constitutional duty to check and balance this president,” he wrote in his January 2008 book, “Against the Tide.” “Being wrong about sending Americans to kill and be killed, maim and be maimed, is not like making a punctuation mistake in a highway bill.”
i saw this one … and i apologize for the rant. i almost took it down. bitter, vitriolic, snippy, all of the above. but, i don’t know, i get pissed, damnit! i don’t like this broad. i don’t know where she would qualify as a feminist, but supposedly she self-applies the term. all meaning is completely removed from the process at this point. it’s a big wrestling match in a football stadium filled with ky jelly and we’re all sitting in the front row eating hot dogs and doughnuts.
I totally understand the want to rant. After I initially read your post I started writing this long, vitriolic response. When I got to about 1500 words I figured I better not post it or the Secret Service would list “Chin” as a person of interest.
a little secret service action might be exciting. rose could tell stories about when her daddy ‘just disappeared one night’ only to return many years later a passionate nationalist and a born again christian (albeit with a slight stutter he never had before.)
thank you for the rant kc.
we’ve been freaking out at the possibility that this crazy bitch could/would be prez if mccain dies/gets knocked off by her.
just when i think there is no worse scenario than the one we’ve been living…omfg.
i have even considered nightly prayer.
ya know.
so, based on your world travels, please prepare a short list of nations that would take us, and we’ll meet you there for thanksgiving if this shit really happens.
we would love to see new zealand, ireland, italy, and british columbia (barring future civil war II bw usa and republic of alaska), so please give them strong consideration.
btw, has she tempered anyone else’s romanticized, northern exposure version of alaska or what.
suddenly maurice’s politics seem a little more reasonable .
hooch, funny you should mention this. i’m taking this prose seminar class that is basically an introduction to the career of academia. in a discussion today i asked ‘considering that american capitalism as we know it might already be collapsed (i haven’t checked the internet in an hour) how likely is it that i could be hired … internationally?’ will keep you posted with my discoveries. speaking of thanksgiving, you should all come down! i’ll cook a turkey somebody shot with their own gun …