1 HAPPY BIDET KV (11/11/ 23) It’s Kurt Vonnegut’s Birthday: he would have been about 400  years old (or maybe that’s the Age of Enlightenment I’m thinking of).  KV’s books come in at #4 in my pantheon of Great Oeuvres but KV,  the man,  is #1 in my pantheon of Great People. Everyone should have a Writer or Artist or Film Director to brag about, because nobody has a country, political party, religion or income bracket they can, in good conscience, be proud of. Didn’t that sentence sound exactly like the kind of sentence that KV would write? See how … Continue reading THE BIG, HOT, STEAMING, GLORIOUSLY LOW-BUDGET, IGNORANCE MACHINE and PALLIATIVE TREATMENTS THEREOF

I believe that many Lefty Liberals begin as very kind, sweet-natured and rather pampered/ privileged  people whose innocent temperaments mark them as ideal targets for mass (social) media manipulation… ultimately leading them into a Tribal State of Preposterous, Post-Disney Delusion. In this state, they are a threat to themselves and others. They are channeling tainted signals from Sinister Interests  and unwittingly abetting  rather blatantly fascistic goals,  the kind of goals which wilfully-optimistic  adults are temperamentally ill-equipped to perceive. I thought this today as I watched a video on a leading Lefty Liberal’s FACEBOOT channel. I had started out checking on … Continue reading JESUS ON TOAST vs MARY  IN THE APÉRITIF: WHO, WHY, WHEN, HOW and HOW LONG?

More crucial info for all those who innocently trusted authority during the pivotal period of 2020-2022. One takeaway (among many others) should be the lesson that one should NEVER unquestioningly trust authority. EVER. “Operation Warp Speed: The US Department of Defense signed the first contract between the US government and Pfizer for the purchase of US$11 billion dollars worth of vaccines. We know our Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) did not review stage 2/3 trial data and instead relied on the US FDA, which took Pfizer’s word for how the trials went! Pfizer committed systemic fraud during its trials, which has … Continue reading THE CRUMBLING JUNTA 2

prelude There are many ways to suppress information which aren’t as crude as censorship.  For example: when Truthful people gather to light candles to illuminate the darkness and the candles are suddenly hit with klieg lights, the candle light is not only erased but the blinded audience believes the blinding light is a wondrous spectacle of some kind. Not all Light is the same,  or even good. 1 Anyone who has been sticking their fingers in their ears and singing LA LA LA LA will soon be forced to face the Awful Truth: you’ve been conned by the authority figures … Continue reading THE CRUMBLING JUNTA and STUFF

1- The people who argue that the galaxy must be teeming with advanced civilizations don’t, I think, probably spend much time contemplating how astronomically unlikely (no pun intended) their own individual existences are. You really shouldn’t, logically speaking, be here. Nor I. Pregnancy and childbirth are fraught with possible dangers;  the sperm cell which unwittingly helped to spark you had to beat millions just like it to fertilize the egg;  it was extreme good luck that not one of your direct ancestors, going back thousands of generations,  before your birth, didn’t simply cease to exist before somehow managing to reproduce. … Continue reading DIAMONDS ARE EASY

My Bloomsday started on June 15th.  Had a very good, calming, grounding Fuck with Beloved Wife (I write such provocatively  “vulgar” things deliberately, as a child of the ’60s/’70s,  to push back on all the awful Creeping Anti-Het Puritanism and ward off Bluenoses and also because I can, a state of affairs I still can’t quite take for granted) in the late morning on a temperate and overcast day. Whoever first said  “Omne Animal Post Coitum Triste”  was a liar.  Here’s a pic of Beloved Wife in a dramatically-lit setting, early this year: The light fleece of the high clouds … Continue reading MY BLOOMSDAY

  I was cruising along this Sunday  morning (c. 9am, the crack of dawn in Berlin) and the word “hum” popped into my head.  I was listening to the raw demo of a song I wrote a few months ago and the word “hum” was the final puzzle piece of the song. The song, I felt, became perfect when the word “hum” fell into place on it while I was cruising along in the early morning sun. I love the song, I love the song and my demo performance of it (the first take, the best take, it will never … Continue reading EVERY WORD A SINGER

I MADE THIS as people often preface some post or other, with,  on the dreaded Reddit. I did Reddit for a month as an experiment. I’m still shedding dread.  DREDDIT?  What a perfectly-engineered CONSENSUS/ PROPAGANDA MACHINE (one’s “karma” is the running total of one’s awarded likes from which are subtracted the running total of one’s awarded dislikes, behooving anyone amassing that meaningless LIKES PILE to learn very quickly what the BORGHIVE likes to “hear” and to stick with that shtick: excellent training for anyone planning on fitting into a crypto-Fascist clusterfuck):  Laugh.  But that’s for another post to deal with… … Continue reading RANTS, QUIBBLES & CRIS-DE-COEUR BUT MOSTLY MUSIC

I’m doing it again. Running a band.  My songs. Ace players. Beautiful singer of exotic provenance. Copyrightably-identifiable voice she has. Oh but this takes up so much of my time! The Blog cries out to be tended. Everyday I walk by this untended patch and its weeds and pests and I avert my eyes whistling one of the tunes from the band I’m producing with my engineeer. I went and got myself a young engineer.  Well, you have to.  My young engineer saves me time but not enough time to have enough time to tend the little farm of this … Continue reading THE SENSITIVE HET MALE MINORITY

A few weeks ago I picked up Beloved Wife at the main train station. I was early, watched the clock, the minute-hand seemed frozen in the cold. Fifteen minutes took an hour.  The clock of the human face behaves in quite the opposite fashion; always in such a rush. While waiting for Beloved Wife’s train to roll in (it was 11:12 pm and very cold) a dissolute-looking, fat-lipped blonde in a frazzled (but real) fur coat approached me and gestured, by pointing at it,  that I should lift one of my headphone cups and engage with her. She could have … Continue reading BUK (YUCK!) and BUDDHA BULL or: CLOCK-WATCHING IN A ROOM OF GENTLY-RISING FLOOD WATER

(originally published on February 24th–2021) new preface (March 1, 2023) Sometimes it seems as if I’m trapped in a Surreal Horror film in which Powerful Psychopaths are carelessly (at best) poisoning (in some cases killing) some of my oldest friends and only I, and a few others, are aware of this blatantly obvious fact. This, below,  came as quite a shock,  today, as I read this, as the person mentioned was my best friend for much of the 1980s: . “On April 16th, my spouse, L—–, was at the start line of a 5k run. He was skiing in Banff, … Continue reading TACTICAL PESSIMISM: TERMS for a POSSIBLE DISCUSSION

1 I met a wiry Belgian musician (late ’30s)  in a recording studio 5 or 6 years ago and, as a result, I’m on his mailing list. This is an excerpt from what his business (?) sent me today: “With French composer Sylvain Chauveau, we‘re now launching an impossible label : Zero Carbon Records. “The beauty of the Zero Carbon for a label founder is that it makes recording and record manufacturing impossible. “Fortunately, our born-failure label already found a reconversion in sport and scout guitars. “We will now deliver you those impossible to record new music as 100% acustic … Continue reading TERPSICHORE, YOU B*TCH!

    THE WORLD OF TOMORROW will belong to level-headed people who can separate facts from fantasy and who mature at a relatively young age, enabling them NOT to fall for shallow, ugly, decadently wasteful and narcissistic kitsch like “Burning Man,” which is a Last Gasp of the self-deluded Vampire Consumerism that inspired it. What is this BURNING MAN  ritual, in the end, but a messy montage of meaningless visuals decorating a dark hunger for New Sensations and Special Powers and Elite Significance? One of the first symptoms of Fascist Contagion is one of Scale: inhuman, post-industrial, resource-commandeering scale. Q: … Continue reading INTRODUCING THE KEVORKO 3000

    So-called “Philosophy”  (the loving of wisdom, literally translated) is more accurately described as “PHILOSOPHOSOPHY”… the love of, or reverence for,  Sophisticated Sophists. A patriarchal cult of personality in which the latest leading figures borrow authority by citing the leading figures preceding them. There’s not a (useful) notion,  or suggested practise, in the entire canon that hasn’t already been come up with by  reasonably-intelligent 50-year-olds with plenty of Life Experience. Where material in the canon diverges from that common sense standard, it is merely trivially arcane, absurd or terribly dangerous (cf Heidegger or Fukuyama). Questing young men read volumes … Continue reading PHILOSOPHOSOPHY

1 We live in the most murderously colonialist and Totalitarian Empire in the history of the world and all anyone can talk about are their feelings. 2 OCTOBER 3rd (German unification Day)  2022, near the Zoo Station,  at c. 13:30, a short fat woman,  with multi-colored (pied) hair, saved my life as I was crossing the street. I was wearing headphones, listening loudly to Elvis Costello’s A BOY CALLED IF, not looking, not seeing a cop car speeding toward, and through, the red light the green side of which was cajoling me to cross blithely. Had the little fat woman … Continue reading COME PANOPLY WITH ME or SPYING on EXES

1(t)READING BETWEEN THE LINES IN THE BOOK BIZ . David Marchese: Let me ask about something that’s not in The Silence, at least not anymore. In the first galley copy I read, there’s a scene in which a character is reciting disastrous events and mentions Covid-19. Then I was told there were changes to the book and was sent a second galley. Covid-19 was gone. Why did you take it out? . Don DeLillo: I didn’t put Covid-19 in there. Somebody else had. Somebody else could have decided that it made it more contemporary. But I said, “There’s no reason … Continue reading PARAPOLITICONS: ADVANCED READINGS for the CLUED-UP, FED UP, EFFED UP and RELATIVELY UNCORRUPT

Please picture an auditorium best suited to a motivational speaker’s emotions-manipulating presentation. You are seated in this auditorium. The lighting is calming, muted. The Consort of Musicke’s 2007 issue of John Dowland’s collected works plays softly, nearly subliminally, from invisible speakers above you. The stage curtains are drawn and dark. People are filling the auditorium. The ambient chit chat, coughing, throat-clearings and occasional barks, or tinkles, of laughter,  are gradually rising in density and volume. You have arrived early to take your excellent seats. Your tickets for the evening cost you no money: you solved riddles, on a website,  for … Continue reading WE ARE FUCKSTUFF MADE OF STARJUNK

  —LIFE IN WARTIME   Saturday I went through the second phase of auditioning a new guitarist (phase one was exchanging links to material): meeting him in person at my favorite meet-a-new-musician café. I’ve been using this café for that function for ten years, at least. It’s big, never crowded during the day, with very high ceilings and weird Art on the walls and the ambient music is low key enough to chat over. Anyway, the guy showed up right on time, looking like he’ll look great on stage (I’m six feet tall and he’s maybe six feet four, with … Continue reading LIFE IN PARLOUS WARTIME (WITH BREAKS FOR MUSIC)

1 everything: a distraction “I really don’t care about the Depp/Heard case. I want to see the Epstein/ Maxwell client list released.” I think the Depp/Heard trial and verdict were severe blows to the “Men Are Scum” project that gained maximum momentum with “MeToo” and went beyond fairness, logic and evidence to paint all men as Perps (guilty until proven innocent) and all women as saints and victims. If it was a distraction, I think it was an opportunistic one. I don’t think it was planned by TFIC*, though Big Media has tried to spin it in the Master Narrative’s … Continue reading a million new seeds of grief

1 Once I was arguing with a crypto-conservative (who thinks of himself as a Radical Commie, despite the fact that most of his old friends and close family are Wealthy) and he riposted a statement of mine with the classic evasion, “It’s more complicated than that.” As I always do, I responded to that with: “I have time. I’m a quick learner. Explain the complexities.” Ah, but he couldn’t. I have dedicated my social life to stamping out that particular rhetorical flourish (by putting a prohibitive price on it). 2 “Commenting, or not commenting, on an injustice or an atrocity, … Continue reading OEDIPUSES, OPHELIAS and OPPs in the AGE of OBJECT ORIENTED ONTOLOGY (notes, shorts, proclamations)

1ON THE RIM of a BOG-STANDARD GALAXY It has come to my attention that there are people out there who accept (even believe in) the concept of a Bearded, Vaguely-Levantine, Anus-Free Sky Giant… …who sent His only Son (who was simultaneously He, Himself, btw) to be nailed to a cross-beam and torture-murdered in a loincloth as a representative of a negligible Bronze-Age tribe on a tiny speck of a planet in an unremarkable Solar System on the rim of a bog-standard Galaxy… in a deal to “cleanse” the Tribe (and its general Species) of its Design Flaws (called “sins“)… though … Continue reading A FEW MORE SPURTS of LOGIC’S HOLY WATER (to Exorcise your Social Media)

CONVERSATIONS WITH A FELLOW WRITER I ONLY REALIZED WAS IRREPLACABLE AS A FRIEND THE DAY AFTER HE DIED (when my need to joke with him about the situation was extremely frustrated), INCLUDING THOUGHTS ON HIS UNDERGROUND MONUMENT OF A NOVEL [caveat: these exchanges bounced between email, Facebook messenger and the surface level of Facebook: only the Facebook messenger version of these particular exchanges remain] [more conversations with Edmond, and others, from the same era, here] . Edmond sent December 11, 2011 How come FB can’t design a conversation thread in which one can respond to separate comments? 1) Yes, the … Continue reading VIRTUAL CONVERSATIONS WITH THE WRITER EDMOND CALDWELL (NOW A GHOST)

1trivial/not-trivial Like most people in this Empire, I had to wait until the next day to discover that a Black celebrity male had raped and beheaded a smaller Black celebrity male, onstage, during The Oscars. The instigating incident was a “joke” the smaller Black celebrity male made about the larger Black celebrity male’s wife’s appearance… specifically,  her hair… despite knowing that Black females are, in general,  particularly vulnerable / self-conscious about that specific aspect of their physical presentation, given the culture’s longstanding Standards of Desirability.  The larger Black celebrity male’s response to the joke was described by many as “riveting” … Continue reading trivial/ not trivial

1MACRO WHAT DO I SMELL? ANOTHER PIG ON THE SPIT ROAST, RIGHT NEXT TO DADDY BUSH’S  FLAMING CARCASS, IN HADES’  ALL STAR BARBECUE ROOM!  But first, a correction, of sorts. Let’s get this straight. “The Gubmint” does not “hate” The Right. TFIC* don’t “hate” Right Wingers at all, though  TFIC’s Big Media appear to demonize The Right during this tumultuous transitional moment. TFIC don’t “hate” Right Wingers, though, of course, many of their pseudo-Lefty, Useful Idiot minion-administrators do, which lends verisimilitude to The Great Pantomime . This minion layer of Useful Idiots is not in the loop. They really believe … Continue reading MACRO/MICRO

1GLARE The male gaze vs the blue-haired gender-studies graduate’s glare: which can take rightful credit for your Existence on Earth? 2PHOTOSHOP Audio Photoshop is what I am most comfortable calling Modern Pop. Narrative  Photoshop is probably the best term for “the news”. What do you call the Photoshop of your Conscience? 3HOLOSISM HOLOSISM: conceptualizing The Whole as being the Universe from side to side, top to bottom, beginning to end, The Whole can therefore be construed as an omniscient Intelligence that “knows” everything by containing everything: to that extent,  predestination describes the condition and path of every constituent element of … Continue reading NOBODADDY NOETICS in your NOOSPHERE (plus sundry Blasphememes in a randomized hierarchy of possible offence)