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About Me

"You don't have to be satisfied with America as you find it" -- Upton Sinclair.ALLEN GINSBERG'S AMERICA:I enjoy coffee. I love tolerant, rational people and books. "I like a pipe for a Christmas present." I agree with this quote:"Listening to Limbaugh, Hannity, O'Reilly and Ann Coulter, among many other rightist media stars, you feel you've been transported to Berlin in 1938. The cultural atmosphere no longer feels American. In fact, it doesn't feel at all like a democracy -- which it is surely not, now that the Busheviks have taken over" --Marc Crispin Miller

My Interests

JAMES JOYCE:CARL SAGAN ON HYPATIA: ..

I'd like to meet:

Che Guevara, Neil Gaiman, Noam Chomsky, Billy Bragg, Jennifer Connelly.

Music:

Memphis Minnie, Joy Division, George Harrisson, Tracy Chapman, Erasure, Bach, Shastokovitch, Billy Bragg, Pet Shop Boys, Leadbelly, Thelonious Monk, Paul Robeson, Charlie Parker, Pixies, The Smiths, Belle and Sebastian, Dan Bern, The Kinks, '60's Dylan, Woody Guthrie, The Cure, Leonard Cohen, Flaming Lips, Mountain Goats, Bad News, Morrissey, et. al.

Movies:

The Seventh Seal, Brazil, 24 Hour Party People, Shame (by Ingmar Bergman), Charlie Chan at the Olympics, The Great Dictator, Off the Map, Coffee Date, 40-Year-Old Virgin, V for Vendetta, Idiocracy, Borat, The Lady in the Water, A King in New York (Chaplin), Code 46, Equus, Barton Fink, etc.

Television:

Arrested Development; The Young Ones; The Office (original); Daily Show; Cosmos (carl sagan); Kolchak: The Night Stalker; Doctor Who; Firing Line with William F. Buckley (sadly canceled); Now with Bill Moyers (sadly canceled); The Comic Strip Presents...; Filthy, Rich and Catflap; Horizon (BBC); Space with Sam Neill; The Prisoner (1960's BBC show); Monk; ; Ricky Gervais' "Extras"; Life on Mars; Bottom; The South Bank Show, Lazarus Man, etc.GARTH MARENGHI'S DARKPLACE:

Books:

Any Grahame Greene, Truman Capote, Dante, Calvin Trilling, Gore Vidal's essays and novels, Paul Bowles' short stories, Shakespeare's histories and comedies, Ray Bradbury, Virgil, Nabokov, Walt Whitman, G.K. Chesterton, Oscar Wilde, Pat Barker, Wilfred Owen: .. and others. THE REPUBLICANS' WAR ON SCIENCE:

Heroes:

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My Blog

R.I.P. Mister Boots.

For anyone who is not aware of it, my cat, Mister Boots, got loose from a pet carrier on his way to the Vet's six weeks ago. He just ran like cat on fire, like Forest Gump, like he was William Holden&...
Posted by Jean-Paul on Wed, 04 Jun 2008 04:31:00 PST

The Naming of Parts by Reed

Naming of Parts "Vixi duellis nuper idoneusEt militavi non sine glori" Today we have naming of parts. Yesterday,We had daily cleaning. And tomorrow morning,We shall have what to do after firing. But ...
Posted by Jean-Paul on Mon, 26 May 2008 08:03:00 PST

Men at Forty by Justice

Men at fortyLearn to close softlyThe doors to rooms they will not beComing back to.At rest on a stair landing,They feel it movingBeneath them now like the deck of a ship,Though the swell is gentle.An...
Posted by Jean-Paul on Sat, 17 May 2008 01:18:00 PST

Eleventhirtyfive 3rd draft.

Shall I drown my feeble books and watch the lights of a mad man's tale?: The gyre of a turning windmill throws your pictures onto a hillside to-night. a middle-school, magic-lantern show&nb...
Posted by Jean-Paul on Thu, 08 May 2008 09:37:00 PST

911 Truthers and the "Official" story.

Just a quick note: In an age when Survivor is a top-rated television show, when fundamentalist Christianity is on the rise, and when about half the American population believes that biological evoluti...
Posted by Jean-Paul on Mon, 12 May 2008 10:11:00 PST

"Eternal Fascism: 14 Ways of Looking at a Blackshirt" by Umberto Eco (with pictures).

In spite of some fuzziness regarding the difference between various historical forms of fascism, I think it is possible to outline a list of features that are typical of what I would like to call Ur-F...
Posted by Jean-Paul on Thu, 08 May 2008 03:57:00 PST

Shreveports Forum Prints Ridiculous Opinions about Obama

In response to Louis Avallone's recent article on Barack Obama, et. al., in the Forum, let me say this: He gets just about everything wrong, as usual. The recent article makes the ridiculous claim tha...
Posted by Jean-Paul on Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:52:00 PST

Shameless Thievery.

Tonight's Saturday-night Scat is inspired in part by Lara Monster's nice photo blog. I thought, "I need to do one of them--yeah, I'm gonna do a photo blog" . . . and someday I will: this one, though,...
Posted by Jean-Paul on Sun, 27 Apr 2008 07:54:00 PST

Agamemnons Wind (semi-free verse, semi-scat)

Tell, oh Muse, how for the benefit of war Agamemnon porpitiated the gods. "I will tell it," says the Muse, "but no one ever listens": --Among the hills of the Aegean where Apollo's sheep once tro...
Posted by Jean-Paul on Mon, 21 Apr 2008 05:24:00 PST

The Bossier Boarwalk is a Place to Think (Stream of Consciousness Scat)

So, I’m at the "Boardwalk" in Bossier City, Louisiana, and there’s a law here forbidding people to wear trousers that are "sagging," even under a shirt tail. And this one black cop i...
Posted by Jean-Paul on Tue, 08 Apr 2008 09:52:00 PST