Opera Glasses and Popcorn
Athens, Greece: A civil servant shouts through a megaphone during a protest against further austerity measures announced by the government [Alkis Konstantinidis/EPA]
****
An Opera Glasses and Popcorn view of Politics and the Assembled Multitude...
Marisacat -
- Real independent observations on current events with a particular fondness for the follies of the Big Box Blahgers.
Deflates bloated egos like a champion fencer in a balloon warehouse.
- Alan Smithee
Marisacat -
"...polish on a mud wallow"
- Meteor Blades [May 24 at Mcat]
Marisacat -
"... doyenne of donkle deconstruction"
- Who is IOZ [January 2 2007]
Marisacat -
"... hardened professionals and their primary strength lies in their being completely unconflicted."
"... the primary difference is that on the level of criticizing other blogs and bloggers, they can actually do some damage."
"... Not what I look for in a liberal blog product."
- peeder - MLW, Daily Rant [3.24.07]
Democracy NOW! / Amy Goodman Electronic Intifada / General Content Press TV / Middle East News Press TV McClatchy Headlines The Real News Reuters / Politics
|
on one stage reading their poetry"
"I think Allen Ginsberg standing up there reading - putting himself on the line - was one of the two bravest things I've ever seen. Remember, it was '55. People had crew cuts, and they looked at you like you were misplaced cannon fodder. The country was being run by Luce publications. It was a dangerous, cold, ugly time, and it was scary. . .
In all our memories no one had been so outspoken in poetry before. We had gone beyond a point of no return. None of us wanted to go back to the grey, chill, militaristic silence, to the intellectual void - to the land without poetry - to the spiritual drabness. We wanted to make it new and we wanted to invent it and the process of it as we went into it. We wanted voice and we wanted vision."
-Michael McClure
Over and over, in election year after election year, GE and MidTerms both… the Dems start to purr and preen, they stretch luxuriously - at just being TOLD they are going to win [...]
It never fails.
... in February of 2002, looking over the already joyless congressional stragglers willing to be drafted for duty… they barely dreamed, yet, it was even possible (Howard, a different person then, had not arrived to say it could be done)… but one thing was clear, we could not rely on the party to swing it. Could not. You could smell it, they would screw the deal. And I am not talking about Howard and primary issues here. By the end, that was a passing political story. Chuck it on the heap.
[...]
Upshot? The Republicans make it thru. They hold on.
If you click on La Louche the picture or the words, it leads to the Amazon PayPage, a way to ... oh let's say help with the cat can deliveries.
Thanks to all who made the very kind suggestion.
Brinksmanship? A little… a lot? Too much. Fucking get on with it.
Link t Wapo
Sometimes things are strangely perfect….
IOZ of course..
Poor unknowing waif DiFi was somehow, totally unbeknowst to her, fuced over.
Somehow i don’t believe it. (And if my last name was Flaccus, I would change it)
LOL
Well, better if he killed himself. Enh, – Can’t have everything.
But see ya, Oswald J. Grübel,,,, UBS Chief Executive Guy,…
My, my, my.
How VERY lone Gunmanish auf der Grübelecher…AND the New York
GOD WE SOo WANNA USE ROGUE IN THE HEADLINE Times –
(( the crackheads could barely save it for the sub-head before fingering the heavenly bonfire – LOL ))
So, How many Oswalds is it now?
Just in the last couple months –
How many of the Bigs allegedly “new” rats who replaced the purportedly old rats from 2008 have jumped sinking ship? Hard to keep the Allegedlies from the Purpotedlies straight.
A UBS, here,
a Bank of America, there,
a one Deutche Bankster real estate con or two…
Care for some BoNY/ Mellon creme du Get The Fuck Out?
In a rush to exit the ECB? …ETC
Hard to keep it all straight. It all seems so very BoA/ Thain-from-Merrill hitting the bricks in 2009. LOL.
Tho rather much like 2008, no?
–
… THEN jumed ship!
When, WHOOPSIE! –
SocGen CEO Bouton Resigns Over Rogue Trader
Of course™ that was after Bouton OFFERED to resign
then – wait for it!™ – RETRACTED IT..
Oh and the excuses from the local yokels and regional bank presidents who in 2011 have suddenly come down with some sorta controversial pandemic of Pursuing Other Interests FLU is quite the hoot. QUITE the hoot lemme tels ya.
Sorry! Can’t come in! Gotta Go! BELEAGUERED you know!
Different VISION!
Pursuing Other Interests!
Illness in the Family!
Heading for THE PLANE!
™ ™ ™ ™ ™ ™ ™ ™ ™ ™ ™ ™
Shouldn’t there be a Club des Rogues by now? Small yellow rosettes for their silky lapels? Something? Some badge of dishonor?
A nice touch. Somethin claaaaassy.
I’m thinkin sumpin to go with recently released ink artist Nick Cigarettedanglingfromlip’s signature “Bullseye-on-Forehead” piece we could arrange to have installed for FREE on the motherfuckers….
I know a guy.
A Croix de Guerre des Banques!
Maybe soemthing tattoo’d on their forearm?
Not before we go all in on Popcorn.
was shocked to hear Judas ask,
Talk about a Last Supper moment, which IIRC,
“JC”
“Shall we Short the Shekel, Jesus?”
Rogue Trader. Get’s ya every time!
Something? Some badge of dishonor?
HA! I get real whiny with it sometimes.LOL
Won’t the Democrats help? LOL. That shit.
Nothin like Oldies.
Musical Chairs ….circa 2008
Société Générale announces massive write-down – and fraud
::
Well, As we arrive now at UBS..(CDS-fuckin-FINALLY!),
a little light in the pockets now – ( that they admit too) …
UBS, – > the Bankster cartel’s managing partner at the Swiss Bank CENTER of global money laundering/ German Intelligence gathered with full list of names and accounts on secret CD from Lichtensteinian Whistleblower uhm, broohahaHAHAHA - sorry – Affaire? Imbroglio? Good Ole Fashioned American BFM?
Anyways.
This here UBS coming up a little , eh, short?? …Is a –
..is a…ehm, ah,
~ a difficult situation you know.
The good news tho!
THANK FATHER GOD AND JESUS CHRIST –
OUR AMERICAN EXCEPTIONALIST LORD AND SAVIOR -
THAT NONE OF OUR FINE FOLK ARE MIXED UP IN THIS!
Big Rallly to finish the Year! ::lol:
Laugh laugh laugh laugh…. None other than Bill C has a new……………………..
BOOK.
I don’t think Bill is slated for a long life. And the sooner his rest in peace comes, the better.
Handbook for the urban guerilla… OR suburban! They have cops too….
The blobby glob is taking shape:
transforming yourself into a pretzel, pre-pretzeling, is so much harder than regional princelings appreciate. (slob had a LOT of help! AND an easier cycle!)
Crime rates rise in Los Angeles where city closed marijuana shops
Muslim Students Convicted of Being Mean to Israeli Ambassador
ugh…. I remember that down at the Irvine campus. They were PROTESTING.
There is this charge that I think Zionists want to promote whereever they can… that being mean (oh!!!! Meanie!) to them is some criminal act of attempting to de-legitimise the State of Israel….. which is pretty much what the local Israeli consul, Akiva Tor, said at the time of the Irvine protests.
I will be interested to see if CAIR does anything about this. Seems to be all they do is sue over the hijab…. or try to get a religious exemption at TSA for all manner of dress.
I wouldn’t hold my breath.
They live to defend the hijab…. in my opinion anyway. I think it is partly their allegiance with the Democratic party… concentrating on madly defending a cultural habit is thought to play to the wimmens vote.
Such fucking bullshit.
Warwarwarwarwarwarwarwarwarwarwarwar
It’s riding at the top of Angry Arab at the moment…. http://angryarab.blogspot.com/
Obama’s Contempt For America Is More Profound Than Even Oligarchical Puppetry
oh this is so true of him… IF you believe in ANYTHING, even craven political whatever, you have such a stronger personal stance on the political stage… all he wanted to be was the One at the head of the lumpen crowd. It’s not enough, it is nearly nothing……
shee-it.
This comment uses excerpts from Confidence Men, extracts and links back to source, Daily Beast. Stuff I had not run into.
Jesufuckinggod… what a mess we are in, this is abou half of the comment:
Aside from his disinterested temperament… there is the HUGE problem that he is a mannequin. A walk-on. Essentially…. NO standing in Illinois party politics, in fact no standing at all. And stronger, if horrible men, simply move in.
What a huge fucking mess we are in.
Occupy Wall Street Saturday: Tasers and Mass Arrests
looks like the NYPD has doubled down, going by the videos at the link.
wellll if one reads creatively! Bloombutt said he wanted riots. So he will work for that — so it seems…. and give theboys in blue somewhere SAFE to work off all that angst. God forbid they monitor track arrest actual dangerous criminali.
>^..^<
good concise summary by mr sartwell.
Yup….
extreme cynicism is the only humanly possible or even vaguely rational or morally decent response. check out, is my advice to you.
interesting blog
he’s on the IOZ list and I like his acidic take on many things……… I read him from time t time… but he can wig out in quite nasty fashion on abortion. Not sure why…
I enjoyed this interesting literary/sculptural mystery … a nice break from all of the depressing stuff. Linked via Balloon Juice.
oh my god! those are SO beautiful….. I cannot decide which I like best…. the dragon one is very wonderful, but so is the film one, and the first, “Poetree”…. incredible.
But I think each recipient has an absolute responisbility to display theirs… in situ…
I thought they were really awesome.
They don’t exactly remind me of the tableaux inside framed boxes by…. I think his name was Joseph Cornel, a kind of middle aged semi-recluse in NJ iirc….. similar in intensity and beauty o the Cornel boxes…….
Here he is… Yes Joseph Cornell, he died in ’72.
oh, I haven’t seen his stuff before, thanks! Nice.
New
LINK
……….. 8)
[link fixed! Mcat]