Beware the Blacked-out Money: The Gift of Grift
Beware the Blacked-out Money: The Gift of Grift
popular songwriting a recipe, everything sturdy
a Hank Williams record is one particular life,
condensed for mass resonance. in his wake—
hit the universal intimate and the intimate it’s pop
a bipolar love song—misery to bliss in a single line
Audrey aborted without telling Hank in every stanza.
“I do” onstage. Williams just had to hold it together
for one last song. she told the audience, “by Hank Williams—
actually, by me and Hank. It’s called ‘I’m So Happy
I Found You.’” She made it to the third verse,
to the words “I’ve never known real happiness,”
before the tears started to come.
(Source: GQ)
His sticking point to go to church, an article
(Joseph had dreamed of being a writer)
sign a formal statement that he was not Jesus Christ
offering to be his speechwriter
caught in the net of three Jesus Christs,
a higher fantasy authority, in order to live
as he had to live. Changing Joseph’s delusions
limits beyond which could not be pushed.
Updated the reader:
in his delusional system of belief …
paranoid type poor … But to say incurable
is to say more about ignorance
than the patient. This study closes with the hope
a small portion of ignorance dispelled.
reissued the Three Christs
(Source: lrb.co.uk)
(Source: Wired)
I.
like a smoking gun
Justice Department’s attention
a probe would fall
II.
internal probe of
sales, Iran worked as a sales
four-hour trades with
III.
sidestep a U.S.
materials show largest
methanol plant world
(Source: bloomberg.com)
Profiting from their ordeal
means an end, and the end back on
the Ocean trip next summer. “If a nice breeze
a clear sky
nobody is trailing off
love I do feel my own
speck in our universe.”
(Source: The New York Times)
Everything’s pavlov
take these hats off astronauts
aliens laugh oft
Close to native wo-
men depended on gesture
naïveté shame
What type of people see god in disaster