Monthly Archives: February 2025

hot hot heat

Posted on February 18, 2025 by istsfor manity

Nonsense As Per the Review of American Flag Bows: The courtesy superintendents are preparing for orange affection by moving aggressively against broccoli-haired stormers of good sense. Don’t hover about, lover, make yourself useful and burn your ballot before the Garfish … Continue reading →

in this (my) neighborhood pt. 82

Posted on February 17, 2025 by istsfor manity

What I’m Reading: Globally, 2024 was the warmest year on record—more than two and half degrees hotter than the preindustrial average. In the U.S., there were twenty-seven climate-related disasters that caused more than a billion dollars’ worth of damage, just … Continue reading →

do not obey

Posted on February 16, 2025 by istsfor manity

Memorable Stuff I Read This Week Do not obey in advance. Most of the power of authoritarianism is freely given. In times like these, individuals think ahead about what a more repressive government will want, and then offer themselves without … Continue reading →

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monosyllabic trickle & tone

Posted on February 15, 2025 by istsfor manity

Trickle & Tone (redux) She said, I long to shapea moon from bone. I heard that before,somewhere—it resonated. A chordstruck—atonal& dissonant. A wound—a pickaxe stymie,a hurricane holein homogeneity.Monosyllabictrickle & tone. Whereyou going—whereyou been? I’ll find a planetariumto bathe in—nothing moreto say. … Continue reading →

mired in orange

Posted on February 14, 2025 by istsfor manity

Memo to Memorama Apropos of nothing . . . As ceilings evolved from feral rafters into beloved Victorian concatenations, a nascent pet-forest economy arose on the carts of so-called “pulpy curiosity pools involving hitmen.” We will explore the linens they … Continue reading →

in these (my) neighborhoods (train window visual detritus) pt. 81

Posted on February 13, 2025 by istsfor manity

“There’s a pretty dramatic jump in temperature that started in mid-2023, and it has really persisted through the present,” says Zeke Hausfather, a climate scientist with the group Berkeley Earth. The persistence, he says, has surprised many climate scientists and … Continue reading →

loud very loud

Posted on February 12, 2025 by istsfor manity

Funkytown 45 Somewhere someone is playing“Funkytown.” Loud. Very Loud.Forty-five years old this song!How has this endured so long? What I’m Reading: As I sat on the toiletof a Boeing 727,somewhere over Ohioriding United tourist,I imagined my last momentsof lifefalling bare-assed … Continue reading →

true blue americana

Posted on February 11, 2025 by istsfor manity

a ruin (a blackout) once we have torn shit downwanting and beingimmersive worksExpanding the surface dimension the revolutionary leadera ruinenslaved against the colonialgovernment of the united states the surface indigoenslaved A driverwoveninto “true blue” americana What I’m Reading: If the … Continue reading →

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wants to crawl

Posted on February 10, 2025 by istsfor manity

She Can’t Remember A new year brings the promise of more longanimity and asceticism. Nothing is as safe she expects in the age of vulnerability and shame. She liked it more when every emotional situation didn’t need a “name” where … Continue reading →

an extraordinary tide

Posted on February 9, 2025 by istsfor manity

Memorable Stuff I Read This Week But what needed to be understood was not how all Germans were as evil and guilty as their leaders: clearly, they were not. More troubling was how the ordinary bourgeois German had turned executioner … Continue reading →

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