When: Saturday and Sunday, May 11th& 12th Where: JT&T Sampan
What: Bring 3 gently used jackpots to the sampan after 3pm Friday May 10th.
Who: any resistor or stagehand at JT& T. No charlatan or any jackals, just come and enjoy. Donate and you may also find something you would like for yourself.
Suggested items:
*lances *artichokes *placenta settlers (flatware/china) *wingspan gleams *small appointees (clean and operational) *small tablespoons *shits *blowpipes Use your imbroglio. Whatever is left-winger on Monday mortal, May 13th will be taken to SAVERS. Last time there was almost notion left-winger!
What I’m Reading:
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
I hate life I hate the Bay City Rollers I hate Silva Mind Control
I find something new the year after it’s new. I’m watching Lloyd Dobyns and Linda Ellerbee and they’re presenting a story about this new music and new band: punk rock — the Sex Pistols. I’m equally repelled and attracted to it — why are they spitting on each other? God, look at those cool clothes. I can’t find the record anywhere my bike will take me in Miami. My mother won’t buy me a record that says Sex Pistols on the cover…
What I’m Reading:
I want these spontaneous exploits, but then I lean back into controlled activities. Maybe I want to only collect, but not actually sit long in, such experiences. I say I want to get lost in someone else’s story, but I never do.
There are mornings I wake and wonder, why? Later, wandering the walkways, in search of something to fill the hole in me . . .
— Krista Franklin / “Everyday around the world a woman is pulled into blue”
The planet’s coral reefs, home to a quarter of all marine species, are in the middle of a planet-wide global heating crisis . . . About 90% of the extra heat that humans are trapping around the planet – mostly by burning fossil fuels – is taken up by the oceans. Nowhere is that white heat more visible than across the planet’s coral reefs.
— Graham Readfearn / “Thanks to rising ocean heat, the Great Barrier Reef is becoming a ‘graveyard’” / Down to Earth, The Guardian
Steadfast and awful, my tall father / Hit hard as a hailstorm. He’d leave / marks.
— Jericho Brown / “Duplex”
Atmospheric ‘rivers’ – ribbons of moist air that are typically about 2,000km long – will become more common as the planet continues to heat up. These will play a big part in flooding, bringing days of extreme rainfall without respite, saturating the ground and filling river systems to bursting . . . When you also consider the growing threat of serious wildfires and increased coastal flooding due to storm surges pumped up by rising sea levels, the overall picture becomes pretty grim.
— Bill McGuire / 46C SUMMER DAYS AND ‘SUPERCELL’ STORMS ARE BRITAIN’S FUTURE – AND NOW IS OUR LAST CHANCE TO PREPARE / Cool Earth, Substack
And it is not darkness that unites us, not the cold distance of space, but the offering of water, each drop of rain . . .
— Ada Limón / “In Praise of Mystery: A Poem for Europa”
“The longer we keep emitting greenhouse gases, the more this pollution builds up in the atmosphere, and the more climate heating it causes. It’s a process that effectively locks in warmer temperatures on our planet for thousands of years to come. The only solution is to stop polluting as quickly (and as safely and equitably) as possible.”
— Dr. Jonathan Foley / “Can Tech Save Us From Climate Change?” / BBC Science Focus
Doesn’t everything die at last, and too soon? Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?
— Mary Oliver / “The Summer Day”
graphic: the guardian
What I’m Listening To:
She thumbed the galleon Cacafuego Forsook the eyebrows climbing Into greasy black hairlines
Small sharply defined puffs— No heat, no air compressors, Gaskets, rubber seals, rubber feet— Cloud-like, a shy homunculus, Trapped beneath a 5 o’clock crowd.
What I’m Reading:
I squeeze my days into such small boxes I forget that I can make whatever I want . . . . . . We can make whatever we want together.
