Harvest
. Smoke billows following an Israeli military strike on Gaza City on August 8, 2014: photo by Mahmud Hams / AFP. 8 August 2014Ripe are, dipped in fire, cookedThe fruits and proved upon the earth and an...
View ArticleRussell Edson: The Pilot
.Pilot, Dutch East Indies. Architect: J.F.L. Blankenberg: photographer unknown, n.d. (NAI Collection / Het Nieuwe Instituut)Up in a dirty window in a dark room is a star which an old man can see. He...
View ArticleA very strong energy drink
.Gaza in crisis: photo via Chris Gunness / UNRWA on twitter, 12 August 2014For Israeli arms makers, Gaza war is a cash cow: Haaretz, 11 August 2014Â Far from the fighting in the Gaza Strip and the...
View ArticleWhy Hillary
.Hillary Clinton: photo via Ask Hillary on twitter, 21 July 2014Why Hillary Became a Goddess on the Night of Her Acceptance SpeechBecause her hair looked coolBecause some of the best alien minds are...
View ArticleA Grievous Deception (Fabricating War Out of Absolutely Nothing)
. President Lyndon B. Johnson listens to tape sent by his son-in-law Captain Charles Robb. a Marine Corps company commander in Vietnam: photo by Jack E. Kightlinger, 31 July 1968 (White House Office...
View ArticleMunitions Madness: Procurement and Disposal
. Me holding what I believe is an unexploded drone's missile. This what Israel uses to warn people to evacuate. And yes, it kills: photo by Dr Bassel Abuwarda via twitter, 8 August 2014Arma virumque...
View Article"Who you out here for?"
.BREAKING: One person shot and seven arrested in Ferguson after curfew, officials say: photo via NBC News on twitter, 17 August 2014 "Who you out here for? Better be for Mike Brown." Protesters...
View ArticleLights out in BEAU Y Town
.Police-fired tear gas returned by a protester in Ferguson: photo via Ben Kesling on twitter, 18 August 2014Â I am a woman. Phenomenally. Phenomenal woman. That's me: photo via GrooveSDC on twitter, 18...
View ArticleThe Human Abstract
.Gaza this evening!! captured by Yasser Qudih: photo via Dana on twitter, 20 August 2014 Pity would be no more, If we did not make somebody Poor: And Mercy no more could be, If all were as happy as we;...
View ArticleThe General's Son Comes Home: Miko Peled: "Gaza reminds us of Zionism's...
.Two men were targeted in Rafah on a motorcycle just few minutes ago: photo via Solidarity Gaza on twitter, 21 August 2014Gaza reminds us of Zionism’s original sin: Miko Peled, The Electronic Intifada,...
View ArticleThomas Wyatt: Stond who so list vpon the Slipper toppe / Seneca: Chorus Two:...
. Dancing Bear, State Fair of Texas: photo by Lynn Lennon, 1985 (Southern Methodist University, Central University Libraries, DeGolyer Library) Stond who so list vpon the Slipper toppe ...Of courtes...
View ArticleErasing the Forgotten: Has Gaza Eluded the Historical Memory of Poetry?
.The moment Al Zafer building was hit: photo via Issam Sammour on twitter, 24 August 2014Hamid Dabashi: Gaza: Poetry after Auschwitz'To write poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric.' Is writing poetry...
View Articlethe daily screenshot
.Mule Deer (Odocoileus hemionus), Caprock Canyons, West Texas: photo by Leaflet, 15 May 2005Today... dry season continuing after the latest insane war... I made it down the steps oh boy... and saw a...
View ArticleRobinson Jeffers: Point Joe
.Seagull at PointJoe: photo by deb1edeb, 17 August 2009PointJoe has teeth and has torn ships; it has fierce and solitary beauty;Walk there all day you shall see nothing that will not make part of a...
View ArticleCollege Pigskin Preview: The New Amazing Return of A Crazy American Girl
. Nehi Corporation advertisement for Royal Crown Cola: Life, 13 November 1944 (Gallery of Graphic Design)Pumped for a rhyming line into airA football falling through registration,Here I come: That’s...
View ArticleIdeology
.One-metre-square cement roadblocks used to restrict Palestinian vehicle access at one of the entrances to Beit Ummar village, near Hebron, WestBank; one of 50 such block sites used to obstruct...
View ArticleIs something broken in the Great Towns? Dougie Wallace: Shoreditch Wildlife
.From Shoreditch Wildlife: photo by Dougie Wallace, 2014 (via Dougie Wallace Glasweegee)European jihadists: It ain't half hot here, mumWhy and how Westerners go to fight in Syria and Iraq The...
View ArticleDaniel Abdal-Hayy Moore: Faced
.The blue city, dotted with green (Jodhpur, India): photo by Soylentgreen23, 10 August 2004I'm faced with what I've got, Lord.No two walls the same, no two doors.No two hills under clear blue sky, no...
View ArticleBorderlands: Between the Dream and the Reality
'Â Fog settles on the deserted streets of San Miguel Cuevas, a Mixtec village in the highlands of Oaxaca; over 80% of its population has emigrated to the United States, leaving it little more than a...
View ArticleAlien Emergency
.Zippy: Welcome to Dingburg (detail): Bill Griffith, 2008 image by fantagraphics. 24 October 2008Breaking News: Autonomous University of Dingburg invaded by undocumented alien copper thieves!Huge...
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