American endgame

   A gathering irony of the locker room
   discovered by Donald Trump is that a
   misadventure in sexual conduct seems
   scheduled to restore the Clintons to
   the White House. The infamous phrase,
   only in America, returns to that hu-
   mid sphere of furtive power plays we
   nurture as the abbatoire of this de-
   mocracy, with a fundamentalist pruri-
   ence and capitalist concupiscence un-
   like that of any other Western socie-
   ty. The smear of 2016 is a precipit-
   ate from the hold of our slave ships,
   our counting houses and our choirs -
   every spring we repudiate, draws us.

   Now this is good news. You don't get
   condensation without air.

Ivan Terestchenko

La Soule

Saturday commute cxxxiv: Sorting the millennials ii

   Not the merriest of months,
   this one, for little Donny
   Thump-Thump. His genius in
   deceiving some males seems
   to be abandoning him, just
   as they recall they have a
   mother, a sister, a friend.

   There is a breed standard,
   after all.

Just looking, thanks

ii   Tarkovsky

iii  Lange

iv  Blacksmith's Eye

Sorting the millennials

 In America, we read that our
 children of the '80s are un-
 moved by the dreary logic of
 preventing forest fires, as
 a means of democratic self-
 expression with their ballot.

 This makes perfect sense, in
 a system closed to combustion.
 There's a lady in North Car-
 olina, would you believe, who
 travels the world, photograph-
 ing dumpsters which have suf-
 fered the same calculation.

 Here's one from Seville, a
 place that knows a tyranny
 as the casino of the street.

Paul Fontanier

  for Pull & Bear, 2016

Caroline Cockrell

Dumpster, Seville

undated

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Wagerings, Madrid

1930s

Stump speech

    A photographer I don't know, of 

    longtime family roots in Virgin-

    ia, snapped this picture of or-

    chards in Giles County in 1980,

    with Kodak Kodachrome 64 diapos-

    itive film. Photographs created

    in this medium were known as

    slides, possibly because they'd

    have been inserted into slots

    in projectors, for viewing by

    strong light. They were popular.

    It has been a while since we've

    seen an image made with a lens,

    that conserved any texture, any

    organic nuance of gradation. If

    you've been to Giles County, it

    it doesn't see itself this way,

    anymore. It just looks this way. 

T. Michael Williams

What I thought I'd ask Mike Pence

    Given the way things are

    going with the tax code,

    does he foresee the time

    when fending for oneself

    will mean the culinarily

    challenged may expense a

    a tin of Caspian beluga,

    every time we lay an egg?

    

Cameron Dallas

  for Calvin Klein

We go home now vii

   I like scale, I like
   feeling it, restored
























Pirkle Jones
1914 - 2009
Breaking wave, Golden Gate
San Francisco Museum
  of Modern Art

Scrubbing where it's fun to stand

     I think I can understand the
     hallucination we know as Lib-
     ertarianism. It has a lot in
     common with Mitt Romney's im-
     mortal discovery of the call
     for free stuff, even in that
     endearing impression, chores
     take care of themselves. But
     then, too, it holds escapist
     faith, in the little people,
     to maintain society's floor.

     Libertarianism does expose a
     flaw in Liberalism, whenever
     they appear on a common plat-
     form; and that is that it is
     flat-out boring. You can see
     where this is going: it must
     be time to get back to town.