jzellis.bsky.social
I'm that bad motherfucker called Stagger Lee.
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Same, but of course the dynamic for me as a big young man was different - I was usually down for it. RU Sirius tried to arrange for me to be Kathy Acker's "assistant", which really meant "cabana boy", and I was very definitely down for it, but Kathy died before we could set it up.
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Not all of em. Cory Doctorow's still around. A lot of em were older than you might think -- I was the youngest person in that scene at 19, and a lot of them were boomers.
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Ooooh, thanks, I'm gonna pop to the coffee shop and read this now. ❤️
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I wish I had more sympathy for class traitors and bigots just because they do the thousand yard stare in newspaper photos, but you know something? I just can't seem to muster much these days.
Maybe with a little more contrast and grain.
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Which, OK, cool: you wanna tell American companies they can't send jobs overseas, awesome. But when I ask you if you support free market capitalism you better sit down and shut up, because you ain't a capitalist. You just want to have just enough socialism to let you be one, some day. 😂
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And complaining is the real primary industry in the American working class heartland. They are the world's champion bitchers and moaners. The only thing they do harder is refuse to make any effort to learn or change in any way. They demand the world services them and their desires.
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You don't get to cry ignorance when you've got the same phone in your pocket as everybody else. Just because you don't give enough of a fuck to actually learn why your job went away, that doesn't make you the victim. It also makes you an asshole, at least if you wanna complain about it.
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But hey, enough of these moody photos and maybe we'll all be tricked into thinking these people are the real victims. Which they are to some degree, but they're also the villains, and I'm never gonna let them off the hook just because they're too dumb to know better. They shouldn't be.
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Voting for Trump because you think Washington needs a change is like taking a shit in the minestrone soup at dinner because you think it's got too much oregano.
Yeah, you're gonna get sick, and that's your own fucking fault... but so is everyone else at the table, and that's your fault too.
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So if your only choices are two parties who both fuck you over, but one also fucks lots of people who never did a damn thing to you like migrant workers who pick your food or trans people, and you pick that party... what does that make you?
It makes you an asshole.
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Every American president since Carter has had two main jobs: to get oil cheaper and do what corporations want them to do. Everything else is secondary if it's even a concern. Democrat or Republican, the only difference is whether they're also openly pushing the Jesus freak or bigot agenda.
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And it's never the capitalists who moved the factories to China to save on labor costs, or their own fault for not seeing coming what literally everyone in the world but them saw decades ago. It's Obama and Clinton and Biden.
Which is true, but only partially.
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"Yep, town ain't been the same since the factory shut down. I blame Obama."
"Man, that's tough. When did it close?"
"1981."
You think I'm kidding, man, go out to one of those dying towns and get a haircut at the local barbershop and wait ten minutes, somebody will tell you whose fault it all is.
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You never show their Dixie flags (even in the Midwest/Rust Belt) or racist bumper stickers, though, or ask them what they think of LGBTQ people, or to explain the crucial difference between a black man and a "n****r", which they absolutely will earnestly tell you if you ask them.
Ask me how I know.
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It's like their arr directors literally can't help themselves. Bonus if they're sitting at their kitchen table with a pack of Marlboros and a cuppa joe in front of them, because that's how you know they're real American peasants - they still smoke and drink drip coffee instead of espresso.
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You can add a lot more rum if you wanna get fucked up on it, but I just want lattés, man, not to get day drunk. 😂
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Dunno, he hasn't been by in a while now.
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Nor have we, he hasn't been around. I suspect maybe in the spring. ❤️
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Slowly but surely! Health stuff has been limiting my speed but I'm actively working on it now, for sure! ❤️
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NO, BECAUSE BADASSTODON, ROBIN
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I'm currently working on new music that combines Tom Waits style swamp blues with North/West African stuff, boom bap acid jazz/hip-hop and psychedelic funk and singer/songwriter stuff with lyrics and everything. It's more accessible than it probably sounds.
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Or I record music, which is the most meditative thing I do. Unless you know me irl you probably don't know I'm a professional grade audio engineer and producer and a pretty serious singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist who's performed for decades in small venues, but, y'know, I am. 😁
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But sometimes, like tonight, the spinal pain gets really bad and there's no position that relieves it and nothing I can do but eat pain pills and try anything to distract myself. But I'm useless at being productive in these moments. I just read or watch movies. I hate that too.
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I'm one of those dudes who'll gash myself and pour blood everywhere and just roll my eyes and bust out super glue and duct tape. In America, with no insurance, I used to do minor surgery and dental work on myself at home with YouTube videos to guide me. I have no fucks anymore.