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unused notes, leftovers part 2
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the barcelona battles made me consider joining the neo-nihilists… nihilists believe in nothing, but neo-nihilists don’t even believe in that.
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been reading about the failing american infrastructure – all our roads, bridges, water mains, sewage lines, land lines, ports, rivers, etc appear to be decaying – i flash on my own ailing failing infrastructure… teeth, arthritis, pulled groin, brain bog drowned in sorrowful fact. i’m a man of the time.
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need to get some money coming in – been two years no paycheck. thought perhaps i could open a toast shop, pinch small holes in the bread before toasting and call it The Holey Toast. probably pick up a lot of old time catholics as customers.
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first thing we noticed about america was jfk airport – every non-american city we flew, the baggage carts were free for the convenience of the airport’s customers. here in america you have to rent them. thinnest toilet paper ever in jfk restrooms too. expensive cart, cheap wipe.
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american trains are slower, noisier, creakier than european. in europe, trains are electric, here they belch petroleum toxin.
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in a study done awhile ago, rats had electric wires wired directly into the pleasure centers of their brains, then allowed to push a button to receive a shock as often as they wished. the rats kept pushing the button until they died from dehydration. first time i ever wanted to be a rat. gonna get me a drill, and a long lamp cord.
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we’re killing the future for the fleas. the fleas being of course corporations, the rich, the righteous, the ruling class, the republicans, the reductionists, the redundant, the redolent, the ransackers, the reborn run-a-muckers and the rah rah georgie-boys.
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dumb, dumber, dumbest – how we got here:
richard m. nixon, 1977 – “when the president does it that means that it is not illegal.â€
ronald reagan, 1981 – “trees cause more pollution than automobiles do.â€
george w. bush, 2006 – “i think — tide turning — see, as i remember — i was raised in the desert, but tides kind of — it’s easy to see a tide turn — did i say those words?â€
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then there’s always vice dick cheney’s words to senator patrick j. leahy, the ranking democrat on the judiciary committee, when leahy brought up cheney’s financial connections to halliburton: “go fuck yourself,” he said. sort of the same message vice dick’s given the rest of americans too.
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we’re busing downtown cleveland this very early morning to protest rudy giuliani’s existence as a human and politician. despised that man ever since he tried to censor the art scene when he was mayor of new york. i’ve heard as bad as reagan was and bush is, giuliani’s worse. even his own children can’t stand him.
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this is smith, reporting from otherside the mirror.
seize you on the downsize in tarnished silverland.
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