Saturday, 29 March 2025
changed
Something I previously posted after being worked on and changed a bit, though not significantly. This is one that I mostly do like.
Thursday, 27 March 2025
PM 3
Further updates from UK prime minister Keir Starmer’s obstacle strewn attempts to launch a music career, where the matter was felt to be of such importance for not just Starmer but the Labour Party as a whole, that an extraordinary general meeting of the party was held today somewhere in the bowels of London to debate the matter. To explain, the issue at hand was not seemingly whether it is correct for a prime minister to attempt to become a pop star, but the appropriateness of the song itself, or rather specifically the song title: Can’t Stop Dreaming of Gulags and Rape Gangs (Not Necessarily in that Order).
USSR
I spotted this in my town a couple of days ago. Thought it was brilliant! Even has the hammer and sickle symbol in there.
Wednesday, 26 March 2025
Ave Generosa
By Hildegard von Bingen, a 12th century German Benedictine abbess, polymath and visionary. And below, O Ignis Spiritus, also by her.
PM Two
PM
Perhaps with one eye already on a post-political career, Keir Starmer has just recorded a song which is set for release over the coming weekend. The public, curious no doubt, as to what the prime minister’s song will offer them, are apparently in store for an unpretentious tune, driven by an infectious beat and soaring melodies.
The song is called Can’t Get Enough of Those Funky Groovy Rape Gangs. Tony Blair is on rhythm guitar.
Dostoevsky on MAGA
Re-reading Dostoevsky’s novel 1872 novel Demons at the moment, this brought to mind the Make America Great Again movement, where the socially awkward but deeply sincere character Shatov who has renounced revolutionary, leftist ideology, talks of the attitude of this milieu towards its own nation and people. In an earlier chapter he retorts to the self-indulgent but relatively benign liberal figure Stepan Verkhovensky:
Tuesday, 25 March 2025
Newer version
A newer version of something shown previously, though I think it’s been changed a bit again since this photo was taken.
Makes Me Proud
I don’t exactly keep abreast of these things but anyway . . .
Monday, 24 March 2025
Apples, bucket
There was a bucket in the garden which was filled with rain water, but then a load of apples were taken from a tree and put into the bucket, displacing some of the water. But then the apples, rather than taken inside and later eaten or used for baking, were forgotten about and left in the bucket, and over the following days they slowly worsened and rotted, until finally they were fit for nothing but to be thrown to the jackdaws and crows or else tossed into the compost.
Saturday, 22 March 2025
Give
Deep State Cabal have a new song out with the express aim of “giving the beleaguered peoples of the world hope.” The song is called Give War a Chance. The b side is called Power to the Elites.
Friday, 21 March 2025
The New Ideas, Dostoevsky
Below from Dostoevsky’s novel Demons where the refined, liberal character Stefan Trofimovich Verkhovensky encounters the next generation in the development of the ideas first which he imagined he embodied. He is pleasant but self-indulgent and aimless, and the father of the revolutionary figure Pyotor Verkhovensky, loosely based on the demonically ruthless real-life revolutionary Sergei Nechaev, who in turn was a major influence on the likes of Lenin.
Varvara Petrovna threw herself wholly into the “new ideas” and began holding evenings. She invited writers and they were immediately brought to her in great numbers. Never before had she seen such writers. They were impossibly vain, but quite openly so, as if fulfilling a duty. It was as if they perceived some special, just-yesterday discovered beauty in it. They were all proud of something to the point of strangeness. It was written on all their faces that they had just discovered some extremely important secret. They were abusive and considered it to their credit.
. . . It was clear that among this rabble of new people there were many swindlers, but it was also unquestionable that there were many honest and even quite attractive persons, despite certain nonetheless surprising nuances. The honest ones were far more incomprehensible than the rude and dishonest ones; but it was not clear who was making use of whom.
… “We left as if in a daze,” Stefan Trofimovich later used to say. “Oh my friends, you cannot imagine what sorrow and anger seize one’s whole sick when a great idea, which one has long and piously revered, is picked up by some bunglers and dragged into the street, to more fools like themselves, and one suddenly meets it in the flea market, unrecognisable, dirty, askew, absurdly presented, without proportion , without harmony, a toy for stupid children! No! It was not so in our day, this is not what we strove for. No, no, not that at all. I recognise nothing . . .”
Thursday, 20 March 2025
Out the Window
They got everything out of books, and even at the first rumor from our progressive corners in the capital were prepared to throw anything whatsoever out the window, provided they were advised to throw it out.
Dostoevsky, Demons.
Civic Grief, Social Injustice, Dostoevsky
Wednesday, 19 March 2025
Tuesday, 18 March 2025
Caravaggio ‘s Populist Radicalism
Below from Andrew Graham-Dixon’s biography of Caravaggio, Caravaggio - A Life Sacred and Profane, regarding the artist’s uncouth ‘populist’ discord from the prevailing intellectual and artistic aesthetic:
The very idea of looking back was a profoundly original move. It ran directly contrary to the prevailing aesthetic orthodoxy of late Renaissance thought, as expressed by Giorgio Vasari in his Lives of the Artists that art should continually evolve and progress, that it was the duty of every artist to increase that forward momentum.
Vasari would have regarded a preference for the old and popular over the new and sophisticated as shockingly absurd and perverse.
Pride Does Not
Pride does not understand that it walks in darkness and does not know the meaning of wisdom. How can it know when it is in its darkness?
St Isaac the Syrian
Monday, 17 March 2025
Saturday, 15 March 2025
Noun or Verb
Friday, 14 March 2025
Proud
We are proud and honored to announce the release of a new Countercultural Icons of Humanity song, titled Don’t You Dare Threaten the Establishment and Their Bureaucratic Systems of Benevolence or Else You’ll Have Us to Deal With. The song contains the beautifully poetic lines, “We got anti-establishment countercultural rock n roll outrage on tap”, “Money laundering doesn’t exist”, and also “Don’t follow the money.”
The song is accompanied by a b side: Don’t You Even Think of Calling Us Pompous Vanity Filled Servile Shitbags, and it contains the line: “Feeding from the trough.”
Thursday, 13 March 2025
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Tuesday, 4 March 2025
Invaluable
More invaluable news from the entertainment industrial complex, where embedded reporters are claiming the newest incarnation of the Corporate Whore franchise will almost certainly be the thoughtful Corporate Whores Hand Out Humanitarian Aid to the Unfortunates of Society.
[To protect the the corporate whores from potential harm, the unfortunates of society will be portrayed by student attendees (vaccinated) of The Actors Guild, though their character portrayals will be based on encounters with shockingly plausible unfortunates from the real world]
seconds
Something that just took a few seconds and, because it’s on very light paper, the reverse side of it below: