we have always lived in the first bad year, etc etc

Imagine if whales didn’t exist and then one showed up out of nowhere? We’d never stop talking about it. We would never get over it.

Do we make poets like Charles Olson anymore? People who turn regional obsessions into opaque epics?

Let history note: what's happening on the streets of LA is an extension of DOGE. Musk's guys illegally consolidated data from across government and cut a corrupt contract with Palantir to build an immigrant-hunting computer system. Presumably in use now.

Tradition states that last night Jesus emptied out all the jails. Spent Saturday night telling people “I don’t care what you did, people weren’t made for prisons.” The next day to prove His point He broke out of solitary. It is finished. Easter is incompatible with the carceral state. Happy Easter.

“Can’t you see that we are intertwined? There is another way. It’s not too late for life, for the living”

- Israeli Jewish co-creator of documentary “No Other Land,” of his Palestinian partner, accepting Best Doc award at the #Oscars2025

Five years of the COVID-19 pandemic: An interview with Dr. Arijit Chakravarty In this interview, Dr. Chakravarty discusses the current state of the COVID-19 pandemic and public health globally five years after the initial outbreak of the SARS-CoV-2 virus in Wuhan, China.

5 years of the COVID-19 pandemic: An interview with Dr. Arijit Chakravarty
www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

Rocks and sea

Rocks and sea, 1886
https://botfrens.com/collections/44/contents/12025

A description of the poet Charles Olson, in florid terms. Including anecdotes about him eating an oil rag, talking for days and putting food in his pockets at dinner parties. Olson also wrote some of the most insightful ideas about language and form that I’ve ever read.

This, rt-ed by @benloory.bsky.social in the other place, has made my morning. Guy Davenport’s on Charles Olson:

The White Whale is more accurate than Leaves of Grass. Because it is America, all of her space, the malice, the root.

Charles Olson. Call me Ishmael. 1947.

Via literary mothers: Kathleen Fraser and the ‘permission-giving’ moment of ‘projective verse’ Poet, editor, and critic Kathleen Fraser underscored the significance of Charles Olson’s seminal manifesto ‘Projective Verse’, emphasising the vital role the text played in expanding the methodolog...

HOT OFF THE PRESS! My article on Kathleen Fraser, Charles Olson, and the feminist implications of Projective Verse has been published in Textual Practice. It’s open access: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Anytime I advocate for better covid mitigations - people assume I want to lock them in their homes forever.

In reality we could drastically limit covid transmission with the following:

- Masks in healthcare
- Clean air in public spaces
- Free vaccines, tests & respirators
- Paid time off

—

CHARLES OLSON
(27/12/1910 - 10/1/1970)

"The Librarian

The landscape (the landscape!) again: Gloucester,
the shore one of me is (duplicates), and from which
(from offshore, I, Maximus) am removed, observe.
 
...

—

Presented by Rose and Chris Prater through the Institute of Contemporary Prints 1975

R.B. Kitaj, Charles Olson, 1966
https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1117222

The upper half of a statue of Mary that used to be atop a church in Gloucester, MA. She is holding a ship in one arm, and raising her other arm in a blessing. A black and white picture of Gloucester rooftops can be seen in the background.

Our Lady of Go-Ahead-And-Post-That-Shit blesses you

See the problem here is that I haven't downloaded the app and zee butterfly place doesn't have a for you section which ppl complain about but I have found very helpful if I want to know what you ate or what you did in the last 2-6 hours

The update here is that Jasper keeps taking the "adult" scissors from the kitchen to her room for various who know what and replacing them w kid scissors so last night I found myself trying to trim seasonal cedar twigs w kid scissors

Yes, metal ones probably from the 60s that have been manually sharpened!

Kitchen pencil and scissor mug up

Here you go!

Nothing beats unifying against an asshole on the bus