"there is no snow in Hollywood / there is no rain in California" – Frank O'Hara
“…from the age of thirty or forty on, after we’ve spawned, we’re living on time that evolution regards as pointless. … ‘if you just kept aging at the rate you age between twenty and thirty, you’d live to be a thousand. At thirty, everything starts to change.’ From that point, our risk of mortality doubles every seven years.”
Tad Friend, “The God Pill.” The New Yorker, 4/3/17.
and his massive genitals
refuse to cooperate
no amount of therapy
can hope to save his marriage
Image: public domain, “Hotel room of the Renaissance Hotel in Columbus, Ohio.”
Source: http://marysrosaries.com/, Category: What Man has done with God’s Gifts.
“sign taxonomy” from Saturday’s march by Jia Tolentino in The New Yorker. THE RADICAL POSSIBILITY OF THE WOMEN’S MARCH.”
So I wandered the mall, taking a running sign taxonomy. There were the signs that announced the carrier’s identity: “Fornicating Homosexual Abortionist,” “Now You’ve Gone and Pissed Off Grandma,” “Proud Louisiana Liberal—Send Help!” (Plenty of people carried torches for others: white and Asian women holding Black Lives Matter signs, men with signs about reproductive rights.) Others roasted Donald Trump lightheartedly: “The Devil Wears Bronzer,” “Urine For a Long Four Years.” Some were as frank as possible: “I’m Too Worried to Be Funny,” “I Can’t Believe I Left the Soviet Union for This Shit.” There were pleas for police accountability and grace toward immigrants; innumerable signs protested Trump’s Cabinet, his unreleased tax returns, his “Access Hollywood” gloating descriptions of sexual assault. Coat-hanger cutouts were everywhere.
But Tolentino’s main point was about white women’s politics (emphasis mine):
Beneath the thrill of the broad-minded demonstration, there was a nagging thought that I couldn’t shake, and that some protesters made a point of noting:
if a majority of white women had not voted for Trump in November, he would not currently be President
—and millions of people would not be protesting. There’s a corollary to this that also tugged at me:
if Trump weren’t President—if we had, on Friday, inaugurated President Hillary Clinton—how many of the white women who protested on Saturday would feel as if there weren’t much about America that needed protesting at all?
In areas like Los Angeles and San Diego, as much as a third of the vegetation may have been sages mixed with oaks (Quercus spp.), Toyons (Heteromeles arbutifolia), Mountain lilac (Ceanothus spp.), California sagebrush (Artemisia californica) and Rhus species.
Bert Wilson, Las Pilitas Nursery in Escondido
