My herring1 burns at both ends
It will not last the night
But oh my friends
But oh my friends
It is a fucking FISH on FIRE!2
1Originally was “barracuda”, changed to fit meter to “snapper”, finally settled on “herring”.
2Second revision added capital letters.
This poem was written in September, 2004 and was apparently inspired by an internet chat about the uses of fish oil for illumination.
No, really. It’s in Finland: http://www.ravintolaharald.com/index2.html
Double your liver and kidney damage, but it’s.. um.. healthy. And stuff.
Permanent teenagers, we’re stuck in the web of childhood pretending to be grownups. I’m a fireman, I’m a policeman, I’m a president. The army men fight our battles for us. The faucets spell out coffee, tea, lemonade, pee.
Pop music ate philosophy and shat out talk radio.
The Enlightenment is about half reversed.
I stood on the deck and preached and all the sailors listened and the wind sang through the lines and the wood creaked and everyone, everyone was saved and happy.
Here’s your real world, on the hollow point of a bullet.
The original title of 1984 was 1948. It all already happened, whatever you think is going on. Look up at night and see the ancient light still pouring out of stars.
Before Abraham was, He is.
Got any gum?
Let’s call it “getting schrocked“.
“The voice on the recording suggests specific gay sex acts.”
Wasn’t this a Troy McClure movie?
Dear John Snow:
Thanks for inventing epidemiology on August 31, 1854. We’ve found it handy.
Thanks again,
Humanity
I was going to write a long screed about the New Demagoguery, the horrible echoes of 1933 in our own society, and the increasing acceptance of fascist viewpoints in mass media. But instead, I’ll just link y’all up with this Godwin watch page from the History News Network.
We’re coming up on NEVAR FORGET day, which we are supposed to call “Patriot Day”. I think everyone is still afraid to make money off it in any obvious way. I remember the first anniversary, Hallmark sold cards. I give it 10 years before it’s moved to a Monday.
At least Hallmark isn’t selling theirs now.
Don’t forget activities for the kids, too.
On an unrelated topic, the latest spamdexing trick seems to be mirroring wikipedia articles on your site and then dumping ad banners all over it, so that when I search for a topic or phrase on Google I get many, many hits with identical text on them, none of which are the actual wikipedia. Thanks, guys!
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_world_business/view/104450/1/.html
My God, man, these people. They’re SAVAGES!
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