Defies gravity
Can spit really far
Almost touch my toes
Can cut a fly's legs off with a beer cap from 20 paces
Know how to say useless stuff and prattle on in a dozen languages
Don't know when to shut up
Favorite Quotes
To be for or against the Plague, it's much the same thing.
Fiddledee, how a body shure do get around - just 2 weeks ago I was in Mississippi and now I'm all the way to Tennessee...
Eat or Be Eaten
Better to be pissed off than pissed on.
Biography
Born in swaddling clothes (designer, of course) at the confluence of big waters, my first recorded words were "Dad, can I have the keys to the car?" Raised a Southern Pedestrian, my musical talents were recognized at an early age, leading to my being exiled to the shed out back with a stack of books that became my eddykayshun - advanced readin', writin' & ritmytick, creating a major quandary of "what will I do, oh what will I do?" (Gunslinger)
As an old black man advised in song, "You Gotta Move", so move I did, traveling the byways sideways even a lot of driveways, picking up sticks and psychological tics, even movin' to Beverlee through a quaint misunderstanding of the seriousness of TV series, until finally I blew up so big the carry nation incarnation tarnation couldn't hold me no more, so I fixed my sights on yonder sitar, and like Queequeg and Paul Bowles and one of those abducted kids by the Pied Piper of Hamelin, I ventured forth to the larger world, pickin' and grinnin', doin' me some reckonin' and naughts from naughts, occasionally rightin', building me some buildings and wiring and just trying to understand the babble comin' out of people's mouths and heads, I finally ended up in what Rummy quaintly calls "New Europe", which ain't so new from what I sees, but that pit in my stomach from lack-of-moving-sickness finally disappeared, and instead I sit behind a whopping big desk stacked with missives from all the chiefs with big whampum around the world telling me "what's going on". Which seems like a load of boolshit to me, but I guess that's what keeps me busy and entertained now, separatin' the weeds from the chapstick.
So my name is Perry Keys, or Peracles to you, and since my mammy always said, "say please and thank you", I added the please, but I'm holdin' back on that thankee until I feel you've earned it. But do welcome, and I hope we's a gonna have a real good time. It all starts with, "I wuz born a poor young white chile livin' in the South..." and we cycle through again, like Nietzsche and his infernal regurgence. So enjoy, and let's spin a spell...
Amazon is now delivering nearly half of the items sold on its platform. It’s now a major shipper of its own goods, and the goods of 1000s of firms that rely on its platform.
Which carrier will be most harmed by this? The Post Office. No sign they even see it coming. https://t.co/vrvJfHRmsx
Exclusive: For yrs ES&S, top voting machine maker in US, has been saying its vote tabulators and election-management systems are not connected to the internet. That appears not to be true. Researchers say they found what appear to be 35 online. https://t.co/ncbaLtDhil
Somehow this picture to me's like catching The Clash at a café or on the street or CBGB's during the good years, or maybe the original Runaways - one with me mates.
Maybe it's the film stock of the time, dunno - just seems to stick out as punk era, cats you don't wanna fuck around with, all self-confident, don't take no guff. Maybe I'm bored and it's summer...
Maybe our fixation on the traditional (2 parents-plus-kids) family unit is too tribal, too divided, too go-it-alone?
Toni Morrison had the only good take on family.
This is from a TIME interview in 1989 (I first saw it excerpted in One Dimensional Woman) at the height of the teen pregnancy scares. pic.twitter.com/agqRcRvD5K
What's kind of funny is that New York always had that "shithole country" vibe for anyone not from there - loud, dirty, crooked, dangerous, overcrowded, largely poor living side-by-side with ostentatious wealth... certainly this isn't new, as it welcomed the teeming masses into ill-designed city structures, yet somehow they evolved to be the powerhouse of the 2nd industrial revolution and the Gay 20's and the postwar boom.
But slums have always been a kind of Petri Dish of humanity where both scum & beautiful patterns rise to the top.