Stray Captions, Remarks, and Comments

Aliens

Go into a store and be ignored by bored sales staff. Be brushed off by indifferent managers.

OR: Go in, find THEM, TELL them what you want from them, INSIST they deal with it right now, and KEEP AT THEM until they do it even if it’s just to get rid of you. Oh, sure, you’re a bully and a pest, they’ll say. Guess what, sparky: You got what you wanted.

That’s the difference between being Nice and being Mean.

Mean gets what it wants because it goes after it, and is only called Mean by the lazy, apathetic bastards and morons.  So who cares?

Social engineering — getting people to do what you want — is not for the timid or cowed or slaves to etiquette.  It’s why rich people seem so casual about trampling feelings and protocol:  They are getting what they want and do not care about petty conformity.

Because of this, I am the only person in the universe ever to have purchased a book from Nebraska Furniture Mart, which does not sell books. I found a rare one being used as stage decoration for one of their displays. I insisted I was buying it, and they became distressed, calling in several managers trying to figure out what to charge me. I was polite but insistent, at one point even saying, “Well, if you don’t care, I’ll just take it with me, although I’m perfectly happy to pay for it if you name a price.” At last one manager, obviously way too busy for such shenanigans, dismissively said, “I dunno, what ever, charge him a dollar.” Thus I got not only a rare hardcover, but at a bargain price. I love ignorant apathy.

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I’m hoping to live long enough to transfer my consciousness into a robot body.

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The psychopaths weaponize everything.

They also tend to prevail.

Here’s why: “Nice” people abide by the rules and constraints. They are controlled by others. They conform. “Mean” people go after what they want and the fuck GET it.

This is not to say one cannot be human and humane while also going after what you want. It just means that many will call you mean if you do so.

The root meaning of “mean” is grasping, stingy, and miserly, by the way. Ungenerous. Greedy.

See how this all works?

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Truncate, v. – To cut a body to fit a trunk. See Hitchcock.

/ Revised Devil’s Dictionary, Stewart Edition

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My grandmothers WERE riots.

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Yeah, shoveling the attention coal to keep the interest engine stoked can get exhausting, can’t it?

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The official end of any chance for originality has been announced.  An American judge has now declared the Sherlock Holmes canon public domain.

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Hipster Abe says:  Chill.  Lincoln in shades, man.  Rayban Wayfarers, you know it.

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Once we bump off Big Oil and Big Energy, solar will take over because it is a hundred times more efficient and less expensive, plus it’s nearly pollution free by contrast even factoring in manufacturing and installation costs.

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Cory Doctorow is vindicated. He has said often, you WISH you were being pirated. This is why. Also how.  The heavy metal rock group Iron Maiden monitored where it was most pirated, then toured there, expanding their fan base and making millions in concerts and merch sales.  Pirating indicates interest.  Interest is what advertizing costs money to create and if you’re getting it for free, you need simply then tap into it.

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Democrats have to stop allowing manners and other such social restraints to stifle them.  Tacit collusion must stop. They really need to start always speaking up, LOUDLY, against any and all right wing GOP lies and crimes.

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I often want to go back to the little boy I was and whisper warnings and advice.  Perhaps I did.

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The psychopaths weaponize everything.

They also tend to prevail.

Here’s why:  “Nice” people abide by the rules and constraints.  They are controlled by others.  They conform.  “Mean” people go after what they want and the fuck GET it.

This is not to say one cannot be human and humane while also going after what you want.  It just means that many will call you mean if you do so.

The root meaning of “mean” is grasping, stingy, and miserly, by the way.  Ungenerous.  Greedy.

See how this all works?

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Right wing logic, as refined by the entirely psychopathic and corrupt GOP:

Murder a guy right in front of everyone.  While still holding the bloody knife, point at some schmuck nearby and start yelling, HE DID IT, YOU ALL SAW HIM, HE MURDERED THIS POOR MAN, OH MY GOD LOOK AT THIS, LOOK WHAT HE DID, GET HIM, GET HIM NOW, QUICK BEFORE HE GETS AWAY OR KILLS MORE OF US, AHHHH.

And it works.  The Big Lie works despite all rational objections.

Welcome to America.

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Barry N. Malzberg once said, resulting in decades of blacklisting: “A contract, in the eyes of a publisher, is made to be broken. After all, what’s a mere writer gonna do? Sure can’t afford the army of lawyers you’d need if they cheat you.”‘

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A horde of eager wanna-be “authors” who have no interest in writing and no awareness that the details matter at least as much as everything else explains the torrent of sub-literate drool that comprises the majority of ebooks. Trad pub moans how it used to provide gatekeepers to filter out the good stuff but its track record is raggged, spotty, and stained at best and a ludicrous scandal of incompetence when seen in the clear light of day. Most trad pub editors did not know quality if it bit off their stubbed ego and most trad publishers bragged about not reading books, which they viewed as mere product extruded for the market. What needs to happen is like-minded groups forming to sift, read, discuss, and promote what they consider good. In that way, a natural filter will form allowing us to find work we can value and cherish. The other half of that very serious coin is that writers, not authors, must create worthy, worthwhile, and well-written material for those tasteful groups to find and recommend to others. Thus a natural order will be restored or, perhaps, allowed for the first time. This is a time of huge opportunity.

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LEAVE IT TO BEAVER was originally pitched as MEET THE CLEAVERS but that bloody notion was axed by executives who wanted a less violent subversion of the TV Code. / Brother Butch

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You can hate me all you want but I’m not going to coddle your inner toddler, ever. You either do it well or not and I will bluntly tell you which.

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I want to walk into those trees and not come back.

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No. The GOP did it to us, and the Democrats sat around flopping their limp dicks.

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Holy fuck, turns out I’m an outlier. Can anyone even HEAR me? Hello? Way over HERE, folks. That fat speck waving at you? That’s ME.

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You know what? Trans drama queens? Who needs ’em? Other than slavish masochist sycophants, of course.

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Carl Jung has some rough times in dreamland but he always stood up to the bullies.

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When you torture people they do NOT break down and spill secrets. They break down and tell you what ever they think you want to hear. They confabulate, confess to anything, and make statements on propaganda video. Torture does NOT result in truth telling or secret spilling. That is a sadist’s myth and a republicant’s lie.

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A note to Jeremy C Shipp : Apparently one of your garden gnomes is named Chomsky and he’s stirring up some trouble…

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Uh-oh. My Nike+ wrist band just called me a lazy bastard.

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Because after all rape is not a crime in a woman-hating rape culture.

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It has never been any different, except in how much access to power the psychopaths and crazies are allowed. / Brother Butch

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Never before in American history has the phrase “go fuck a duck” meant more. / Brother Butch

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What do you want?
Information.
You won’t get it.
By hook or by crook, we will.
/ PRISONER

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It’s called knowing your shit.

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TSA? Thugs and bullies. It’s not about security. It’s about indoctrinating and inuring you to doing as told. Always. Even down to body cavity searches. Socks. Ridiculous rules about shampoo. Etc. Bend over, loser. *snap*

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Caption under a picture of a snow-covered bridge: Nice place to live when the axe falls.

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Try this in real life. Half the time you’ll bleed for it.

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Know Your Rights! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lfInFVPkQs

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What I’m currently reading, very slowly, amidst many distractions:

I am finishing The Cuckoo’s Calling as by Robert Galbraith, (J K Rowling’s mystery) because I enjoyed A Casual Vacancy so much. Have not been let down.

Also reading Death in the City of Lights by David King, historical true crime done vividly and well; interesting tale of how a serial killer was caught in Nazi-occupied Paris and how the occupation affected things, along with how the serial killer being revealed affected things.

Also Bad Glass by Richard E. Gropp, a novel about reality breaking down, or another reality protruding into ours, or something, in Spokane, WA, which has been cordoned off and evacuated. A photo-journalist goes in to see what’s what and maybe get some Pulitzer-worthy pix. What he finds is himself, via the others who choose to stay in the strangeness zone, which is very risky.

Also Black Dahlia & White Rose: Stories by Joyce Carol Oates, a collection of stories in which women are the victims of violence of many kinds at many levels. Recommended, as is her novella Black Water.

That’s what I’m currently immersed in, along with writing an erotic mystery novel, a contemporary philosophical mystery novel, and putting together the first volume of my published stories to pitch to publishers.

Interested parties please let me know.

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ReEntry

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Can’t wait ’til the rich white republicant scum start eating children openly.

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Rusty coat-hangers in back alleys, septicemia, internal bleeding, death. That is what the GOP wants for women.

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In SOYLENT GREEN, the notion is using dead people as a protein source to feed the masses. Can’t work. Diminishing returns. However, the RICH could feed off the poor quite sustainably, which is the subtext warning in Harry Harrison’s novel Make Room, Make Room!

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“Crash Barrier Waltzer” from the “Baker Street Muse” section of MINSTREL IN THE GALLERY by Ian Anderson, as played by Tull, 1975, comes this reminder that hateful right-wing attacks on the poor is nothing at all new, as Madame LeFarge might also have told you.

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And here slip I — dragging one foot in the gutter —
in the midnight echo of the shop that sells cheap
radios.
And there sits she — no bed, no bread, no butter —
on a double yellow line — where she can park anytime.
Old Lady Grey; crash-barrier waltzer —
some only son’s mother. Baker Street casualty.
Oh, Mr. Policeman — blue shirt ballet master.
Feet in sticking plaster —
move the old lady on.
Strange pas-de-deux —
his Romeo to her Juliet.
Her sleeping draught, his poisoned regret.
No drunken bums allowed to sleep here in the
crowded emptiness.
Oh officer, let me send her to a cheap hotel —
I’ll pay the bill and make her well – like hell you
bloody will!
No do-good over kill. We must teach them
to be still more independent.

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Edith Piaf singing “Non, je ne regrette rien”: The optimism of fatalism and surrender.

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Thank heavens for little judges. / Bully GOP

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A cubical for everyone, and everyone in a cubicle. Then they ship them out to sea and dump them, but you don’t know that part yet.

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If we don’t do it for ourselves it will no be done. Abandon corporate and focus on DIY. It’s the only way.

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Corporate lies don’t work anymore. Abandon the corporate poison and embrace the natural stuff.

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Downsized? Fired? Homeless? I advise crime, preferably vicious robberies of rich scum republicants.

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We all know one way or another some fucking corporation is behind this.

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New Pope? Lipstick on a pig, anyone?

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Forgetting the past is like forgetting there’s a cliff nearby. / Samael Gyre

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There are things I’ve said and done that never leave me alone and every time I recall them I feel a pang of awful regret.

Walked in from high school once to find my parents in the dining room. My mother was gushing over a pen with a digital clock set into it. Yes, this was back in the days when such a thing was a novelty. Her gushing was so over-the-top that I said, “It’s a clock in a pen. Now you can tell how long it takes to sign your name. What’s the use of such a stupid thing?”

And she said, “Well, I love it, your father just gave it to me for our anniversary,” and I realized, it was all he could afford.

And I still wish I’d killed myself before opening my fucking corrosive idiot mouth. Damn me to hell.

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Idaho alone has slaughtered over 800 wolves so far in the latest nationwide push to exterminate them. It is being funded by greedy ranchers. It should outrage all actual human beings. It must be stopped.

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Just because a teacher teaches it does not mean a student learns it. Remember that, bigots.

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Susie Salmon says hi.

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I’ll never forget you, Rose. / Alternative DR. WHO ending for TITANIC.

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Happy Solstice Day. Out of the darkness, light.

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Meteor

About Gene Stewart

Born 7 Feb 1958 Altoona, PA, USA Married 1980 Three sons, grown Have lived in Japan, Germany, all over US Currently in Nebraska I write, paint, play guitar Read widely Wide taste in music, movies Wide range of interests Hate god yap Humanist, Rationalist, Fortean Love the eerie
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