SCAMMING BLACK PEOPLE AND REPUBLCANS AT THE SAME TIME I LOVE AMERICA

This morning I was looking for radio stations in my area and noticed

that

109.9 Jamz which plays only black R and B music and has pro Obama banners on their site

is ran out of the same building as 1330 Talk WGFT which has nothing but conservative radio hosts.

One can look around their site and see that they have the managers and are out of the same building.

I don't know what is worse

Scamming black people or scamming sad lonely white Republicans that are mostly racist.

I think that this exists proves that our country has a severe fucking psychological problem.

I just called the radio station and got to leave a message. I told them that they were disgusting and morally reprehensible for doing such a thing and that they should hate themselves.

They both have the same phone number

so call this number

330/744-5115

and tell them they are assholes

MASSIVE READING in OHIO

In Ohio at the DIT FEST Sam Pink, Tao Lin, Jordan Castro and myself will all be in the same town.

I feel like this will be really fucked up.

I feel like there will be too many fucked up people in one place.

END OF THE SUMMER NEWS

I passed both of the stupid math classes I had to take with Cs.

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Saw the Avett Brothers and Of Montreal in concert.

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These are the books I read this summer

The Protestant Ethic- Max Weber
Destiny and Fate- Glenn Tinder
Kenneth Waltz-Man the state and war
Politics Amongst Nations- Hans Morgenthau
Philosophy and The Mirror of Nature- Richard Rorty
Elementary Logic- Quine
Plutarch Lives- Plutarch
reread some Livy
The Art of Rhetoric- Aristotle
Edith Hamilton’s Greek Mythology
Democracy in America- Alexis De Tocqueville
Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals-Kant
Language, Truth and Logic- A.J. Ayer
Erskine Caldwell- Greta
Winter of our Discontent- John Steinbeck
Miami and The Siege of Chicago- Norman Mailer
Currently reading The End of the Road by John Barth

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Grew some zucchini and tomatoes.

BACK FROM VACATION

At Ellen Kennedy's House in Maine. Ellen Kennedy was really nice. She brought us to many places. She brought us to a Latino Religious shop where we bought magical oils and candles.



We to the Bukowski Bar near Harvard. It has a lot of different beers and asperagus wrapped in bacon. It had like five paintings of Bukowski.



This me and my roommate Bernice standing in front of the Ghost Hunters building in Warwick Rhode Island. Jay, Grant, Steve, Tango, Chris Williams, and Amy Bruni weren't there. So we just looked at it and felt the awesome power of TAPS.



We hiked to the top of Cadillac Mountain. This is Bernice, Brittany and me.


Here are some pictures.

Eating Lobster

How arrogant can I get

when i was little i failed kindergarten

i was standing beside an apple tree and the kids called me stupid.

I remember crying really hard.

I was at school and I couldn't read and everyone called me stupid.

I remember crying really hard.

I had a dog named Peach that fell into a neighbor's expensive pool. Everyone looked at me like I was a stupid asshole with a stupid asshole dog.

I had a neighbor that was a boy that liked to show his penis. He was as Brittany Wallace says, "In love with his penis."

I kept getting older

Kept waking up everyday

And time kept passing

This time passing thing had nothing to do with me.

It just kept passing

And so did I

I kept passing

I played sports when I was young.

I remember I couldn't hit a baseball.

So my dad brought me out in the yard and made me practice for hours while screaming at me.

He also made play catch for hours while screaming at me.

On nice nights I would go outside and toss a tennis ball off the chimney and catch for hours upon hours, practicing catching. my chimney was very wide. It is hard describe, you would probably have to see the chimney.

I played junior high football. I played running back. In practice we would practice hand offs. Hand offs are not as easy as you think. I kept fumbling the ball. The couch was a marine and kept screaming at me.

We would have to tackle people in practice. The couch would scream at me.

One time I missed a throw in baseball and the couch screamed at me.

My youth was full of adult men screaming at me to do better.

So I started writing and playing music to escape this screaming and humiliation of being stupid.

But the screaming never stopped.

The screaming lives in my head very strong.

I remember when I played baseball and this old man kept screaming at us, "YOU ARE ALL LACKADAISICAL, LACKADAISICAL, that's the word describes you boys, LACKADAISICAL!!!!"

why america has so many fiscal problems

This summer I took a class in public budgeting.

The class was fucking boring.

I believe this to be the problem

no one ever says

"I want to be a public budgetter when i grow up."

Because the job is lame.

People who are involved in the public budget are like auditors, chamber of commerce, elected officials, and other random people.

I think that people are attracted to the positions involving public budgeting like mayor or the chamber of commerce because it allows for some power in the community, respect from parents and friends, the job pays enough to get a nice house and health insurance. And it offers things like going to parties, fund raisers, drinking nice wine with important people and other things of prestige.

But the actual job is boring and tedious and lame.

The job attracts people who like prestige.

The online definition of prestige is, "a high standing achieved through success or influence or wealth etc.; "he wanted to achieve power and prestige""

Okay

Youngstown has no money

There isn't any money anywhere

Everyone knows this

Obama passed the American Recovery and Investment Act and it gave some money to Youngstown. Youngstown basically rebuilt Youngstown using it.

There isn't going to be any money to keep a lot of things going in ten years. It is pretty fucking obvious.

But no one who likes prestige will admit this.

They will try to keep their prestige going no matter what.

So everything will just keep on going, everyone will keep taking out loans and borrowing and getting more into debt.

I feel like America has prestige problems.

We don't have an economic crisis.

But a Prestige Crisis.

A civilization obsessed with prestige.

In future history books it will read, "America was brought down mainly by its obsession with prestige. Their psychological obsession with quick and easy transportation, for attaining respectable positions in society and their cliche ridden movies and literature led to an interpretation of reality that was false which led to constant bad decisions for the sake of maintaining their own prestige."