Friday, August 31, 2007

 

Sacred France, Neocon View


We tabbed you Cheese-
Eating Surrender Monkeys once.

Presently relish your kneeling be-
fore our Throne of Blood.


------

Rocco will only refer to this childhood friend as
“The Republican.”


ROCCO
One hundred fifty billion spend on New Orleans and
still looks like a war zone. So, where'd the money go?
Your friends in the Administration might have a
vague idea.

THE REPUBLICAN
Like to know that myself.

ROCCO
Into pockets is the short answer.

THE REPUBLICAN
Well, local officials liable to be corrupt anywhere, but that
wouldn't explain...

ROCCO
Those are the shallow pockets boys. They're flyshit.
I mean the deep pockets cronies of Bush and Cheney.

THE REPUBLICAN
You're way off!

ROCCO
Uh huh. And those deep pockets have holes where much of the money falls through into a pipeline to the Republican National Committee. It's called the endless loop in computer language.

THE REPUBLICAN
I can't do anything about your paranoid suspicions--also an endless loop--but the money will be accounted for. Every cent.

ROCCO
Dream on Macduff! Hey, if you head up a ring of thieves,
like Bush and Cheney, does that make them thieves also?

THE REPUBLICAN
More like the philosophical heads of many honest people--
and a few clinkers.

ROCCO
This is America. The few profit enormously. Rest, suckers.
How could anybody working for a living vote Republican?

THE REPUBLICAN
Only if you wanted rule, and not mishmash. As if nobody stole under Democrats!

ROCCO
Amateurs!

THE REPUBLICAN
Must be awful to be like you!

ROCCO
Called The Reality-Based Community.

THE REPUBLICAN
We’re that! The President uses his powers for the benefit
of the people!

ROCCO
Ooooops! Short circuit! If I responded to every straight line, well, that’s the real endless loop!



Thursday, August 30, 2007

 
Rocco will only refer to this childhood friend as
“The Republican.”


RR
One hundred fifty billion spend on New Orleans and
still looks like a war zone. So, where'd the money go?
Your friends in the Administration might have a
vague idea.

TR
Like to know that myself.

RR
Into pockets is the short answer.

TR
Well, local officials liable to be corrupt anywhere, but that
wouldn't explain...

RR
Those are the shallow pockets boys. They're flyshit.
I mean the deep pockets cronies of Bush and Cheney.

TR
You're way off!

RR
Uh huh. And those deep pockets have holes where much of the money falls through into a pipeline to the Republican National Committee. It's called the endless loop in computer language.

TR
I can't do anything about your paranoid suspicions--also an endless loop--but the money will be accounted for. Every cent.

RR
Dream on Macduff! Hey, if you head up a ring of thieves,
like Bush and Cheney, does that make them thieves also?

TR
More like the philosophical heads of many honest people--
and a few clinkers.

RR
This is America. The few profit enormously. Rest, suckers.
How could anybody working for a living vote Republican?

TR
Only if you wanted rule, and not mishmash. As if nobody stole under Democrats!

RR
Amateurs!

TR
Must be awful to be like you!

RR
Called The Reality-Based Community.

TR
We’re that! The President uses his powers for the benefit
of the people!

RR
Ooooops! Short circuit! If I responded to every straight line, well, that’s the real endless loop!



Wednesday, August 29, 2007

 
Rocco FREELY expresses opinions in South Philadelphia.

Read below and elsewhere in this blog. Though brutally
outnumbered, many other citizens do the same,
despite TABOOS.

 
Rocco and GOP Men’s Room

VINNIE
Jesus H Christ! Another Republican caught in a bathroom!

ROCCO
Sad, low shit. If they could express themselves in a healthy
society, they’d have a boy on the side.

VINNIE
Would he be welcomed at the family gatherings?

ROCCO
Weddings, Bar Mitzvahs,picnics with horseshoes. Yeah!

VINNIE
How about the mistresses? I mean the broad ones.

ROCCO
More the merrier!

VINNIE
You’re looking at a real extended family there!

ROCCO
All kinds of love!

VINNIE
You’re a liberal all right.

ROCCO
Maybe better label, Christian.

VINNIE
Not according to what I’ve read.

ROCCO
Go back to original source. Jesus the most welcoming
guy you could think of!

VINNIE
Put him in charge of your picnic?

ROCCO
He’d circulate and introduce everybody to everybody else.
What a vibe love is!

VINNIE
Anything you say.













Tuesday, August 28, 2007

 
Barbarians At the Gates

Well,not always. Whores
sneak them in. After a bit,
one says Don't go you hairy
babbler! She was new,from
countryside,not as patriotic
as the other girls. Soon his
brother comes in to buy
weapons. Next,guards fall
asleep and hordes follow,then
it becomes 2-way with prophets
leaving the city to scream,along
with peddlers & medicine men.
Afterwards the gates left wide
always. Most who fled trickle back.
Generations pass & nobody
can tell who anybody was.
If you have a particular nose,
you’re original & noble.
But many ridicule it.

 
Barbarians At the Gates

Well,not always. Whores
sneak them in. After a bit,
one says Don't go you hairy
babbler! She was new,from
countryside,not as patriotic
as the other girls. Soon his
brother comes in to buy
weapons. Next,guards fall
asleep& hordes follow,then
it becomes 2-way with prophets
leaving the city to scream,along
with peddlers and medicine men.
Afterwards the gates left wide
always. Most who fled trickle back.
Generations pass & nobody
can tell who anybody was.
If you have a particular nose,
you’re original & noble.
But many ridicule it.

Monday, August 27, 2007

 
Bourne, or What the Doctor Ordered In Italian At the End

In newest,stereotypical bitch
charged with X-ing him now,man-

nish clothes,slicing tongue & will.
He has lost his complex Marie,

wasted,one supposes,by CIA. But even
ole Mannish softens a bit & triple-

cute round-faced girl gets her
role expanded & coy,too. Hey!
Belay such chickflick sops anyhow!

The real romantic adventure: No way
of murdering Bourne. Again!
Send up to a dozen & it's nothing.

More than that,diminishing returns:
They bumble into each other with
detonating outcomes.

Hope he keeps on going. Why? &
why the appeal to so many males?
After all, just a comic strip

compared to the real evil foisted by
Washington & underlined in many
national capitals. Well,majority of

men worldwide count beans in itch-
ing desperation. So, need Bourne,

(not to mention Rambo). In addition,

MAYBE MARIE DIDN’T REALLY DIE ?

come il cacio sui maccheroni !

Sunday, August 26, 2007

 
After the Drink and Whatever

man & woman embrace un-
tepidly in the strip

mall,behind their cars.
Thence back to Honey,Bunny.

Old men once sneered Get a room!
But that’d aid and abet what com-
munity needs less of.

Saturday, August 25, 2007

 
Populating the New Planet

2-Headed be conflicted;
12-headed drown
in chatter.

Dr Kevin likes 6,
calls ‘em “My 6-Paks.”

Though Lab can’t make up
many w/o the cash!

(As footnote, young PhDs
say odd-numbered =
better math.

Old researchers laugh at them.
Thus has it ever been in
our history of 5000 years.)

Friday, August 24, 2007

 
The Meeting

-Those of us who stayed allowed to use custodians' shower, so we remained presentable. And my wife brought in fresh clothes for a good while.

-How did she feel...?

-Proud at first, but wearied that my usual hometasks were being neglected. I was an ace in the garden.

-What happened to it?

-Oursourced. Really good man...well she eventually married the gardener.

-All that sacrifice! For the company!

-Well, some fruition at least. I tried to toast the record with Lou from Purchasing, and he my mandatory retirement, when he...

-Dropped dead. I heard.

-Tragically. Anyway, so, that's it. You can't have
a meeting with just one person.

-You're historian too, right. How many...?

-Average attendance twenty-six. High over a hundred.

-Wow! How did you ever stick with it? Then endless business meeting is a standard joke, but you actually...

-Tons of Danish.

-Sixteen years worth! Brother! You haven't left the building in sixteen years! This room really, except for the shower.

-We started with butcher paper and grease pencils. Now Power Point of course.

-Look at those monitors!

-They just came. Big as multiplex screens.
I think I'll go to a movie now.

-You deserve it.

-Thanks, but I've been recognized. The Big Man
sent a dvd.

-I heard everybody was forced to watch it.

-We don't look at things that way.

Thursday, August 23, 2007

 
Do You Have Faith in God Above?

-I thought it was a debate. He said nothing and so I carried
on with the talking points. I don't understand. Then in the middle,
he left. Left!

-We have footage. Tomorrow's commercial: COWARD QUIET. Next day,
COWARD FLEES.

-But...what...?

-Let's salute technical first. Tape loop which repeats three times
and then destroys itself. Neat! Fed into his earphone.

-What did it say?

-DOO-y MOO-y.

-Cut it out!

-The little girl they lost?

-I heard something but don't...

-At a turnpike rest stop. They had given her kitten few days before.
It ran away and she chased it. Truck took both out.

-Jesus Christ!

-Whatever. Anyway DOO-y etc what she said in ambulance.
Nonsense? Her name for cat? Who knows?

-I've been in politics quite a while and I...well that turns
my stomach!

Bingo! You hire me to do things you can't stomach. That's the deal.
Not the New Deal or the Fair Deal, but the Real Deal!

Wednesday, August 22, 2007

 
Subtleties of Foreign Policy

How can you Americans claim to understand us
when we don’t understand ourselves?*

Why it’s black-white,
good-evil. All’s dual
in faith and war: you

have Americans &
you have assholes.

Don’t need a laser
to aim an asshole.

*attributed to tribal chief,Iraq

Tuesday, August 21, 2007

 
Americans losing homes may be hit by income taxes on canceled debt*

Cronies hideously engorged,
Uncle swoops in for dessert.


*paraphrased from NYTimes

Monday, August 20, 2007

 
HEARTLAND

Setting Bluebird Café, a sort of university

-That's a good one. They got Ay-rabs sneakin’ in Mexico and
then comin’ here.

-I'll check that stoop field outside town. They still wearing their robes?

-Just the grimy Spick clothes like the illegals do.

-Arabs in the artichokes, hey?

-Not the worst of it. They'll be a wave of queers joining 'em: mark my words!
And then another one of--

-Wearing dresses?

-Niggers! From the cities! Why we're buying more guns n’everything!

-I gotta close my eyes to see. That there's one crowded vision!
Like parts of the Bible, but with rocket launchers.

-And I ain't forgetting the Jews neither!

-But they hate the Arabs. How they gonna get along?

-They'll figure it out. All of ‘em will. Anything to make our kids all faggots!

Sunday, August 19, 2007

 
The Gathering Up

Park Service Police collected shoes abandoned outside the Executive Office Building and White House yesterday. (Photo)

Credit was claimed by Roma Entire, an activist group attempting to illustrate the old Italian proverbial expression You’re about as smart as my shoes!

Saturday, August 18, 2007

 
Euclid in the 'hood

When you don't have time
you don't know

you don't have time so
you got lotsa time.

Friday, August 17, 2007

 
Rocco and Money Mikey Discuss Foreclosures

ROCCO
Money Mikey! People all over the country are losing houses!
What's happening? Money is your shit! Lay it on me, Guru!

MONEY MIKEY
Just beginning. Zillion mortgages resetting.

ROCCO
What's that mean? I have some idea but...

MONEY MIKEY
Bank has been twisting it in. Now it adds a couple of rotations.
With barbs.

ROCCO
You know me. Bleeding Heart Liberal. Can’t the government help out?
Somehow? It's tragic really. American Dream and all that?

MONEY MIKEY
Yeah. That's all nice. But the dough’s needed for the war.
Saving ten house or blowing up ten Arabs. Let's keep our values intact.

ROCCO
They hate freedom. Decider says so.

MONEY MIKEY
Not the ones blown to bits. They don't hate anything anymore.


Rocco reacts with other characters in South Philadelphia. Many such encounters
are searchable on this blog.

Thursday, August 16, 2007

 
Science Is a Meanie

You get to believe
in a mystery pill &
studies debunk.

Bush hos
have it right:

Follow the bouncing
ball & sing happy.

Wednesday, August 15, 2007

 

USA life expectancy 42d

Living in GREATEST NAY-
SHUN in THE WORLD !

jus’too giddying?

Tuesday, August 14, 2007

 
When the Well Poisoner Leaves Town

Double-check.

Monday, August 13, 2007

 
Future Candidate


-I ask you to consider voting for me. Would you like a white straw boater
or a pin with red white and blue ribbons?

-Don’t bother. We’re dying from The Plague.

-When I’m elected I’ll end The Plague!

-Too late for us.

-Hang in there! Scrape a few thousand together and go to a medicine auction. But right now, would you pay a hundred for a photo with me?

-Nah. We look like shit!

-Buck up! Country wasn’t built by whiners.

-Easy for you to say. Rich boy. We’re still waiting for that trickle-down.

-Waiting is the courage of your class! Well, I’d shake your hand but all the green spots on there put me off.

-Pray for us!

-Hey! 22'd Century! Don‘t hafta put on that religious crap anymore!
The God-Shit went downhill after 2050.

-It’s our Faith! Still!

-Too bad. But I’m filling out absentee ballots right now for this crew–-
noble exit gestures. And as a reward, TV gang’ll leave you the bones
from their rib lunches. Sauce is to die for! Hey! That’s funny! To die for?

Sunday, August 12, 2007

 
Made For You and Me

Every time I see
a wretch dragging
his leg in this place

I think of the pain
he has undergone

and his parents never
having the means to
correct the condition.

But in the land of the brave
they were free! And isn't that

really really fuckin-somethin'
totally better?

Saturday, August 11, 2007

 
Little Women

-Every bedtime he whispered Good Night My Loveliness!

-How sweetly beautiful!

-I finally ran off with somebody else.

-Why? Was it sex?

-Don’t remember.

Friday, August 10, 2007

 
Fitting the Shoe

Those who can
make you believe
absurdities can

make you commit
atrocities.*

*Voltaire

Thursday, August 09, 2007

 
Management 101

In times howl-
ingly chaotic
take a stance.

Someone can enter
later to show where

you should rethink.
(Hey! God himself prob-

ably can be reasoned with–
who are you?) It’s only

that there must be a fixed
site in any fluid setting.
Right,wrong,even dopey. Since

assholes not deemed
attractive,especially
when flying.

Wednesday, August 08, 2007

 
Country Matters

MONITOR1
Two Dem senators discussing some international whore? President likes to hear about these things.

MONITOR2
Is one calling from a foreign country? That’s the law.

MONITOR1
Yeah. Massachusetts.

Tuesday, August 07, 2007

 
Speaking of Nuts

“Like the way they
can give you shots now.

Almost by radio. Zip zap.
Easier to put chip in.

Mine’s in my left ball,
which keeps descending.

How far can it go, Uncle Sam?
Hafta go out in public!”

Monday, August 06, 2007

 
Aides


A1
You get this too?

A2
The slight lift upward of the hand? Yes.

A1
Meaning Get it done! Don’t bother me with trivialities!

A2
Harvard Business School Model. He only does the huge and masterly things. Perfect cover for the completely lazy bastard. Or the incompetent.

A1
Are you saying–?

A2
I say nothing. Just an aide like you.

A1
Well, what do we do in regards to his little wave? We’re supposed to act together on it, you know.

A2
Nothing. Not a fuckin thing. I got bigger fish to fry.

A1
But–?

A2
You work for me.

A1
We always...together. Since College Republicans.

A2
Don’t worry. I’m not really pulling rank. It’s just that the number one senator was in here last week and actually snapped at me, “How ‘bout you shake you lil girlie-boy ass and get me cuppa coffee?” Obnoxious, venal crook.

A1
He talks to everybody like that.

A2
Not to you and not to me!

A1
Nothing we can do–

A2
Summon! him tomorrow. Fuck him raw on how he has betrayed the president and the party! Ream him out while he turns scarlet!

A1
He’ll just tell us to–!

A2
That right?

A1
Or phone pres or vp screaming.

A2
That’s when you come in. You’re the shortstop.

A1
Oh yeah! Like I can–

A2
Just thump attache case.

A1
Yeah, that’ll scare him!

A2
And pronounce four words. That’s all. Dead Puerto Rican woman.

A1
Wow!

A2
He’ll think we got the goods in there, but ‘ll be empty. Bluff. At any rate,
she didn’t die in his sleazy bed, but went back to her village and cashed in
after a few days.

A1
What–?

A2
Poison. Probably meant for him.

A1
Terrorists?

A2
Wife.

A1
Christ! But why are you doing this?

A2
Thought that was obvious. I despise him! And small fry don’t get these chances very often.

A1
I didn’t think we needed them.

A2
That’s where you’re wrong. Beginning of power in this town.

Sunday, August 05, 2007

 
Difference Between Old Man and Camel–w/literary allusion

Camel pisses a gallon or 2.
Old Man dribbles
from here to eternity.

Saturday, August 04, 2007

 
Ideal Week

Monday dreams
Tuesday,and on.

Saturday one gets
ossified,& flips

through week’s im-
ages Sunday mid
puking.

Friday, August 03, 2007

 
Many Dead in Minneapolis Collapse

Bridge poet Berryman leapt
from? Leaving behind no apt
language enroute? Artists

should stick around. When John
smashed the water a mortgage
broker bobbed up

somewhere. In present shuffle,
Snuffles, certain lucks
run down t’zip.

Thursday, August 02, 2007

 
Sour Note

Caesar on,
Stab in Back

hist prompt,
lit & fig. Best
blot defeat?

Scour face?
Fart in wind.

Wednesday, August 01, 2007

 
Left Wing Media–or the absurdities one hears

Rupert Murdoch & GE
Jack Welsh dropped in

on their Radio-TV news-
rooms & TOLD

harried staffers to call
election for Bush.

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