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Roanoke Times
(Anonymous [sic])
2011-02-07 01:26 am UTC
DUDE! Scott Barrios, uda man. I love your letters to the Roanoke Times, they should give you a weekly column! I like the cut of your jib, my man. I bet that like me you're an aphid indoorsman and tubesocker. We should get together sometime, unsheath and engage in a little friendly swordplay. U in? Do you still work out at the airport? Wanna meet me at the Waffle House? Keep putting Kagan and Obama in their place for trying to keep oil prices low while eschewing Valley Metro and tanking up your car, I'm totally with you on that. Now we just gotta get rid of all the enviroMENTALists and NeoCroms.
God Bless,
Charles Manningson
.. there's always a strong Autobiographical component to Stanley's work, from mailing out naked photos of himself in the American 1990's to riding the Tesla tip to fame as a naive girl researcher working in the Balkans. rather than repeat himself, Stanley turned his back on "easy fame" to practice what some media analysts have characterized as "Grudge Rock": Billy Jack-style guerrilla theatre. one memorable episode involved goading a bouncer at an NYC nightspot into dragging him down some steps and bruising his arm. a more traditional foray into th' autobiographical was The Golden Horseshoe: A New Hope, wherein the audience - purely by force of narrative - is dragged screaming past the Updike Funeral Home and through the streets of Huddleston, VA. ever the trickster, he has also presented texts under the name "Bob Mangold" (think Richard Bachman or, better yet, a Nu.Yawk/Philly/BlooRidge Borges). not sure what to make of the above letter, though. i mean, the whole pro-war homoeroticism thing has been done already, right? (Jamie Kirchick, 300, etc). there are prolly deeper levels, though / stuff that, like, a more discriminating critic might pick up on.
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Jeffrey Stanley , Oct11 2011 :
http://barriosformayor.weebly.com/
in which Our Boy in Philly quotes and/or links to the following reliable sources:
- a George Allen campaign operative who was driven from both California and Virginia under a cloud of child sex-abuse allegations.
- a local woman who - along with her "corroborative witness" - was escorted from out the Roanoke County Courthouse for traumatizing a Notary (Aug09 2011).
- himself.
In short .. birds, feather, etc. / i wonder how much - if anything - Héloïse Devi-Stanley knows about his Secret Life ..
[ Keyzletahn: jeffrey stanley , brain on fire , lords of lite , tesla's letters , the pepsi 400 , la esquina , beautiful zion , wayne newton , beavis and butt-head season 4 episode 29 , "tim daschel? how 'bout i call you tim DARSHel?" , valley metro , 7 minute abs , tim barrios for mayor the movie , 40 yr old meat bags (and other stale ingredients) ]
James Risen mumbling racial slurs under his breath at a WalMart.
James Risen going 5 miles out of his way so he doesn't go to the same liquor store twice in one day.
James Risen pretending he's not home when insurance fraud investigators repeatedly ring his doorbell.
James Risen pretending to leave a note on the windshield of a car he scratched parallel parking because pedestrians saw him do it.
James Risen realizing the stripper doesn't really "like" "him"
James Risen slowing down his car to check out a group of high school cheerleaders, only to be recognized by his daughter's best friend.
James Risen checking casual encounters for guys who aren't gay but like blowing dudes anyway.
James Risen scrubbing egg remnants off his aluminum siding
James Risen arguing with the checkout clerk about an expired Ragu coupon
James Risen getting his identity stolen after giving his bank account info to a Nigerian prince.
James Risen eating a pint of Ben & Jerry's, weeping, repeating the phrase "GAME OVER, MAN. GAME OVER."
James Risen taking the batteries out of the smoke detector to put them in the remote control
James Risen asking his wife if it would kill her to trim down there.
"Rep. Howard Berman (D-Calif), chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and Rep. Nita Lowey (D-N.Y.), chairman of the House Appropriations subcommittee, separately blocked a $100 million security assistance package to the Lebanese military. Rep. Eric Cantor (R-Va.), the House minority whip, called for the funding to be blocked until the clash was investigated further."
these individual embarrassments to the United States Congress act, in effect, as Saudi assets who want to push Lebanon within the sphere of Saudi/Wahhabist influence. in short, Berman, Lowey and Cantor are siding with the very forces who attacked us on 9/11. shame on them.
[ Clifford D. May is president of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, a hasbara org originally known as "Emet." E-mail him at cliff@defenddemocracy.org to ask him about these facts. ]
SueNell Dillon of Glasgow, VA writes: Consider what these mosques will be used for besides places of worship.
.. i dunno, SueEllen, what did you have in mind? orgies? dope? maybe a backgammon tournament.
Roy Hurt of Pulaski, VA suggests that his fellow Pulaskians .. boycott New York (the CITY) until Allah bin Gorbachev tears down the mosque that hasn't been built yet. naturally such a move would bankrupt New York.
Foundation for Defense of Democracies
a Saudi front organization committed to attacking all manifestations of the minority Shia strain of Islam (to be replaced, presumably, by the hateful Wahhabi cult). Avi Jorisch, a Hasbarist who once infiltrated the U.S. Treasury Dept, is a senior fellow in charge of shutting down Shia media on behalf of the House of Saud.
[ YIISA and Charles Small: Enshrining Hate at Yale ]
"Pete was a strong supporter of caving into al-Qaeda demands that we give up our freedoms. This manifested itself as the PATRIOT Act, creating the Homeland Security Department, yet another layer of bureaucracy to prevent the detection of future attacks. Rep. King also supports America's "special relationship" with Saudi Arabia ($$$), home to the 200 year old Wahhabi cult and inspiration for both al-Qaeda and the Taliban."
Did I leave anything out? How about Rep. Peter King, neo-Cromwellian?
next week: terrorist couple, Aubrey Chernick & Joyce Chernick / should the Treasury Department seize their assets?
- Music:"Cleveland" / Royal Trux
I folded the paper and wedged it between the slats of the park bench. It was what my mother called a scandal sheet, full of the local murders and suicides and beatings and robbings, and just about every page had a half-naked lady on it with her breasts surging over the edge of her dress and her legs arranged so you could see to her stocking tops.
I didn’t know why I had never bought any of these papers before. They were the only things I could read. The little paragraphs between the pictures ended before the letters had a chance to get cocky and wiggle about. At home, all I ever saw was the Christian Science Monitor, which appeared on the doorstep at five o'clock every day but Sunday and treated suicides and sex crimes and airplane crashes as if they didn’t happen.
2.
- Music:"bam bam" / Sister Nancy
Meanwhile ..
- Music:"The Dry Cleaner from Des Moines" (Joni Mitchell)
Vaudeville Hook
".. In both cases, at any rate, the fear is that of proletarianization, of slipping down the ladder, of losing a comfort and a set of privileges which we tend increasingly to think of in spatial terms: privacy, empty rooms, silence, walling other people out, protection against crowds and other bodies. Nietzschean wisdom, then, tells us to let go of that kind of fear and reminds us that whatever social and spatial form our future misery may take, it will not be alien because it will by definition be ours. Dasein ist je mein eigenes - defamiliarization, the shock of otherness, is a mere aesthetic effect and a lie."
'splain *this*, sgriswold :
an entertainment blogger writing as "jefevonstanley" wrote off Bleeding Through Ink by West Virginia citizen-poet Jason Kline in the most dismissive terms (reminded *this* Observer of the shrill Hollywood response after the people of Tangier Island told them to make their shitty Kevin Costner movie elsewhere). Vonjefe's angle can be summed up thus:
dumb hick from Appalachia too cheap to pay protection money to “writers’ guild” back east.
... so how is this Quefe guy not mafia? huh?
- Music: "Albatross" (PiL)
"When you look at Motherless Brooklyn, the language, the Tourette's, is the fantastic element. In that book the linguistic distortion, the metaphor, runs amok as if a dream of language has broken out in a typical hardboiled detective novel."
Sure, that's exactly how I felt when I read City of Glass. Just for the record, I do like Jonathan Lethem's work. I even got all the way through Motherless Brooklyn, which is more than I do with 9 out of 10 books I pick up. But I always found him derivative (cf. The Invention of Solitude, 1988, Paul Auster; The Fortress of Solitude, 2003, Jonathan Lethem) and lacking in power -- a mannerist, a Yaddo familiar -- Kafka without the harrow, DeLillo without the noise.
[ nevertheless, I WANT TO BELIEVE ]
ОН НАХОДИЛСЯ НА СКАНДАЛЯ ИСПАНСКИХ
ЛЕСТНИЦАХ
- Music:grandaddy / "go progress chrome"
Bloo Ridge Inmedy Tour
"recurring image - BBW as lover, protector and cannon fodder"
in whose eyes does 135 lbs = "BBW"? Somebody gayer than Isaac Mizrahi, that's who !
Nevertheless
here’s how to fix netanyahoo, palestine should get in a car with his sister and drive over to isreals house and scare the shit out of her and if that doesnt work offer her a piece of special pie. or even better hamas shd pull a mind trick where hamas sends netanyahoo a mix tape with get this sarkozys name on the return address (tee-hee). that will totally freak isreals shit out.
not bad,
.. but *then* you do the Eagles (as did Patti Davis).
Jeff Responds:
"Thanks for the tutorial and, no, you're not the first to bring this to my attention—and you're not the first to completely misinterpret the lyric and miss the metaphor. Believe me, I've consumed enough alcoholic beverages in my time to know how they are made and what the proper nomenclature is. But that line in the song has little or nothing to do with alcoholic beverages. It's a sociopolitical statement. My only regret would be having to explain it in detail to you, which would defeat the purpose of using literary devices in songwriting and lower the discussion to some silly and irrelevant argument about chemical processes or whether the Pepsi 400 is a night race."
PLetny of Roam at the
.. we used to know
[ * i love Mizrahi, of course / heard a fine, fine story about him in Alexandria. guy's a yooge celebrity, right? well, get this: No Swole Hed. none a'tall .. ]
- Music: "everything you did" (steeLy dAn)
Harry Golden, Travels through Jewish America
[ There are three total, two yet to be seen in the World. They want to be recognized, appearing by "accident." They will not speak. ]
The wooden idol? Buried in the southern slope descending by the hospital (to be discovered in Winter).
First Night
Dreamed I was kissing Stephanie Yeh in the rough vicinity of Cindy Hobart's work (hence the anxiety [ she was teaching Music Theory at some medium security facility ]).
Wish I was a single girl again
Is this the story of Jennifer Elizabeth "Jen" Hoffmann?
May '08
Diagnosed Jennifer's music career a "hopeless case," presumably because the subject made no effort to sound like Cher. And while she's telling me this, she does her sad-eyed, lip-curled "pity face," feeling genuinely sorry for me that I don't grasp such elementary business principles.
(for next time)
"What is the money for if it won't bring something like hope?"
- Music:"urge for going" (Tom Rush)
Susan E.S. / 1969-1973, Mt. Lebanon H.S., Pittsburgh, PA
"basia bulat" put her with your Girl of Mt Lebanon high
Capt. Jeffrey Osborne --
they called him "Tiny Rollins" in boot camp
It's Amy Garrett, Stupid
The Astounding Vanjefe -- the 9-foot piece of shit dressed as a bear so you'll be more inclined to warm up to him.
Language Cues (1 of a million)
Doktor Frankenjefe on Gristina: "I was just her way of getting a free place to stay in Manhattan for a few days ... Her eyes were/are full of jealousy, envy, spite, greed, SELF-ABSORPTION in the highest of degrees /ETC"
- Music:"as strong as samson" /procol harUm
"Jeffrey A. Stanley / that Jeffrey Stanley's an integral part of Roanoke's burgeoning film industry (Crazy People, What About Bob, Brain on Fire).
He's also the active igredient in Allegra.
Maybe teaching Play-Writing at NYU. Involvement in Post-70's New York organizations (New York Neo-Futurists) and Drama (the Amy Miller stand-in in the original stage production of Tesla's Letters [1999]). Attempt to initiate feud with guy he went to High School with (whose change of name and relocation to another state wasn't enough to shake the author of the 1999 off-Broadway hit, Tesla's Letters or his singular - mostly - determination to aggravate ..")
- Music:LabQuest
