~ we have been doing more around here than griping about cops:
we recently completed the primary stage of a project in collaboration with from the ground [w]. we shall perhaps present the results of this work on this site, but we believe it is more appropriate to first await the appearance of the publication to which it was submitted.
we are recycling into a naive attempt at mass production the husk of an old horse that had been abandoned between a piss-stained mattress and a charred red chest in an alley a west los angeles.
we have used the past two weeks to add one (1) page to the novel.
~ the new ‘hellboy’ series ‘the third wish’ is the reason we suffer through months of hackneyed tedium. it is by far the best comic work since, well, mignola’s last book.
~ mailbag: “you at the angry red planet need to look at it from the perspective of the police. they probably get caught up in the chase and probably can’t help but resort to a primal state when they catch someone.”
that’s the best we can expect from the police? those who are considered our ‘finest’ are unable to resist regressing to some ‘primal’ state? the very last people who should be in armed gangs are the ones who don’t have any control over their emotions; these people are supposed to be the ones who guard the tenets of our organized society. we don’t declare that there should not be police, just that there should perhaps be some sort of standards for who is chosen and maybe some training for the job. we don’t think that it is too much to demand that they be someone other than cretins who only take the job to gain power over the other thugs in their hood or because they are too old for the high school football team. besides, for someone who is in a ‘primal’ state, they somehow seem to maintain the presence of mind to put someone in handcuffs and get five of their cronies to back them up before they start punching them again.
~ the neighbors fail to disappoint on 110th street: “no white boy need to hold the door for me.”
~ lunatic on 110th street: are we at least welcome to take your books from the trash?
~ dear mayor dorn of inglewood: not having cameras in cop cars to tape police brutality is the least of our concerns. instead of trying to scare cops into not beating up teenagers, you could demonstrate to them that it is intolerable in the first place. for instance, do more than send them on a paid leave when they get caught. police brutality is not something that we should have to prevent; it should not even be possible to exist because the cretins who would be abusive are not placed in positions of armed authority to begin with. please excuse the dangling preposition.
~ heard on 113th street: “get out of harlem, white boy. you’re not welcome here. fucking…”
~ happy independence day to our readers in the u.s.. in our perpetual struggle to reconcile our tendencies towards anarchosyndicalism and our desire to celebrate the abundance of beauty and power that may still be found in this country, we are spending the day with a 1957 edition of ‘great american short stories’ and the music of phil ochs.
~ be advised that the intersection of 110th and manhattan avenue is currently being surveilled by government forces.
~ with the passing of another holiday, the residents of west harlem again have utilized morningside park to stage a demonstration on their total incapability of cleaning up after themselves.
