1.

Choose on one direct action you can perform, repeat, and proselytize
about with full energy and faith.
2. Make or have enough money to commit yourself to this direct action. It
doesn’t matter where your money comes from as long it as sustains direct
action.
3. Cease all public art-making and participation in any cultural industry. As
long as there is poverty there can be no ethical art practice. All public art
and cultural industry under capitalism is immoral.
4. Only independent artists with organic audiences are good and real.
Networked and industrial art production and consumption are bad and
fake. No more industrial art can or should be made until humanity rescues
itself from poverty and rescues the earth from destruction.
5. Artists must desert the cultural industries and make art for organic, local
people. Artists must desert technology and cease all exploitative work
relations. All art must be voluntary, free, and ethically sourced.
6. COVID-19 and ensuing crisis of perception offers a reset button for
artists to destitute the cultural industries and begin growing a space for
ethical art practice.
7. Ideally one’s direct action (to end poverty and save the planet) and
one’s art practice are heterogenous phenomena. Art practice does not
replace—and therefore needn’t resemble—direct action.
8. One’s ethical art practice may even contradict the vibe of one’s direct
action. This is contradiction can be celebrated. Only unethical networked
and industrial art production/consumption contradicts or counteracts
direct action.
9. The point of ending poverty and saving planet earth is to bring about the
dictatorship of art. The dictatorship of art means true peace and true
freedom on earth between all people.

Tomorrow is Canceled.

I don’t know if this is the big one but now I’m certain that whenever the big
one hits the jokes won’t stop.

My holes are more talented than my brain.

Well, this phones not gonna look at itself.

No fair warning, no good information, no prudent advice—nothing could
have cut though the noise.

I’m finding comfort in the abject.

Reading about Austin Osman Spare.

Marijuana works for me.

I’m a slut. I’m high. I love Bernie.

Landlords are so spiritually wounded by their fake class status that they’ve
been voted of empathy, perspective, or the capacity for solidarity.

Every famous occult figure wrote a 10 volume exegesis that boiled down to
“masturbation good, Christianity bad

Bernie shouldn’t drop out.

“It’s not a question of fighting *for* communism. What matters is the

communism that is lived *in the fight itself*. The true richness of an action
lies within itself.”

“Withdrawing from the institutions is anything but leaving a void. It’s

suppressing them in a positive way.” -The Invisible Committee

Thinking about September Clues (again).

“Maintaining order is the main activity of an order that has already failed.”

I love quarantine. I don’t want to go back to the old ways.

Megan Boyle Liveblog 2020

COVID BLACK PILL

Alex Jones is the greatest actor of our age. Binge-listening to Alex in

Stratford-upon-Avon in 2006, on hash in a dress and stockings, bathroom
full of sex toys

Thinking about the Shiva Lila

Visited by jeweler today. He was all “Bill Gates creates this to sell us a
vaccine” and “when you have perfect love you CAN’T get sick!”

Hope changes nothing. Hope is inaction, ennoble. When hope is dead,

change can begin.

“All those managers who supervise other managers, all those people
whose job is ultimately to convince you the existence of their jobs is not
insane”

I love that these regional artistic directors who spent decades building huge
buildings to house their mediocre productions are now totally unable to
create anything or exert any influence at all

I love that these festival directors and “curated” spaces have NOTHING to
offer us anymore

Curators, fuck you.

The veil is lifted! Gatekeepers time’s up!

Nemesis Rising!

No basketball hoops for teenagers but yes touchscreen voting machines for
seniors

USA lockdown mirrors USA culture: two opposing factions of charmless

demagoguery at war

American Theater institutions are like sad zoos where playwrights are
“conserved” in captivity: cramped quarters, lost instincts, indifferent crowds.
The more “famous” within the theater micro-ecology a playwright is the
more neutered, tame, and silent they become.
Our playwrights are nothing but careerists, gossiping about realty tv,
spamming one another’s humble brags, addressing the world with zero
urgency, comfortably locked in gilded obscurity, hoping someone will pay
them to adapt a NYT bestseller into a Netflix series

In attempting to own “SJWs” in his play Oleanna, Mamet behaved as the

ultimate “SJW”: embodying a mystified attachment to identity, a throbbing
persecution complex, a straw man conception of the ideological other.
People talk about his sexism, his childish “conservative” views, but
Mamet’s greatest aesthetic crime is being a fake Vermonter

Why haven’t Mac Wellman’s disciples been able to reform the Theatre of
Good Intentions?

Wallace Shawn was our great American playwright for a time. Does
voiceovers for Disney and Amazon now. Not quite as heartbreaking as
Sam Shepard cooped into Black Hawk Down, but still bad. The Fever and
The Designated Mourner are more important American plays than anything
Arthur Miller wrote. Neither would have been produced had Shawn not
been New York royal family, which gave him the freedom and means to
mount these beautiful works of class treason. Like Ted Kaczynski, Shawn
believed the bourgeoisie liberal was the true hand maiden to techno-
fascism. Unlike Kaczynski, Shawn committed himself to self-indictment,
hiding no redemption for himself or his kind anywhere in the work.

There is no American Elfriede Jelinek

"I don't like things to be plain, comprehensible. I don't think that's realistic.
That's not how anything works. You should be presented with statements,
utterances and art that challenge you in terms of making an
interpretation."

1) Richard Pryor live comedy was probably peak "american theater" in the
sense of performance form reaching full maturity, self-awareness, power
artistically. The american "theatre of good intentions" is the other bastard
tradition, ruled by acting gurus and wack playwrights

2) Then you have the "downtown NYC" avant american theater "tradition"
which is sort of frozen Wooster Group milieu aesthetic based on rent
control and wireless microphones, long ago rendered void by the New
York Times, which approved them all into gilded irrelevance

3) Then you have the various hippie off-the-grid type movements....Bread

and Puppet, warehouse hippie, ethical community theater stuff. Admirable
for their rejection of credentialism but held back aesthetically by their
commitment to democracy

I am Royal Playwright of Atlantian Cataclysm

“HOW DO YOU MEMORIZE ALL THOSE LINES?” IS THE DEEPEST,

TRUEST, MOST VISCERAL AND FUNDAMENTAL REACTION A HUMAN
HAS EVER HAD OR COULD EVER HAVE TO WHAT WE CALL THEATER.
THE VAIN REJECTION OF THIS BASIC ALCHEMICAL TRANSACTION IS
WHY THEATER IS DYING

A performance rehearsed for only 3 weeks is not worth seeing

HARK! theater is a calling for oracles & priestesses not a "career" for
extroverted libs; theater is an journey for outcasts & initiants not the
managerial classes or the tourists; theaters are the new churches of peace
& ecology not totems to precarious labor & central air

Alongside every bodega there is a blackbox theater where micro-farmers

can view pseudodoxological puppets shows and unlearn the ideologies of
the past; congregations are displaced from churches to make room for
opera, acrobats, escape artists; there are no dramaturges, no prizes

Goodbye dramaturges! Goodbye lit managers! Goodbye usurpers!

Goodbye credentialists! Goodbye gatekeepers! Goodbye parasites!

Observe how the managerial classes, who oversee the permanent

precarity of actors, writers, and designers feel absolutely entitled to their
full-time salaries & expect us to weep for them in solidarity

You are an administrator. Please understand that no one has ever

*wanted* to “work with” you. You are a bureaucratic irritation.

Artistic directors and their desk workers are the privileged class.
Dramaturges are cops hired to discipline writers and harmonize their aims
with those of the institution. This isn’t hard.
They shouldn’t be compensated or hired full stop. Abolish dramaturges.
Abolish lit managers. Pay designers more. Pay playwrights more. Pay the
ARTISTS, not the administrators and their make-work drones.

These replies betray a troubling cognitive dissonance. I call for the

elimination of make-work jobs and bureaucratic sprawl and they counter
with “you don’t get it: I’m underpaid, powerless, and serve no real
purpose!” Not a compelling argument for why these jobs should exist.

Here come the gatekeepers in training! This guy is ONLY interested in the
theater jobs that didn’t exist 100 years ago. If you’re such a “drama nerd”
why don’t you MAKE something instead of becoming another
credentialized ART COP

What’s a dramaturg? Sorry can’t keep up with all the latest trends

These two are actually inching toward the realization that dramaturg is a
fake job. “Dramaturge” is the playwright’s “vanishing twin”, resurrected as
a golem to haunt the institutions

I am everything you are not: performer, playwright, oracle. I am ancient

and powerful. You, by your own admission, are a suspension feeder,
swamping the ecosystem with your detritivorous mediocrity. Don’t be
proud of how inessential you are!

These spiritual blue checks want more managers, more desks, more
hoops 2 jump through, larger buildings, bigger budgets, more MFAs, more
courtesy, more respectibility, more opportunity. These things will not save
them from extinction. The nemesis is rising. The cataclysm is here.

Artists no longer catalyze psychic upheaval on behalf of humanity, instead

they cauterize wounds inflicted by the vampire, prolonging Babylon. Artists
should be raising Atlantis in the hearts of the faithful, instead they answer
emails and post cringe.

2030: air-conditioning is banned, CGI regulated as a weapon, Pornhub is a

U.S. state, cadres dig tunnels connecting basements beneath rubble, and
people gather in vacant lots to watch the oracles, lit only by moon beams,
vapor like tall grass about their feet, repeating the words
Lincoln Center should be expropriated & turned over to native coyotes, red
foxes, and white-tailed deer. Dramaturges can supervise the rewilding,
holding talkbacks with pigeons and rats. Anonymous playwright-criers,
veiled in vines torture language until it bleeds acid truth

Our cadre is growing...a shadow movement of alchemists, royalists,

vandals, seers. Our vibrational samizdat ripples through the theatron. The
invalid MFA priests are shocked into awareness just before the Nemesis
consumes them whole. We escape with nothing but our imaginations...

Why Did the Chickens Come Home To Roost?

Never band all together

Never articulate demands
Become more unintelligible, diffuse
Admit nothing
Never calm down
Encrypt your actions
Hide in plain sight
Worship Chaos
Avenge George Floyd

Be like weeds
Be like spores
Be like turtles
Be a strong wind
Blow the bank windows
Blow down big flags
Blow blue boys badly
Blow smoke, go home
Armor your flesh
Return
Spread, drench, fertilize
Grow, grasp, return

America, you need an artist to save you

A viral message to end all viral messages
A meme so strong it cracks the world
You need a sovereign, a super-soldier
A single techno-poet or seer
To lasso all the energies
& grind them down to ground
She is coming, an Overseer, an Oracle..

I told ____ we're going to see what the uprising did. That uprising is
because police are bad. Police are killing black people. It's not right. So
people are rising up to say no. To send a message to the police that they
are bad by showing them we are strong & they can't stop us.

The bombs you are hearing aren’t bombs

The tear gas isn’t gas it’s powder

The bricks aren’t bricks they’re bait

Those aren’t volunteers scrubbing those banks

They’re from Big Karen

That’s ‘fuck the police’ playing on the police scanner

That man on the mic is a plant

50 national guard with machine guns blocking people from getting to the
protest. Found a bridge open to foot traffic, helicopters circling overhead.
Literally 4 helicopters overhead now, armies of people walking the miles
long detour, converging

crisis actor

Big Settler Energy

Big Chaos Princess Energy
Big Bars On Windows Energy
Big Fair Weather Friend Energy
Big Trust Fund Baby Energy
Big Boss Baby Energy
Big Glamp Energy
Big Colonizer Energy
Big Breakfast Energy
Big Black Square Energy
Big Silent Energy
Big Fake Energy

Play that is a series of monologues by different cops before and after they
agreed to "take a knee" with protesters in viral videos--"but then I saw her
face, streaked with tears from the mace I deployed on her, and that's
when I knew...” etc--pulitzer please

My phone is attacking my body

My wrists are throbbing & ache
I’m holding this thing
I’m limp wristed
stooped over and folded
I’m weak
Candle outside for George Floyd
Watched his death today on my phone

Theaters surrender your lobbies

Serve free coffee & soup
Jackhammer the floors, plant kale
Stop using electricity at night
Lighting designers use the sun
Sound designers beat drums
Dramaturges make DMT
Playwrights show hole
Actors bleed, spit, fail
Audiences hide your face

We don’t need agents we need arms

We don’t need publishers we need pikes

We don’t need managers we need mediums

We don’t want dramaturges we want drugs

Smericsn Thester Msgszine

*gif of person settling down with popcorn but also sobbing*

No one will respect you if you suddenly “do more diversity”. No one wants
to see that. Anyone who now tries to “do better” demonstrates that they
always already lacked a sacred purpose. They maybe had a purpose, but
it wasn’t sacred. White American Theatre has no sacred purpose.

if you’ve only ever been shortlisted for the pulitzer I feel your pain

Abandon White American Theatre

Join the Agrarian Theater Front
Desert Institutions, Board Them Up
Live Without The Internet
Renounce Disposable Plastics
Exalt Local Myths, Native Life
Do Interruptions & Stunts
Every Fetish Is A Chapel
Every Chapel Has Free Soup
#AgrarianTheater

I need to tell you

theater as you knew it
has been obliterated
there is no 'coming back' from this
now there will be
a theater for the streets
a theater for private parlors
nothing more
no more career theater
no more industry
only our agrarian theater front
our form of life

the Virgin "American theater company sending long-winded e-blast about

how anti-racist they are going to be from now on" vs the Chad "American
theater company that already had anti-racist action in their mission
statement".jpeg

The Fight 2 Dismantle White American Theatre Continues. Dramaturges

Are Being Safely Relocated. Artistic Directors Are Being Dragged On
Twitter. Pulitzer Noms Are Turning On Each Other. Yale Drama Is Burning.
Eblasts Beget Apologies Beget Open Letters Beget Resignations. Abolish!

White American Theater (AKA Regional AKA Geezer Theatre) is the worst
of all worlds. Like a restaurant that serves cuisine “from all over the globe”
they specialize in nothing, except blandness. The “classic” is blurry, the
new play is bloodless, the “diversity slot” a cruel joke

They aim to do it “all” and thus attract an audience with no passion for
anything in particular—a zombified audience animated by vague,
detachable nostalgia. “Inclusion” in the theatre industrial complex is
vampiric terror, draining blood from the living to feed a smiling corpse.

They are obsessed with narrativizing their sameness as rich variety. They
want diversity but to imprison, perfect, hoard. White American Theater is
the mallification of theater while also being the miniaturization of theater.
They give you miniature malls instead of sacred rites.

A week since #WeSeeYouwat and the discourse is spoiling. “We need

POC critics!” “We need POC Boards of Directors!” LOL NO! This is the
same “inclusion” narrative that got us here. It’s not about more POC in the
PMC! Its about NO MORE PMC! NO MORE MFAs! NO MORE ADs!
ABOLISH!

Yale Drama is the Grand Wizard of White American Theatre

CALLING THEM OUT: WOOSTER GROUP DID BLACKFACE

CALLING THEM IN: CAROL OSTROW PAY REPARATIONS

How does Mac Wellman explain The Flea Theater situation to friends?

Oracle Playwright of the Atlantian Cataclysm.mp4

Remote work new norm.$$$$ drains from cities. Year 1. Cinema & theaters
close. Coffee shops & restaurants stop. Concerts extinct. Year 3.
Americans enter Amazon subsidized housing. Year 7. The rich build
miniature cities. Libs buy guns. Year 9. The virus dies. No one notices.
Year 10. Mass Amnesia. The Grest Forgetting. Bizarre State Violence.
Sonic & Headache weapons. Global nude leak. Year 11. The Return of the
Real. First Trans President. Year 12. Final Bee Colony Collapse.The Year
the Flowers Died. UBI. Landlord Games. New Orleansification. Civil War.
Year 14. Class Unconscious. Weird Psy-ops. AstroTerf armies. Deep fake
news. Unclear Holocausts. Year 15. Osama Jr. The Return to 911. Global
Tinnitus. Oil Wars. Year 16. Attention Deficit Politics. No more short term
memory. Gorgeous Georgification. Prank calls are the last art.

th**t*r *s d**d l*ng l*v* th**t*r

POP UP ADS THAT CAN'T BE PAUSED, CAN'T BE STOPPED, CAN'T BE

SKIPPED IS THE FUTURE OF TH**T*R

STATUS IS FAKE, HONOR IS REAL

a theater of private fantasies and ruminations to be viewed by individuals

and/or intimates only, not by crowds. neither a public theater nor a public
statement. rather a private room for revelation, immersion, intimacy, and
dreams

art careers siphon us toward complacency & collaboration with power

the whole careerist path is about destroying what makes art powerful, it's
specialness, it's embeddedness, the situation

if the situation isn't alive then the art is moving in the wrong direction

There is no "public", only enclaves, milieus, fiefdoms. This was true but
COVID accelerates the reckoning. There is no society. There is no culture,
only subculture. No community, only communes. And the strength of your
commune isn't size, it's the quality of the relations.

traumatized
and
brainwashed
and
questioning everything

there is no life raft

it's all going down
if we don't stop this

we have to stop this

but there is no "we"

These are the longest, loudest, most chaotic, crowd-sourced fireworks

displays in human history. These aren’t cops or PSY-OPs, this is people
power pure & unleashed. These are looted fireworks. Years worth! The
people are speaking to each other, to their cities, saying, screaming

UNREST MISCHIEF REBELLION

EXUBERENCE BOREDOM CONFUSION

FRUSTRATION JOY TERROR

HOPE SOLIDARITY NOISE PARTY

FREEDOM WASTE COMMUNICATION

ESCAPE RELEASE ATTACK

NUMB DEAFEN INTOXICATE

CELEBRATE FEEL SEE SMELL

FEAR SURVIVE BE HEARD

Thinking the fireworks is a psy-op is the psy-op.

Psy-ops are now crowd-sourced & self-administered.

If you think for even a moment “are the fireworks are psy-op?” boom
you’ve been psy-oped

The only cure for the psy-op is to ignite fireworks & inhale their sulfurous
vapors

Pulling down statues actually resurrects the dead sentiments contained

within. What looks like destruction is actually reanimation. We are
unleashing zombies. Instead of relegitimizing these relics, we should burn
our living leaders in effigy every night.

This sort of communion should obsess human beings more than

extraterrestrials. @NASA should never have defunded John C. Lilly's acid-
dolphin-orgies. Jim Findlay's Botanica should be on permanent installation
in the 30 most populous US cities. Broadway should be battling @Bayer

10 Billion to settle with no admission of liability? This doesn't provide

clarity. If you're not liable why did you lose three cases?

Stung by a hornet mid session, this sort of thing does not slow me down.
Using police brutality & videotaped murder to legitimize our social media
addictions: “This is why I must be online.” Glued to an emergency
broadcast. Doing surveillance on rivals. Loved ones becoming mere co-
workers. Theater will be a portal to the powered down place to come.

Theater will be a portal to the powered down place, a place with no global
news cycles, no dryers, no AC, no TP, no computers, no beef, no ice, no
ammo, homemade camouflage, pits to trap the robots, hoarded laser
pointers to fight the drones, vine salads, dried worms

I’m become more powerful every day. Writing daily. Raising my children in
quarantine. Phoning trusted collaborators. Booby trapping the house.
Carrying a knife at all times. Avoiding carbs. Attending protests. Setting off
fireworks. Forgetting the past. Building the future.

Theaters should first give salaries to actors, designers, playwrights,

directors, techies.

Eliminate producers, marketing officers, dramaturges, casting assistants,

executives etc

Artistic directorships should belong to the largest donor, who serves as

monarch, gratis

In the US the arts have already been defunded. We are sustained by

“foundation support”. These foundations pressure artists & arts orgs to
become like them: sprawling, neo-liberal bureaucracies optimized
according to crypto-capitalist values.

A benevolent monarch is preferable.

American theater companies should be in homeless encampments or

fetish clubs developing guerilla aesthetics not building a nightmare
architecture of distanced togetherness and blowing even more failed
communal experiences into the culture

“distanced togetherness” should be in scare quotes because it is neither

distanced nor togetherness

I despise the discourse of personal responsibility right now: “Follow the

rules” “Wear a mask” etc. Yes do those things IF u can but never forget:
There can be no quarantine under capitalism. Nearly all our leaders
oppose policies that would make a meaningful quarantine possible.

Shooting Mt. Rushmore with a bazooka, tearing now statues, even

defunding police—is this really “iconoclasm”?

These expressions aren’t even 100 yrs old. Police are barely 200.

These are fads that have outstayed their welcome.

A two-spirit Lakota Native shooting Mount Rushmore with a bazooka

Activists debating a future for theater dragging @TheWilmaTheater on

insta.

Wilma gave them an opening, released a COVID-GLOBE design for clout.

Accessibility crisis is here.

But is this about accountability or disaster prep? A community “calling in”

or a wake of vultures?

Pit in my stomach senses both sides are actually just posting COVID-
themed content for clout. That none of this will ever intersect with a world
that is real. That both sides are pretending to possess agency, both
posting speculative fan fiction about a future that isn’t coming.

When I try to imagine the revolutionary accessibility hinted at by the

activists in Wilma’s insta comments I fail utterly and instead experience
flashbacks to when I watched “Wall-E” on an airplane on pills.

I’ve always shown my back to the institutions, but never intentionally. I

have spiritual Tourette’s. I rebel & sabotage as if by remote control. I take
the money & fail. Something rescues me, sends me back to my loved ones
—the “nobodies”—to my playspace: “nowhere”—

My privilege!

I think about this everyday alongside Invisible Committee’s exhortation to

“destitute/desert”—are activists empowering certain arts institutions to
lead by pressuring them to change? Should they be doing this? “the
problem is that reforms have often rendered the institution itself more
permanent.” - angela davis

Call in the regionals? Abolish the regionals? Reform the regionals?

Destitute the regionals? Boycott the regionals? Defund the re—DEFUND
THE THEAT—

Oh wait we already did that...so they’re broke and racist? Damn.

Join the powerless, join the abject, join

Thank your lostness, thank this crisis

Become greedier, needier, get down to brass tacks

Forget life before 2020, ZAP!

Get reborn into a new timeline

Go anonymous, leave public life

Go back in time, Go forward, Go down, GO!

Every arts institution we’ve ever known is going to be buried like

mammoths in a mudslide—

The crowd is DEAD.

Audiences will now be atomized.

The new audience for liveness is singular, private, sovereign.

We are returning to the witch’s tent.

Maybe the ultimate accessibility is art written in the sky, or projected on

the moon

Sound screaming over everything

Art you can’t shut out

Art you can’t unsee

The pressure to pass every expression through a social media/mobile tech

meat grinder was already acute. COVID accelerates this & makes it
terminal.

Now everyone can simultaneously be the artist & the audience but must
use a conflict phone & must forfeit all ownership & control.

Writers must make ebooks, live shows must become livestreams, sex
work must become cybersex, "films" must debut on your phone,
comedians must post front-facing camera vids, poets must do OnlyFans,
polemicists must do podcasts. This is nonnegotiable. Give up control.

Literary managers don’t identify as gatekeepers lol

CHOOSE ONE DIRECTION ACTION THREAD

Artists are living through a great rewilding, a rapid decentralization of art

culture. Being “cancelled” is a blessing if it speeds you into this new
paradigm: a world without fame, without crowds, without bundled
influence or institutional consensus; a rhizomatic paradise.

White people are indigenous people, but with even fewer links to our
ancestors, people bribed by advantage to cut all ties with our past, people
so thoroughly erased that we are simultaneously everywhere and nowhere.
We are a drone army, reproduced to resemble our own murderer.

This is why we are drawn to things like dream catchers, rap music, yoga,
kilts, and crystals...a desperate, amnesiatic grasping at any link to life
before the borg absorbed us

I still can’t sing along with the Gramma Tala part of “Where you are” from
Moana because I choke up and cry

White people develop melancholic relationships with things like "Dances

With Wolves" or "Braveheart", texts which simultaneously invite them to
long for indigenous wholeness while concluding that such things are
unreachable, extinct.

This is the double consciousness of whiteness

White people develop melancholic relationships with things like "Dances

With Wolves" or "Braveheart", texts which simultaneously invite them to
long for indigenous wholeness while concluding that such things are
unreachable, extinct.

This is the double consciousness of whiteness

Privileged Whites are shielded from the worst suffering white supremacy
begets, but do suffer from irretrievable loss, unresolvable guilt, & full blown
cultural amnesia.

We both forget & remember our crimes.

The suffering isn’t remotely equivalent, but IS inextricably linked.

If cultural appropriation and spiritual escapism (yoga, crystals, hip hop,

“one love”, “white power” etc) are not options for white people seeking
lost essence then they should build a new white culture of openness,
humility, reparation, and sacrifice.

The new culture of whiteness will be peanut butter & shroom sandwiches,
teenage mutant ninja turtles, urban gardens, and socialist podcasting

The new culture of whiteness will be peanut butter & shroom sandwiches,
teenage mutant ninja turtles, urban gardens, and socialist podcasting

I sort of act like I hate cleaning puke off my 2 year old, off the buckles and
straps of her car seat, crouching in the sun by the side of the road, but
everyone can tell I love it

I visited ancestral lands and waters in July. I introduced my children to

their elders. I night-swam in a hurricane with my father. I connected
spiritually with moss.

“crisis actor” is the role we are all being groomed to play on the reality
“show” that is our lives. America is one big deadly improv exercise.

The magick of the adept hides in plain sight. It will look like nothing if you
don’t know how to look.

Secret knowledge is protected as much by exposure as by concealment.

MEMORIZATION IS THE CONTENT *AND* THE FORM OF THEATER. IT IS

THE VERY LIFEFORCE OF THE ARTFORM. DON'T MISTAKE IDEAS OR
UNIQUE EXPRESSIONS FOR THE LIFEFORCE. THE LIFEFORCE IS THE
PALPABLE EFFORT AND ATHELETICISM OF MEMORIZATION AND
RECITATION.

I have seized the affordance of this anonymous timeline

People know Bruce Willis had lines fed to him via an earpiece doing
"Misery" on Broadway. What most don't know is that they once tried to
sub Willis' usual line reader with an ASM...and got a flat/neutral Willis. See,
he was also being fed his *performance* via earpiece

Democracy may or may not be a good way of organizing society. I can't

say.

I know that democracy is not a good way to make art.

Art made according to democratic paradigms or principles is not good for

anyone.

The same values don't apply across all realms.

me cycling between pseudonyms, heteronyms, sobriquets

The "bookshelf" tweet is melancholic. It appears to yearn for meaningful

relationships with books & people but instead unveals a triple loss: the
books are shelved (relics of a past), their meanings are fixed (look no
deeper), their value is instrumentalized (for mate selection).

I think artists should be skeptical, chaotic, obsessed, and

unaccountable---not optimistic, coherent, cool, or polite.