Incantations
Time to dip a toe in the world of Clown Quarter poetry. Specifically, a colossal work titled Everyone Is A Little Trans, by the University of Connecticut’s visiting assistant professor, Trace Peterson:
Everyone is a little enby. Everyone is a little gender-fluid.
Everyone is a little twelve-inch pianist. Everyone is a little cis.
Everyone is a little circular rubbing motion.
Everyone thinks they’re Billy Ocean.
No, wait – don’t go. There’s more.
The full, four-minute version can be experienced here.
The author of the above has “been working at the forefront of trans poetry & poetics (and queer poetry & poetics) for the past two decades.” As will doubtless be apparent.
Via Christopher Rufo.
Also, open thread. Share ye links and bicker.
Should you crave it, I have more:
No, don’t thank me.
I have very sensitive breasts / and so do your breasts
Er… what?
No refunds. Credit note only.
“I really like you / I like you tube”
Are you sure the last word shouldn’t be lube?
I have very sensitive breasts / and so do your breasts
They’re just taking the piss now.
As is often the case, it does resemble a shit test.
I poked through a fair amount of the, um, work on offer and struggled to find much in the way of aesthetic flair. Practically by default, it’s lumpen and artless. And there’s rather a lot of Me, I and My. Amid the non-sequitur and strained contrivance, the most telling line, I think, is “Everyone is me.” Which, like so much else on offer, seems doubtful.
But as Christopher Rufo says, “Modern universities have substituted identity for scholarship.” And very often, ability in general. It does seem likely that Mr Peterson was hired, repeatedly, and draped with awards, primarily for his professed identity badge, for being transgender, rather than for any rare or distinguishing talent.
I have a Thai face
A rant against TikTok
https://twitter.com/fishyonsaturn/status/1601951600700174337
I don’t know if anyone has yet shared the Ten Glorious Reasons to watch Witcher:Blood Origins?
What strikes me is how identity placement has supplanted product placement as the motor of entertainment production. Of course, product placement generates prizes whereas identity placement merely generates woke points. But they are both equally grotesque.
Or maybe not equally.
“It has the first kiss between two men on the show!” squees breathless camp creature. Because apparently that – not, say, competent storytelling – is what matters and will drag the punters in.
The Critical Drinker was, I think it’s fair to say, unimpressed.
Indeed. Though the responses to that tweet do give me grounds for some hope for humanity.
It’s all rather bewildering and just a tad alienating. I don’t think I’ve ever gone to the cinema or followed a TV series because of the sexual preferences of a character, or of the actor playing the character. It’s just not why I would clear my schedule, mute my phone, and watch.
Though I suppose selling a thing on identity is easier than selling it on obvious talent. Until people actually see it.
“Yes, the show’s being panned by critics and disappointed viewers, and by fans of the source material, and is haemorrhaging its audience like you wouldn’t believe, and yes, the words laughable, abomination and shockingly amateurish have been used… BUT THERE IS A GAY KISS. And brown people. BROWN PEOPLE!”
I paraphrase above, but only just:
I ask you, judge: Is this the face of a lunatic?
Did someone say poetry?
Meanwhile, the Alphabet Clan is soon going to have to start using Cyrillic.
I couldn’t take more than 14 seconds so I don’t think I’d survive the extended version.
Not the face perhaps but certainly the hair style.
Not the face perhaps but certainly the hair style.
Even Sideshow Bob agrees.
Clearly America needs Commonsense Ice Cream Machine Control.
Deranged, and the shape of his skull seems kind of wrong.
Apropos of nothing and open thread, I give you Biden’s band names.
O Canada!
O Canada!
As I have said before, a sensible society excludes leftists from positions of power and influence.
Apropos of nothing and open thread, I give you Biden’s band names.
Relink…
I did verify that the link worked. I posted it from my iPad via Chrome and tested it immediately. I still had this page open on my iPad and just now hit it again and it worked just fine from there. I think the page on the iPad had even reloaded. But sitting down at my PC reading this page on Chrome and hitting that link that same link from my post I get the Twitter broken link page. Ever since I retired from software development, technology has gone to hell. Not saying that there’s a causation there. Just an interesting correlation.
This came to mind.
As I have said before, repeatedly and for decades now, the psychology and psychiatric professions have increasingly lost any sense of reason, proportion, or rationality. Is it odd or just cute that Mr. JP has begun waking up to this fact recently?
Why is the balding man wearing a dress and reading Vogon poetry?
I got curious about what happened with Lindsey Shepherd following that incident. Not insanely curious enough to go down a potentially bottomless rabbit hole, but Wikipedia level curious. So per wiki, which has practically zero information beyond 2019 there:
Curious if anyone knows anything more recent about how those law cases have turned out or much else. Also…If those footnotes don’t link after posting I’ll remove them in an edit.
… cool, the links still work. At least for me…on Chrome…on my laptop…sitting in Florida…while the weather outside is 83F and cloudy. Not that it’s relevant but…I just had to…
Bear in mind that any comment with more than five links gets held as ‘pending’ by the spam filter until I realise and get around to approving it.
I did verify that the link worked. I posted it from my iPad via Chrome and tested it immediately.
Probably a cached page, regardless, the problem, as I found out the hard way, is all the crap in bold after the actual URL:
It appears particularly to be a PITA with links that show referrals, e.g.
As I said, through the hard way, not that I didn’t enjoy the regrooving in the correction booth, I learned the easy fix is just copying the link before the crap.
Understand. Totally cool with that so long as it’s not too much of a bother for you. Thanks.
Most likely. Though when the page reloaded and I hit it again, after some intermittent time (an hour and 20 minutes), I subconsciously(?) dismissed that. Or I’ve grown to despise my former profession to such a degree that I’ve subconsciously dropped all curiosity as to how it works anymore. Similar to stepping down from my HOA board, as I see things breaking and going to pot around the neighborhood it’s increasingly not my monkey, not my circus. Though it is, kinda, until we (hopefully) sell the house. Ah…but then…
As I have said before, repeatedly and for decades now, the psychology and psychiatric professions have increasingly lost any sense of reason, proportion, or rationality. Is it odd or just cute that Mr. JP has begun waking up to this fact recently?
We don’t really know if he only recently noticed. We only know when he started to speak publicly about such things.
Why is the balding man wearing a dress and reading Vogon poetry?
Because he is a trans-vogon, of course.
Respect his pronouns: cruel/callous/bureaucratic.
In June 2018, Shepherd filed a lawsuit against the university, Rambukkana, Pimlott, Joel, and a graduate student for damages of $3.6 million, claiming “harassment, intentional infliction of nervous shock, negligence, and constructive dismissal”.
There should be serious consequences for Stalinist thuggery. One of the problems is that leftists rarely pay a price for their thuggery: If defeated in court or elsewhere, they are not punished (much less fired and bankrupted as they should be) and thus can try again and again.
“I will not comply.”
Jordan Peterson: he has been lecturing about truthful things for years in his classes and elsewhere. He became a public lightening rod when he spoke out against the Canada pronoun law (5 yrs ago?). It has been a shitshow ever since.
Jordan Peterson: he has been lecturing about truthful things for years in his classes and elsewhere. He became a public lightening rod when he spoke out against the Canada pronoun law (5 yrs ago?). It has been a shitshow ever since.
March 2017 was the earliest mention of JP on this blog.
But I may have heard of him as early as 2016.
I’m not sure when he did those personal podcasts about compelled speech which closed with Johnny Cash’s cover of “I Won’t Back Down”. (Anybody got links?)
The earliest references I can find are from the tail end of 2016, here and here.
The earliest references I can find are from the tail end of 2016, here and here.
Thanks. I have difficulties searching your site. Google returns nothing for pre-switchover posts on your new site. Hits include items in the sidebar which should be ignored. Date-range-restricted searches sometimes exclude pages that should be included.
I’m not sure when he did those personal podcasts about compelled speech which closed with Johnny Cash’s cover of “I Won’t Back Down”. (Anybody got links?)
Very frustrating. I ought to be able to find them on JP’s YouTube channel but not so far.
Curious if anyone knows anything more recent about how those law cases have turned out or much else.
Justice moves slowly in the Great White North. Michael Mann filed his libel claim against Tim Ball in 2011. It took until the summer of 2019 for that suit to be dismissed. (If you’ll recall Ball said that Mann belonged in the State Penn not Penn State, or words to that effect.) Ball was wiped out financially by the costs of litigation and although ordered by the court, Mann failed to pay Ball’s costs. Ball died in 2022.
I’m not sure of the status of Lindsey’s case, but you can bet that WLU is doing everything they can to prevent it from getting to court. Lindsey meanwhile, moved back to her home province of BC, had a baby, then got a job in academia where she was promptly recognized by one of the usual suspects who hounded the institution that hired her. They promptly canceled her contract.
As I say, justice moves slowly in the Great White North, but in the end it may not be justice at all.
I believe Peterson may have been more aggressive in the prosecution of his case. WLU recently has brought motions to court for the case to be dismissed. They have also said that Shepherd controlled the release of her tape which lead to the libel against Peterson and therefore she, not the profs or WLU were responsible for the libel. I don’t believe the court has ruled on the motion. There’s an article from the National Post here.
Yes. That was a part of what I quoted from Wiki. Which is such a twisting of the concept justice that it reminds me of stories about justice in the middle ages. But then not much different from how many (most?) psychology and psychiatry professionals behave themselves.
Everything is Racist: Photography.
Yes. That was a part of what I quoted from Wiki. Which is such a twisting of the concept justice that it reminds me of stories about justice in the middle ages.
“Mankind will not be free until the last Marxist is strangled with the entrails of the last wokester.”
–Denis Diderot
Stuff you just can’t make up.
Disrupting the arts: they are free to make their own art…if they are able. There was a whole lot of rebelling against the status quo in art world starting with the Impressionists, but now that art has devolved into a Jackson Pollock painting or a solid red canvas, there is nothing left to rebel against. As the meme says…”pathetic”
I’m more of a bawdy limerick man myself
I seem to be in the minority, as I really quite enjoyed ‘Blood Origins’. I didn’t worry about the odd characters, because, y’know, it’s fantasy. OK, the presence of Lenny Henry was somewhat unwelcome, but the others played their parts with husto.
And it was short! Only four episodes.