past the city
this shape
Montana
North Dakota, Fracking Silos
Wisconsin Silos
Iowa
Texas
Denver Grain Silos
Illinois Grain Silos
California, Pesticide Silo
holds grains fertilizer oils!!
Author: spencer
a FedEx Subject ///
John Henry ///
The Legend of John Henry [HQ]
John Henry was a mighty man. He was inspired, he worked so hard, and it killed him.
Where is the modern John Henry? Where is the song about the guy who did most things right, attended 2 years college on debt, but finds himself a diabetic Walmart Associate? Does it ends on his suicide, the second leading cause of death for Americans 25-34[1]?
Why is a Disney re-creation of a 19th century folktale more true than so much of what we call non-fiction?
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oh hey hay ///
High Noon @ the Rochester Depot ///
A balding black man sits alone with a large roller bag.
Two women approach. The younger comes up behind him and slaps hard the back of his head. He turns and says nothing.
“You’re a disgrace. You’re an embarrassment to the family.”
The older woman has a phone on speaker and she juts it into the conversation. It squawks something. He mumbles something.
“Where’d you even get the money. You steal it?” says the younger woman.
He stares at the ground.
“Uh-huh. Don’t think I’ll let you back you in. You do this now. Don’t think I can forgive this.”
The phone talks more. He mumbles something more. The older woman walks away. The younger begins to leave, then pauses to look on him.
He says nothing.
She looks at the floor. She looks at him, says “you don’t even have a job,” and walks away.
Forty minutes pass.
A young man comes. They embrace, a male hug, fists to the back. The young man gives him money. They talk, shake hands. And part.
Another hour passes. He boards a westbound train.
1943 Computers ///
Before computers came in boxes, they were human, usually female. Here, some computers compute the day’s schedule in the Information Room of Chicago’s Union Station.
Big G :: King Kibble ///
ugh
ugh
oh
purr
call me Big G the humdinger gunslinger
ya i move like im john wayne’s dead ringer
sh*t, i just trump so fly, jump so high
and whump them mice go thump, that right
i purr in delight death be the rite
my flow like iguazu, i break through
like jesus john two-O — hell yah
make haste, small mammals to waste
it’s my modus operandi up the ante
vomit on ya carpet piss up the apartment
call me beast but yo i eat fancy feast!
a regular artist i harvest, the hit, the nip
and roll in it! some b*tches howl
i be the prowl on the street the beat
cant compete! best be understood
this my hood, my meter and measure
my life of murder for leisure.
purr
purr
ugh-purrrrr
yo, i never asked for noth’n
just a lil love’n and kibble, now
im blow’n up aint no quibble
and still no respect wont accept
think me a dog panting to defer?
yah i carry a tail and got fur
but i born on the streets
bighouse nine weeks
and they neuter me. well gee
y’all say you humane? can’t be
you spray away, release my pain
it aint easy being cat man thinks he all that
but as i ascend this imperialism will end
so say adieu gonna bend ya blue a la john yoo!
haha ya you think you high and mighty a-s-c-p-a?
well humdinger! i a-bout to torture and buffet!
ha. ha. purr purr
b*tches best defer
and respect my furrrrrr,
purr.
yo
yo
meoow
yo i got fur, fur, yea i got fur
them b*tches still hate but sh*t
i got friskies in every flavor, savor
your envy, it’s just elementary
yeezy weezy think they the sh*t easy
but shi*it, y’all just rich b*tches
you seek them frills, i eat my kills
ya you rodent as i pounce smooth
ya student as i pronounce truth, that
it’s you take i take egoism alright
it’s indisputable it’s business as usual
that we turn to thugs and altas shrugs
a new world order, i do murder
i do purr and consume the bieber!
ha think they better than king kibble?
don’t piddle! virtue gone republic rubicon
it’s the izzle extrajudicial the predator strikes
no vice I excise and you: and you be mice.
the cat rap by Gulliver “King Kibble” Cat
transliterated from the cat by spencer
the marathon camera hat ///
In 2009,
I ran a qualifying time for the NYC marathon. SO,
I decided to run it, AND
make a live streaming camera hat that sent photos every 5 seconds to my web site
However then I got really excited and ran my first ~4 miles at sub 6min pace — ie I crashed and burned and ran the latter half a whole hour slower the first half…
(and then while switching servers I accidentally deleted the photos)
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the Levithan ///
FADE IN:
ON AN AMERICAN FLAG
So close it’s but a few stripes rippling, thrashing against the encroaching night.
NEWS PERSONALITY (V.O.)
Fellow patriots. I am afraid.
EXT. INTERSTATE CLOVERLEAF – NIGHT
NEWS PERSONALITY (V.O.)
We’ve gone and sold ourselves out. Like cheap whores, to the Chinese, to Wall Street, to the thugs in Washington.
INT. FACTORY – ROBOTIC ASSEMBLY LINE
NEWS PERSONALITY (V.O.)
Are we not the free? The brave?! Yet we let them steal our money.
EXT. LOS ANGLES SKYLINE – NIGHT
Helicopters buzz about.
NEWS PERSONALITY (V.O.)
We let them tell us what to eat, how to raise our children.
INT. BIG BOX STORE
NEWS PERSONALITY (V.O.)
You know, Martin Luther King, he was just an ordinary preacher. Abraham Lincoln born into a log cabin. Many doubted.
EXT. PETROLEUM REFINERY – NIGHT
NEWS PERSONALITY (V.O.)
But they knew the simple truth that right makes might.
MONTAGE – AMERICAN INFRASTRUCTURE
— GREAT PLAINS – NIGHT — A massive train thunders by.
— FACTORY FARM — We pass row after row of tightly caged chickens.
— SEWAGE PLANT — Pipes the size of trucks empty into vast pools.
NEWS PERSONALITY (V.O.)
Remember that salient truth. You choose. You can choose! For the sake of your children I beg choose virtue. Choose goodness. Choose to be today’s hero.
EXT. AIRCRAFT CARRIER FLIGHT DECK – NIGHT
CAPTAIN JOHN HU, 32, looks out onto across the flight deck onto the dark night.
It’s an awesome sight – the full exercise of a Nimtz class aircraft carrier – sailors, flight crews, planes and munitions synchronized to perfect order.
His plane is aligned to the runway, wings folding down. The jet blast deflector raises. He is armed and readied.
NEWS PERSONALITY (V.O.)
Remember the creed of the Founders. Liberty. Liberty at any cost, liberty however turbulent however ferocious the waters – liberty! – that is our God given path.
The flight crew clears. The Pratt & Whitney F135 engine roars to 50,000 pounds force as steam escapes from the catapult below.
The holdbacks release and the fighter shoots forward. In but two seconds, we’re airborne, catapulted to the heavens.
NEWS PERSONALITY (V.O.)
That is what we choose, it is our ultimate only end. Liberty! Liberty or death!
The plane banks left. Down below, the USS George Washington steams forward, cutting through the turbulent waters.
Then, a WHOSH —
Multiple MISSILES narrowing in —
And IMPACT. Massive explosions along her hull; man and metal turn to dust.
FADE OUT
INT. RESTROOM
A man in a conservative suit, early-sixties, washes his hands under bright white florescent light. He is VIGGO GOMEZ, White House Chief of Staff.
TITLE SUPERIMPOSED: “Washington – 11:48 Zulu Time”
Abraham G-Money Lincoln ///
This work mediates Abraham Lincoln’s honest humility with the triumphant destruction of the racist, slaving Confederacy.
August 2012, it was destroyed per the policies of Roosevelt Landings.