You’re
STILL Wrong
or
Mykel's
Mykel's
Sept
2018 Blog/Column
Well-hung
The
pain starts at the ankles. A rough localized pain… not a stabbing
pain... closer to an intense rash that hurts rather than itches. It’s
the rope... digging into me… every strand cutting its own notch…
if I move an inch… try to twist or flop my body… it cuts deeper.
The
hook on the ceiling stays firm. I half hope it will pull out...
freeing me from the hanging, but if it gives way suddenly, the entire
135 pounds of my body weight will land on my bald skull.. likely
splitting it. So here I hang… naked... my head a couple feet above
the concrete floor, my elderly breasts slightly higher on my chest
than they are when I’m standing. Between my legs my floppy bits
hang in a limp parody of the erection that wasn’t.
It
must be an hour now. The pain in my bladder is slowly becoming
intolerable. Gravity fights the urge to piss. I have to piss upward…
over a urethral hill… then down. The pressure wins… gravity
loses... the stream pushes its way from between my legs... up over
the taint… and out. A yellow stream from up to down… hitting my
chin as if perfectly aimed by one of those Russian piss experts. I
tilt my head forward to catch it in my mouth.
None
of that is true. At least, none is true on a literal level.
Metaphorically, it’s the focus of this blog… Here’s something
that IS true.
It’s
noon. My first class starts in an hour and a half. It’s a cloudy
day… rain a minute away… in any direction. I stop at Cafe
Angelique on my way to the subway. Walking in, the most beautiful
girl I’ve seen this year is walking out. She holds the door…
makes a chivalrous sweeping hand gesture… and smiles… not one of
those
tooth-gritting-I’m-doing-this-to-be-polite-but-actually-I-hate-you
smiles… but a real you’re-a-person-I’m a person-and-I’m
happy-we’ve-had-this-encounter-however-brief smile. The cloudy day
brightens a bit… from the inside.
Inside
the cafe, I pick up my usual bagel stick (cream cheese, lox, on a
mini-French bread… baked like a bagel)... and head to the counter
to pay for it. I pass by the second
most beautiful girl I’ve seen this year. On her lap... standing...
is a little boy, obviously enjoying his trip to the cafe. Not only
does the woman smile at me, she says “Hello there.” And even the
little boy shows me a toothy grin. One tooth is missing.
I
feel like I’m walking six inches off the floor. What a way to start
the day! It looks like one of those rare days… not one of
those days.®
I find myself whistling
Hungarian Rhapsody on
the short walk from the cafe to the subway station. I never whistle.
On
the platform, I walk to the end where the least crowded car will
dock. I eat the bagel stick and wait for the train. When it arrives,
I get in and there are about half a dozen people in the car. I sit in
the 2-seat bench next to the
door. Today
it's more
out of habit than from my usual curmudgeonly desire not to have some
man-spreader force himself into the seat next to me before spreading.
On
the same side of the car… the other side of the door… a tough
woman sits sipping something out of an ice-filled plastic cup. I set
down my backpack and pull out the latest Nation and
start reading stuff I know I’ll half agree with.
CRASH!
Not
the train, but the woman's cup of ice as it falls to the floor. I
look at the cup laying there… mostly still filled with ice, but
with a few cubes lying helter skelter on the floor. I look from the
cup back
to the woman. She sits.. her fist tucked under her chin… a sad
parody of Rodin...
her
brows furrowed not in thought
but in hostility… to something I can’t see.
I look from her to the cup on the floor and back to her... then back to The Nation. In my peripheral vision I can see her stand up and move to the other end of the car… as far away from my end as possible.
I look from her to the cup on the floor and back to her... then back to The Nation. In my peripheral vision I can see her stand up and move to the other end of the car… as far away from my end as possible.
I
try to focus on The Nation.
At the next stop a
few more people get into the car. When the door closes, the icewoman
stands again and walks toward her cup on the floor. When she reaches
it, she pulls back a leg like a football punter… then she kicks the
cup... aiming it directly at my face… It misses my face… but does
not miss my shirt and pants… soon covered with melted ice.
“He
kept watching me!” she shouts to the rest of the passengars…
all of whom quickly
bury themselves in their cellphones.
I
go back to The Nation and read
the same sentence over and over again. Something about a Trump
Bump.... I'm not getting it, but
at least I don't have to look at the angry
woman.
Luckily,
the next stop is Grand Central. My stop... I get out… jog up the
stairs… move into an alcove and glance behind to see if she’s
followed me. She hasn’t.
Key
point, I think, ALL of the women in this anecdote are colored… the
two women in the cafe… the woman in the subway car. All slight
variations on the color of oak in the lobby of the Algonquin Hotel...
beautiful!
So,
what’s all this got to do with hanging by my ankles naked from the
ceiling in an unnamed building? I’m glad you asked: UPSIDE DOWN is
the connection. My day turned upside down from heart-melting kindness
to maniacal hostility. Life, people, everything that comes with the
modern world is turning upside down… and few people notice it!
Leftists
and rightists stand on their heads… supporting exactly the opposite
of leftists and rightists… with as much anger at their former
selves as the colored woman with a cup of ice.
FLASHBACK:
On February 1, 1960, at
4:30pm, four black guys sit down at the lunch counter inside the
Woolworth store in Greensboro North Carolina. The men have already
purchased toothpaste and other products from the store with no
problems. At the store's lunch counter they are
refused service when they
each asks
for a cup of coffee. Following store policy, the staff refuses
to serve the black men at the "whites only" counter. The
store manager, Clarence Harris, asks
them to leave. The four freshmen, however, stay until the store
closes. The
next day, more than twenty black students, recruited from other
campus groups, join the sit-in.
They
are
customers
demanding the same rights as other customers. Consumers demanding
from the giant corporation...
WE
SHALL OVERCOME!
This
is the call of the generation… inspired by black, but soon gone to
white… It leads to the Civil Rights Act of 1964. It leads to a host
of others… but most importantly it establishes the basic principle
that the right of the individual trumps the right of the corporation.
The right of a customer to choose his business trumps the right of
the business to choose its customer. You can’t just make “company
rules”… post a sign WHITES ONLY and win. Anyone who can pay for
your services is entitled to them. White customers complain. They are
being disturbed by people who
they didn’t like.
“Let
the Negroes go
to their own restaurants,” they say.
“If they don’t like it, they should just open up a place
themselves.”
Leftists/communists/liberals
and my very young self applauded the sit-iners. We cheered the end of
segregation and the affirmation of the rights of people over the
rights of companies to just post a sign and keep people out. No more
thumb over shoulder saying… “read the sign buddy, WHITES ONLY
that’s the rule.”
FLASH TO 2018: Facebook, Apple, YouTube cut the account of wacko conspiricist Alex Jones. POW! We don’t like you! You’re out. If there was ever a case of corporate dictatorship... corporate triumph over individuals... this is it.
FLASH TO 2018: Facebook, Apple, YouTube cut the account of wacko conspiricist Alex Jones. POW! We don’t like you! You’re out. If there was ever a case of corporate dictatorship... corporate triumph over individuals... this is it.
THE
PROGRESSIVE MAGAZINE says in an editorial that Jones violated the
terms of facebook’s agreement and “even if he didn’t, facebook
is a private company and can change the rules any time.” This is
THE PROGRESSIVE… previously one of the most out-spoken voices for
the rights of THE PUBLIC over the rights of THE CORPORATION.
This
attitude is
NOT progressive. This is Donald Trump saying the right of
corporations to pollute is more important that the right of
individuals to breathe clean air. It’s Hobby Lobby
denying contraceptives to its employees, saying the rights of the
company bosses are more important than the rights of their employees.
They signed a contract. If they don’t like it, they can work
somewhere else.
Hobby
Lobby was 4 years ago.
Liberals were up in (non-lethal) arms. Then, in 2018, in a kerpow
moment, those same liberals
have turned themselves upside down and opened their mouths to taste
the piss of corporatism…. and they love it. Alex Jones banned
simultaneously from facebook, Apple and YouTube.
“How
can they do this?” I ask.
“They’re
a corporation. They make the rules. They can do what they want,”
comes the answer-- from the liberals! Can you say WHITES ONLY?
But wait… there’s more.
But wait… there’s more.
In
the days of white terrorism, the Ku Klux Klan wore white hoods to
cover their identity when they terrorized Negroes, Jews, (sometimes)
Catholics. They knew what they were doing was illegal, certainly
violent, probably immoral.
These
days, the only time you’ll see a klansman in a hood is in cartoons
in “progressive”
magazines.
Who
wears the hoods in 2018? Who tries to hide their identity knowing
that what they are doing is illegal, certainly violent, probably
immoral. Is that a cross burning behind that guy? It might as well be
one.
Had
enough? Tough shit! There’s more.
Flash
to 1950.
“I
have here in my hand,” says Joseph McCarthy, “ a list of two
hundred and five people that were known to the Secretary of State as
being members of the Communist Party” shills for a dangerous
Russia.
Russia
was the bad guy. Those associated with it were bad. People were
black-listed. Hollywood wouldn’t hire “Communists.” In order to
get any work at all, Russia-lovers had to use assumed names to hide
their identity.
Last
month I wrote about how these
former Russia lovers and
CIA/FBI haters have
suddenly turned into their upside down counterparts and now HATE
Russia and love the CIA/FBI. But there’s more...
These
days, actors still get black-listed, thrown off their programs…
censored for their political beliefs or
past sexual history. Roseanne
Barr loses her job in a day, for a few words on Twitter. Kevin
Spacey gets digitally edited out of a movie he was to star in.
And the same political leaning that was the VICTIM of blacklisting,
now applauds it. Upside down!
Yeah,
there’s even more, but I need to stop now… my brain hurts… I
probably should hoist myself back up by my ankles and let the blood
rush to my head. It’ll give me the perspective needed to function
in America in 2018.
-end-
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-→Speaking
of Antifa dept: During protests
in Portland Oregon, one
anti-Trump protester carried
an American flag to show that he thought that it was patriotic to
protest the president. Well, that didn’t sit well with the Antifa
crew… one of whom beat the guy and put him in the hospital. In an
exchange after the event, an Antifa member said, “Well, at least we
didn’t kill him.”
-→Make
Canada Great Again dept: Meanwhile,
a manager at the Stanley Park Teahouse in Vancouver Canada was
fired
because he refused service to someone wearing a M.A.G.A. hat. The
company said they fired the guy because he acted in a way violating
the company’s philosophy of tolerance. 10
punk points to the company.
In
America they’d be boycotted. If there’s one thing the current
crop of left-totalitarians can’t tolerate… it’s tolerance.
-->Something
for tolerance dept: Seems like
the anti-Muslimites are always finding quotes to bolster their
opinions. So I offer this one: Beware! Whoever is cruel
and hard on a non-Muslim minority, or curtails their rights, or
burdens them with more than they can bear, or takes anything from
them against their free will; I (Prophet Muhammad) will complain
against the person on the Day of Judgment. (from
the Hadiths)
Put
that
in your Islamaphobic pipe and smoke it.
-end-
LINK
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