Til Death do Us Blart 2017 - I should mention a thing

A thing about being a poet is that sometimes you do things. Things like a 100 Haiku challenge, or decide to write in 6 word lines, or decide that someday you would like to write a pop song, but not the music, just the lyrics. Also, I completely missed any inheritance conversations this time because I got fully immersed in the story of Vincent being Immortal Vincent van Gogh and well yeah.

Some lines that I think I will like

The Foam Gun!

This the new flubber (see how I borked grammar for 5 syllables? ug.)

The marbles dribble out (6. useless.)

Because Vincent is van Gogh

More comedy without camoflage

Locked and loaded Chekov's guns

"Can't spell Blart without Art"

Brain Damage for the bird scene

Til Death do Us Blart - 2016 & cleaning

What follows is the 1 3/4 pages of notes I took while listening to Til Death do Us Blart episode 2, from 2016. I was also cleaning the kitchen and waiting for a specific bit of conversation that happened in this episode but I wasn't sure because I've heard all of them a few times now. The parenthetical asides are added by me while writing this. Most of them. Not the one in the 2nd last stanza.

Feed yourself & rest in all of this

We're all still here (and choosing inheritors to carry on when it's Time)

The Shadow Man (becomes a character and begins to open doors to weirdness)

(the main character is) Terrible to other people

They end the movie in love (is the supposition based on events at the beginning of PBToo)

She can't not vomit (so she leaves, for her own health)

We got it in one (I took this note and don't remember why)

Mini Discs at the Family Blockbuster 

Ghost Lane the Ghost Boy 

(those last two are unrelated, I just liked the cadences)

Til Death Do Us Blart 2015 - it begins

Okay, so basically it's a podcast show that only happens once a year and it happens on American Thanksgiving (which of course I don't celebrate but I do get time off work so I do this and cook food and do literally anything that's not shopping) and you can find it here: https://www.themcelroy.family/deathdousblart .

Yes. It's a McElroy Brothers & Tim & Guy production. Five guys watch Paul Blart Mall Cop, Too and talk about it. It's not the best idea. I love it so very much. (It used to be that I would listen to the classic tune Alice's Restaurant every year, but the last time I listened I was fully caught off guard by the use of a slur about gay folks towards the back end of the piece and, you know. I get to say no.) 

What follows is a reaction to this reaction, to this show, this work of Art, this extended contemplation of what can only be called Utter CrapShitGarbage. 

There will be 10 of these because there are 10 of those, except there will actually be 11 because the gathered boys dropped a surprise in 2020, so there's one more.

TDdUB 2015

Did they know? Do we know even now?

The lead up to a holiday I do no honor &

will use for better ends is dusted in the sounds

of good good boys surviving every year &

the inevitable mediocrity and garbage of Paul Blart Mall Cop, Too.

The part where that movie's name is 5 syllables.

Well now, isn't this a treat

I knew that I'd forgotten that I made this!

In an effort to figure out what To Do given the election results and the chaos that we Know will ensue, I return to writing as a Something.

There is an overabundance of choice for writing platforms, but I have already made this lovely little nook, so I will return to it.

Today I am making stock, a version of Kitchenista's Chicken Soup for the Quarantined Soul with leftover bones from take out and a meal I made earlier this week. I am also rearranging the living room furniture for the cold season, although I doubt that there will be much of it, what with All Of the Climate Crisis happening right now and for the foreseeable future until we all start paying attention to ourselves and our communities because relationships and life are more lasting than proftis and wInNiNg and building substantial lifeways and interpersonal interactions that have space for healing and learning and rest and unconditional care rather than earnings based health insurance are the norm so it will be disruptive when the corporations fall, but it won't be deadly. Because right now, their existence is deadly and their destruction will be deadly, as well.

I'm also listening to My Analog Journal sets via Soundcloud via Patreon because it's a good.

No promises, no asks, just presence.