Category: Stray Rounds

fall temperatures

drying up in the throat as grief over what’s no longer able to be counted on sets in motion a cascading cataclysm we knew was coming and did nothing to avoid. maybe it’s time to quit. sell the car. stop pretending it’s all cool with me, man, whatever you want. as long as you’re okay, i’m okay, okay? okay?! just leave me the fuck alone! i’ll be squatting in the abandoned strip mall grocery store, the one miraculously scheduled for a renovation, the kind of renovation that signals the beginning of the end, because here comes the avant garde, scoping out where the vampires can get their last bit of blood before it all dries up

even the ice cream truck needs gasoline

“‘If you want to keep everyone happy, sell ice cream.’ We are not in the business of ice cream—and I’m reminded, there are people who are lactose intolerant.” — Tengku Muhammad Taufik, president and group CEO of Malaysia’s state energy firm, Petronas

“I don’t see where we are today as something that is going to end our industry although there are some out there that want it to go away. As we have done in the past, we will find ways to innovate out of this situation that we’re in,” — Vicki Hollub, CEO of Texas-based multinational Occidental Petroleum

“We will never make enough to please the ones which are against oil and gas, but my mission is not to please them. Our mission is to deliver to the society the energy we need today and tomorrow and for that I feel comfortable.” — Patrick Pouyanne, head of French oil company TotalEnergies

Ghoul is from the Arabic غُول ghūl, from غَالَ ghāla, “to seize”. In Arabic, the term is also sometimes used to describe a greedy or gluttonous individual. (Wikipedia)

https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/oil-gas-fossil-fuels-heat-b2422655.html

the Empire? you say it never ended?

I’m rereading VALIS by Philip K. Dick, and the analogy I’ve landed on is that mids weed is to psilocybin as PKD is to Pynchon.

maybe I ought to write more about this, and about literature generally, like essays and criticism or whatever. I dunno tho I kind of hate my literary critic voice, plus I’m too lazy to dwell long enough on any one work or author to say anything interesting. but also it would benefit me to work out my own opinions on my influences. hmm

what I really ought to do is yell at Adam for abandoning Story Time.