Slacker Sunday: Floofball Edition
Floof for you, floof for me, floof for everybody
Somewhere, football players are making themselves into future Senator Mushbrain Ballguys.
I shot a dog in Reno,
Just to watch him die.
We don’t have railroads here. No railroads, no crows. A few fellers with Amtrak horns in their pickumup trucks though.
I went and shot some color film yesterday. I fear it will be dreadfully underexposed. Some cool cats but all human. There’s still 12 frames left though. All is not lost.
Jungle cat, perfectly capable of falling off a cat tree. I shouldn’t have favorites but he doesn’t attack me or run away, so …
The only local cat with his own line of greeting cards.
Kitty reacting to a dad joke.
Capitalism is making you sick and your cats are worried.
Maybe not worried, exactly. But capitalism is making us sick. Gabor Maté explains.1
People believe they’re living in a free society but in fact they have very little actual authority over their lives. Authority is exercised in significant areas by a small elite, which Marx would have called the ruling class. That’s true when it comes to the control of information, and obviously to the economy. The decisions that affect people’s lives are all made not for their own benefit but for the purpose of profit. And they are made by very few people under the guise of what’s called a free society.
The second myth is capitalism’s essential assumption about human nature — that we are fundamentally selfish, individualistic, aggressive, and competitive. It’s false. It goes quite contrary to what we know about human evolution and genuine human needs.
That’s from an interview at Jacobin. It’s short and more a plug for Maté’s most recent book than a delving interview, but, still.
Ratboys, it don’t get much better than that for indie rock. “Happy Birthday, Ratboy,” and “Printer’s Devil.” Always happy to see a nod to the past from the young folk.
That, comrades, is all I got. Be well, take care.
I don't think cats and crows get along. Are cats socialists?