"Facade Importers Sales Analysis" (roundel)

  they killed to earn their living
  and to help out the Congolese


Magic for awhile was all we knew
and what we dreamed of, came to pass.
The world appeared to answer to our skew
magic, for awhile.

But we dove headlong through that crazy glass
to find our dreams lived only for a few;
the age not golden, but of brass.

Walls of dreaming mew
these victims of a rise in cost of gas,
these heroes now who fade like morning dew,
these workers housed in highrise crass
magic--for awhile.


Kunstler's reviewers raise a lot of interesting points about the (coming)("Tribulation"/SHTF).

That wind turbine link one of them mentions.

"In a time of bad communications, when any self-transcendence is hard to come by, to perceive the existence of a reality beyond all constructions of the consciousness is to experience a kind of call to prophecy." --Richard Wilbur


The suicide pact of Sister Smile. (via Metafilter)


Issue 1.