Well my head is in a slightly better place this week than it was last week. Not that things are good. No, things are not good at all. Trump was re-elected, despite being a close personal friend of Jeffrey Epstein. Or really, because he is a Friend of Epstein. After all, he is very popular with conservative Christians. Its re-election was no real surprise; this type of outcome has been inevitable since Reagan’s second term, and accelerated by Citizen’s United.

Reading

Reading went a little better this week than last week. I finished Elvira Navarro’s A Working Woman, which was beautiful and strange. Now I am reading Mona Arshi’s Somebody Loves You, which sits in the boundary between novel and prose poem.

Writing

I have put some more thought into The Book, and taken down some notes around setting and character traits, but the story itself still eludes me. I suspect that what was originally intended as a re-write will instead be a re-draft.

Weekly Writing Prompt

Subject: Politics, Death
Setting: Subterranean
Genre: Literary Fiction

Listening

Alice Coltrane and Pharoah Sanders, “Something About John Coltrane”, from the album Journey in Satchidananda.

Interesting Links

• “Why the Enthusiasm for Mass Deportation, A Hard and Likely Largely Losing Way to Deal with Illegal Immigration?” (Yves Smith, Naked Capitalism) – Why the enthusiasm for mass deportation? Racism. Why will it fail? Capitalism. Will the deportees be blamed for the lack of success in deporting them? Yes.
• “Pluralistic: Boss politics antitrust” (Cory Doctorow, Pluralistic) – When it comes to Trump vs. corporate corruption, the enemy of my enemy is very much my fucking enemy.