H4LL0W33N'S CR33P1N' 0N 4...

halloween's creepin' on a

come up; dollar store's full of

demon paraphernalia

S1MPL3 BRVSH STR0K3S 0N V3LV3T...

simple brush strokes on velvet

make immaculate aura

accessible by all us

SONG OF THE DAY: It's All Bad

Never really listened to a bunch of E-40, because he’s always come across as one of those “slang for slang’s sake” people, where you pretend everybody on Earth is saying some crazy shit you just thought up while walking to the bus stop. While I respect such ambition in destroying conventional linguistics, it gets annoying when you overdo it. That sort of became E-40’s thing. But DJ Screw subconsciously poisoned me into E-40 tolerance, so lately I revisited some of that classic ‘90s era Charlie Hustle, and it’s hard as fuck not to relate to this song, given current personal life conditions. It is all bad. People will be like “it’s going to get better” or “keep going” but honestly, sometimes shit doesn’t get better. Doesn’t mean you give up, because it only gets worse if you do, but instead of lying to people and continually saying “oh, it’s gonna get better, keep trying,” you should just go “yeah everything is fucked, but it’ll be even more fucked if you stop.” It’s like riptide, and culturally we live in a shit storm of a riptide as American empire crumbles while simultaneously everybody comfortable keeps telling you “hey, it’s not falling apart, it’s just a little blip in the exceptional ride.” Like with riptides, you’re doomed perhaps, but have to keep fighting sideways, to keep the shore in sight. Stop fighting, you’re definitely fucked; keep fighting, you’re only about 50% fucked. I guess I’ll accept those odds. (But y’all fuckers on the shore who keep saying everything’s alright better hope we the rest of us don’t have much energy left by the time we got to the shore, if we do, because we gonna stomp y’all one day.)

C0VNTRY ST0R3 D1SPL4Y C4S3S...

country store display cases

left to fade into past times

for future kids to picture

Aki Basho 2018 Honour Tanka Day Eleven: TOCHINOSHIN (7-4)

[sometimes Tochinoshin's technique is "fuck you"] 

this basho's third act 

begins with two unbeaten 

yokozuna left 

below that, many stories 

still unfold with fine texture 

one such story has 

been our man Tochinoshin, 

the Bulgarian 

the past year has seen no one 

else be quite as dominant 

our Bulgarian 

hero was makekoshi 

last basho, injured 

with Mitakeumi breathing 

down his neck, he needs eight wins 

bull Tochinoshin's 

(he who lifts ev'rything and 

throws it) been missing 

and facing undefeated 

yokozuna's always tough 

Kakuryu's wiley 

grace as yokozuna has 

been underrated 

I say this as casual 

dude who has overlooked him 

he seemed to be the 

third Mongolian before 

sumo scandals broke 

with Harumafuji gone, 

Kakuryu stood out stronger 

he and Hakuho 

were the lone unbeaten men 

left when day started 

Tochinoshin was fighting 

to keep ozeki status 

he hadn't been straight 

up lifting fools this basho, 

until yesterday 

against yokozuna though? 

surely, he'd become humbled 

nah, fam… the brutal 

beast from Bulgaria was 

full of spirit war 

Kakuryu's master tactics 

meant nothing lifted off ground 

he literally 

got carried the fuck away 

by Tochinoshin 

our Bulgarian hero 

one win away from safety 

"Tochi" shikona 

remains most honorable - 

three yokozunas 

Tochinoshin continues 

their tradition, with brute strength 

Aki Basho 2018 Honour Tanka Day Ten: KISENOSATO (8-2)

[ya boy dirtgod needs a fat stack of them envelopes like that] 

Kisenosato's 

return as yokozuna 

has been eventful 

he's hardly looked dominant, 

but he made kachikoshi 

it's been a year since 

he's accomplished such a feat - 

bad look for sumo 

gyoji called multple 

mattas (false starts) on Endo 

poor sad Endo - he's 

having an ugly basho, 

struggling entirely 

still a threat though, except when 

matta policing happens 

few bouts have true two 

hands down - it's performative 

motion in action 

but Kisenosato shall 

get all the help he can get 

official sumo 

federation wants their star 

to shine (for money) 

sumo federation wants 

Japanese yokozuna 

Kisenosato 

brings about a fat stack of 

sponsor envelopes 

thus after three false starts, we 

finally have some sumo 

Endo easily 

pushed backwards out the ring, 

a potential "work" 

"was Endo working hard, or 

hardly working?" as they say 

Kisenosato 

got his kachikoshi, and 

still only two back 

but let's be real - this is not 

the same Kisenosato 

B4L4NC3 B3TW33N L1GHT 4ND D4RK...

balance between light and dark

in times which feel too much like

twilight of humanity

TRY T0 K33P MY H34D 1N CL0VDS...

try to keep my head in clouds,

but life keeps redirecting

me in doors all the damn time