RAVEN MACK is a mystic poet-philosopher-artist of the Greater Appalachian unorthodox tradition. He does have an amazing PATREON, but also *normal* ARTIST WEBSITE too.

Tuesday, December 4

Monday, December 3

N0T 4S C0MP1C4T3D 4S...

not as complicated as
one might think, this living life
thing; keep it simple as fuck

SONG OF THE DAY: Take It From The Man



My old car is dead so I’m shopping for a new car with zero down and just barely good credit, jumping further into economic oblivion, like fuck it. The world in geopolitical sense is no longer political, the capitalistic wolves run the entire thing, there is no counter argument, no opposing system – it’s just free-for-all-the-elites capitalism running rough shod over everything. And I sit here, in the very privileged position of shopping for a barely affordable car loan to get a used tiny car, because that’s all I can squeeze without safety net of wealth or generational support, pretending it’s not a bad move, because I have to drive my kids to public school so they can get more fucked up and harassed and crudened, and I have to drive to the job I don’t really like at all and doesn’t feed any of the real parts of me that want to be fed. The phrase “good money after bad” comes to mind, as we as a poison culture have thrown so much bad money into this bad system but at this point it’s all we know, all we’re comfortable with, because we are like fucking chickens in the pen, completely domesticated and unable to survive on our own. So we throw more good money after it. Shit man, I don’t even want money. Anyways, fuck America, fuck Trump, fuck all Presidents, piss on Bush’s dead body, here is a song.

D4Y GL0W N30N GR33N L0NG SL33V3...

day glow neon green long sleeve
racing stripes cross continent,
not for pay, just for escape

Sunday, December 2

SYST3MS 0F C0NTR0L 4PPL13D...

systems of control applied
long before birth, living in
these unseen fence lines whole life

SONG OF THE DAY: Wandering Romance


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bizarrely warm Sunday afternoon a-brewing locally
time for wandering romance? staring at the sky?
touching concrete sidewalks in corners I ain’t been?
idly writing poetry underneath naked trees along the river?
nah fam, late capitalism economic insecurity
got me fearing the arrival of Monday
and another week of barely getting by
another week of barely not choking on debt
another week of hoping the art I’ve already done helps
immunize me against this week’s poison culture onslaught
since I don’t have the energy to do anything more
right now

1N TH4T 0BS3RV4T10N C4R...

in that observation car
most the trip long, listening
to and talking with strangers

Saturday, December 1

25-Man Metaphysical Roster: Huddersfield Town A.F.C.


[25-Man Metaphysical Roster is a football dork methodology meant to establish a listing of players who have been most active for English Premier League teams in their past 100 non-friendly matches. Essentially, it is calculated by minutes played, but weighted towards most recent games. The end result is a listing of the 25 players in a team’s recent history who have had the largest hand on their metaphysical sporting trajectory. The English Premier League was chosen because it is the highest level of football played in an English speaking country, and I speak English. Also, it is what comes on TV here in the USA, where I fucking live. And yet still I should clarify I hate English, and also America. Thus maybe I hate myself. Should I not fail in maintaining my unpaid deadline, a new 25-Man Metaphysical Roster will appear on the 1st and 15th of every month.]

WORKING THROUGH A MISSED YEAR BECAUSE WE RE-LAUNCHING THIS BITCH ON JUNE 1ST, 2019!!! This would’ve been the December 1, 2018, write-up for Huddersfield Town, who sadly ended up getting relegated, so this might’ve been my last chance ever to write about them. RIP Huddersfield.
#1: CHRISTOPHER SCHINDLER (same as last time Huddersfield Town was metaphysically ranked on 15-Dec-2017, thus also his SECOND METAPHYSICAL STAR)
#2: AARON MOOY (same as last time)
#3: JONAS LOSSI (up from #12 last time)
#4: MATHIAS JORGENSEN (up from #13 last time)
#5: JONATHAN HOGG (up from #7 last time)
#6: RAJIV VAN LA PARRA (same as last time)
#7: CHRIS LOWE (down from #7 last time)
#8: FLORENT HADERGJONAJ
#9: TOMMY SMITH (down from #3 last time)
#10: PHILIP BILLING (up from #11 last time)
#11: STEVE MOUNIE
#12: TERENCE KONGOLO
#13: LAURENT DEPOITRE (up from #21 last time)
#14: TOM INCE (same as last time)
#15: ELIAS KACHUNGA (down from #4 last time)
#16: ALEX PRITCHARD
#17: COLLIN QUANER (down from #15 last time)
#18: SCOTT MALONE (previously ranked #21 for Fulham on 01-Jul-2018)
#19: DANNY WILLIAMS (up from #23 last time)
#20: MICHAEL HEFELE (down from #10 last time)
#21: DANNY WARD (down from #8 last time; also previously ranked #25 for Cardiff City on 15-Jun-2018)
#22: ERIK DURM
#23: NAHKI WELLS (down from #9 last time)
#24: JOE LOLLEY (down from #20 last time)
#25: JOEL COLEMAN (same as last time)

G30M3TR1C 1NDVSTRY...

geometric industry
blossoming beside the blue
highways that didn't dry out

Friday, November 30

HVNT1NG VP WR4SSL3B3RR13S W1TH...

hunting wrassleberries with
the young 'uns, walking through Old
Man Tenpenny's property

SONG OF THE DAY: Dean Malenko



DEAN MALENKO and CHRIS BENOIT 1995 over SWEET STAN LANE and BEAUTIFUL BOBBY EATON 1988 (texas death match 2 out of 3 falls) ***; LUKE WILLIAMS and BUTCH MILLER 1985 over THE GANGSTAS 1994 (street fight stretcher match 2 out of 3 falls) ***; EDDIE GUERRERO y LOVE MACHINE ART BARR 1994 over MEXICO’S MOST WANTED 2001 (mesas escaleras y sillas match 2 out of 3 falls) *******; THE MIDNIGHT EXPRESS 1986 over SABU and ROB VAN DAM 1997 (brass knucks scaffold match 2 out of 3 literal falls) ****7/8
DEAN MALENKO and CHRIS BENOIT 1995 over LOS PASTORES 1985 (no rope exploding barbed wire time bomb death match 3 out of 5 falls) *****3/5; LOVERBOY DENNIS CONDREY and BEAUTIFUL BOBBY EATON 1986 over LOS GRINGOS LOCOS 1994 (no rope exploding barbed wire steel cage match 3 out of 5 falls) *******19/23
DEAN MALENKO and CHRIS BENOIT 1995 over THE MIDNIGHT EXPRESS 1986 (orgone bomb tesla coil no rope no time exploding space antimatter dark fusion death match 5 out of 9 falls) ******3/4xINFINITYdivided byOBLIVION

DR34MS 0F B31NG 4 ST31NB3CK...

dreams of being a Steinbeck,
dreams of being a Rumi,
dreams of being an atom