tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6291232662827929830.post7372612579655192499..comments2023-08-12T08:03:41.840-07:00Comments on Poetry Is For Assholes: A journal of the arts: More to comeUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6291232662827929830.post-63921075398661771852011-08-15T10:15:10.014-07:002011-08-15T10:15:10.014-07:00Thank you. Ib, I can see now, those were the last ...Thank you. Ib, I can see now, those were the last days of the working class. We thought we had a right to the jobs our fathers and grandfathers had. Our children and our grandchildren just want in to the consumer culture that we were given when we traded in our union cards for credit cards.Your driverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06406948739451124566noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6291232662827929830.post-60749449217443812602011-08-15T09:29:00.656-07:002011-08-15T09:29:00.656-07:00Great Post JonGreat Post JonJustFrankiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07000483756451526737noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6291232662827929830.post-25257613277350733462011-08-15T07:35:31.778-07:002011-08-15T07:35:31.778-07:00I will have to revisit to listen to the poetry rea...I will have to revisit to listen to the poetry reading. I caught the imagery, the rhythym of it; it was competing with Sesame Street, in the same room, for a share of the acoustics. Milo was lunching on eggs.<br /><br />As it is, I am responding to your own response.<br /><br />There is something startling in reading about this almost riot - the demand to work, the fury at a numbers racket - while those events in London are still being replayed on news bulletins. Actually. Already it is fading, the visceral Dresden of it, while the commentary rages on. <br /><br />The day the riots fizzled out, it had begun to rain here in Glasgow. After what passes for a heatwave this far north, the temperature dropped. People on the street put jumpers and jackets on. Over their t-shirts. The vague climate of simmering belligerence - that is was all it amounted to, up here - subsided.<br /><br />I don't know. Not receiving even terse acknowledgement for job applications pending is frustrating. I have grown accustomed to it. It startles me on the few occasions I get word back. It might alarm me overwhelmingly if I made the shortlist out of the blue; the interview. Maybe I am applying for all the wrong jobs.<br /><br />Snowballs. Ice. Fire and water cannon.<br /><br />Nice post, Jon.ibhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08788986697776895039noreply@blogger.com