Kulture Ketchup and The Grammarizing of Hezbollah

I've started to use Hezbollah in various new grammatical ways. Because I want to and I can which makes me a goddamn true blue-blooded piece of walking Americana.

Ways to use Hezbollah:

- Mel Gibson went Hezbollah on those cops in Malibu and commenting with great geopolitical insight on the Israeli/Hezbollah conflict and prior related conflicts.

- My boss was so Hezbollah the other day, all up in my face, spit raining like rockets on my glasses.

- President Bush Hezbollahed the stem-cell research bill the other day. The Senate served up a Hezbollah on raising the minimum wage.

- Israel can Hezbollah anything they want and we'll like it.

I'm really chagrined that CNN and others haven't caught on to such timely slang.

Das Buch

My first month in the Lesley MFA program had me rediscovering a thirst for books.

E.L. Doctorow's first novel Welcome to Hard Times and William Lycheck's The Wasp Eater are two novels that couldn't be more different in topic. But its strengths are the same. Both books are carved in friggin stone. The sentences and words feel preordained.

Books I revisited only to shrug upon finishing:
Beloved by Toni Morrison - doesn't really hold, but it contains some of the most indelible images I've ever read.
The Intuitionist by Colson Whitehead - I got that Colson was, like, really smart after about five pages. Despite it all, I never really saw the whole elevator inspector/racial allegory clearly.

Das Musik

What I've downloaded recently:
Turbonegro's latest
Wolfmother - Led Zeppelin and 8 minute songs are back. My guess is they're not coming back for more than 1 Wolfmother album

Kredit where Kredit is doo

You have to give it to the ubiquitous Timbaland. He's making the non-sexy sexy everywhere with J. Timberlake and Nelly Furtado. It's pretty funny watching "I'm Like A Bird" just to shake it like she means it, like her hit song was actually "I'm Like A Piece of Ass." She's about as convincing as Jewel, trying to make like she's not an uber-prude. But the radio can't stop her. Enjoy the royalties Nelly. I hope you'll baby-sit Timbaland's kids as payback.