Steve McCaffery Glasgow 09


Drippings from the stale sponge


Me I I me I me me me I I I
I I me me me I mine myself
me mine I I I me
me me me me I me mine
I I I mine? me I I
myself me I I I me
I I I I me me mine I I me me me I me I mine
myself I I me me mine me I
I mine me me I mine I I I I
me me mine I I I me I I

Dr. Squancy's Bi-Quarterly Health Advice Collumn


How to Test Your Spleen for Colonoscopal Encephalitis

1. Roll your epidermal front-carriage from betwixt your scapula and patella to your labial fissure

2. Gently ossify your cataracts, whilst checking for any crustaceans

3. Firmly remove your sciatic nerve with a pair of hemostatic forceps

4. Tenderize your pudenda and duodenum, until the rectal epiglottis is sufficiently dilated

5. Tell your wife that you love her and commence Salpingo-oopherectomy

ERSATZ POLITICAL DISCUSSION

See now here's how it is. Ya'll can't tax the 1%, cause when them babies come out they momma's cooters, they's already people, ya hear? I heard a doctor tellin' me that that soon as them little sperms get to that egg, there's already a fully formed little human in there. I bet them little sperms are already people - tiny little people, hiding out in there.

I agree, sir. This is why we must consolidate and privatize our holdings overseas - because gay people want to take rich people's money and put it in their butts. Mark my word, if Obama is reelected, we will have gays walking our streets with ill-gotten corporate money in their butts.

YOUR ERSATZ ACADEMIC PROFILE

Rebus Johansson is interested in something really complicated and pretentious sounding that seems like no human being could possibly be interested in on any meaningful level. It probably includes the words "intersectionality" and "boundary". S/he is fascinated by the way that bodies move through space, and how colloidal functions integrate cross-sections of desire. Queerness. S/he is the author of the award-winning paper "(Re)structuring our heterogeneity: Toward a (post)feminist theory of integration".  H/er/is upcoming book, "Restraining the Other: Toward a (Post)Althusserian vision of selfhood" will be arriving from Simon and Schonberg in 2099.

GIVE ME THE GUN: A SHORT PLAY


Give Me The Gun

A man and woman are sitting on a couch. They make pleasant, boring conversation until a man runs on stage holding a gun.

Man: What the f-

Gunman: Get down on the ground! Get down on the ground!

Man and Woman, visibly shaken up, get down on their knees.

Gunman (waving his gun at the couple): Alright! Just listen to me and no one gets hurt! Okay! Nobody's gonna get hurt if you just give me the gun!

A short silence.

Man: But -

Gunman: Just give me the gun! Hand over the gun and nobody's gonna get hurt!

Woman: But -

Gunman: It's not that hard, people! Just give me the gun and everybody's gonna be okay!

The man and woman look at each other.

Man: But...you have the gun. We don't have any gun.

Gunman (getting crazier): Just shut up! Everybody shut up and listen to me! All you have to do is hand over the gun and nobody gets hurt. Everything is gonna be okay if you just do what I say!

Another period of silence. The gunman keeps shakily pointing the gun at the couple.

Gunman (yelling crazily): I said just hand over the gun!

Woman: Honey, just give him the gun!

Man (shocked): What the hell are you talking about? I -

Gunman: JUST GIVE ME THE -

The gun goes off, still pointing at the couple, but the gunman falls over dead. The couple look at each other.

END

A NOTE FROM YOUR SUPEREGO

Hey Chris,

this is just your superego. So, like, isn't there something better you could be doing right now? I know you just wanted to watch Battlestar Galactica tonight, but weren't you a little on the fence about whether that show was too nerdy for you anyway? I mean, what would everybody say if they found out you watched it, right? Cybots or whatever? Come on dude. You're not really the kind of person that likes that stuff, are you? I don't know. Just something to consider. Instead of sitting around and watching TV you could go for a run. That would be a really great use of your time. You're probably really out of shape by now. You haven't been getting too much exercise since you graduated college and aren't on a soccer team anymore. Actually, speaking of college - aren't you like a hundred bajillion dollars in student loan debt? Shouldn't you be finding some kind of way to make money right now? That would be a great way to spend your time. You could be an online entrepreneur or something. You know, if you could just put a little effort forth, you could do something like that. Don't just sit around and do nothing! God!

Gee, I'm getting really worked up, Chris...

You know, you are really kind of a pathetic loser. You sit and stare at a computer for like 8 hours a day at your job, and then when you get home you just stare at a TV screen. What a lazy bastard. And do you even really have any friends anymore? I mean, yeah, there are people you hang out with occasionally, but can you really call any of them your "friends"? You're probably going to still be alone, doing the same shit you're doing now in 20 years, except for the obliterating suicidal misery that will be rending your life to pieces. Your social life is just not like it used to be back in college, when you used to run with Tony and James and all those guys...oh well. Man, you were really happy when you were a little kid. You'll probably never be that happy again.

Thanks,

your superego

PS

I don't mean to pester you, but it is kind of my job. Sometimes I can overstep my bounds a little, but it's for your own good, right?

MARAT

Marat
these cells of the inner self
are worse than the deepest stone dungeon
and as long as they are locked
all your Revolution remains
only a prison mutiny
to be put down
by corrupted fellow-prisoners

- WEISS, MARAT / SADE 1965

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Jacques Lacan: Seminaire XXXXIII: La intériorité

Ladies and gentlemen, we are here today to discuss interiority. Not interiority, as such, but interiority - as such, as it were. Now what is meant by interiority? Nothing but if not precisely what it appears to sound like: that is, the structural amplitude and recursive connotation of any given phenomenal occurrence, corporeal or otherwise. Now take, for example, the Borromean structure of this crepe I was eating yesterday: does it not allow us to glean a certain impulse, a certain tête-à-tête glimpse, if you will, into the truly manipulative Otherness of the interiority of desire? For desire is - as you well know - not certainly a drive to the core, to the kernel, in a manner of speaking, but rather, and it is not without hesitation that I am saying this, the opposite - that is, a drive from the core. It begins in interiority, and can only emerge, as it were, after a certain exteriority has penetrated, as it were, in our little homellete. From whence the lamella, as it were, emerges, and from which we can at once extrapolate toward the structure of interiority itself: we see that it is at once not only the given interior of any given structure, but also not the Otherness of our little man here. For it is man, if you will remember, that betrays the given gap, or inachèvement, that is at once present in any given structural formation. It is man himself that betrays all this to us, and more: is it not man, as well, who represents this gap, this incompletitude, if you will, as it were - if you will, himself? That is, not an observer of the gap, not a watcher, he does not "mind the gap", as it were, does not represent the gap, but at once is the gap. And that brings us back to interiority - and ladies and gentlemen, I'd prefer to leave the rest to you at this point, for have I not said enough?


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Polygluttonous Perversity

Ja, der Himmelstoss in die Copenhagen? Una conquistadora mit eine rasion de vivre? Die esposa mariposa nicht tiene la temps perdu. Gehst du jetzt in cine? La pelicula ha estado tenido la Paque. Dayenu! Mit die selztervasser! Die neibelungen no hay tostada. Bien!

RA

BRODE


           Yo, bro                                      son          bro
      yo
       a'ight dude                       yo
        dude, sup
                                                  yo dude
                          wattup son
   how you be, nomsayin
             yo good nomsayin          yo                           
          yo, wh-                                                        damn son
yo!

c-                                                           bro 
                                     dude
  come at me!
    come at me bro!                     bro

     naw naw dude                                               man                              son
   i'm jussayin
    yo it's cool                                                s'cool bro
           it's cool                                          bro
         waywait-

come at me!                                                                       hold me 
                                                                                    back son

  naw naw it's cool                               jus playin
         jussayin, s'all good                                                              jus playin bro
   yo,
     yo, nomsayin?                                   son

        yo hold me back!                                                                 yo
   hold me back bro!                             shit yo
                           come at bro!
           come at me!
           bring it, son! yo let's go                                   son
holemeback!

            yo bro
       naw yo                                            yo                      bro
    yo s'all good
             yo                                man                                            damn
      s'all good
i'm a'ight                                                    peace
     peace, bro
        peace