New Poem: Graham Platner Sings Behind Blue Eyes

 I blame you media

 I blame you Establishment Democrats

 My fist clenched I won’t crack it open

 Bernie withdrew his support, I look like a fool

 It’s not rape if you say pull out of me

 It’s not rape if I peel off my condom

 It’s not rape if I plow on and you have no birth control

 It’s not violence if I push you in a room and keep it shut

 My presenting as progressive dream is over

 And I won’t blame myself 

#MeToo News Story of the Week (Russell Brand)

 From the Murdoch London Times Facebook page, here’s a description of a carefully staged contrivance 

Russell Brand, who faces charges of rape and sexual assault, claimed to have found God after he was baptised by Bear Grylls in the River Thames. 

Now, Brand claims to have baptised people in the waters of a penguin pool at a Christian zoo in Florida.

New Poem: ANDREW CUOMO’S LAST DAYS IN ALBANY HAIKU

 shred shred shred shred shred

 Shred Shred Shred Shred Shred Shred Shred

 shred shred shred papers

The Louis C.K. Poem

    but heeees my freeeeeennndddd say the female comics

    it is hard out there if you want to be funny

    bomb away on the open mics

    eventually get paid a little bit

    others get jealous

    say you’re not all that good

   the resentment you suck up 

    gets spit out in your standup set

    those pain in the ass kids and women

    who want you to pull focus from career career career

    eventually you’re around long enough  

    people think you’re commenting on bile 

    when you’re just regurgitating it

    here, female colleague, watch me wank

    look at this as comedy fraternity hazing

    damn this #MeToo stuff

    made you shelve your movie

    costs one million dollars in lost TV

    you’ll do new act attacking correctness

    drop in unannounced

    keep the press from spoiling the set

    wait long enough, someone will write

    you’re aware of what you’ve done to be diminished 

    when you still think you’ve been screwed 

    by pious people who don’t understand 

    comedy is letting your demons wank

    onto the audience in the same way

    you once wanked on people who,

    if they stood up to you,

    would see their careers go into the tank

    but heeeees my frieeeennnnnddd

    says the male comic who used some of his

    standup special time to middle-finger your accusers

    

    comedy, as practiced by some,  is not pretty

    it’s the fastball whizzing past your head

    it’s the punch smashing your testicles

    it’s the emcee saying you’re going to get fucked with

    it’s the joke that, too many times, leaves a stain

    that can never come out, no matter how much you scrub

    

    

Laura Snapes explains bad indie-rock male behavior re Ryan Adams and others

Laura Snapes in THE GUARDIAN:

The industry has been slower to reckon with its abusers post-#MeToo than other art forms, partly because it is built on a generally permissive culture of excess and blurred lines between work and leisure – but also because the myth of the unbridled male genius remains at its core.