Wednesday, December 28, 2011

The Play

Keep me sharp. Fuck me every day, every way, short of homeless

Keep Brit in the picture, but just out of reach

Is this the country you want to live in?

Because we're there, baby

Monday, December 26, 2011

What Is A Blacklist?

No one knows exactly what caused The Great Depression of the 1930s, but it hit us and the whole world hard. Real hard. People were hungry and scared. A book had been written several decades prior by a guy named Karl Marx that was influential in how smart people looked at economics. That book was twisted by the Russians during their revolution into something called "Communism" during and after World War I.

During the darkest days of the depression, in the early 1930s, lots and lots and lots of Americans, many of them of European ancestry with relatives back home in the mother countries, looked to Russia (now the Soviet Union) as a beacon of hope in a troubled world. Largely, these Americans were fools, because Lenin and the other Russian leaders of the period and the periods to come were hardly Marxists. These men were fascists, no better than Hitler.

In America, something called the Communist Party started holding meetings, formed by intellectuals in order to figure out. What. The. Fuck. Was. Going. On. Very innocent stuff. How do we fix the shithole we're in? That was the question those folks were asking themselves and their friends in the 1930s. Nothing much came of all those meetings.

World War II started. About six months into our involvement, during the summer of 1942, we knew we were going to win. And the politicking in Washington and London started. What kind of world will we live in once we kick Tojo and Hitler's asses? The war was won incredibly quickly (look it up), the bombs were dropped on Japan in order to intimidate Russia, and life in America was good.

Or so most thought. Businessmen and politicians remembered those meetings held by the "communists" in the US during the 1930s. How do we fuck them and make ourselves look better? How do we prevent a Soviet invasion of Los Angeles? Or Portland, Maine? Or Iowa?

Meetings were held in Washington following the end of WWII (some were actually held during the war), in the mid to late 1940s: "The Russians are going to attack us!" (This was never a possibility because during WWII Russia had lost over ten million soldiers and countless civilians and didn't even HAVE THE BOMB (look it up). But politics in the US is dirty, dirty business. "How do I make myself look good and fuck my enemies? Oh. That's right: Communism BAD. America good. We'll hold some meetings of our own!

The Congressmen asked those intellectuals who led the meetings back in the 1930s, "Who was there? What was said?" The writers and artists didn't know what to do. Do I answer these stupid, pointless questions? If I do answer them, do I answer them honestly? If I answer, do I give them ALL the names, or just guys I didn't like?" That kind of stuff. The writers and artists who didn't answer to the liking of the politicians were put on what came to be known as "blacklists." These blacklists were probably only written down at FBI headquarters, but they were lists nonetheless. "You cannot hire this guy and that woman and this other guy, or we will fuck the holy shit out of your business." That's how the lists worked. Radio, art buyers, cinema. All were almost destroyed by the blacklists. But people went along with them because, well, they had mortgages to pay and food to buy and two cars to pay for. "I feel bad for Zero and Paddy, but shit, I've got my own problems. I'll pray for them, but I won't say a word out loud for them."

Sunday, December 25, 2011

X-Mass

Awake at 4am
As usual
Work the kinks out of my back, my knees, my elbows, my feet, my neck
Oh fuck it, just get out of bed, asshole

"Graceland"
"Moonstruck"
You're welcome
That was fun for me, too

Mom's house for Chinese
and the C's game
A new holiday tradition for us?

Falling nearly asleep at the wheel on the drive from Kittery back to Apt404
Knowing my Mom is doing OK, then
I get nervous in Kennebunk about eBay listing of my "art"
Will they fuck me?
I hear "no no"
But that means nothing

Home-shower-talk to Brit-half hour nap-this could work

Check the iMac
No bids, no views
Damn
Funny
Funny sad not ha-ha
How can "they" do this?
I wonder about our President
And what he is doing as I am speechless
I wonder what party Nancy Pelosi is attending
And how she can live with herself

The Britch Is Back

Thankfully

I didn't scare her off with my tantrum
Lucky I didn't lose a hand
Or something more valuable

She is a gift
My Christmas gift
Wrapped
Still

Far away again
But closer than ever
To my heart

Every Day

Closer
or farther?

Closer to the end, that's for sure
Farther away from the goodness?
I think so

Every day that passes
And I/we/all of us do nothing
Is a victory of sorts
For those types
That live on bile and hate and secrets

I'm thinking I'm thinking
What to do
About....ALL of this
And am clueless tonight

(
Ideas are valuable
And painful,the good ones
It's a curse to be talented
)

But tomorrow I will wake
At about 430am
And think it's going to be a beautiful day
Will it?

How I Have Been Blacklisted

US Post Office? check

Google? check

talent agencies? check

media? Not one single word (that means that YOU are blacklisting me, too)

now eBay? check

I don't know what to try next...

I really don't

Blacklisted

McCarthyism? Cheneyism.

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I, Joe Sweeney, of Portland, Maine, have been blacklisted by the US government. I am unable to make any income from my craft, writing, due to government interference. Just like what happened to so many great writers in the 1950s. Happy days? They were torture for folks like me.

I am doing everything I can to make a living wage so that I can keep doing what I was born to do. And the government is doing almost everything they can do to fuck me. Is this the type of country you want to live in?

I am not a communist or a Communist or really much of anything. The writers blacklisted in the 50s had all gone to some meetings of the communist party of America back in the 30s, as did almost every intelligent and thoughtful American. Me? I have no friends, no nothing.

Why have I been blacklisted? I really have no idea. But it is fact.

I'll bet Tina Fey is totally jealous.

(DSIBSWJF)

Art

eBay lsting

be patient

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be verwy verwy patient. we're new to this stuff

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they fucked me. deleted.

Walmart: Merry Fucking Christmas

We're evil. So what? Who cares?

You think the executives at Walmart ever set foot in an actual store and talk to an actual hourly worker? No, they don't.

You think the executives and the Walton family don't study the Nazis and Stalin and the Roman Empire and all that shit? Yes, they do.

Walmart: We're the Devil. No Prada here.

Walmart: America's Biggest Employer. But not in terms of dollars.

Walmart: Big Swinging Dicks.

Walmart: Shop Here and Die.

Walmart: Hundreds of millions on ads, millions on wages.

Walmart: Putting Mom and Pop out of business.

Walmart: Putting the "Fuck You!" in "Can I help you?"

Walmart: Ten for a dollar. What? Who gives a fuck?

Walmart: We Run the Show.

Walmart: Smile and we'll never let you shop here or work here ever again!

Walmart: Ever see a happy person in a Walmart?

Saturday, December 24, 2011

America The Beautiful

Keep 'em on drugs

Let 'em drop out of high school, college

They get out, find

No jobs that pay decent

Join the military

Do as we say or else

Get out

Still no jobs

What now?

Maine: The Way Life Used To Be

Him: She belongs to me

Mom: My Dad did it to me. He can do it to her

Her: I feel sorry for my poor, poor Daddy

Tuesday, December 20, 2011

What Is Really Driving Government Entitlement Costs

You wanna know what's driving SSDI and Medicare costs?

Guys and gals getting out of the military, finding no jobs or careers, finding a crooked shrink to give them a nice diagnosis, getting on SSDI and Medicare, then doing whatever honorable discharges do in empty states like Maine, Idaho, Utah, Montana, etc

Once someone is on SSDI and jobless for a year or two they become unemployable, thus unable to get off SSDI

A vicious cycle

Tell me that's not true

North Korea

"The exalted retard is dead! Long live the retard!"