Is there anyone other than me who…

…is starting to wish that we would have gotten flying cars instead of the Internet?

Porsche: The Next 911 Is Coming

Check out the Porsche ad in the screen capture below.  On the eve of the ten-year 9/11 anniversary?  Are you kidding? (click on the picture to enlarge it)

Why I Am No Longer A “Speculative” Poet

My rabid and demanding fans (both of them) need not fear.  My poetry hasn’t changed.

The niche artistic field of “Speculative Poetry,” on the other hand, has.  What was once a venue for the absolute cutting edge of poetic expression–not to mention the only legitimate “poetic movement” since modernism or, God forbid, the beat movement, has devolved into “radical bumperstickerism.”

There was a time when “speculative” poetry felt like the first SF book I ever read (Trapped in Space, Jack Williamson).  It (speculative poetry) was so fundamentally wrong that it transcended…it became the only poetry worth reading from somewhere in the late 1970′s well into the 1990′s.  Maya Angelou my ass.  Give me some John Calvin Rezmerski, Ivan Arguelles, or Lucius Shepard any day.

It doesn’t feel like that any more, so I’m going to take my Joron’s and my Frazier’s and my Boston’s and go home.

Home being here.  Look for some fancy-ass poetry tab in the near future.

Convulse The System

There is only one way to save America.

We have to convulse the system.  In the same way that a doctor might apply a jolt of electrical current to a patient undergoing cardiac arrest, we are going to have to “shock” our so-called leaders, our so-called representatives in the house and the senate–at all levels of government: local, state, and federal.

How best to administer this nation-saving jolt?  I propose the following:

First, if you are legally allowed, you must register to vote.

Second, once or if you are registered to vote, you must vote in every election in which one person is vying to take, or keep, some position of governmental authority.  Dog-Catcher, Police Chief or County Sheriff, District Attorney, Mayor, State Legislator, Governor, Senator, Congressman, President–you have to vote in ALL of these elections.

Third, and most important…when you vote, you must vote AGAINST whomever is currently holding the office.  Do not get caught up in the confusion of “party politics.”  There are two major political parties in this country and BOTH of them suck.  BOTH of them are destroying this country to advance their own political agendas.  If the incumbent is a democrat, vote for the republican.  If the incumbent is a republican, vote for the democrat.  The party affiliation that you vote FOR is of no consequence, because they are all the same.  What is important is that you vote AGAINST any and all incumbent politicians, at all levels of government, in every election.

What will this accomplish?  Politically, nothing.  The idiots that you are voting IN are no better or different than the idiots that you are voting OUT.  What we hope to accomplish is to remind ALL people who seek political office that WE, THE PEOPLE, are in charge; that they were elected to promote, promulgate, and enforce the will of WE, THE PEOPLE, not conduct weird social and political experiments.

Tired of partisan politics?  Send this message.  Convulse the system.

S. A. Kelly / 5-6-2010

All My Rhysling Eligible Poems…Nominate MEEEEEEEEEE!

It’s a pretty long list….brace yourself:

"Are You Fucking Kidding ME?"      —–     July 2009, Amazingly Speculative Shit (DOT) Com

Of course, it begs the question…if  "Are You Fucking Kidding ME?"  was any good, I wouldn’t have to beg people to nominate the son-of-a-bitch, would I?

Never mind.

AWESOME!

Jaime Lee Moyer’s interview with David Kopaska-Merkel at Marshall’s Super-Sekrit Clubhouse. Probably everybody has seen it by now but if you haven’t, check it out.

At first I mostly wrote horror poetry…

And that was my first exposure to his work.  I have thought of him as a "horror" poet since that time.  Dreams and Nightmares was in my "horror poetry" file, along with Peggy Nadramia’s Grue and a couple others that I no longer remember.  I really enjoyed this interview.

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