Wednesday, July 8, 2020

Dim Costcosa

During this Plague Year, I've been obsessed with Robert Chambers' story-cycle The King in Yellow, referencing it in a couple of posts. In this week's Lovecraft reading by Ruthanna Emrys and Anne M. Pillsworth at Tor Books website, they cover a riff on 'The King in Yellow' by Silvia Moreno-Garcia. The very idea of a madness-inducing play (or opera or film) resonates in this age of social media induced meme-poisoning (amplified by reactionary talking heads who have turned public health into a culture war) injecting not-just-misinformation but malinformation into the public discourse, which leads to madness, despair, disease, and death.

The mad, maskless minions of the King in Orange are out there, terrorizing the good people of, well not Carcosa, but Costcosa:



We know, asshole, you wear no mask...


Customer, we only ask
That you wear a snug face mask.
Is that such an awful task?
In Costcosa.
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4 comments:

  1. Anathema DeviceJuly 8, 2020 at 10:02 PM

    The level of irrational rage held by these arseholes is deeply worrying.

    When Trump loses the election, that rage will be deeply terrifying.

    So threatened by so little. They have definitely been poisoned and sent mad.

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  2. Big Bad Bald BastardJuly 8, 2020 at 10:13 PM

    I imagine most of them are all-talk-no-action keyboard kommandos, but a few of them will go 'lone wolf' and shoot up a mall or a park somewhere.

    This year isn't getting any better.

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  3. The New York CrankJuly 10, 2020 at 5:36 PM

    I think his statement "I feel threatened" was a prelude to an attack. Isn't Florida a "stand your ground" state? If so, his defense at an assault trial would be that he "felt" threatened. Somehow, the more I watch this creep, the more I want to smash his face with a ball peen hammer.

    Yours crankily,
    The New York Crank

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  4. Big Bad Bald BastardJuly 10, 2020 at 7:40 PM

    I think his statement "I feel threatened" was a prelude to an attack. Isn't Florida a "stand your ground" state? If so, his defense at an assault trial would be that he "felt" threatened. Somehow, the more I watch this creep, the more I want to smash his face with a ball peen hammer.

    Exactamundo! Dumbass really doesn't have a good handle on gunslinging, he forgot the '21 foot rule'. If he had pulled that shit on me, I wouldn't have backed off, and he'd have been down on his ass with his arm pinioned behind his back before he could have whipped out his shooting iron.

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