Smhh..

[mnaz]

They corrected Picasso's grammar too.
Yeah you! In the back of the Bus, smoking
a dictionary under an asteroid zinging at us.
I'm talking to you!

[revolutionR]

Nobody told Picasso what to do...

[mnaz]

Tried to.

[revolutionR]

I always wanted to be Picasso, or at least paint like him.

[mnaz]

Ah hell, was up way too late last night. "Inspired" by a guy on another site who has a stick so far up his ass that it's coming out his mouth. English/grammar Nazi.

It's amazing to have been born near the beginning of modernism-- Picasso and jazz and all, some pretty wild shit-- before the Police State felt it might be losing control and stepped up the Clampdown. They used to call the "Defense" Department the "War Department," straight up. Even some of the WW2 vets said "fuck that" when the Cave Men masturbating in their War Rooms wanted to send them right back out again. Hell, the CIA tested the effects of LSD on people in the '50s-'60's, to see if it could be used for mind control. Didn't work. Yeah, strange times ...

[revolutionR]

I met some kind of grammar nazi once, it was a woman on some chat board, or shat bored.
I was on a site called Deoxy, where I started a poetry forum called poets of chaos.There was a chat board too, and people hung out there all day long.There was a troll on there that spam bombed the board, it's a long story but I got into a lot of altercations with people that were on the side of the psycho/troll.Strange days for sure, but in those daze I was trying to figure out where all this internet stuff was going, new frontiers stuff. Since, those days, I don't really see that on line chat boards got too far.There was a lot of exchanges on Litkicks too. I know that I was sometimes kind of testy, poetry on my mind, and people new to a place like litkicks coming from all sorts of different necks of the woods, as it were. Now there is no place like litkicks, or Deoxy, as far as I know. I was a draft dodger my self.

[mnaz]

Yeah, it just seems that, like so many other exciting phenomena, the raw, wide-open excitement of online literary/artistic expression has gradually been shackled and/or sanitized to meet proper corporate standards overall (not here, of course). I actually got booted off a board this summer for complaining one too many times about a sudden Gestapo crackdown they implemented out of nowhere. Total lack of moderation can lead to wastelands, but over-moderation is even worse.

Jeez man, it's been ten years since the A.P. board on LK used to twist and weave its magic. When I stumbled onto Levi's site I couldn't believe my eyes. I had no background at all in the "beats" (I was Googling Kerouac at the time), but it took me all of two seconds to decide to join and start slingin'... I came within a couple years of being drafted. You were "cat 22," right?

[revolutionR]

I was a lot of different cat names, can't recall all.
the draft really had a big effect on my young life.
I got arrested for draft evasion by FBI agents.
One of the young agents on the way to booking me
talked about Tim Leary, like he was in awe of him.
I finally got my 4f, they decided I was crazy because
I did not want to train to kill people in Nam.

[mnaz]

Funny what those guys call "crazy," and what they don't.

I remember being caught up in a moment, that energy of the litkicks universe, circa '03-'04, even if I was a complete "rookie," "neophyte," "beginner," or in other words, as clueless as I remain today about, well, most everything ...

I wrote a limerick. Sometimes you just need to write a limerick..

There once was a man named Kit
who toiled in the fields picking nits
He's the best picker in history,
even tried to correct gravity,
and missing commas give him fits

[revolutionR]

Mercury just went retrograde in scorpio,
I'm a virgo ruled by mercury, hermes, trickster
but virgo is also suppose to be a nit picker
hermes likes to make jokes, in a nitty gritty picky way

[mnaz]

ah, the tricksters and nit pickers of the yin-yang universe...

[mtmynd]

we have to defecate what all we've consumed -
what we eat, drink, read, hear, think, observe...
what we absorb from it all is what we become...

[creativesoul]

that is kind of a shitty description....
pardon my grammer
hey i didnt go to high school
i went to school high

are you hearing me
or if i was naked doing sign language would it impress you a bit more
or less?
in the meantime
i will never shut up
except to be polite

hidden agendas behind the words
manipulate who?
war peace
love hate
i can no longer not partisipate

[mnaz]

I dunno. just an image I had in my head. the absurdity in the immediate dire aftermath of World War Number One of some officer of the proper trying to correct Picasso's grammar (you can picture it, right?-- you know it must have happened). And why the hell did he paint that way? It wasn't proper . . .

[mtmynd]

actually Picasso's very early paintings were "Renaissance-like" in their subject and execution.

Kandinsky is considered by the scholars as being the first "abstractionist" which curiously became as famous thru the efforts of many other painters that were influenced by Kandinsky. The curious thing is why was there such a huge shift in styles that attracted so many? Granted the revolution wasn't immediate, but rather a gradual immersion into the waters based upon the growing interest of the public.