Death Is Just Around the Corner - MSJ

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#77: Our History Is an Aggregate of Last Moments, pt. 2 May 08, 2018

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GRAVITY'S RAINBOW, continued: precursors –– John Quincy Adams, the only president worth admiring as a human being –– America has always been, will always be, and must remain schizoid, and lemme tell you why, young gun –– Herman Melville, the first great American writer, possibly the first American (post-genocide class) –– Gravity's Rainbow as the antidote to V. –– Gravity's Rainbow, mutant novel of sentimental education

#76: Our History Is an Aggregate of Last Moments, pt. 1 May 01, 2018

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DEATH/CORNER is back baby. It's good again. Awoouu (wolf Howl). Now who the fuck in this club is ready for 66 minutes of an attempt at an approach to an effort to find a language in which to begin to talk about GRAVITY'S RAINBOW, part one of a series that may genuinely last until I die?

#75.5: Pardon Our Dust While We Grow to Serve You Better Apr 23, 2018

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Not sure if there's going to be an episode tomorrow, so just in case, enjoy a true rarity: an official Death/Corner remix from our days of behaviorist experimental DJing.

#75: Macché, questo è'l fascismo?, pt. 2 (feat. Matthew McConaughey) Apr 17, 2018

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McConaughey for Lexus, pt. 2 –– Songs of Praise, o sweet children of mine –– fascist death cults; they made more sense than you might think –– the fascist as both Übermensch and Damné de la Terre –– two fascist dreamers: Ezra Pound and Martin Heidegger –– self-devouring nationalism, or Fascism, American-Style –– blah blah, OK, fine, Trump, el Perón analfabeto –– technofeudalism: move sharpish to the fiefdom of your choice

Sitting on spare family Krugerrands? Find a checkbook hanging from the gallows? Well, https://venmo.com/Michael-Judge-10

#74: Was heißt der Faschismus? (feat. Matthew McConaughey) Apr 11, 2018

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The BBC Empire Service: Spotlight on Hitler's Patreon –– fascism cooks, fascism swings, but nobody knows what it is –– right-wing wish-fulfillment as "political philosophy" –– government and corporations rubbin' together till they fuse –– it's not just reaction, it's a return to the primordial sci-fi bullshit past –– co-opting the tactics of left revolution –– station break: Matthew McConaughey for Lexus –– you want something other than capitalism, hey, good fuckin' luck –– Rex, the Realm of Total Souls, and Human Life as a Hideous Blood-Soaked Accident (look, hear him out)

#72: Lose Extra Pounds of Brain & Bone the John Kennedy Way, pt. 4 Mar 27, 2018

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THE LEE HARVEY OSWALD SUMMERSLAM SPECTACULAR: Lee Oswald, Secretary of the Fair Play for Cum Town Committee ––– Lee Oswald, Time Man of the Year, 1963-2018 ––– The Eikonosphere, the Kingdom of the Realer-than-Real ––– if you're not rich, talented, or lucky, you can always kill the right celebrity ––– Oswald: CIA since 1959/repeat/Oswald: CIA since 1959 ––– a wandering dyslexic joins the Marines ––– how to "defect," give up military secrets, meet girls, and get paid $3,500 to come back home! ––– a CIA-led life among the weirdest fucks Fort Worth and New Orleans have to offer ––– imitation is the sincerest form of framing your ass for a presidential assassination ––– epilogue: the Warren Commission is only fit to wipe up bloody piss ––– debut of a special song, dedicated to the trillion helpless cyclical losers still to come (this author included)

Extracurricular reading – an introduction to the Eikonosphere, the bulk of which I wrote almost a decade ago and might or might not disclaim now: https://medium.com/@michael.s.judge/the-eikonosphere-c2afc6f4ef1d

#71: Lose Extra Pounds of Brain & Bone the John Kennedy Way, pt. 3 Mar 21, 2018

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J. Edgar Hoover and Howard Hughes clean up the podcast industry ––– JFK galvanized into giving a damn ––– two and a half years' secret war against the secret state ––– the U.S. in Southeast Asia: not just "the Vietnam War," but the technocrats' fuckfest ––– W. Averell Harriman and Henry Cabot Lodge take matters, sorry, murders into their own hands ––– the American University and Civil Rights speeches ––– it wasn't supposed to be Dallas: CIA assassination attempt #1, November 2, 1963, Chicago

#70: Lose Extra Pounds of Brain & Bone the John Kennedy Way, pt. 2 Mar 14, 2018

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The Headshot Sports Talk Call-In Show; Group 40, or, The Kill Kastro Klub Becomes The Kill Kennedy Kommittee; the CIA, the Mafia, and a whole lot of heroína; Howard Hughes, the world's most racist vampire (sorry, Peter Thiel); the young John Kennedy, warhawk mediocrity, somehow both stiff-backed and spineless; Patrice Lumumba's head mailed to the Inaugural Ball in a takeout carton.

#69: Lose Extra Pounds of Brain & Bone the John Kennedy Way, pt. 1 Mar 07, 2018

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Nuclear weapons, the Cold War, and an introduction to your friends and wardens at the Central Intelligence Agency; or, two secret wars: World War III (1945-1991) and the American Military-Intelligence Coup (1953-1963).

#68.5: Stray Cries from Lot 49 Feb 28, 2018

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Before we tell you who killed JFK and why, some further overtones in Lot 49 and Pynchon's work as a whole, plus a very exciting announcement about our big-time crossover into Hollywood moguls (direct-to-DVD frigate class).

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