The other day brought a new subscriber at my substack, Rulo Free Radio, in Rulo, Nebraska. I checked out their substack and the title of an article there looked interesting and I opened it, and voila!
Friday, January 12, 2024
January 1940–1941, by Grant Wood
Well folks, i’m sorry to say that the corrupt city council is at it again. Kind of reminds me of January 2001, when the wife made me take all my camouflage netting off the pig pens (truffle hunters not for consumption) and chicken coop. Y2k never did materialize, and we all had to go back to business as normal, ho hum….. Any hew, the corrupt city council is at it again. They have blocked local yoga guru Jerry Lee Jenson’s building permits for the Ye Olden Yoga Studio and Raw Juice Bar. Seems like city council member Terry Perry has something against Jerry. Maybe it’s Terry’s connection to the meat industry, or has something to do with the old ex wife taking those late night yoga classes? Any hew, Terry and the deep state are going to have to try harder to stop progress in our tight nit community. Fucking 5G antenna next door killing all the woodpeckers, city council just puts more up, black helicopters all the live long day! Anyways, I urge you to sign our petition to expedite the permit process for the Yoga studio/ Juice Bar, and go right ahead and sign a second petition to ban vapeing at the Rulo Library.
God bless,
Jim
Smitten, I subscribed, and received back:
Evening All of a Sudden by David Wyatt.
A plug for my writing mentor's new book.
FREE RADIO RULO
JAN 15, 2024
My good buddy David Wyatt has a new book out from Wayne State Press. Wayne State Press is a great little poetry press in Northeast Nebraska. I think you can order the book on their website, or on amazon. David is pretty old school and doesn’t much care to use the internets, or substack for that matter, so im just gonna go ahead and do it for him. The dude taught me everything I know about poetry, directly or indirectly through heaps of chap books and reading recommendations.
God bless,
Jim
Wayne State Press Website
Order "Evening All of a Sudden" on Amazon
Evening All of A Sudden
Tonight the world has soft hands.
Stretching clouds into thin taffy.
Even the paperboy throws late news
On the porch without shattering the quiet.
Of course, this is Grandma’s house,
She very likely the only one on the block
Who reads the funnies, has time
For the tea kettle’s whistle while she sorts
Through scraps of cloth, possibility
In a new shirt, her once-dead husband,
Sitting across from her, saying he’s thrilled
At the chance of another miracle.
Granted, a crow may shout through
Several open windows, sensing complete darkness,
Yet there are also other things
To be known, whenever voices become various songs,
Stars above, choosing their favorites.
David Wyatt
Caption from the back of the chap book.
“The poems in David Wyatt’s Evening All of a Sudden tremble with a solemn, introspective rhythm, complementing the collection’s echo of spirituality without dogma, where a crow or an ant is as much a man as a man, where God is as likely to be found in a creature as on the barstool next to us. The world can be welcoming, indifferent, or downright bitter, and this collection covers the spectrum with a casual humility only obtained through a lifetime of well-pondered experience. Evening All of a Sudden is steady and almost unnervingly human, mirroring the resilient acceptance of the poet. Some of the poems are narrative, others concisely lyrical, most a rebellious blend, but almost all share an enduring nostalgia for the illusion of youth, for a shifting generational landscape, for a time when children were taught to wave to strangers.
David Wyatt’s poems are as much about language―its consolations and fractures, its endless utility and absurdity―as they are about trees, rain, mercy, dogs, and death, those “Discoveries made along dull ground” that coruscate into existential riddles and gnomic koans. Socrates and Rilke share strophes here with cafes and hotels, palm readers and blackbirds nested in interlaced clauses easy to read but hard to diagram. Yet for all the wry subtlety of these sidelong philosophies, one turns the corner of page after page to revelatory vistas of a world brimming with flotsam worth seeing again, “Given the object could be something / Slender and pulsing, stalk-legged, prayerful, / Grafted also from the Milky Way.”
–Todd Robinson, author of Mass for Shut-Ins
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Sloan Bashinsky
I subscribed because really liked what you wrote about the yoga studio and the city commission, and I was interested in your radio station. I was surprise to get right back a sale’s promotion for your friend's book. Please tell me about your radio staton. Thanks.
Free Radio Rulo
Hey thanks for subscribing! I am a shameless promoter of local business, art, food, music and poetry. My news letter and radio show aims to merge them all into some sort of community here in rural Nebraska. The radio station has had some set backs due to transmitter and antenna height. We can reach all of Rulo, and half of Falls City about 15 miles away. I really hope the Yoga studio/ Raw Juice bar will open here in Rulo. If so I plan on hosting a poetry slam on Tuesday nights! Maybe you could make it?
Peace,Jim
Sloan BashinskyCan I attend via zoom? I’m in Alabama, and am old, tired and ornery, and don’t play well with others sometimes :-). And, I fucking hate slam poetry. But, I am a poet. So, here’s a slam poem.
Who invented the rule that poetry must rhyme, have pentameter, be cast into verse.? Yes, tell me, please tell me, who invented that really silly rule? Surely it wasn’t the maker of he first stone- otherwise ,there’d be no stones to break all those slavin’ rules!
In some circles I tossedin a 4-letter word or two.
I belonged to the Key West Poetry Guild, when I lived there. We met once a month and recited or read our own poetry.
Free Radio Rulo
Yes! I think that would be great! Zoom you in on the jumbo tron and you can read this all the way from Alabama! We just gotta get the space to have the event. The Rulo library is a little crammed, but they do have 5G and vapeing is allowed you know how the slam poetry crowd is..... (Alot of smokers and tokers). We could always have the event at the Falls City pizza hut, a lot of riff raff there! Just perfect!
Sloan BashinskyYou now remind me of other reasons I hate poetry slams, I hate cigarette smoke! And any related kind of smoke. And smoke blown up my ass :-) But not smoke I blow up other people’s asses :-).
I won’t read that poem, because it is branded into my soul and demands air time, from time to time, to remind me of what it stands for!
A younger friend and I do something called The Redneck Mystic Lawyer Podcast. He laughed real good as I read to him your defense of the yoga studio saga. He does the tech work, I do most of the talking. He goes by “Bob” on the podcast, and is heard but not seen. I am heard and seen.
Ivan Stang, of J.R. Bob Dobbs The Church of the Subgenius, gave us a pretty good attaboy some while ago, and that boosted our audience a bit. As did attaboys here and there, including a satellite radio station in Denver, Colorado, which interviewed a federal judge about our Amendment 14, Section 3 podcast.
That interview and podcast episode went viral in Colorado, and the radio station was swamped with death threats, its insurance carrier canceled coverage, and the station went off the air. Not long after, the Colorado Supreme Court ruled 14/3 barred Donald Trump from being on the Colorado ballot, and the court then was swamped with death threats. Bob laughed real good as I read to him your defense of the yoga studio saga.
Where Bob lived, until recently, he was very outspoken at local government meetings, and he pissed off a lot of important people, and multiple contracts were taken out on his life, and bad men found and tried to kill him and left him for dead. He created his own safehouse, and has with him all of his tech equipment and we still do podcasts from time to time.
We seed them into the Torrent system, where there is far more interest in something different, and free, than at YouTube, Spodify, Facebook, Rumble, etc. When we just used YouTube to launch the podcast episodes, we got a lot of flags, and we were banned from Russia, Belarus, Red China and half of India. Anyone using torrent can watch the podcasts, which have no ads and no soliciting.
Here are links to the 14/3 and Big Brother Doesn’t Love You podcasts:
Amendment 14/Section 3 Law School Exam Question Not for Faint of Heart
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ool2d7q6hag&t=1s
Big Brother Doesn’t Love You
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrnZ0pyOK4U&t=7s
Free Radio RuloLove it brother! "and smoke blown up my ass But not smoke I blow up other people’s asses ". I can totally relate to this! Where can I find your "The Redneck Mystic Lawyer Podcast."? That sounds wild!
Sloan BashinskyWe have two YouTube channels, for logistical reasons. They oontain all ofthe video podcast episodes, but the last one, for which we still are waiting on You/tube to provide us a link, which might not happen, because YouTube is swamped because of war in Gaza and having to clear all uploads using human employee, instead of AI.Here are the two channels, with links, the oldest channel is on top:54 Here @ Redneck Mystic Lawyer Podcast
https://www.youtube.com/@theredneckmysticlawyerpodc3647/videos
70 Podcasts Here: Redneck Mystic Podcasthttps://www.youtube.com/@theredneckmysticpodcast7983/videos
The podcasts are free, no ads, no soliciting. Average 200,000 complete watches per episode.Maybe a dozen of my books are free reads at the free internet library, archive.org. Three are culture jamming novels, Kundalina, Alabama, Heavy Waist: A Strange Tale, and Return of the Strange, written in that order., with a lot of time passingin between. Return of the Strange is Heavy Wait’s sequel. hey actually are not all fiction, and they are stranger than fiction, as are the non-fiction books. Open archive.org and enter Sloan Bashinsky in the search space and click on that and the books will come up. You can read them on kindle, nock, tablet, laptop, smart phone.
Some of the books have some of my poetry, visions, and soul drawings.I just gave you my last will and testament, so far, more probably coming, and you didn’t even have to hire a lawyer ot get your paws on it. :-)Feel free to share it with your worst enemies and best friends and ladies you like and wish liked you;-)Not for the faint of heart, not the terribly religious ,nor conventional wisdom types, nor defenders of the status quo, nor for Big Brother.Hell, when are we ever not in church?
sloanbashinsky@yahoo.com
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