Scatoma

“Interminable bro prattle that puts Joe Rogan to shame.” - Joe Rogan

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I’ve been researching lost Revolutionary War history in the West Point region for decades. Here is my glossary from that work:

https://t.co/XUoaamxE7q

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Aristophanes: I pretty sure da guy I spoke to from da White House was a Redneck. He say “people need to understand gas prices shoot up like a rocket but come down like a feather dat come loose from a costume of someone entertaining Pete Hegseth.”

Scatoma: That’s just how it is.

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Aristophanes: I get a phone call from da White House. They wanna consult with me. They ask, how we make wrestling on da White House lawn a fancy thing like Ancient Greece? Donors complain it Redneck.

Scatoma: what didya say?

Aristophanes: we learn in Athens to call it Wrastling

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This week’s chapter:

THE EERIE EXPERIENCE OF MARY LOUISE REYNOLDS AND HER HUSBAND PROFESSOR THOMAS HAMM WHILE RESEARCHING FLETCHER MATHEWS IN 1988

https://t.co/y1U3CtJjk2

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It wasn’t Meanor’s description of Olson’s poetics that clicked with me; it was the description of Olson’s use of Gloucester, Massachusetts as a character enduring through time. The fact that Olson used an Ancient Greek narrator for his work must have rubbed off on me also.

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Dr. Meanor lived in the center of town. I remember having a long conversation on the sidewalk about my writing interests. I always knew I wanted to write about the Back Lot and local history. He responded by describing to me Charles Olson & his Maximus Poems & something clicked.

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I have 2 ancestors named John Kennedy and 2 ancestors named James Morrison but somehow I manage to make it to see my late 50’s. Go figure.

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Dr. Meanor was so popular because he put things like Jim Morrison’s biography on the class reading list. Morrison was influenced heavily by Kerouac but Kerouac reportedly disavowed the Hippies that followed the Beats. Morrison was reportedly turned away.

https://t.co/UZb2wILkzP

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Charles Olson’s early links to Timothy Leary and LSD is interesting to me strictly from a historical perspective. I was the guy who went into drunken rants we never should have glorified drug culture.

https://t.co/Ehqd1AIVWR

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I think if you don’t pay Elon the search function is left to go haywire. How is this old post related to F. Scott Fitzgerald? At least it generated something. Wow, 17 years exactly. Can that math be right? Seems like yesterday.

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I couldn't have kept going all these years writing without the encouragement of my fan. Thank U so much whoever you are Britney F%cked Pics

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I can see now Dr. Meanor took a serious interest in the writers associated with the Black Mountain School, which had overlap with the Beat writers. This all comes as I’m trying to formulate an essay of 20th century elites seeking refuge in the country.

https://t.co/zmtjVGIGY6

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Upstate Lilacs
By Donald Petersen

https://t.co/dgp506ivJS

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I applied to the Peace Corps instead as I was dirt poor and hadn’t traveled anywhere.

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I studied creative writing at Oneonta with Donald Petersen who is in a lot of anthologies of 20th Century poetry. He had Donald Hall the future poet laureate visit our class. I remember receiving some nice feedback. Petersen wanted me to go on to William Kennedy’s Albany program.

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Dr. Meanor lived in the center of town. I remember having a long conversation on the sidewalk about my writing interests. I always knew I wanted to write about the Back Lot and local history. He responded by describing to me Charles Olson & his Maximus Poems & something clicked.

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I sensed Professor Meanor was of the school of thought like Michael Jackson art is formed in the universe and merely channeled by artists. Meanor commented about “Dead Poet Society:” ‘that should have been mine.’ Jackson famously rushed into a studio to “beat” Prince to a song.

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Aristophanes: you should start a rumor Taylor Swift she rub it in Neil Young’s face he not in songwriting hall of fame. She sing, “old man look at my life, you’re not in the songwriters hall of fame like I am.”

Scatoma: I have too much integrity to rely too much on gimmicks.

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Rural Youth Development: Damned if You Do, Damned if You Don’t?

A case study of Cornell University’s varied influences on the educational outcome of a hillbilly child in the late 20th Century - for which the institution must now pay.

https://t.co/qpdO0WRhgC

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The English department at Oneonta was amazing the more I consider it. I don’t think I could have found a better group of professors to learn from. But it was organized to produce English teachers, not writers per se. I was one of few English majors there not in teaching track.

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Scatoma: Willie Nelson’s publicist is like “we survived tax evasion & smoking pot on the White House roof. Those things are nothing now! But the fetish for pig pen love, why does that devastating truth have to come out now?!”

Aristophanes: PPL fetish not something to joke about.

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Aristophanes: After Linda Ronstadt do dat photo shoot in da dirt with pigs in da pig pen, I get a little fixated on her. But Willie Nelson he da same way. We met outside Linda’s door. I won da showdown. I tink dat where Willie get da line, “I can’t wait to get on da road again.”

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Aristophanes; I tink you spell lewd wrong.