Louie-On-The-Left—jptArchives [if you duck in there, you can back-arrow your way here] always had inside help at jpt, no point denying it. And sure, Louie is an honorable man. What must be denied is that the “Provocative Attitudes & Perspectives” embodied in Louie’s accomplished hilarity necessarily reflect any serious jpt consensus or solidarity. Moreover, if and when to any degree they ever might, there is no agreement that jpt is well-served by plopping itself into the gaudy-bawdy arena of political passions. Perhaps it’s unavoidable that political baggage should accompany jpt folk through the yawning, grinning gates of this provincial but tragically hopeful institution, just as weapons will inevitably follow mankind into space. (Well, yes. Precede us, no doubt, the weapons. Argumentative license.)
In seeking to distance the publication from the dispiriting theaters of political affray, some here have erected kinetic walls of deflection (daffy distractions, spin-doctorings, etc.) around heavily political features, but of course that proves a tiring and unavailing artifice. Some have pleaded with the more hardline sonsofbickering, “Hold, there, Agitatus, you’re getting us all labeled!” But the hard types don’t care—you’re either with ’em or without ’em. And when shot, they always blame the shooter. —But see, see how their activism engenders in-house backlash and strife! Reducing intellectual individuals to types; winging the ridiculous generalization that they don’t care; summoning forth extraneous scenarios in which they are shot: this is no fitting indulgence for an aspiring next-phaser! May we please be free of the practical or psychological need for defense and offense, within the modest estate of one little escapist e-rag?
Ah, but no, we may not, because we’re now launching a strident trident of missiles from Louie-land (none this time from the silos of LOL himself), targeting persons, policies and practices for a bit of the ol’ C & E, caricature & elimination. These are elegantly acquitted pieces of a wit so dark it shines. Deadly, deliberate. Probably more of you will cheer the resulting devastation than will decry it, but that’s hardly consolation to those of us who prefer playing to the universal audience and, while ascending toward jpt nirvana, striving mightily to overlook the hard and often ugly realities that divide us. Even given that political issues always bring forth a wealth of provincial thought.
The position will be repeated now & then, as it doesn’t appear particulary concise and will need to soak through over time.
Oh. Don’t wanna stroll too far. Just a few breaths of swamp gas, back to the gondola & up to the editorial towers for another all-nighter neath the flickering fluorescents. We’re all madly in love with the place. —an editor
'Kay, then. Here's your spread of fevered features, some including sterilized alternate bits deposited during a rare electron barrage:
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UNSAFE AT ANY TIME!—A Vest-Pocket Life of Rafe Nadir, By Lewis Unserwasser |
| Gone For A Burton |
| Taser Nation |
| jptArchive Issue 5 |
| Copyright 2008- WJ Schafer & WC Smith - All Rights Reserved |
| The Journal of Provincial Thought |
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