“You can hide the smoke, but what you go’ do with the fire?”
—From Shuckin’ and Jivin’: Folklore From Contemporary Black Americans
Kendell Geers, Stripped Bare, 2009
Johnson O’Connor English Vocabulary Builder (1939)
Unknown to 26 Percent: Inveigle
v. To lead astray by blinding to the proper course, decoy, allure, seduce, wheedle, cajole, beguile, entice into action against one’s better judgement. Inveigle is from the same source as the modern French word aveugle, blind; originally from the Latin ob, from; and oculus, eye, the source also of the English noun oculist, a physician skilled in the treatment of the eyes.
880 Stories by Christopher Kang (2016)
192.
On the tray are laid out four objects. Three of them terrify him. The fourth horrifies. And the third obliterates him. The tray recovers him.
Will Bundy the Eternally Now Earthling, and director of FEELS
Photo by Bent Zine
So tell me how BENT you are…
Virus or Bacteria? Hide in my house.
Preferred Pronoun? H/H
What Periodic Table Element are you? PROMETHIUM sounds tight. Honestly though, Berkelium.
Favorite Object? My bed or the Rhodes.
What shape are you? Orb.
Give us a texture. Sandpapery diving board under your bare feet.
Anarchist, Socialist, Capitalist, Libertarian, etc. Weather Underground.
Favorite person of Color that you disagree with? Stacey Dash.
What sound are you? Shoes in the dryer.
Jeff Koons, Damien Hirst, or a Broken Copper Pot? Museum of Ice Cream.
What’s the last thing you broke? Good habits.
The last person, you kissed? Redacted.
The best thing about men’s rights activists? A dead one <3
Do you meditate? Sometimes.
Are you a Neutron Star, White Hole, or Solar Flare? [White] Hole. This one's good too though.
Which fetish are you? Klismaphilia, EDERACINISM, Fornifilia, OCULOLINCTUS: Getting dommed by Google image search results. The eyeball licking one seems good?
Your opinion on Lesbian Separatist? Feels fair and warranted and also like an OK band name.
Favorite Mythological Character? Sisyphus.
What type of Cancer are you? Fuck cancer.
Matriarchal Punishment or Patriarchal Redemption? The first one sounds more fun.
Who do you actually hate? Aaron Sorkin.
Best regrettable purchase this month? Drugs. Ice cream. Fake shearling sweatpants.
Finish this sentence. I know Kim Kardashian… only wants the best for us.
Your favorite body of water. Any ocean.
What’s the most middle-class thing you’ve done this week? Accumulate debt. Drugs.
I’m only politically correct when someone is trying to get me in trouble.
What’s your favorite scar on your body? Little slice across my abdomen, from a friend in Singapore.
Last time you cried tears of joy. Disney & Pixar's Soul (2020)
Your most noble trait. Big squishy heart.
I know the taste of... Ice cream. Tears of joy. Any ocean. Matriarchal punishment.
