today was in the triple-digits with high humidity. sure, i bitch about the weather like any other person, but today, today it is fucking hellishly scorching! i can, really, handle hot weather, but throw humidity into the equation and i feel like i'm suffering in the 9th circle of hell. i'm not exaggerating at all. just returned from outside watering the plants in our garden and front porch. it is 10:00 pm and the thermometer says the temp. is 93 f. and when i opened the door to the backyard i was knocked back from the blast-furnace heat.

sheeeiit

and but so, today i was clicking thru jasper bernes' fine blog and read that he was thinking about writing a screenplay [bottom of the post] with karl parker about john berryman. okay, got my ear pricked in interest. berryman was my first love, and remains a love still. in my early 20s i read everything by, and about, the poet i could find. except, never was able to finish his autobiographical novel recovery (1973). everything else, a big ah ha! and a movie about his life, now that could be, done right, as spock would say, fascinating.

speaking of movies, in the great old blaxploitation flicks of the 1970s, such as shaft, the anti-heroes all had theme music. richard roundtree was one bad muthafucka taking no shit as the opening credits rolled and isaac hayes crooned the ultra-cool theme shaft. everyone is the hero/anti-hero of the movies of their own lives. so what would yr theme song be?

mine, well, if i had to pick one it would be 'sex dwarf' by soft cell.

Sir, I Ham a very Bad Hand at Righting.
tony harrison