This ain’t Broadway, baby.
It’s Ballet Zoom’s "Cats" (1973)—and it purrs in technicolor. 🐱🌈
#FunkadelicArchives #BalletZoom #DanceRebellion #CatsButMakeItWeird #Psychedelia #RetroSurrealism

📸 In this iconic 1961 photograph, jazz legend Louis Armstrong plays his trumpet before the Sphinx of Giza, while his wife Lucille listens, beaming. The horns of Harlem meet the stone gaze of pharaohs—a moment where Black genius echoes across empires. #LouisArmstrong

Peter Sellers serving absolute Cold War absurdity in Dr. Strangelove—the film that laughed at the apocalypse before it was trendy.

Kubrick's gonzo chess match with nuclear annihilation still hits harder than most modern “serious” films.
#DrStrangelove #PeterSellers #Kubrick #SatireIsSurvival

☞ What if the revolution was never outlawed—just rebranded, wellness-washed, and sold at $399 a dose?

Huxley dreamed of psychedelic utopia. We got microdosing CEOs & curated ayahuasca retreats for influencers.

#Psychedelics #Culture #GonzoWriting #AldousHuxley #TheFunkadelicManifesto

The empire is bored with your joy.
So it sells you despair in high-def.
But the poets are sharpening their tongues.
And you, darling, are the glitch in their machine.

Keep breaking patterns.
Keep dreaming loud.

#DailyDispatch #CultureJamming #PoetsUnite

☞ What if the truth was never missing—just buried beneath the noise?

I don’t write newsletters. I write cultural resistance.

Come decode the dream:
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☞ What if the words you speak aren’t reflections of reality at all—but the very engines that create it?

This essay unpacks how language became the most dangerous machine we’ve ever built.

☞ What if the “real you” never existed?

What if selfhood is just a story—first told by the cosmos, then rewritten by capitalism, and finally shattered by postmodern doubt? This isn’t just philosophy; it’s the quiet crisis behind our politics, our culture, and our loneliness.

☞ What happens when no one agrees on how truth is made?

From sacred revelation to rational science to postmodern power plays, America has always waged war over what’s real. The glitch in the frame was always there—you’re just seeing it now.

I love my bookmark. It’s especially funny when I use it to read super serious books.

Hat tip to @tylerjameshill.com for letting me know such a bookmark (and socks!) exist.

☞ What if the shadows learned our fears, our cravings, our biases—until they replaced reality entirely? Welcome to the algorithmic empire: no signal, only shadows. Plato warned us. Nietzsche saw the void. Foucault revealed the machinery. Baudrillard told us the simulation would consume the real.

🇺🇸 America didn’t fall. It was designed to decay.

⚠️ The Culture Machine is eating you alive. Scrolling your soul into submission. Selling you back your own reflection.

This isn’t just an essay—it’s your exit strategy.

☞ They didn’t just cancel a late-night show. They canceled one of the last places America could still laugh at its own absurdity.