“Peeing’s queer!” I cried, the modern father’s last lament.

June 22, 2016 6:12 AM

Jacob Bacharach, novelist, writes sonnets about current events and the internet.

selected poems:

URINETOWN
PETER THIEL SUES GAWKER
BARON SCALIA
FOR USERS IDENTIFIED IN THE CHAT BELOW
NO, ANGEL
A NEWSPAPER COLUMNIST TAKES DRUGS AND INHABITS THE CONSCIOUSNESS OF AN ANIMAL
THUD. ARK. ENLIGHTENMENT.
MUNDUS ET INFANS
PEYTON MANNING REFLECTS UPON THE FUNDAMENTAL UNKNOWABILITY OF A UNIVERSE DEFINED BY PROBABILITY ALONE

posted by ennui.bz (1 comment total)

Where Suck.com was a bunch of disillusioned youths on their way to becoming snarky blog-libertarians, Bacharach's early "Who is IOZ?" blog read like those same libertarians actually DID drop acid and end up in a Phillip K Dick version of Reason.com. All while retaining a refreshing "both teams are corrupt but that doesn't mean you don't have to choose" realism.

I may not be able to articulate it, but if my del.icio.us bookmarks survived the Yahoo-pocalypse the evolution of my politics in my 30s could be easily mapped by references to his posts.
posted by mikewebkist at 6:33 AM on June 22, 2016