My Reality WON

 From Ann Coulter's "The Dems' Bottomless Weaponization Fund"

Print Store Online

From time to time readers have asked whether "Ann Coulter : Human Document" prints or merch are available. The answer has always been no… until now. I've now got a store offering high-resolution photographic prints of selected images.  

Each is a C print mounted to a 3/4 in. thick panel. The panel is predrilled for easy hanging, and an easel stick (included) allows instant desk display.

Orders are drop-shipped from New York to addresses in the U.S. and Canada. Allow two weeks for delivery.

Easel stick

tearing through our joyous Science

From Ann Coulter's "If You Thought Service at Home Depot Was Bad Before…" 

the American ache

 From Ann Coulter's "How Liberals Pay Off Their Bimbos"

functioning in a successful police shooting

 From Ann Coulter's "The anniversary the media would prefer you forget"

Tom Phillips, 1937-2022

Tom Phillips died Nov. 28. Here are obituaries from The Guardian, Telegraph, and Art Newspaper.

New to me from the Guardian write-up is "sound tennis," a game Phillips invented with Brian Eno. Eno described it as "a kind of hand tennis played in a room full of old pianos, the scoring being based on the noise they made when you hit one of them."

After Tacitus, 200 A.D., a collage, was shown in the Royal Academy's Summer 2022 exhibition

idea for a dystopia

 From Ann Coulter's "The Great Replacement Switcheroo"

Will to power, Bro

 From Ann Coulter's "Voting Rights: It's 'Racist' Not to Let Democrats Cheat"

All cultures are like ANN COULTER

From Ann Coulter's "Lab Theory of Wuhan Virus Cooked Up in a Neocon Lab"

absolute Good would emerge from nothing

From Ann Coulter's "Who You Gonna Believe? Netflix or the Evidence?"

the name of the night

From Ann Coulter's "I Have a Dream… About Gay Wedding Cakes"

that glorious time

From Ann Coulter's "All We Need is Love… And Deportations"

Money Must Not Apologize

From Ann Coulter's "Stunning New Development!!! Media Calls Trump Racist"

consumers of wasted eternity

From Ann Coulter's "Media Hide Facts, Call Everyone Else a Liar"

the tea for our broken heart

From Ann Coulter's "Cantor Loses by 11 Million Votes"

New Self-Interest Mohammad

An Ann Coulter.com word cloud, via Wordle.

Stunning, Sleazy, or Stupid? Meet The Deletionist

Anyone interested in the poetics of erasure should explore The Deletionist, a browser app promising to transform any mere document into a Humument. Go to the Deletionist page and drag the icon onto your browser's bookmark bar. That installs the code. Thereafter clicking on the Deletionist bookmark will create an erasure poem of whatever webpage you're viewing. Above is an example from a recent Ann Coulter column.  

The Deletionist is the creation of Amaranth Borsuk, Jesper Juul, and Nick Montfort. As they explain,

"The system is deterministic — there is no random element. The Deletionist chooses a method of erasure based on the properties of the Web page. So, for static pages, you can share a particular result with others by simply sharing the URL, and their loading the page, as with your reloading it, will produce the same result. However, if the page changes, the system may change its method of erasure."

As far as I can gather, the algorithm searches for certain kinds of lexical and syntactic rhymes in the page's text. In the example at top, it uses alliteration. At the bottom of this post is an output riffing on indecision: um, er, yea, no. 

This is interesting because, as usual, there's nothing wishy-washy in Coulter's prose. The Deletionist must be sensitive to the bigrams "um" and "er." The instances in the dark gray bar come from anncoulter.com's menu bar choices of "Forum" and "Twitter." Below that, "No" and "er" are from the article's date, November 27. 

The Decisionist transformed another recent Coulter column into a poem focusing on numbers, and another to a riff on "to be or not to be." There is thus some considerable range to its output.

As someone who has been playing Tom Phillips' game for a while, I can say that this parallels the way a human creates an erasure poem. The challenge is to look past the author's meaning and see constellations of fragments. I count it as a rare victory when I find a word like hispanic—Coulter uses it repeatedly—that I can truncate amusingly to panic.

Like everything else, The Deletionist is best considered a beta release. I think it points to a future in which stochastic, post-Fluxus poetry/collage/cut-up will increasingly be algorithm-aided.

Another White Jihad with The Gang

From Ann Coulter's "New GOP Strategy: Give Democrats a Big Head Start!"

and then that absolute nothing

From Ann Counter's "Vulgarians on the Loose!"

inevitable decay of stupid joy

From Ann Coulter's "Casey Anthony: Single Mom of the Year!"