Calling All Texans: Major Event Coming Your Way

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I'm happy to announce an upcoming event taking place at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston on May 16. The MFAH has invited me to engage in a discussion with the eminent Los Angeles artist, Vincent Valdez. Check him out on Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_Valdez
I am frankly honored by this invitation. Vincent is a very talented artist. The basis of the conversation will be his artwork, and the novel Slaughterhouse-5, by Kurt Vonnegut. It is scheduled to run between 6 and 7 p.m. I'm hoping that Wafers living in or around Houston, or anywhere else for that matter, can join us in what promises to be an enjoyable (and hopefully thought-provoking) evening.
I'd also like to float a possibility for those able to attend. As you know, we used to host an annual Wafer Summit Meeting in New York, which has gone by the wayside in recent years, thanks to covid and god knows what else. I'm thinking that we might resurrect the practice, but this time in Houston, for lunch on May 17. As in the past, I'll need 5 people or more to attend, for this to take place. So, if this is something any of you can do, and want to do, please write me at mauricio@morrisberman.com. If we get 5 "takers," I'll write you back with the venue. (The time will be 1 p.m.) Online contact is fine, but personal contact is even finer, as you all (y'all) know. It will be a pleasure to hang out with you, as always.
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The destruction, and self-destruction, of America and Israel continues at a quickening pace. I have talked about a tectonic shift, geopolitically speaking. Which is also known as karma, as the US fades in influence and importance, and the Global South, and the historic victims of colonialism, start to assert themselves. Very likely, the Ukraine is down for the count, and a host of American opponents--Russia, China, BRICs, India, the Islamic world, and so on, flex their muscles on the playing field. At home, the US might be facing fascism, collapse, or if we are lucky, secessionist movements. Very few Americans grasp the fact that America is finished; very few have the intellectual ability to grasp it. Very few understand that our values are wrong, and that we have poisoned the world with them.

For a bit of relief--I hope not too comic--let me recommend the second story in my short-story collection, The Heart of the Matter. This would be a much better world than one hegemon replacing another. Power, power, power, as if that's all the human race were capable of. Bo-ring.

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Displacing Your Rage

Well, Wafers, What's New?!

I've been listening to Neil Young's "Harvest" album, 1972. God, those were such different years. How many Americans today are miners for a heart of gold? 20? Instead, we have hearts of bitterness. But instead of Americans turning their rage against the real enemy, which they can't really identify, they attack Jews, Muslims, elderly Asian women, anyone whom they regard as different. They map their hatred onto innocent people. Bill Maher recently said on his show that "we've become shittier"--verbatim quote, my friends. "Depraved" would have been more accurate. We are a sick society, getting sicker every day. Trump in the White House will be the capstone of our collapse, and it's less than a year away.

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The Crisis of Our Time

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Here it is: my latest. Hope you all enjoy it.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CTFF8JKF?ref_=pe_93986420_774957520

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Interview with Sasha White

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJwE2rxvIsc

I look like a moron, but I suppose that's OK. Enjoy!

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The Charge of the Douche Brigade

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I tell ya, I think I'm outta words this time around. What can one say? It's sorta like Tennyson's "Charge of the Light Brigade," just a bit modified: "Douchebags to the right of us/Douchebags to the left of us/Douchebags in front of us/And yet the brave Wafers sallied forth..."

This is no exaggeration. You look around, and you see the US, Israel, and the Ukraine doing precisely the opposite of what they should be doing. Is it stupidity, or the strange attraction of these countries to self-destruction? Or is that the same thing as stupidity? I don't know, anymore. But I do know that there is one place we can all go if we are interested in reality rather than insanity and douchebaggery: right here, this blog. The one shining light in a world gone mad. So welcome!, and let us continue our discussion.

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