Table of Contents
On Spectacle 3
New Republic 5
On Forecasting 7
Ali Kills Liston 8
Babushka Lady to Umbrella Man 9
What Humans Like 10
The Godless Go to Arlington 12
"Creep" by TLC Is a Better Song than "Creep" by Radiohead 13
Ladies and Gentlemen, the Irrational Exuberants! 14
To the Inhabitants of Tiny Houses from the Internet 15
John Darnielle as Frank Oz in the Unfilmed Henson Biopic 17
Lassie in Photographs 18
A Robin Ventura 19
A Linda Taylor 20
At the Initial Settlement of Levittown, New York 21
Is This the Kind of Art That Makes the World Any Better? 22
I Know Another Nation, Where They Vote with Their Hands 24
The Italian Maestro Sits 26
I Am the Wife of Mao Tse-tung 28
Romulus and Remus and Hannah Arendt 30
Ostalgia 31
The Former Jugoslavia 33
The American Century in Brief* 34
I Curate a Museum through the Book of Revelation 38
Fertility 40
Fertility 43
The Specializationoff Labour 44
Unisphere at Midnight 45
At the Initial Settlement of Celebration, Florida 47
The Short Twentieth, the Long Nineteenth 48
Leo X as Leo III in the Room of the Fire on the Borgo 50
Golf Pro, Monobloc, A Theory of the Firm 51
Doomer Meet-Up, University of Toronto 53
A Family Triptych 54
Love Poem after Industrial Society and Its Future 55
I Will Find You in the Bank Run 56
You Wanted to Sec the Prospectors' Exhibit; It's the Afternoon after Jack Layton Died 57
Alpha Proportionality Dinner 58
They Will Take My Island 59
Excerpts from the Future Memoirs of Roger Ebert 60
As an Extra for a Film Shoot at the Quality Cafe 62
On the Ideology of Trolls 63
The Fever Dreamer 65
Central National Extension Play 68
Mark Coleman's Daughters Are Turning Out Okay 69
At the Initial Settlement of Mars 70
Megalopolis 71
Don't Be Interesting 73
Elegy for the Outdoor Coliseum 80
Notes and Acknowledgements 83
