Articles in from the road
Milwaukee, WI 3/22/09
A middle-aged Milwaukee man cannot stop saying fuck after hitting what he claims to be his thousandth pothole. “I am fed up with the fucking potholes in this city,” Raymond Smith said today. “Paying over one-thousand dollars for new shocks, a tire alignment and new brake pads [...]
Sagebrush became herds of buffalo stirring on the shoulder of the narrowing road, leafless trees jumped to life like scarecrows flinging themselves at the Jeep in my tainted peripheral vision…
You cannot put that on the test. That word has two meanings. The students could become confused. That word was not in the textbook. That word was not from this lesson. That word is not used in the same sentence as the textbook. You used a picture different from the textbook. The sentences are in [...]
SUPERBOWL XLIII, THE EPITOME OF THE ELECTRIFIED AMERICAN ARENA & THE DEBAUCHED WORLD OF SPORTS TODAY…WHAT ARE MILLION DOLLAR ADS GOOD FOR WHEN NOBODY HAS ANY MONEY?
…WELCOME TO THE GENERATION OF THE UNEMPLOYED & IN DEBT.
Yes, once again Super Sunday has rolled through and left a path of shameless overpriced advertising and a glittering [...]
BAD NEWS AT THE END OF A DOOMED MISTAKE OF A PRESIDENCY…
ISRAEL IS STILL BURNING, WHAT PALESTINIANS?…GAS UP NOW
…BUSINESS AS USUAL IN CHICAGO…RUSSIA STILL WANTS AMERICA TO CRUMBLE…GOOD LUCK BARACK…
The past year of our absent lord, Two Thousand and Eight, in this sliding American landscape will forever stand as a period of upheaval and an [...]
Not living in the States has been a great antidote for election fever. I woke up and went to work today as I would any other day and found that I was actually the least interested in the results. My coworkers greeted me not with “Good morning!” or “How are you feeling?” (I had been [...]
THE RANGER TAKES AN UNHOLY TURN …FUCK YOU BILLINGS & MAY TOP-TECH AUTO BURN DOWN INTO THE INBRED SOIL FROM WHICH IT SPROUTED.
A week in an off-the-map ancient ski town, Rossland, B.C., which lies just above the scrawny neck of Idaho, was a great escape from the over-trodden billion dollar-mountains we’d been riding the past [...]
It was a few days after Las Vegas so our frayed nerves were still raw as we tried to get back to ‘normal’ while we were enjoying the first stint of laid-back camping on the California Coast. Los Osos, the name of a quaint water-edge town what meant the bears, but of course the last [...]
PORTLAND, OR…PLANTING ROOTS IN A MOSSY NEW STOMPING GROUND
By now most of you, whoever you are, must be thinking that I’m dead, burnt to a crisp in a car crash on a deserted highway or at least a quadriplegic from a cliff diving accident or something, but no, I’m at least still half alive in [...]
(A MISPLACED FLASHBACK FROM WINTRY UGLINESS IN MILWAUKEE)
“I am guilty, Lord, but I am also a lover – and I am one of your best people, as you know; and yea tho I have walked in many strange shadows and acted crazy from time to time and even drooled on many High Priests, I have [...]