Recently, New York Times reporter Motoko Rich wrote an article about how during a recession, what people want is a happy book, with a happy ending. Incidentally, book sales have soared in the romance novel genre, and, as the masses know, the vampire love story genre. Mass-market paperbacks fly off the shelves of [...]

It seems there is a shortage of gods in the universe today. Here on earth, if you mention the name Baal, Njord, Horus or even Krishna, people will look at you like your nuts, or like you’re alluding to someone out of a fairly tale. These gods, now considered to be blatant myths, [...]

the reverberation of the garage door opening tickles me from below,
i can’t wait for you to come back up after your morning smoke.
i miss your warm breath against my shoulders, your arms around me,
the tip of your toes protruding from the blanket’s warmth
on an anonymous wisconsin morning – is it sunny, raining, snowing?
i hear you [...]

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 [...]

By Jeremy Benishek and Kyle Romeis
Drinking Courvoisier on a random Tuesday night can lead to some random entertaining conversations. But can we truly say that this particular Tuesday night was a “random” night? Or can we say that we had “random” conversation? What about that Tuesday would make it random, and likewise, [...]

In the morning you lay quiet: melodious digression,
the art of deceptive cadences – progressions
indecipherable to most – but these
bewilderments send me into the day –
filled with the notes of our song:
our melodies, our transpositions, our compositions.
Yesterday we were a bit flat and
the accidental surely threw us off.
Today: started quiet (dynamics are crucial), a
bit [...]

Over 200 years ago, in 1802, Thomas Jefferson made a prophetically inferential statement apropos the US banking system. As we see our banks faltering, our credit lines freezing, our housing markets crumbling, and enough corporate greed to pass out $18 billion worth of bonuses with government allocated funds, we should review Jefferson’s ethics on our [...]

For George W. Bush’s $700 billion economic bailout plan, the republicans had no problem bailing out Wall Street, with the house voting 263 to 171 in favor of the bill (with 91 of 199 republicans voting for it). So the question now: Why are House republicans putting up such a fight when it [...]

The year of 2009 is young, but Generation Y should start working on our New Year’s resolution right now.
As someone who is pushing thirty, I’m sick of hearing the common mantras of my generation: “I don’t have time,” or “I’m used to doing things my own way,” or “I guess I’m kind of selfish with [...]

Woke her up,
fucked her,
had a cigarette,
a cup of coffee,
dropped her off,
went to work,
did some work,
went to lunch,
did some more work,
called her again,
picked her up,
fucked her,
had a cigarette,
dropped her off,
drove to my house,
unlocked my front door,
walked in,
washed my face,
brushed my teeth,
said goodnight to the kids,
crawled into bed with my wife,
said, “I love you honey, goodnight.”