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The Extinction of Gods

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, are basically [...]

Ten minutes (a reflection in an unlikely and quiet setting)

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, [...]

SUNDAY SERMON I

In these godless days of the year 2009, of which a quarter has already been gnawed away by the dredging samsara of day to day, week to week workhorse life…

The Return of Cool

Times are hard, money is short, things seem to be spinning out of control. The new President is trying to fix things but these solutions may be too little too late. There is something the President has brought to the table that has been lacking….a sense of cool. Look back to the old Hollywood movies [...]

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Milwaukee man finds the proper way to deal with growing pothole problem

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 was [...]

Postcard #1 from a Gondola

Dear Jack-Be-Nimble, The sky is a particular gray-blue today, and it makes me think of you.  Your slate eyes.  Venice is, well, all masks and gondolas; I love and need it as I do my own internal organs that I picture crammed to fatal dimensions from a corset as if I were some courtesan fleeing [...]

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XYLOMANCY, Scott Zieher

Oh didn’t we dance a puzzle Round the tree when we Danced the way we did In early April when all is Vernal and we needed twigs to Invoke the gods that hovered Near a healthy sprig About a foot or so longer Than needed to produce an Invocation that requires wood Or a cross [...]

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A Non-Random Rant: An Argument Against Using the Word “Random”

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, what about [...]

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The songs of our lives

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: [...]

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SCREED FROM THE ROAD #4

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…

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THE WORLD IS SHIT — I’M A PIG

Nothing is quite as appalling as the choosy eater. A grey and white and yellow plate— well done mush, in essence, drives me to spasms. My patience blanches watching a young woman carefully pick every green pea from her tiny platter of airplane provisions. Once at a museum reception I watched a man take a [...]

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Have a Ball

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Jefferson Must be Cringing in his Grave

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 [...]

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Happy Groundhog Day!

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 [...]

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SUPERBOWL XLIII

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 [...]

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Home

When home, I’m often standing outside my house, looking in. Perhaps this is interesting. Perhaps examination is due. Perhaps it’s why I smoke, still. And take the longest shits known to man.

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No Matter What You Think Personally About the Stimulus Bill, the Republicans are Being Hypocrites: A Reflection on 2/6/09

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 comes to [...]

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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 [...]

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Favorite 50 Albums of 2008

1-10 The Walkmen – You & Me The Rural Alberta Advantage – Hometowns Vampire Weekend – Vampire Weekend The Bug – London Zoo Man Man – Rabbit Habits Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Dig, Lazarus, Dig !!! Frightened Rabbit – The Midnight Organ Fight Sons and Daughters – This Gift TV on the [...]

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