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 [...]
Tagged Generation Y, jeremy benishekIn a cynic, the heart is a vestigial organ.
Tagged joesmithWoke 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, [...]
Tagged jeremy benishek, poetryArmageddon has come to my chair. Thrown hair is a result. Of a mother, she is deadly in no wind. Always in poor boast, he is Nostra Domus ogling the end of no sea shore.
Tagged joesmith, thought shards“Human, All Too Human,” a new mega-multiplayer, role-playing game, was recently released by Nietzsche End Games, LLC. The game is wildly addictive and takes many months, even years, for players to complete. In the end, all players fail to kill anyone or complete any defined mission. Then each player dies. Alone.
Tagged joesmith, thought shardsBAD 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 [...]
Tagged John DickAs a third generation Cuban American, I have mixed emotions on the Cuban Revolution. To see the footage of Fidel Castro parading through the streets of Havana with overwhelming approval on January 1, 1959, is bittersweet. I suspect I, like many Cuban Americans, have a love/hate relationship with Castro and his Revolution. On one side, [...]
Tagged cuba, cuban revolution, jeremy benishekWith You & Me, The Walkmen built one of the most complete albums of 2008. It’s of a piece, a whole cloth constructed from its simple constituent elements, like a scarf wrapped about the neck and head. Each song’s exceedingly simple elements – the almost off-key vocals, icicle guitar riffs, basso profundo base, basic-chord synthesizer [...]
Tagged music review, The Walkmen, You & MeSarah Palin sure DOES dress nice, but, Jesus, this RNC bill seems a bit much for such a regular person, real American, G droppin’ Hockey Mom, don’t you think? Read the full story. I guess it was the RNC who wanted to spruce her up? I’m sure she wouldn’t ask for such a pricey wardrobe [...]
Tagged politicsYesterday’s report on CNN’s Political Ticker points toward the McCain campaign’s narrowing electoral strategy, with one anonymous source writing off Iowa, New Mexico and Colorado: “‘Gone,’ was the word one top McCain insider used to describe those three states.” Given the state-by-state electoral vote map two weeks before the election, this is a pragmatic approach. [...]
Tagged politicsYou’ve probably seen, heard or read about the anger at McCain/Palin rallies by now. If not, you should, whatever your political stripe: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuSYHnVpYbs http:/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/09/AR2008100903169.html?hpid=topnews http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvCpBvwN0e4 The rage from these crowds shouldn’t come as a surprise. Nor should McCain or even Palin take the blame for agitating these fearful proto-fascists. The number of angry, right white [...]
Tagged politics“Evil is the exercise of power, the imposing of one’s will upon others by overt or covert coercion…. The core of evil is ego-centricity, whereby others are sacrificed rather than the ego of the individual.” – Dr. M. Scott Peck, People of the Lie According to Peck, ego-centric persons are utterly dedicated to preserving their [...]
Tagged politicsThe 2008 presidential election — especially in Michigan, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Wisconsin & battleground states — will be decided by non-white and under-30 voter turnout. A historically high turnout of non-white and young folks in urban areas and universities will have to overcome the number of white, religious, “working class” voters who have found — in [...]
Tagged politicsOK, so I no longer think an Israeli or American strike on Iran will be the Republicans’ October Surprise. It’s too extreme, even for the Cheney/Bush NeoCon Xpress, Israel will hold their cards until AFTER the election and it’s not as cynically brilliant as this one… “War On Terror” Goes To Pakistan This scenario not [...]
Tagged election prediction, Iran, PakistanPlease, PLEASE…. Oh Lord, please… Vote for where we ought to go. Not for where we’ve already been. Please. Think about it. Then decide. Obama / Biden. What we could be. McCain/Palin. What we have been.
Tagged politicsA pessimist is just somebody whose worst fears keep coming true.
Tagged joesmithTHE 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 [...]
Tagged from the road, John DickOxygen and bronze— A father’s lilac hideout (Cloud hammer hideaway) (Spade on the table) Not far away enough For oblivion, too close For obscurity— basement Full of paper— upstairs Full of babies— two elemental Beauties by blood and egress By cardinal and garden— Harbored and freed With the finches That nibble Your backyard Bare. 15 [...]
Tagged poetry, Scott ZieherIt 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 [...]
Tagged from the road, Johnny Dick, prose, prose poetry, thought shards