All The Guns Are Going To Go
Now that it is clear that all the guns are going to go, daily we are deafened by the howlings of the living-in-fear bitter-clingers, who ululate without surcease that any attempt to bring Sanity to the...
View ArticleNothing Human Disgusts Me, Mr. Shannon, Unless It's Unkind, Or Violent
for ala. who went there too. ∞Without John Huston’s 1963 film The Night of the Iguana, there would not exist today the gringo...
View ArticleI Think That We Will Be Able To Communicate Soon
George, don’t make no full moves. Please make it quick, fast and furious. Please. Fast and furious. You get ahead with the dot dash system. Oh, oh—dog biscuits! And when he is happy he doesn’t get...
View ArticleHedges First
Jesus, he gets the good press, because of the resurrection.First, it is said, he raised from the dead Lazarus.And then, so it is further said, he raised from the dead himself.It is nowadays said, by...
View ArticleChristmas Lights
Don’t think that life is somewhere over the rainbow. What you’ve got right now, with your family, your friends, your house: this might be as good as life is ever going to be.Life is not happening on...
View ArticleThe Wheel
(Sunday. Two days removed from the December 7 Sunday observed as Pearl Harbor Day. So let's try this one.) ∞ ∞ ∞ ∞ ∞After this world war, the...
View ArticleDo The Right Thing
(A belated birthday present for my brother, who yesterday would have been some age or other. He always liked this piece, and is identified therein as Tector. He was supposed to accompany me on this...
View ArticleShimmering And White
I became Old Man Shouts At Cloud at a too early age.In my very early 20s. When I was first assaulted by the word “facilitate.”To this day, I do not know what that word actually “means.”And that is the...
View ArticleYet Shall We Be Merry
Dark wizard Albert Grossman deliberately assembled the folk-singing trio Peter, Paul, and Mary to rake in coin amid the urban folk-revival of the early 1960s. He wanted “a tall blonde, a funny guy, and...
View ArticleI Want You To Leave Them Alone
November 19, 1863, and the newshounds burdened with receiving those remarks of Abraham Lincoln that would some time thereafter become known as "The Gettysburg Address," had no tape recorders, no video...
View ArticlePositively Fourth Street
It is wonderfulness, that the Daily Kos people, they recognize that the nation is changing, that people of color, and other traditionally downpressed peoples, are ascendant.Wonderfulness that they, the...
View ArticleCode Unknown
Ten days or so ago the spirit vacated the corporeal container known as "Russell Means."This is what his Kossack companero, cacamp, had to say here about Means:Russ was my brother-in-arms He and I were...
View ArticleThe Said Admiral Is Dead
They say it came first from Africa, carried in the screams of the enslaved; that it was the death bane of the Taino, uttered just as one world perished and another began; that it was a demon drawn...
View ArticleTwo Hearts
to, for, and from ala ∞ One time—this was years before, his sons were young, in grade school—Joe was sitting around with his pals...
View ArticleThe Monkeys And The Monkeys
Years ago I was searching for the biggest rooster I could find and heard about a guy in Petaluma, California who had owned a rooster called Weirdo that weighed thirty pounds. Sadly Weirdo had passed...
View ArticleThe Opera House
Whoever lives two or three generations, feels like the spectator who, during the fair, sees the performances of all kinds of jugglers and, if he remains seated in the booth, sees them repeated two or...
View ArticleTwitch And Smoke And Rotate Endlessly
(A few days ago Meteor Blades put up "Thoughts Ahead Of Independence Day." That was a good Diary. It reminded me somewhat of something I'd penned myself, back in the 1990s. Not nearly as polished and...
View ArticleThe Green Light
The very most interesting thing about the United States is that it died even as it was born. As expressed in Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, which must serve as the "great American novel," for there...
View ArticleAll Out Beyond Horizon
My daddy was a union man. Represented by CWA. Communication Workers of America. We're talking mid- to late '60s. Feisty, the union, then. Every two years or so, almost like clockwork, a strike. During...
View ArticleThe White-Hot Pincers Of The Age
(A last-ditch motion filed this morning to try to save somebody from a three-strikes sentence of 25-years-to-life. Thought maybe some people might be interested, in what it's like, out here in the...
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