• A Place with a Creek
    Posted on 29th August 2006

    A Place with a Creek

    If only I had a place with a creek in it
    a place to cool my toes
    a place to wash
    a place to watch the flow
    If only I had a set of rocks to hop on
    Not the hard rocks
    rocks washed soft
    nature-made not placed there
    instruments for the path of least resistance
    not obstacles
    If only I could drink there
    and merely [...]

  • The Most Dangerous Woman Alive
    Posted on 28th August 2006

    The Most Dangerous Woman Alive

    Last weekend, during a trip to Washington DC, I thrilled to the sight of a sideshow attraction: Charon Henning, The Most Dangerous Woman Alive. She’s able to walk on glass, barely flinching, before stair-stepping on a ladder of swords. Her partner, Professor Otto Knowbetter, chews razorblades live before your very eyes. And the best part, [...]

  • Punk Planet: The Revenge of Print 2
    Posted on 28th August 2006

    Punk Planet: The Revenge of Print 2

    The new issue of Punk Planet magazine is out now, reminding me that, yeah, I guess I did subscribe to their email newsletter, once. I’m glad I did that, because I was interested in the new issue, which promises to deliver some juicy details about the current state of “underground” print. Good old fashioned zines [...]

  • The Gold Teeth of Death
    Posted on 27th August 2006

    The Gold Teeth of Death

    Last night I played the game of Exquisite Corpse with a friend. These are the results.
    ITS NOT ADMIRE IT, ADORE
    RHYTHM

    Does not expire
    and though it does keep to itself
    it will always be unseen

    AS THE UNSEEN 14 POINTS OF
    [...]

  • USA Voice Plagiarizes CNN!
    Posted on 15th August 2006

    USA Voice Plagiarizes CNN!

    USA Voice, a fledgling online news service, copied its front page news from CNN.com today.
    See for yourself. Here is the lede and a few paragraphs from CNN’s recent article entitled, Three face terror charges after 1,000 cell phones seized
    (CNN) — Three men authorities said were found with about 1,000 untraceable cell phones were arraigned [...]

  • An Interview with USAVoice
    Posted on 14th August 2006

    An Interview with USAVoice

    A job with USA Voice would not be unlike a telemarketing job. It wouldn’t be much like a journalism job, either.

  • Gun
    Posted on 8th August 2006

    Gun

    “Hey baby,” she said, “put your gun away. I’m so sick and tired of “sick and tired”. I’m so frustrated with your questions. When you say “family” I guess you mean us. But, if family, then there’d be no war between us. And what peace, if you keep aiming that thing at me?”
    “Hey baby, put [...]

  • The Moleskine problem
    Posted on 1st August 2006

    The Moleskine problem

    John, at Joshuaink has a problem with his crisp, new Moleskine notebook. It is too nice to mark on! I’ve experreienced a similar problem with mine. I think the best way to get over it is to do something awful on the last page, and get it over with. That way, everything else will feel [...]

  • Dreaming of Babylon
    Posted on 1st August 2006

    Dreaming of Babylon

    I’m one chapter into reading Dreaming of Babylon by Richard Brautigan, and I like what I have read so far. Here’s a description from Amazon:
    Dreaming of Babylon is a hilarious and delightful spoof of a hard-boiled detective novel. Brautigan’s anti-hero, C. Card, is a poor, not-too-intelligent private eye working in San Francisco in 1942. Early [...]