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  Some Closing Thoughts On My 22nd Year.

  07.12.08 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  I don’t do lists. Like mashups, remakes, and sequels; I’ve always considered them a ground-zero for our age’s inability to be original. My site, who’s birthday is only a few weeks removed from mine, has done it’s best to be original, often changing formats, focuses, and styles just to keep up, by keeping far away, […]

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  Can Hate Be a Virtue?

  07.08.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Whatever your particular belief system is: Christian, Jew, Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, Fatalist, Randomist, Darwinist, Sun-Worshipper, the Cult of mother nature; I find it hard to believe that any deity, transcendental power, or prophet could have ended whatever was inside of Jesse Helms without noting the irony of making his last day take place on the […]

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  Finding Bob At Night

  06.28.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  I’ve never until now written, or even spoke, a word about Bob Dylan. In fact, I’ve never even listened to him–not in public anyway. I’ve heard him on my headphones and let his messages seep in from my low speakers late, late at night; but when people are around, you won’t hear me either playing […]

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  George Isn’t Resting. He’s Fucking Dead.

  06.24.08 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  Every now and then you run into a story, says, “some guy broke into a house, stole a lot of things, and while he was in there, he raped an 81 year old woman.”
  And I’m thinking to myself, “WHY??? What the fuck kind of a social life does this guy have?”
  –George Carlin
  It was far from […]

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  Expectorating The Fantastical

  06.17.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  I’ve been waking up at sunrise
  I’ve been following the light across my room
  I watch the night receive the room of my day
  Some people say the sky is just the sky
  But I say
  Why deny the obvious child?
  Why deny the obvious child?
  –Paul Simon
  The paradox of the digital age is that the more an event or occurrence is […]

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  How To Destroy An American Flag

  06.15.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  “We take the stars from Heaven, the red from our mother country, separating it by white stripes, thus showing that we have separated from her, and the white stripes shall go down to posterity representing Liberty.”
  –George Washington
  “It’s not a dictatorship in Washington, but I tried to make it one…”
  –George Bush
  Yesterday was Flag Day here in […]

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  Superman, Dead At 70.

  06.14.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  The AFP is reporting today that one of America’s most famous immigrants and beloved heroes has passed away, he died after being hit with an era of cynicism, self-doubt, and decay; he was attacked by an age without heroes; he was unable to out-run the speeding bullet of doubt or fly higher than the bird […]

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  In Cars

  06.12.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  General Eisenhower had a dream. Well, not a dream exactly, but a vision. Like Communism, Fascism, Soccer, and a bevy of other bad imports brought to America, it was a European vision. The victorious General, touring conquered Germany, saw the same masterful efficiency and strategic brilliance in the Autobahn that Hitler saw when building it. […]

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  The Strong Earth

  06.08.08 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  My friend Gia has asked me to write about “being green” from an American perspective. I don’t know the first thing about the environment or America perspectives, but I know New York.
  The Hell Gate Bridge, which spans a famously difficult strait of New York’s East River, is an Arch bridge that’s almost a hundred years […]

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  A Trip To Wal-Mart

  05.27.08 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  “I’m really starting to like this place.” My Mother says, as another woman breaks my heart.
  We walk in to the giant store’s giant exit. A old woman with a smock throws us a welcoming, if defeated, smile.

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  On “Cunt”

  05.25.08 | Permalink | 5 Comments

  I’ve never spoken the word. At least not unless the word itself was the subject of my sentence and, even then, I usually opt for the much safer “C-Word” substitute. I can be an awfully foul mouthed individual, but I don’t say that, not ever. While I’m sure this is mostly do to a somewhat […]

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  What Scares Us

  05.16.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  The other day on TV I watched this film trailer from a upcoming movie called The Strangers. Then I went online to YouTube and watched it again. And again. And once more. There’s nothing remarkable about it or, seemingly, the film: A family gets attacked in their isolated cabin by a group of masked strangers. Nothing new here. Yet, later that night I found myself walking slower, with heavier breath, through the darkened hallway of my apartment. I was terrified, absolutely terrified, thinking of the narrator’s voice describing my own situation as I turned a corner waiting for someone to jump out at me. When I went to bed: same thing. I had to do a series of checks around the room before shutting my light.

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  A Humble Mother’s Day Request

  05.11.08 | Permalink | 4 Comments

  Yesterday, while two presidents looked on, Jenna Bush–one half of the Bush Twins–was married to someone on her father’s Crawford, Texas ranch. I hope you don’t think there was any underlying irony in the writing of that last statement for I assure you there was not. I truly wish them the best. A child is […]

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  The Myth Of Happiness

  05.02.08 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  Perhaps it is due to the unhappiness of our times that we’ve become obsessed with being happy, with who’s happy, with who’s unhappy, what groups are likely to be happy, what action and behaviors are certain to make one unhappy. Rarely a week can go by without the media regurgitating some asinine–and completely arbitrary–poll conducted […]

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  Is It Over?

  04.29.08 | Permalink | 6 Comments

  “Give me back the Berlin Wall, Give me Stalin and St.Paul, I’ve seen the future, brother: it is murder.”
  –Leonard Cohen
  Urban Outfitters may not be the best place to act as a bellwether for American culture, but if chains can’t represent us, what’s left? The store, which sells t-shirts and other light couture, oddly shaped furniture, […]

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  Is Freedom Over?

  04.23.08 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.
  –Abraham Lincoln
  For nearly a century, the dystopian writers and filmmakers have painted a picture of a society gone wrong: Of cameras covering every inch of the landscape, of […]

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  The Art Of Opening A Door

  04.19.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  For some, opening a door for another human being is quite easy; like walking or breathing, they never really think of what’s behind the action or consciously plan the elaborate movement of elbow, wrist, and hand. But others–and here’s where I put myself–for whatever reason, were never taught, or expected, to extend this general courtesy […]

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  The Caveman’s Soliloquy

  04.17.08 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  Going to the Opera is an admittedly dusty affair. My first few visits were the strangest; filled with all these “Wow, people still do that?” moments. The half hour intermission, the champagne, the encores, the five minute applause, the six hour show, all of it seemed then, and to some extant still seems, to be […]

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  Swimming the Red Sea

  04.15.08 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  Next week, like millions of other Jews across the globe and across time, I’ll be participating in the re-telling of the Israelites exodus from Egypt. Many of those who know me will find this very strange and may react the same way a certain friend did, leaning in very close and whispering: “But….aren’t you an […]

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  A Domain For Sale

  04.11.08 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  After recovering from a mid-April weekend getting banged, bludgeoned, and bruised in every orifice (and then some) by a certain Uncle named Sam, I started mulling through my head–still filled in a way my wallet no longer is–over every stupid purchase, big and small, that I’ve made in the last fiscal year; and how much […]

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  The Skeptic, The Contrarian, and The Cynic

  04.09.08 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  Just about every human being, from Plato to the television pundit, has a 50/50 chance of being right (or wrong if you’re the cynic). Communities, societies, civilizations, all have been perfectly capable, however good intentioned, of aggregating the most immoral, nonsensical, and absurd ideas known to history. Simply having a mass of people has […]

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  The Levels of Madness

  04.08.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Lest the Europeans accuse us of being boring or the Arabs accuse us of being fundamentally moderate, the Polygamists, a Mormon sect that’s as American as apple pie, are in the news again. This time not because one of their buggy-eyed leaders has been arrested, but because their women and children have been taken from […]

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  Wisdom & Tyranny In Crowds

  04.07.08 | Permalink | 5 Comments

  CINNA. Truly, my name is Cinna.
  FIRST CITIZEN. Tear him to pieces, he’s a conspirator.
  CINNA. I am Cinna the poet, I am Cinna the poet.
  FOURTH CITIZEN. Tear him for his bad verses, tear him for his bad verses.
  CINNA. I am not Cinna the conspirator.
  FOURTH CITIZEN. It is no matter, his name’s Cinna. Pluck but his name […]

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  Conspiracies & Super-Villains

  03.27.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  In my story Earthquake, we find a caveman out on a hunt trying to provide for his ‘family’. He doesn’t know why he cares about these people, but he does. And when the ground shakes, killing those around him, he’s also not sure why. And when he finds those he loves, somehow safe from harm, […]

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  I fear we must burn something

  03.24.08 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  If youth is no longer to be wasted on the young, then who shall waste the precious substance? And if the answer is nobody, how shall our society survive without youth?
  My friends are more likely to have a pile of marketing and ’self help’ books on their shelves than works of discontent or offense. A […]

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