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Micro-Fiction
“Almost Nearly Awesome”
Here, in the beginning was the word. And the word said ‘here’ and here he was. He knew not why he was here (do any of us?), but he was here and there was nothing else here, only darkness–though lacking even the quantity called ‘darkness’. And though there was not yet loneliness, terror, or cold; the being found himself terribly lonely and cold. Before the being could utter a magic word or a command, light raised up to the sky and illumination seeped onto the earth causing the being to smile for a moment, but then again he found himself crying because the light had only further lit up and revealed the full extent of nothingness. -
Micro-Fiction
“Kingdom Come”
“Liberty Univer…” Mark stopped. It was the first time either of them had said that, the word “kill”. Madison Square was completely dark now except for a few people at the enclosed dog-run. -
Micro-Fiction
“John Wants To Be Your Friend.”
The evangelist had finished his speech. Correction: The evangelist had rocked the auditorium. If those sitting in the seats didn’t know before how Web 2.0 would forever change their lives, they did now. As he closed up his laptop, they crowded around: the moved, the curious, the startup-ers, the bloggers and podcasters, the ‘community’. All […]
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Late Night Musings
Swimming the Red Sea
04.15.08 | Permalink | 3 CommentsNext 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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Micro-Fiction
“John and Esther”
04.13.08 | Permalink | 2 CommentsJohn referred to himself as a newspaper atheist; he believed that any two stories in any newspaper could easily prove the random-ness of life and, thus the non-existence of a higher power. That he had thrown up three times this “morning”(he hadn’t really gone to sleep since leaving the bar), and now had stumbled eight […]
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Late Night Musings
The Levels of Madness
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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Micro-Fiction
“A Savior”
They say there were about five at the first meeting. And then ten, then fifteen. When I finally attended one, we stood packed shoulder to shoulder in the small Brooklyn basement. The man himself wasn’t very tall and his voice, for as far as it had traveled, wasn’t very loud. I spent most of that […]
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Late Night Musings
Does Smut Need A Holiday?
03.21.08 | Permalink | 4 CommentsI’m going to risk accusations of either being a frat-boy, a misogynist, a pervert, or pretentious in saying that our views on Pornography, it’s availability and legality, are, in large part, a major factor in who we are as a people and a society. A claim of misogyny, which would bother me the most, can […]
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Late Night Musings
A Godless Tradition
03.18.08 | Permalink | 2 CommentsNot objecting to special revelations, considering a curl of smoke or a hair on the back of my hand just as curious as any revelation,
Lads ahold of fire-engines and hook-and-ladder ropes no less to me than the gods of the antique wars…
–Walt Whitman
Perhaps it’s fitting that our most important poet and cultural ancestor, who built […] -
Late Night Musings
The American Freakshow
03.12.08 | Permalink | 2 CommentsIf there is one place in which I believe it’s perfectly alright to accuse the American media of treason it is in the constant showing of, reportage on, and giving airtime to that strange, albeit shamefully enjoyable, creature I call the American Fundamentalist. It’s not that I mind seeing the Preachers, the Reverends, the Dr’s, […]
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Micro-Fiction
“The New York Mission”
01.15.08 | Permalink | 5 CommentsTaking out of town relatives to the Oyster Bar is one of those New York traditions that actually makes sense. Located beneath Grand Central, it gives people, no matter where they’re from, the feeling they’ve assumed New York should give them. So Josh was slightly dismayed, and not so slightly embarrassed, when his Uncle, just […]
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Late Night Musings
Fundamentally American.
Anderson Cooper “nailed a big story” for us this last Friday. He visited the infamous twin-cities of Colorado-City, Arizona and Hildale, Utah, where for over half a century, some of the last hold-outs of Mormon Polygamy (or “Plural Marriage”) have been having a grand ‘ole time by themselves, largely left alone by both the […]
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