I hate the entertainment industry. Not movies or music or sports or any of the various outlets, but the rancid thing itself. I hate the Entertainment Tonights and Sportscenters of this world and I hate them for good reason. Not for their excessive adoration of the inane, but because they have erased all division between important and ( Read more... )

Today, standing at my cashier station, I was surrounded by a bunch of sad, small business owners. They'd come to Staples and set up tables in a pitiable stab at self-promotion. One woman in particular stood out to me and so I scrawled ( Read more... )

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An evil alter ego has dropped by our earth. Go on over and make him feel welcome.

Sleep's elusive to those that need her most, specifically when 'those' means 'me.'

Using single quotes reminds me that George prefers those to their doubled-up variety. You know:

Percy said, "I can't go on living like this, Marcy. It's like Tracy says, 'You can't go on living like this,' Marcy ( Read more... )

These were originally written for critique in my poetry writing class, but, now that it's kaput, I doubt I'll get much response. Whaddya think?

HuntsvilleWhose rockets scrape the sky and pierce ( Read more... )

Muah Ha Ha Ha Ha.

Childhood Saturday mornings went from daybreak fishing on ESPN to near-noon Land of the Lost on ABC. I'm surprised that permanent buttprints weren't planted before the tube. Yet in spite (or, perhaps, to spite) the miraculous resilience of my carpet, LotL managed to weasel in another impression: a dent in my head ( Read more... )

because prussian@zombieworld.com has become an unmanageable burden of endless spam, i am picking up and moving elsewhere.

if you need to contact me emailily (new adverb!), please do so at
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