it has been a long time, hasn't it?

a whole region of books - including the old City Directories - are vanished. i mean, what do they use this space for now? square dances ( Read more... )

A paranoid halo thickens around Maxine’s head, if not a nimbus of certainty. Ordinarily there wouldn’t be money enough in circulation to get her inside bomb-throwing distance of the east end of Long Island, but she finds herself now dropping the Tomcat in her bag, adding an extra clip, sliding into working jeans and a beach-town appropriate T- ( Read more... )

.. so why - in this day and age - were we looking for Psi-mun "Outside Consultant" Akkins ( Read more... )

.. Throwing Muses’ In a Doghouse (86 debut + 87 EP + 85 demos ..) to 1977’s CANDLESHOO (Jodie Foster variation on ‘Escape from Trance Mtn.’ aka Once Upon a Time in the [Jolly] West), yinz’ll surely reach the Nu.Car smell of 2006 LiveJournal, hey !

(Omtell Bloedel)
He drinks the awesome sword ( Read more... )

from A Field in England (2013)

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th' Great M. Lesko aka "the Joker in th' Vest" (1997)
.. we're atta long overdue reread of Joy Williams' State of Grace. all i recall is the (New England) Minister father who casts a long shadow (probably from the other side). also possibly dead is the Narrator's husband? she wrecks a Jaguar with him in it, or ( Read more... )

Flummery is a dish best served
to wolves chasing your sleigh !
(Thos. Banacek)

“is your Xanax locally sourced?"

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.. forgive us for a "rough edge," but .. Mark Zookerberg - as conflicted a figure as Dylan Klebold - is goi g on a banning spree against those who commit the ideological error of noticing the Azov Battalion's dyslexic swastika (whose "merch" is now readily available absolutely *everywhere*, including Amazon, where A. Dugin's The Fourth Political ( Read more... )

in the freshly dropped trailer of ELVIS! by Australian director Lulz Bahmann, “King Wiggle” can be seen reading the Capt. Marvel Jr. comic. ALSO: Tom Hanks’ dead-on Auric Goldfinger may actually *work* for this cinematic product (his Foghorn Leghorn in The Ladykillers? not so much ..)

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.. so Luo Ji is ensconced in Happy Valley, wants to bid on a cask of sunken wine : "I want that cask / it's part of the plan" .. so - in troo Nostalgia fashion - I flashed on the *Dan Fogelberg* song of the same name. who knows? perhaps before it's all done i will have constructed an entire .. 70s soundtrack for Luo Ji (add "Imaginary Lover" by ( Read more... )