Category: Music
Guest Post by Fluffy the Cat: Three Songs Involving Greg Jarrow
Hi, it's me again. Fluffy the Cat. Sometimes when the Food Guy is busy he lets me write his log post and put it on the Winternet. Today the Food Guy has a pre-existing condition to mulch a garden bed. Last Monday he announced a Master Plan to weed and mulch one bed...
crowded shoulders – I Deal
In your patience you will gain your souls. -- Jesus, Luke 21:19 Therefore, to gain his soul was a task that announced a struggle with the whole world, since it began with letting a person be at the goal of that earthly craving, possessing the whole world in order to...
Dog Contest – Big Talkin’ Man
But first the notion that man has a body distinct from his soul is to be expunged; this I shall do by printing in the infernal method, by corrosives, which in Hell are salutary and medicinal, melting apparent surfaces away, and displaying the infinite which was hid....
Everett The Grey – Pillowcases
Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist. -- Guy de Maupassant So I'll light another cigarette and try to remember to forget. -- Lowell George Right now I’m having amnesia and déjà vu at the same time. I...
The Amazing Reverb Raccoon 2020 Christmas Compilation!
I’ve been here 18 years and have suffered through some weird thematic Christmases. A Honolulu Christmas, a Pulp Fiction Christmas, a Muslim Christmas, Moroccan Christmas, Mo Rocca Christmas. I don’t want it. Christmas is Christmas is Christmas is Christmas... Just...
Wormbag – Ooo Baby Baby
This feature first appeared in 2014. And I am going to keep reprinting it until someone recognizes the genius of Wormbag. --- I have seen post-grunge alt-folk country dream pop future and its name is Wormbag. Wormbag slammed into the Portland music scene in 2012. The...
The Coffin Fits – Pink Heart
You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give. For what are your possessions but things you keep and guard for fear you may need them tomorrow? And tomorrow, what shall tomorrow bring to the overprudent dog...
The Blue Herons – Go On
'But I'm not going,' said Barnaby Jack. 'I'm running away tonight for good. And this time I won't get caught.' Annabelle whispered, ‘I'm coming with you.' Her yellow hair, now brown at the roots, caught up in the wind and danced. Barnaby Jack took Annabelle's hand and...
Guest Post by Fluffy: Rachel Baldwin – Spirit
Hi, it's me again. Fluffy the Cat. Sometimes when the Food Guy is busy, he lets me write his log post and put it on the Winternet. Today the Food Guy has a pre-existing condition to rake the leaves. The Food Guy hates raking leaves because it is boring. He said,...
Christopher James – It’s Neat to be Alive (Live Life à la Mode)
1954: Eisenhower is in the White House, the McCarthy hearings begin, an IBM computer translates sixty phrases from Russian into English, a de Havilland Comet succumbs to metal fatigue and disintegrates in mid-flight, Bill Haley and the Comets record 'Rock Around the...
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Robbery in the Park and the Attack on Umpire Bailey
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