Ghost Fan Club – Passing Through
You only gotta do one thing well to make it in this world, babe / You got a woman waiting for you there / All you ever gotta do is be a good man one time to one woman / And that'll be the end of the road, babe -- 'Cry Baby' by Bert Berns and Jerry Ragovoy (as...
Christopher Ryan – A Little Bigger
People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong. Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom? -- Thich Nhat Hanh My wife talks to our peppers and tomatoes. Oooh you're so cute! You'll be a big plant someday! You're...
Borrowed Books – Altona
The most amusing thing about a pantomime horse is the necessity of having to shoot it twice. -- Steve Aylett, Bigot Hall Consider the pantomime horse: two people who share a single quadruped costume, enclosed within a relationship of dark and airless intimacy. The...
John Statz – Rainy Days in the UK
When I went off to school, I initially majored in architecture. Unlike George Costanza, I had never dreamed of pretending to be an architect and -- looking back -- I have no idea why I chose that major. I was a terrible architect. A classmate, who later became a very...
A Potful of Pop to Purchase on Friday
My lockdown hardship story... I needed a new gas can for my lawnmower fuel. We still call the containers cans even though they've been made from plastic for as long as I've been walking behind a mower in grass-stained canvas shoes. In normal times I would drive over...
Cowboy Grizzly – COVID-19 and Hold You Up
Some lucky people remember only the good times and refuse to dwell on their tragedies. My family is not among that group. Wherever two or more of my ancient ancestors gather together, the air becomes fetid with tales of the suffering experienced by the long-expired....
Hot Car – Car Alarm
My college writing instructor -- a magnificent old Welshman who claimed to have known W.C. Fields and to have survived a fistfight with Robert Shaw -- advised against writing outdoors. It seems like a good idea, he said. But then the bugs bite and the sun is in your...
The Unswept – Forget The Day
Mnemosyne, one must admit, has shown herself to be a very careless girl. ― Vladimir Nabokov, Speak, Memory It is just an illusion here on Earth that one moment follows another one, like beads on a string, and that once a moment is gone, it is gone forever... All...
Guest Post by Bomethius – The Machine
I wrote my new album with my uncle, Dave Hodges, in a Google doc over the course of the past year. Dave is a structural engineer who has a degree in aerospace engineering, owns his own firm, doesn't wear shoes, is aggressively Roman Catholic, has eight children,...
laughingstock – Something Lite
To remain master of one's four virtues: courage, insight, sympathy, and solitude. For solitude is a virtue with us, as a sublime bent and bias to purity, which divines that in the contact of man and man, in society, it must be unavoidably impure. All society makes one...
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