Archive for May, 2004

My Fellow Americans

Pundit Jason Clarke is sounding off over at rawstory.com. Might want to check it out... One thing that has been bugging me for awhile is that most people seem to accept the whole "if Iraq has weapons of mass destruction, then it is okay to invade". That strikes me as crappy logic (by that logic, we [...]

Gigli

Gigli starring Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez I like to watch dogs. The other day I was at a Dog Run, a fenced-in quadrangle filled with the sinfully satisfying smell of wood chips and the stale urine of New York City?s finest handbag dogs. They come here to mingle, chase balls, and, if they?re [...]

La Ruana

There is no aspirin in the village, but bananas and mangoes are free for the taking.It is ninety degrees in the shade,I drip sweat constantly.The mosquitoes are fierce and silent.The earth moved at 9:35 in the morning,7.5 on the Richter scale.The house shivered and a framed picture slid from the wall.We hurried outside where the [...]

The Doofus Omnibus

Rick Altergott is a maverick in the world of alternative comics, one of those rare major talents able to subsist solely on humor---a cartoonist's cartoonist. You are not likely to find much in the way of great meaning in the pages of Doofus. You are not likely to find much in the way of soul-searching [...]

Snowdrifter

The god of heavy duty machineryHas parted the white sea,Leaving a clumsy pathFor my exodus from the train. I am a sweating mummy with poor posture Roving through sludgy tire tracksPlaying a game of chutes and ladders With myself and musing as to whether Mercury would have been swift stillContending with such snow. A clever entrepreneur has [...]