Yore Lore: Ken Saro-Wiwa
Standing up for a cause requires a belief in yourself and your ideals. It also requires guts. Speaking for myself, I find it difficult to…
arts
An ode to Budweiser
I despise the way he looks at me. I hate everything about him, from his head to his feet. If there is a divine being,…
Booze cruisin’ to the bottom
Dan Fante’s new novel, 86’d, is a rip-roaring novel about a forty-two year old alcoholic, pill-popping loser at life on his last legs. The story…
Yore Lore: The battle of Stalingrad
The scene occurs in broad daylight, but everything is gray — the sky, the buildings, the ground, the characters’ faces. Jude Law and Ron Perlman…
Yankee Doodle
The Doodle family was at a loss last week when they discovered that their loving father figure, Yankee, had passed on. Although not personally known…
Doughboys
Hello Doughboys Where is your war today? Vietnam’s nitroglycerin jungles weren’t enough, Now that the jungles are stained red The sand has to be painted…
Yore Lore:
“Where Sydney Cove her lucid bosom swells, Courts her young navies, and the storm repels” — Erasmus Darwin In the 1980s, North America was invaded….
Making Art
I have been suffocated, strangled My words cut short and the flow Ceased My back is broken by black and bulging beasts, Whose sadness seeps…
‘Fair’-est in the land
What had started out as a celebration of beauty, turned into a day of distress and contempt. A beauty contest gone wrong turns into an…
Traveling is good for you
“Every moment is the Guru.” — Charlotte Joko Beck As we return from summer holidays and begin to settle into a routine again, many of…