Archive for: April 2005

     Like any number of other decidedly ordinary men, Larry spent his weekdays toiling in a six-foot by six-foot cubed space, his blandly carpeted corporate cut-out defined by three identically-sized particle-board walls, each littered with sticky notes whose scribbled messages he …

Those of you who like to taste your news—to get a feel for it, to luxuriate in its odors—will genuinely appreciate this intimate account of time spent in Ward Churchill’s bailiwick by the Weekly Standard‘s Matt Labash.  …

Reuters:

The female U.S. reservist soldier who posed before naked Iraqi prisoners as they were being abused at Abu Ghraib will plead guilty to seven of nine charges against her, her lawyer said on Friday.

Lynndie England, 22, became the …

This same thing once happened to me—only in my case, the phone was half a meatball sandwich, and the strange behavior that seemed to mimic predictable electronic functionality was forty-eight hours of light vomiting and the inability, …

Sorry, but said 9-banded Dasypus took it upon himself to chew through my Caligula DVD, so I beat him with a loaf of French bread and sent him to bed without any supper.

Fucking unrated version, too.  Stupid, stupid beast.

for Lara Means

I wanted to write a poem

for Frank Black, but I had

a really hard time finding

a rhyme for ‘apocalypse.’

So, y’know—fuck it.

yin: “Would you do me a favor, honey, and fetch me about a half teaspoon of those dried marjoram leaves from the pantry?  I’m experimenting on a traditional Cioppino, and I don’t want to overstate the sauteed garlic.”

yang: …

1.  Confederate Yankee asks if West Point “is poised to make a rule change in favor of the athletics department that cheapens–no, guts– the longstanding code of ‘Duty. Honor. Country’ that is West Point’s soul.”

2.  Mac at pull …

Can I dress her in a Catholic school girl uniform—with the knee-socks and the shiny patent leather shoes?

Take it away, Doc.