nervous militant: “It is easy, Halil. Simply force the mini-Satan Iverson to take 10-15 shots from beyond the 3-point arc by collapsing your perimeter defense and doubling up on the big-Satan, Duncan, inside. Then box out carefully. “The American hegemons will surely crumble under the weight of their own selfish materialist decadence—and we would save ourselves the trouble of having to festoon a customized explosive device inside one of Carmelo
August 2004
August 18, 2004
Endorsements
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August 18, 2004
A Poem from 1968, Revised by the Ghost of Richard Brautigan, 2004 (twenty-third in a series)
Haiku Michael Moore Ambulance A piece of green pepper fell off the wooden salad bowl: so what? Just leave it. [Michael Moore will lap it off the floor later — along with those peanut shells, and that dollop of guacamole I spilled during last year’s Superbowl.]
August 18, 2004
Talking back to 80s music, 32
Nope, sorry lady. This train goes to Albuquerque. Dennis DeYoung, “Desert Moon”
August 17, 2004
red pills found behind the sofa cushions, epilogue
That dolphin in the navy blue pea coat I warned you about? Turns out he was just looking for a cup of seawater and a pound of diced squid—which I happily traded to him for a couple of fat joints rolled in dried kelp. Oh. And it was an umbrella he was carrying. But you can hardly blame me for doubting that a dolphin would bother toting around an umbrella.
August 17, 2004
Jessica Cutler visits the farmers market
merchant: “…Uh, excuse me, ma’am…? Unless you’re planning on buying ‘em, please don’t slide those gourds in your ass like that…”
August 17, 2004
Random Acts of Kindness
“True, he hacked her up with a Bowie knife for $50 and a Michelob, but the real question we have to answer here is, how does he feel about what he did…?”*
August 17, 2004
On Ontology
IOL News: A new species of flightless bird has been discovered living on a tiny island in the northern Philippines where the inhabitants formerly ate them, scientists and birdwatchers said on Tuesday. The bird, named the “Calayan Rail”, is the size of a small crow and has dark brown plumage and bright orange-red legs and beak, said Carl Oliveros, who helped lead the joint Filipino-British expedition that found it. Evidently,
August 16, 2004
I question the timing. And the source. Bush Lied. Halliburton. Tax cuts for the rich. Etc.
Rowan Scarborough, the Washington Times: “Saddam agents on Syria border helped move banned materials”: Saddam Hussein periodically removed guards on the Syrian border and replaced them with his own intelligence agents who supervised the movement of banned materials between the two countries, U.S. investigators have discovered. The recent discovery by the Bush administration’s Iraq Survey Group (ISG) is fueling speculation, but is not proof, that the Iraqi dictator moved prohibited