This was the week every year when the snapping turtles returned, and the neighbour boy was preparing for it. He laid out careful patterns of rocks and stones in elaborate geometries, here and there stashing bits of lettuce and other vegetables among his seemingly random mineral ley lines. The confusion of columns and divisions gradually…
She walked with them through the foothills in no particular formation, a scattered crowd sharing the same destination. In front of her was Patson, a man she knew. He’d stood with her husband against the initial assault, where townsmen fell by the score, this morning or two weeks ago, she couldn’t recall. The clouds in…
And I don't mean in the Pacific near Midway. Let's not deny that the West's hungry obsession for circuses of distraction, via entertainment, substances, free love, free speech etc has kept a great many of its greatest creative innovative potentially ambitious minds anonymous, less importantly occupied from focussing on fixing the world. Too much freedom? Hey…
"We can never remember the things we always forget." - Men Without Hats Even the best among you can't expect to remember every thing. A good rule of thumb is: if it seems like it's worth notice, it's worth remembering. And you're not going to remember it by tilting lampshades and wrapping an elastic around…
No! say it ain't so. Sure, I find great pleasure galore in the poetic prose of its pages, a textural, substantive satisfaction like A Clockwork Orange or Trainspotting... but it's ultimately a superficial immersion. The sights and sounds and smells and kills of the era convey swimmingly, and in the language the storytelling reflects the…
I can’t guarantee your experience would be like mine, but I was a Scottish private in the World War battle scenes of Legends Of The Fall. For starters, that meant lining up in a warehouse to be fitted along with scores of other guys, and gals I assume, who could pass for blurrily authentic soldiers…
After all, where else will you see a robot, loosed randomly into open space by a princess, land on a sparsely populated sand planet and within that desolate expanse find the brother she never knew existed? As a scientist I have to allow that it could happen: space is vast but not infinite. I'll even…
I can’t say for the evil part, but it’s not so much they see him as insane as they are suffering a sort of insanity themselves. Let me Marksplain. It’s a worldview thing, dating back to the early hilarity of godamutherufkn Donald Trump expressing political aspirations and then rising to the upper echelons of Republican…
2-11 Hey ill Jill; it's Gil, from the mill on the hill. Still feel like swill? Take a pill, or grill your fill of dill till you kill that chill. And send me the bill (as long as it's nil). 2-15 Hey sick chick. It's Rick from the Brick. Did you get my salt lick?…
Donald Trump will go down as one of if not the greatest peacemakers. Kim Jong-Un is primed for Trump. He was born into this nonesense, completely fucked up by his fate. No one's talked to him like 45, and by the way his country is in mortal peril. His predecessors and ancestors brought things to…
The Dulcless Tone 