Archive for March, 2008

  • The most cul­tur­ally influ­en­tial peo­ple in Amer­ica today are prissy lit­tle females from the white mid­dle class. —Derek Burgoyne America’s ruled by a cou­ple of chicks— There’s one from the...

    The Ballad of Cathy and Beth

    The most cul­tur­ally influ­en­tial peo­ple in Amer­ica today are prissy lit­tle females from the white mid­dle class. —Derek Burgoyne America’s ruled by a cou­ple of chicks— There’s one from the...

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  • Burnt Sudanese earth under claw, a vul­ture waits three steps behind a girl who crouches, strands of straw beneath her low­ered head, her mind in refuge on the dream-kissed shores...

    Water

    Burnt Sudanese earth under claw, a vul­ture waits three steps behind a girl who crouches, strands of straw beneath her low­ered head, her mind in refuge on the dream-kissed shores...

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  • Scarcely twenty years ago, amazed, we saw the way you played defense, attack, and deftly wove, across a table glazed with lac­quer, over squares of white and black, your bril­lian­cies...

    In Memoriam: Gordon Dunham

    Scarcely twenty years ago, amazed, we saw the way you played defense, attack, and deftly wove, across a table glazed with lac­quer, over squares of white and black, your bril­lian­cies...

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  • Once they may have been a minor species we viewed per­haps as inci­den­tal food, rooted from the occa­sional bur­row by women search­ing for tubers or grubs. Aha! they’d say, hold­ing...

    Rats

    Once they may have been a minor species we viewed per­haps as inci­den­tal food, rooted from the occa­sional bur­row by women search­ing for tubers or grubs. Aha! they’d say, hold­ing...

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