Monthly Archives: June 2016
Cerebellar ataxia update: bitch costs HOW MUCH?!
I have some advice for you: if you’re going to get sick, don’t feel the need to be innovative about it. Nothing good comes of winning at Stump the Doctor. No, come down with something run of the mill, something ho-hum, something boringly common. Or be rich. One or the other. Back in May I wrote about my evolving issues
Read moreDoes Trump actually want the job?
If Donald Trump really is running for president, he’s doing it all wrong. New poll this morning: In new poll, support for Trump has plunged, giving Clinton a double-digit lead Support for Donald Trump has plunged as he has alienated fellow Republicans and large majorities of voters overall in the course of a month of self-inflicted controversies, propelling Democrat Hillary
Read moreWhat does Brexit mean for the Premier League?
By threatening club finances and limiting player movement, Brexit may inflict serious damage on the world’s best league… On the sports side of things, we have this headline this morning: Premier League refuses to speculate on effects of UK’s ‘Brexit’ from EU The world’s most prestigious football league might be unwilling to speculate, but I’m not. England’s vote to leave
Read moreBig Bang Theory presents: top ten reasons men should pursue careers in the sciences
Hey boys – what should you be when you grow up? I know a lot of young men out there are trying to decide what to do with their lives. Fireman? Policeman? CEO? Doctor? Lawyer? Low-level marketing manager? Great ideas, all, but here in America it’s important to take your cues from our alpha arbiter of social possibility, network television. So,
Read moreHypocrisy Watch: FOX reporter cares deeply about the liberty of those who agree with him
Donald Trump, Kim Davis and Cook Out: because the Constitution guarantees redeemed sinners the right to fast food. First, the headline: ‘Hell No!’ Cashier refuses to serve Trump backers Shannon Riggs and her cousins were famished after attending a Donald Trump rally last week in Richmond, Va., so they decided to drop by Cook Out – a regional restaurant chain known for
Read more“Slothful bitches”: the artist muses on the capricious nature of muses (ArtsWeek)
Artists don’t decide what their calling is. Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise. When I set out to become a photographer way back in 2012 I had an idea what I was going to be. I live in Colorado, you see, so I was going to shoot majestic western landscapes. You know, like every other photographer in the state. I
Read moreMint Bar Neon: Sheridan, Wyoming – ArtsWeek
ArtsWeek: a capella, for your nerded-out listening enjoyment
I think we all have something we nerd-out over. One of my weaknesses is a capella. I grew up Southern Baptist and in some ways my entire musical aesthetic is driven by the sounds of my childhood: the choir, of course, and also gospel quartets. Every Sunday I’d get up and flip to WXII for the weekly quartet show before church. Modern a capella
Read moreThe Butterfly Effect: revisiting an old poem
Old men are signal. Young men are noise. When I was a young writer I swung for the fence with every syllable. I felt like any word that didn’t crush you with profound implications for eternity was a wasted opportunity. I resented articles. I didn’t understand white space, breathing room, the need for silence between beats, and I had little time
Read moreMuhammad Ali: The Champ for racial equality and social justice
Not everybody loved The Greatest: what Muhammad Ali meant to one racist Southern kid That was always the difference between Muhammad Ali and the rest of us. He came, he saw, and if he didn’t entirely conquer – he came as close as anybody we are likely to see in the lifetime of this doomed generation. – Hunter S. Thompson
Read moreIt was four years ago today: Sammy takes up photography
Saturday, June 2, 2012: I drove out to Wolf Camera in Wheat Ridge and bought a Nikon D3100. It was official. I was in the process of retiring from 35 wasted years as a failed poet, and had now decided to learn how to shoot things.
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