I’ll always remember the New Year’s Eve I spent in my apartment, watching the ball drop on my TV; a plate of home baked cookies, my only companions for the evening. The day began like any other. I woke up, had my coffee – two sugars one cream – and read the morning paper. It […]
Archive | December, 2007
A Revolutionary Christmas Tale
Amidst the 12th machine-related limb-loss and the 200th toy recall, little belled workers waited for the fat man’s fall. The old coot snored, thinking himself adored, while union reps crept. A cough caught in Santa’s throat, elves held their breath and thought choke? But he swallowed it down, bearded mouth became a frown. Whispered anarchy […]
Select correspondence between world leaders and Kris Kringle from the past few weeks
Dear Saint Nicholas, A colleague of mine, Benny the XVI, who incidentally enough has a good rapport with your predecessor, Jesus, recommended I give Christmas a chance and write you a letter. I don’t really believe in you, Christmas or much in this world anymore but I’m getting on in years and wondered if you […]
Blair Kitchen
Comic book artist, writer, publisher and genius behind The Possum
Dream Blog: A John Berryman Dream Song #14′ Update
The internet, friends, is boring. We must not say so. After all, the screen flashes, the hackers hack, we ourselves flash and hack, and moreover my mother told me as a girl (repeatedly) “Ever to confess you’re bored with the internet means you have no System Resources.” I conclude now I have no system resources, […]
Barnyard Vanity
Agnes
Note from the author: Returning from a long and arduous journey rarely leaves me in the mood to write, and sex usually uses up my creative energy. But once in a while, the unthinkable occurs. A writing leakage bursts forth like a bottle of cheap bubbly shaken by a braying and guffawing ass. “Aged to […]