The representative had a dream. In his dream, he has just assumed office and his immediate assignment is to attend one of two meetings that are part of an emergency conference. He pores through a small guidebook that has been provided to him filled with indecipherable characters and symbols from an unknown language, searching for a clue to his assigned destination. He realizes in a paroxysm of the kind of subconscious clarity that occurs in dreams that he is standing outside of a long hallway that runs off to the right as far as he can see. Continue reading Election Day (A Short Story by John Swenson)→
Just last night, my pal Vince Danger and I were taking about Hurricane Sandy, and whether we’ll ever be able to hear that Led Zeppelin song again without becoming at least somewhat emotionally overwhelmed.
I tend to avoid getting political on this page, but the fact that New Orleans and other parts of the South have been completely devastated nuclear-war-style by Hurricane Katrina simply cannot be ignored. While I was grateful and relieved to hear that my friends in Supagroup and their loved ones had successfully evacuated New Orleans prior to the storm hitting hard, I’ve been obsessively watching the coverage on CNN until I just can’t cry anymore. Continue reading When The Levee Breaks→
It’s been traumatic enough for me to handle the fact that CBS couldn’t even get their shit together to air a season of either The Amazing Race or Survivor this summer. That’s just plain lazy. But I realized that summer 2005’s TV programming had hit really hit bottom and stared to dig when I found myself tuning in to the premiere of NBC’s Tommy Lee Goes To College this past Tuesday. Continue reading Gail Receives Email From Tommy Lee!→
Oh man, this is tough one. ABC News Anchorman Peter Jennings has passed on due to a long battle with cancer, He was 67 years old. Now that the Voice of the World has been silenced, who will give us our news? I will miss you Peter Jennings, sleep well.
I recently received an unsolicited email from a guy named Frank Gray (aka Frankie Tee, represented above by the best I Am A Tool Meme I could find on the inter webs) who is a musician in NYC specializing in the saxophone. Frank recently wrote me an obscenely vulgar hate mail that was typed ALL IN CAPS (signifying great eloquence and small penis syndrome ). I deleted it because it was so horrifying, but now I wish I had kept it, to print here verbatim. Frank didn’t sign his email, but all I had to do was Google his email address (duh) to bring up his Geocities Website, which is now offline. Tool. Continue reading Tool of the Month: Frankie Gray!→
