My oldest friends know my oldest secrets—and the oldest secret truth that defines my personality is henceforth public knowledge as of here and now: I’m a hater. I’m not exactly sure of the modern definition of this word, so let me be clear: I HATE. People have the wrong idea about hate. It is, in [...]
Cybernetic Eating Habits of a Poor Reporter
(NOTE: Sometimes I write things and forget I wrote them. Usually, with good reason. Here’s an example.)
Typical freelance journalist—at least, one living on the cusp of the communal cup that was the U.S. dole, filled with whatever sketchy dross…whatever watered-down witches brew… you might expect to find at the bottom of such a public assistance [...]
Media Bias and Hurricane Katrina
I’ve just finished watching Spike Lee’s documentary. I find myself eagerly sucking in the storm video from Act I. Sometimes my obsession makes me feel a bit deviant–considering all the heartbreaking loss Katrina represented. Though my family lost two cars in hurricanes between 2004 and 2005, we were fortunate to escape actual physical damage to [...]
Heavy Weather
Tonight the Weather Channel is tracking Carlos, the second storm of the 2009 Hurricane Season.
Also tonight, lots of unattached guys my age are getting ready for another spin through the single’s scene. In cosmopolitan Fort Payne, Alabama, there aren’t too many places where the ancient mating rituals of the Homo sapiens take place. After showering [...]
MOSQUITOLAND
Here are a few pieces from STRIPMINE…this is a collection of short essays and poetry written from about 1987 to 2005. The first printing was in 1994, with another limited run in 1999. I’ve edited the whole collection three times, with the most recent major edit in 2005.
The following selections are mostly pieces I wrote when [...]
Lust: It’s whats for dinner
The Internet is the World’s Greatest Lust Engine. Whether it’s porn (in the flavor of your choice), food or drugs (ditto the flavor choices), the object(s) of your affection or obsession–be it person, place or thing–can be found, bought, discussed, and analyzed…further adding to the collective obsession concerning the Object of desire.
When I was a [...]
Elvis is Back from the Black
Don’t you wish Elvis would come back, delivered from on-high in a Las Vegas lightshow-like UFO, draped in a hundred yards of rhinestone-studded black velvet and eating a fried peanut butter and banana sandwich..?
Just for a few minutes, even. Just enough for a commercial break from this endless speculation about what particular drugs killed Michael [...]
‘Stay Thirsty, My Friends’
At times in my life, commercials really aggravated me. Back when I was a communist, for example. But the older I get, the more mellow I become…kind of like a good, single-malt whiskey, now that I think about it. Of course, I realize that it’s not really any sort of accident of brain chemistry or [...]
