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Self-denial & other Lenten events

New day dawning, I wonder what it holds for me Sun is shining, don’t think it shines for me I look around, nothing seems to have changed This dirty town, it hasn’t somehow rearranged And I stand up, but I get knocked straight back down “Just give it up”, they say, “We just don’t want … Continue reading »

Mugabe does it, why can’t I?

one day you could find yourself suddenly underneath the guillotine you’ll have to answer up for what you want and what that means that’s the difference between breaking the bank and just breaking even making a living and making a killing why don’t you buy yourself a gift? for the work you’ve been putting in … Continue reading »

Saturday evening rumblings

in the salsify mains of what was thoughtful and sad all the calcified arhythmatists were doing the math and it would take a calculated blow to the head to blind the eyes of all the harmless sociopaths; oh arm in arm we are the harmless sociopaths; oh arm in arm with all the harmless sociopaths … Continue reading »

Here’s to the recession babies

We’re the “recession babies”. Those of us born in the early-to-mid-eighties: recession babies. I’ve coined it. We were born in or just after the fallout from the economic downturn in 1980-82. Stagflation. Your parents recall that, stagnant growth and inflation. Our parents were young and bought their first houses with ridiculous interest rates and obviously … Continue reading »

in times like these we need a few good men

to know know know him is to love love love him and i do yes, i do i really do -”To Know Him is to Love Him“, Phil Spector I’ve been sitting around pondering how to save the world lately. Today, it just dawned on me: Kevin Bacon. You laugh? Back in the mid-90s when … Continue reading »

porn industry bailout a great gimmick, but no silver bullet to slumping industry

Larry Flynt, publisher of Hustler, and Joe Francis, the man who created “Girls Gone Wild” will approach the U.S. Congress and ask for a $5 billion bailout package for the adult entertainment industry. I’m surprised many of those words go together in a sentence without my computer either a) exploding or, b) automatically downloading ridiculous … Continue reading »

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