Annie Normal’s Own Landfill
All my fleeting interests, unsellable works, and internet dumpster dives.
Ablutions
Key Terms: Writers writing about writing – drunks describing drinking – the enduring mediocrity of 21st century fiction Fiction: Patrick deWitt, 2009 “What will you be doing in five years? In ten years? There is no one who will look after you and you could die tomorrow and the only people who would care would…
Amtrak and the Social Contract
Key Terms: TSA humiliation ritual – Oh neat, real buttons – GeorgeCostanzaSociety.gif In such conditions there is no place for industry, because the fruit thereof is uncertain, and consequently no culture of the earth, no navigation nor use of the commodities that may be imported by sea, no commodious building, no instruments of moving and…
Where Have All the Weirdos Gone?
How local lunatics color communities. Warning: This is a self-indulgent nostalgia post. If you came here expecting a bleeding-heart screed on the tragedy of homelessness, you’re going to hate this. There’s something like Christmas morning when you return to your hometown after being gone awhile. Passing through all the old haunts, wowed or depressed by…
City Beautiful
Bango Skank was here. From Beaux-Arts to slummification to Gray McDonalds, anyone at any time that has lived at least twenty years in cities has seen some degree of big changes. Pizza Huts become bistros, highways widen and roads narrow to make way for bike lanes, lovely old ruined houses are blown down and replaced…
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