Songs of Love, Destruction, and Other Synthetic Delusions

Tempus Mutationes

2011-09-08T10:15:00.000-07:00

So, it's September. The leaves are going to start changing, school is starting, the summer clothes are going to start disappearing, the weather is going to...HOLY FUCK it's hot! I know, I know...Folks living in many other parts of the country and/or world are thinking, "Dude, stop your bitching." Okay, maybe not "Dude". Anyway, Shakespeare Orange County was fairly successful this year, and I'm

Tempus Comitiorum

2011-08-15T16:26:00.000-07:00

Let me just go ahead and say it so we can get it out of the way: Barack Obama is a worse president that George W. Bush. Most Republicans, blindly (and naively) following the party line would agree with me. I'm not surprised; most of them are pretty stupid. I don't mean that as an insult, by the way. It's just that I can find no other rationale for devotion to a political party bent on the total

Tu Bastarda

2011-08-07T11:23:00.000-07:00

"Ooh, what did you make?" "Arrogant Bastard Brownies." "You could have just said brownies." It wasn't as though I planned a conversation like that to happen, or was even expecting it. But I must admit I was a little disappointed when no one said anything. "Ooh, brownies! What's in em?" "Arrogant Bastard." "What, did you cut your finger and bleed on them?" Nope, no witty banter. It would have

Cupiditas Fossor

2011-07-22T18:07:00.000-07:00

Well, debt ceiling talks collapsed once again. It seems that, more than ever, Democraps and Republicunts just can't seem to agree to the extent of how much they should screw over Americans. And in the meantime, they're treating the public to the most amazing revisionist history I've seen since Orwell's 1984. Friday, Speaker of the House John Boehner ('cunt from Ohio) sent out a letter to other

Retreat 3

2011-05-31T19:08:00.000-07:00

Huh, whoops. I meant to post the third writer's exercise a long time ago and totally spaced on that. Busy busy... So the third exercise was just like the second. Pull a word and you have 45 minutes to come up with a short story. I like what came out, but I feel like there's more story to tell in this version; it's not a complete entity in and of itself. Still, I told myself I'd post 'as is' with

Retreat 2

2011-04-26T16:32:00.000-07:00

Yesterday, I shared the flash fiction I wrote at the writer's retreat I went to. On our second day there, we each drew another slip of paper out of the bag and had 45 minutes to write a short story concerning the word. The word I drew was "anal-beads". For an exercise where I had 45 minutes to pull a short story out of my ass, I think I did okay with the word... Beads “Hail, Mary, full of –hrk!

Retreat 1

2011-04-25T15:20:00.000-07:00

Last weekend I went on a writer's retreat with 3 other guys with the idea that we'd lock ourselves in a cabin for three days and come out the other side with a book written. I consider the venture successful! Additionally, we did a writing exercise each morning to warm up our brains. James Ninness is being super cool by posting all the results on his blog, and you should go check out what he and

Solvo Venalicium Est Non Solvo

2011-01-24T13:20:00.000-08:00

Last Tuesday (Jan. 18th), President Obama put out an op-ed piece in the Wall Street Journal detailing a new executive order he signed. The piece was accompanied by this picture:The piece essentially signified his surrender to Wall Street and big business. He writes:"...throughout our history, one of the reasons the free market has worked is that we have sought the proper balance. We have

An Open Letter to the President

2010-11-29T13:32:00.000-08:00