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who plays those changes?
Tonight I did something I don't usually do; watched a stupid game show. "Password," to be exact. In this case the reason was simple: Norm MacDonald. I love his comedy to pieces. He acts absentminded and confused but is wickedly intelligent. Mostly he'll slur and appear......Read More

Posted on: 2009-06-01 04:35:33 | Rating:

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epiglottis marimba
It is a pretty well known fact that until 6 or 7 months of age, an infant can swallow and breathe at the same time. Adults cannot do this. Most people would take this bizarreness at face value. They would accept it unquestioningly, nod their heads and say something to the effect of......Read More

Posted on: 2009-06-03 13:26:58 | Rating:

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Revenge-Tree
About a funeral home/cemetery at Christmastime. Eheh. *** Swearingen’s Funeral Home and Cemetery did not believe in Christmas lights. It was a large, dark, rambling building with overhanging eaves and narrow windows. Christmas lights could only have been an improvement. The ornaments......Read More

Posted on: 2009-06-04 15:29:50 | Rating:

| Views: 50 | Comments: 4 | Tags: it's a joke short story funeral cemetery christmas

hold off on the crack
Heads-up, don't buy any cocaine in the Seattle area for a while. Some moron mixed a certain type of animal tranquilizer into a batch of cocaine and in addition to causing fevers, sores etc, it also damps down the body's immune system enough that even a small infection can rampage through......Read More

Posted on: 2009-06-05 02:03:00 | Rating:

| Views: 43 | Comments: 0 | Tags: cocaine tranquilizer bad batch

Colors Ghosty
The light is purple, streaming down in variegated shafts that magnify shadows of ferns high on the concrete ledges. These tunnels are manmade. The floor is concrete… of course… but it was laid over tideland. Every year the beams of light have to strain a few inches further to reach......Read More

Posted on: 2009-06-05 03:33:42 | Rating:

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vomit and platoon
For my night duty shift I’d taken “Tank Girl” to watch on my laptop with headphones during the small hours of the night. As you might guess, Tank Girl is my hero. Sometimes I can study and/or write all night without anybody stirring. Last night was not one of those times. One......Read More

Posted on: 2009-06-09 00:35:46 | Rating:

| Views: 37 | Comments: 1 | Tags: vomit platoon tank girl shelter

not a sexy post, but a dark one
There are two kinds of crazy people in this world. Those who are content to throw an axl and go barrelling off the road alone, and those who have to take as many people with them as possible. In an effort to see both sides I checked out a book opposing Jim Jones and a book that justifies him.......Read More

Posted on: 2009-06-23 01:19:37 | Rating:

| Views: 34 | Comments: 2 | Tags: jim jones peoples temple laurie efrain jeannie mills

drive-through window
The van rumbled up to the Vietnamese drive-through and the driver’s side window rolled down. Steamy clouds smelling of fried carrots and chicken wafted into the humid night air. The city was becalmed-- the string of bells at the window jingled monotonously with the exhalation of steam......Read More

Posted on: 2009-06-23 02:09:40 | Rating:

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Yeah, I was in a cult
...For a brief while. Not of my own choosing, but because a friend of mine was invited to “a new church” and didn’t want to go alone. He ended up without me most of the time anyway, because the men and the women had service separately. One of the rules of this particular sect......Read More

Posted on: 2009-06-24 01:43:24 | Rating:

| Views: 58 | Comments: 7 | Tags: it's a joke cult fireworks

validation?
Have been reading Existence by Rollo May, which while it is mainly concerned with how Existentialism relates to psychology, must explain existentialism itself to do so. And so of course he came to the "I am!" experience. How people are not their titles, or accoutrements, or their job......Read More