Tag: dead
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They’re All Dead
I’m getting ready to regale you with an amusing onslaught of altered–or totally made up–and absolutely inappropriate children’s book covers, because they are apparently a thing, and they’re crazy funny. Mostly. Some are a little disturbing, most are offensive… But you get the idea. In the meantime, these are real. I thought they were fake,…
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Friday Morning Rock and Roll Idols: The Dead Kennedys
What can I say about the DK’s? I never listened to a lot of hardcore, but at the risk of revealing that I am and always was a bit of a poseur, I’d call them “accessible hardcore,” owing to their intelligent, often scathingly satirical social, cultural, and political underpinnings. I missed out on the Sex…
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War Poems For National Poetry Month: Wilfred Owen, Dulce Et Decorum Est
Panama…then Iraq, Somalia, Bosnia, Iraq again, Afganistan–right or wrong, for causes both just and cynical, we’ve been in an exhausting, nearly constant state of war, however distant and vaguely defined, since I graduated from High School in the 1980’s–and that was just a few deep breaths after the war in Viet Nam/ Cambodia/ Laos that…
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The Titan Was Brought Low
The Titan was brought low by a beast so small and slow a grain sets it in shadow. A long year he lay, first modest and afraid, his massive arms and beautiful, terrifying hands jutting out helpless beneath short sheets. I looked long and unflinching into his eyes, waiting for the burst of the dam,…
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Cannibalism at Jamestown
Researchers have found conclusive evidence of cannibalism at Jamestown, the earliest known site of European hubris in North America and, not coincidentally, the place where I was given my first and only tricorne hat. I’d been under the assumption that the flesh-eating Briton thing was understood. Those first colonists pretty much sucked at…um…colonizing. Their attempts…
Old Road Apples 