Just saw Richard “Prince of Darkness” Perle on This Week, talking about the Iraq non-quagmire, and was not exactly surprised to find that he’s graduated to a brand new level of make-believe neocon quackery. I’m not sure if this is something he’s cooked up on his own, or if this is going to be the [...]
And now … poetry: Nose Smear Sonatas Would you ever lick a Bolshevik? Have you ever kissed a Communist? Will you ever fear an Omeleteer? The Fish! The Fish! The Fish! Hysterical poetry groupies may line up on my left, nobel prize scouts on my right. I will endeavor to see each of you in [...]
Today my body is a teeming bag of contagion. I can feel my enemies in their multitudes racing through the avenues under my skin, darting between battalions of angry phagocytes, killing cells and regrouping in lymphy cul-de-sacs, doubling and redoubling their numbers every second. It’s just gross. If whatever I’ve got is viral, then its [...]
Yesterday, I bought one of those new DVD players with built-in Crap Detection© technology. These things are wonderful: whenever you put in a DVD, they automatically scan its contents to determine how crappy it is, and then warn you if its crapiosity rises above a certain level. To test it, I put in a copy [...]
Yesterday an Israeli tank and helicopter gunship fired on a group of protestors in the Rafah refugee camp. There were about a thousand people in the crowd, marching on a sealed-off housing project called Tel Sultan to protest the occupying government’s recent rash of house demolitions. Ten people died, three children among them. Dozens were [...]
Mitt Romney, the governmer of the Massachusetts, apparently horrified that his state has become the first in the nation to sanction and perform gay marriages, is now strictly enforcing a moldy old 1913 law that proscribes marriages for out-of-state couples whose home states would not have allowed them to get married. This effectively bans non-Massachusetts [...]
Scribblers take note! Karim has just released a cool new hyperfiction site that makes it easy — and, dare I say, fun — to create collaborative online stories. It’s called StoryStream, and it’s open to everyone. Getting started is easy: you just register, then go in and write a scene. Conceptually, a scene is a [...]
I’m reading Dune again, and find myself completely blown away by its prodigious awesomeness. The action has, so far, focused pretty tightly on the major characters, but I’m already feeling the massive, epic scope of the world that Herbert has created here. He has that admirable ability to say big things by talking about small [...]
Back in the heady days of the turn of the century, in the thick of the 2000 presidential campaign, I remember looking at the person that the Republicans had produced to lead their ticket and breathing a sigh of relief. He was so obviously out of his depth, so clearly unsuited to be president of [...]
The incursion alarms blare along the corridors of the Maze, and, just beneath them, I hear the breathy hiss of our sanctum’s blast door sliding open. He’s back. The monster is back. Blinky stirs beside me, and then his eyes saucer open and he’s up and rushing the door, skimming his pleats across the floor. [...]
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