Monthly Archives: November 2008

Letters We Never Finished Reading

Posted on November 29, 2008 by ubu507

  Dear Manager:   It’s Up to a Gay CIA Agent to Save the World — From Gay Neo-Nazis.   Sometimes the only thing standing between the free world and the end of Western civilization is a hunky — and … Continue reading →

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Happy Thanksgiving!

Posted on November 27, 2008 by ubu507
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Swinburne: The Maiden Body And The Scaly Coils

Posted on November 26, 2008 by ubu507

  I’m rolling a little number about transgressive Victorians, especially Wilde and Swinburne. To tide you over until the time I fire it up I’ll share this delicious toke from the latter, who (I guess I shouldn’t have been surprised … Continue reading →

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Crime Beat: Families Are Special

Posted on November 25, 2008 by ubu507

  Police: Woman mouthed ‘I love you’ as son strangled her   JOHNSTOWN, Pa. — A man has been ordered to stand trial on charges he killed his 85-year-old mother and hid her body on state game lands. Authorities say … Continue reading →

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Events Calendar: Surprise Ending

Posted on November 21, 2008 by ubu507

  I didn’t see THAT coming…   MUSICAL: "ELLA MINNOW PEA" 7:30 p.m., Walgreen Drama Center, 1226 Murfin Ave. Workshop production of a Scott Burkell and Paul Losel musical that tells the story of a tiny fictional island nation whose … Continue reading →

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Conspiracies & Brainwashing: The Epistle of Napoleon to the Dinosaurs by Deadman Switch

Posted on November 19, 2008 by ubu507

  The "paranoic" world view is one that has always interested me, not because I necessarily believe in the various conspiracy theories, but because of its unique position in that liminal state on the border between reality and imagination. In … Continue reading →

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The Visitor

Posted on November 18, 2008 by ubu507

  She told me What the undertaker Had done to her   Wired her jaw Reset her teeth Severed the spine at The base of the skull   She tilted it forward And showed me Inside her head  

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Haunted House

Posted on November 15, 2008 by ubu507

Haunted House   I’m out on the sidewalk, waiting in line to get into the haunted house, when some little kid pops his head over the railing and says hi. I say hi back and all of a sudden his … Continue reading →

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Crime Beat: The Family That Decays Together

Posted on November 14, 2008 by ubu507

  Woman, 90, living with siblings’ bodies EVANSTON, ILL. – A 90-year-old woman well-liked by her neighbors apparently has been living in a house with the bodies of three siblings, one of whom may have been dead since the early … Continue reading →

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THREE POEMS

Posted on November 12, 2008 by ubu507

  THREE POEMS      Ensouled   The first thought A lacrosse mom Wasted on sports and lawyers A shadow puppet princess Falling on the prison wall     Bone Frog   In a canoe pin Peter Pan hat How … Continue reading →

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