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Incline

Posted on October 14, 2009 by ubu507

When I got to the middle of the street a black guy was already there, grandly gesturing to a car to pass by. People around here are great jaywalkers – they don’t stroll obliviously into traffic, cell phone to … Continue reading →

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Startlingly Prescient

Posted on October 13, 2009 by ubu507

In my reading of Heine I came across the startlingly prescient passage: Christianity, and this is its finest achievement, quieted this brutal Germanic lust for battle to some degree, but could not eradicate it entirely, and if one day that … Continue reading →

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FINALLY

Posted on October 9, 2009 by ubu507

a driver’s license photo that looks like me!

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POEM

Posted on October 7, 2009 by ubu507

By Max Jacob When the boat arrived in the islands of the Indian Ocean we discovered that we had no maps. We had to disembark! That was how we came to know who was on board: there was a … Continue reading →

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Crime Beat: Reassuring News

Posted on October 6, 2009 by ubu507

About 3:30 p.m., the police reported a man on campus wearing a black tank top and a cowboy hat, carrying a black puppy and a large hunting knife. Lieutenant Ross said that the man was being questioned, but that … Continue reading →

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whew

Posted on October 5, 2009 by ubu507

Steely McBeam’s team likes to make him sweat a little, but tonight he’s a happy guy again

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Chalet

Posted on October 2, 2009 by ubu507

In the crowded lobby of the chalet at the bottom of the hill. She’s vivid, fully realized, and I’m content to just watch her bustle around until she comes so close that our eyes meet and it would be … Continue reading →

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Packed By

Posted on September 30, 2009 by ubu507

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Bonus Eric Gaskins

Posted on September 29, 2009 by ubu507

Here’s a pretty funny interview with my old college buddy Eric Gaskins: http://thestory.org/archive/the_story_870_Eric_Gaskins.mp3/view

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Mo Heine

Posted on September 29, 2009 by ubu507

Aristophanes shows us the most hideous images of human madness only in the laughing mirror of wit; Goethe ventures to utter the agony of the thinker who understands his own nullity only in the doggerel verses of a puppet-play; and … Continue reading →

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