Archive for March, 2008
Wednesday, March 19th, 2008
Upon Reading Raintree County
“Raintree County…which had no boundaries in time or space, where lurked musical and strange names and mythical and lost peoples, and which was itself musical and strange.”
Ross Lockridge Jr.
Poor Uncle Ross…I never knew the man, in fact he extinguished himself in 1948, with a sweeper hose ran from the tail pipe to the back seat [...]
2 Comments » - Tags: Brad by Brad Chitwood
Sunday, March 16th, 2008
East and West
Pangea is real. Maybe Charlton Heston and Ted Haggard rode dinosaurs with Mel Gibson to get to Thunderdome before the Ice Age. Why not? I’ll believe when I see it. Play the tape back… Somebody get Homeland Security on the phone.
Once, destruction was confined to countless microcosms packed together in a motherland of innocent [...]
4 Comments » - Tags: editorial, koop by Andrew Koop
Monday, March 10th, 2008
Watchful
Piles of pink plastic toys shimmer
Around her pigtails in the center
of a capsizing bed
She scrambles for shelter
a wet dog on deck
holding on
And squirms below father’s plump finger
Voices thunder and tremble
She wails like a siren
Innocent cries for justice and mercy
Without the words or why
A father repeats
Door swings open and he enters
A sibling with memories
Of such blood
Vengeance [...]
1 Comment » - Tags: koop, poetry by Andrew Koop
Wednesday, March 5th, 2008
The Glenn Scott Stamp of Public Notary Approval
It should be known to all who hobby what has become of Glenn Scott Clarkson since the final days of one the bloodiest business disputes of all time, the hobbytown massacre, details of which have proven to be scarce, although a thorough report of the actual events is rumored to be in the making from [...]
4 Comments » - Tags: aviation, buddy, clarksmith, doug, glenn-scott, hobbies by Buddy
Monday, March 3rd, 2008
March 3rd
I woke up in disbelief at 6:30 this morning, my body still full of lactic acid and torn muscles. I had spent the better part of the weekend picking up splinters from the arm of my sixty year old silver maple that crashed in an ice storm a couple months back. My old [...]
