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#49

Luis Cuauhtemoc Berriozabal GIBBERISH I make up gibberish for my book. Let others judge.

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RSS This #3

Richard Nesberg Secret Languages Secret languages surround us. As humans we gather ourselves into groups smaller than Human and from such categorization we learn our secret languages. A secret language is a form or method of communication not readily understood by the masses, but requiring some membership or specialized knowledge to be understood. Examples range [...]

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something, i dunno #2

Jack Henry i was thinking about my second column for gloom cupboard and two thoughts struck me. it might be more than two but for the moment it’s two. initially i thought of a girl i dated in college. this is 20 some odd years ago so the details are a bit fuzzy. and i [...]

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#48

John Rocco Thomas Disch Died Today Thomas Disch died today. He was a science-fiction writer I read as a kid and when I read his obit in the Times I felt like I was reading one of his stories, although his stories were never this crushingly real. Thomas Disch shot himself after what a friend [...]

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#47

Jeff Losius The Sip DAY ONE “A very complex day today. Humans are so effortless.” “They polish their knowledge with composed madness.” “I heard a man begging for a month that wasn’t raw, a month that wasn’t savage. It made grave sense to me. I wanted a sip of his perceptions, so I took one.” [...]

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Talk Hard #2

Mikael Covey “And he knows what he knows like the trees do” – Buffy Ste. Marie You have to start with the basics. Build a platform, a ground, on which everything else is based; to which everything else refers. If art is to have meaning in life, then life has to mean something. So you [...]

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#46

Jan Oskar Hansen Tell a Stranger. Midmorning, the sun was shoveling aside clouds that threatened to shed rain, clearing a path that got bigger and bigger till it had the sky for itself; that was ok as it was in the middle of August, when I murmured to her: “I love you” Even though I [...]

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Presenting: George Anderson Jenny, the Blindman & I We stroll intimately with locked arms up Symonds Street up to the Thai Archer the Blindman quietly humming a tune any tune which pops into his head the songs simply appear he can’t explain why He feels her nails scratching his plaster cast & he halts cattle [...]

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#45

Chris Stanifer Finistere The sky cracked open three hours ago, rivulets of silver and black screeching down the pane like diamonds on glass, melting the world beyond my room into Dali forgery. I remember walking past your house in a torrential downpour, soaked to the bone and frozen in thin cotton t-shirt, skirting the halo [...]

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Greg Oguss on Pop Culture ON FILM CRITICS AND OTHER USELESS THINGS What I like about the vast majority of film critics is how little they know about making movies. Here are a few examples of what I’m talking about. There are actually two scripts that every film crew works off of during production. One [...]

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