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Writing the Present
Mayonnaise, wonderbread and Small Town Drug scenes
….Hunter S Thompson would say things like “I have consulted my attorney, and she recommends that all names and places are redacted (huge ink splotch) and any resemblance to anyone living or dead, or similarity to situations involving the aforementioned living or dead is pure unadulterated coincidence, and the following is a work of fiction […]
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Living Inside
I have lived back inside for six months now. Five years on the road in campers and tents with no inside showers or bathrooms, and now six months of showers whenever I want them, and the walk to the bathroom being across carpet not down trails. I had previously been homeless on a few occasions […]
MoreThe Cooking Conundrum
I have to hide my rice cooker. In it I make illicit sweet potatoes. Illegal cassava pasta. Verboten brown rice and forbidden tofu scrambles. We are not allowed hotplates or rice cookers, kettles or other instruments of nutrition. When I explain I have celiac disease and get so very sick with minor cross contamination, and […]
MoreBig Thief Stealing the Show
Lenker is violently vulnerable as she ever was. I can’t tell you how much I love this band. The pandemic clipped their touring wings, and as much we have been left waiting for life to come around again, they seem to have been desperate to get back to stealing the show once more. The drummer, […]
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