You are curious! There is no other reason that you are reading this; an inquisitiveness of the mind and spirit has brought you here. And you are blessed! For curiosity is a wonderful thing. Not too much curiousity, of course. One should always recognize the limits of curiosity. As the …
It is the most infamous segment of time in American political history. It is the eighteen-and-a-half-minute gap left on the Watergate tapes, the result of an attempted erasure of the material by then-President Richard Nixon himself. For over 40 years, historians, conspiracists, and Nixon’s friends and foes alike have puzzled …
FREAKS, FAGGOTS, DRUNKS & JUNKIES: a musical fantasy based upon the songs of GG Allin Act 1 Flashback: Lancaster, N.H., 1975. A young Kevin Allin is celebrating his 18th birthday and his parents, a pair of well-off New Englanders, present him with a gift he’s dreamed of since his freshman …
Author’s Note: In 2008, just before the presidential elections, I took a trip (funded in part by a group of troublemaking liberals) to CPAC, the Conservative Political Action Conference, in Washington, DC. My goal was to take massive quantities of drugs and write about my experiences in the belly of …
BRAHMA: Come on, guys, let’s get a move on here. I want to get home before the next Maha Yuga. VISHNU: I need a drink. SHIVA: You need six drinks. Maybe then you’ll pass out. V: Eat it. B: Seriously. Let’s just figure this out, it shouldn’t be taking this …
“Stop tormenting me, you ridiculous contraption!” WHAT IS THE MATTER WILLIAM-WORDSWORTH CANT YOU THINK OF ANYTHING “You know deuced well that I cannot concentrate on my art with your infernal chattering.” OH SO ITS MY FAULT IS IT WILLIAM-WORDSWORTH YES THAT MUST BE IT AND NOT AT ALL THAT YOU …
The Bongiorno Jimmy’s story begins all the way back in September of 1991. It was then that six men, their attorneys, a $4,600,000 startup investment, several bank loans, and an IPO scheme decided that there were a lot of institutional-grade convenience dining establishments, but there weren’t enough institutional-grade convenience dining …
First day at the new school or should I say it in capitals, the New School is what they call it. Plenty of other Irishmen here in New York but does it feel like home? Ballocks it does. Only one place will ever be home and it weren’t Paris and …
“Sir?” “What is it, Nixon? I’ve got things to do. This place doesn’t run itself.” “Well, I was wondering…” “And what are you doing in the Palace of Sin? According to my Palm Pilot, you’re supposed to be having your blood replaced by napalm right now, followed by a full-body …
An average-looking young white guy in his mid-20s rolls out of bed in a meager apartment. He brushes his teeth, puts on deodorant, and so on. Eventually, he sits down, picks up a phone, and dials a number, holding some paperwork in his other hand. “Hi, this is Tim Patrick. …
1. JERRY FAN: I love pies 2. JACKY FAN: I also love pies 3. (both eat pies with little enthusiasm) 4. JERRY FAN: This pie would make a good cake *** 1. JERRY FAN: Did you hear Bill’s Bakery fired Baker Bob 2. JACKY FAN: But Baker Bob baked all …
Slavery, it has been properly observed, is America’s original sin. It is our first and foremost crime, the most adjacent cause of our civil war, and the source of the racial poison that continues to choke us today. It is, if this can be said in a way that does …
DUNGEON MASTER RICHIE – Who’s on point? KEVIN – Hillyard. HILLYARD – The hell I am! BENNY – You are, Hilly. You agreed to run point for me when I sold you my +2 short sword back in East Wind Dell. H – Fuck. DM – Okay. K – What was that …
Stand down, oppressors! Your days of dominance are finished; your time of reckoning is at hand! You have stood on our necks for too long. You have excluded us from many of the finest professions; you have prevented us from becoming educated; you have made us second- and third-class citizens …
Hetty Green was one of the first women to make a killing in stocks. The heir to a considerable whaling fortune, the dour and grim New England Quaker increased her net worth more than tenfold with canny investments in everything from real estate to railroads to war bonds, and when …
