Poems
Good Night Old Year
Nothing’s eternal, except eternity itself. Goodbye old friends, I wish you were here. Gone to your rest, but I don’t envy you. Memory is sorrow; I want to see you again. Your eyes filled with […]
Year: 2012
comedy
Merry Christmas from the National Rifle Association
ANNOUNCER: We interrupt this Christmas to bring you an important message from the National Rifle Association. Let’s go straight to the press conference at the NRA’s headquarters… COLONEL MUSTARD KEENE, PRESIDENT, NRA: Hello. I’m Colonel […]
Essays & Opinion
When Paid Media is Not Professional
It is a truism that the world is run by elites. The very nature of power and wealth means that it is coveted most by those who are prepared to act most selfishly. As such, […]
Poems
Two is Too Many
As the calendar catapults us And we contemplate the new new year’s resolutions that propose to make us into version 2.0 of what we are Version new Version something else Version improved They escalate The […]
Poems
Locating Disgust
You ask me what I think? Then I’ll tell you what I think. It’s them in charge what’s all to blame. They each one bloody stink. Have you seen the papers? And the awful things […]
comedy
10 Bond Secrets We Will Never Know
Thanks to Skyfall, the new Bond film directed by Sam Mendes, we know more about James Bonds’ back story than ever before. We know he used to live in a big drafty house in Scotland […]
Stories & Skits
Escaping Sha’tar
“You overstay.” In one sense, she was right. I had overstayed. Anyone taking the lengthy bus ride from their plane to the arrivals terminal has already stayed too long in Sha’tar. Three years ago, when […]
Poems
The Two Who Strove
(a poem about the US Presidential election, with a humble nod to e e cummings) anyone lived in a pretty big country (where the people were one, as no-one would agree) winter spring summer and […]
Star Wars Parallel Universe
Parallel Return of the Jedi: Swamp Gas
A few decades ago, a man sat in his office and realized that film-making was a hard way to make money. If he made a really popular film, then many people would pay for their […]
comedy
MaV-Eric Reveals the Source of All Stuff
2012 has been an annus horribilis around chez nous. Unable to secure a grant for any of my research projects, and harangued by my wine merchant over the subject of unpaid bills, I was forced […]