That’s me, proudly touting my presence in the new issue of Coilhouse
As for my online presence, it’s moved elsewhere. You can now find me at The Breaking Time.
Moved
A Better Way
This has been playing in my head all week. Last night it just got louder.
You should too
I voted.
Which apparently got me so excited that one side of my collar turned up.
It’s going to be a long and exciting day. The Atlantic put Buncombe on its list of swing state counties to watch. Forty seven percent of all registered voters in the county have already voted. This means we could easily see [...]
Fundamentalists pray to golden bull
Yes, those are Christian fundamentalists praying at a statue of a frickin’ giant golden bull. From the department of “Shit I couldn’t make up if I tried.”
Prayer needed for global economy:
“We are going to intercede at the site of the statue of the bull on Wall Street to ask God to begin a shift from [...]
Reasons I love Asheville, 1 and 2
Outside famous downtown hole-in-the-wall Loretta’s. There was a Wendy’s stand across the street.
Action figures at Malaprop’s. They’ve sold out of Edgar Allan Poe.
They arrest reporters, don’t they?
Democracy Now! host, producers arrested
The first video is the arrest of producer Nicole Salazar, the second of Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman, who was arrested for asking about why Salazar and producer Sharif Abdel Kouddous were arrested. Goodman, Salazar and Kouddous all had full press credentials and passes, which in theory should have allowed them [...]
Kowloon Walled City: the modern pirate utopia
My article on the lawless labyrinth that was the Kowloon Walled City is up on Coilhouse:
Sunlight comes only rarely, with a sliver slicing down between the ramshackle towers. The light here is fluorescent and the people packed sardine tight amongst twisting corridors. Some of the lower levels are widely considered uninhabitable due to trash. Up [...]
Sacrifice
In the course of researching a future column on hangover cures, I’ve just downed a Prairie Oyster. I am, to the best of my knowledge, still alive. That is all.
Yes, I get enthusiastic about flaming booze
That’s the picture of me holding a Painkiller that’s now up at the Mountain Xpress site, along with (just in cased you missed it earlier) this video:
An old story of dead ambassadors
It goes something like this:
The legendary diplomat Talleyrand was once awoken by one of his aides. “The Russian ambassador has died in his sleep!” the young man exclaimed.
Talleyrand sat up and thought for a moment.
“Hm. I wonder what his motive for doing that was.”
It’s probably apocryphal, but the lesson is one all of us writers, [...]
