Lost Journal: Belabored Phone Conversation is a Test of Friendship
By Tim Mollen Journal entry: May 18, 2004 (age 35) I went through my Microsoft Outlook contacts this afternoon, looking for old friends that I hadn’t caught up … Read more
Blogs
Various blogs, featuring humor, oddities, news and interesting items.
Curse of the Were-Donkey
It is often said that no one is ugly at closing time. Such evidently was the case for the Zimbabwe man who was arrested while having intimate … Read more
Justifiable Karma
In the old testament it was ‘An eye for an eye’. In Jesus’ time the message was ‘Turn the other cheek’. So what do we have in our … Read more
Another Metaphor for America
(Photo from the flooding in Bangkok found in http://twentytwowords.com/) Be seeing you.
The Unpatriotic Act: Ten Years Later
by Stephen Rohde, Truthout The USA Patriot Act became law ten years ago today. Bearing the awkward name, Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to … Read more
Lost Journal: The March of the Poorly Dressed Ringbearers
By Tim Mollen Journal entry: July 20, 1974 (age 5) I don’t get weddings. Today was my cousin Sherry’s, and it’s the first one I can remember going … Read more
A Perfect Metaphor for Modern America
(An Indian woman carrying a British merchant in a basket on her back. 1903) twentytwowords Be seeing you
Invasion of the Nazi Raccoons
Back in 1934, when Hermann Goering was head of the Reich Forestry Office, he gave a breeder permission to release a pair of American raccoons into … Read more
The Poet Who Claimed the Crown of Byzantium
His Serene Highness, Prince Robert de Rohan Courtenay 1961 in Grenwich Village. Photo by Diane Arbus. The Prince was born in Oklahoma. In the 50s and 60s he … Read more
When They Call You an Anarchist…
…You’re in good company. From wine-loving-vagabond: Anarchist Ben Reitman Uncredited and Undated Photograph “He arrived in the afternoon, an exotic, picturesque figure with a large … Read more
