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Murder Ballads, in honor of Valentine’s Day

Posted on September 8, 2020 by Firstname Lastname

We love a dead lady, so long as she’s young and pretty. Continue reading →

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Brat Albert

Posted on June 17, 2013 by Firstname Lastname

Albert Chmielowski, also known as Brat Albert, is a modern saint who lived in Poland working for the good of the poor. He was orphaned young, and as a teenager, he fought in the Polish uprising of 1863 against the … Continue reading →

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Oscar Wilde in the Face of Uncertainty

Posted on December 11, 2012 by Firstname Lastname

Oscar Wilde in the Face of Uncertainty The Victorian Era experienced a “great crisis of faith,” which was exemplified by Cardinal Newman’s conversion to Catholicism in the face of great anti-Catholic fervor on part of the Evangelical movement, (Damrosch, 574), … Continue reading →

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Easy Water

Posted on November 24, 2011 by Firstname Lastname

http://www.npr.org/templates/event/embeddedVideo.php?storyId=142576903 By Caveman. Can I even tell you how stoked I am about a real-live MUSIC VIDEO? Beavis and Butthead are back, now maybe music videos, too? It’s glorious, seriously, I want this to play in my head every morning … Continue reading →

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Sugar Cane

Posted on August 25, 2011 by Firstname Lastname

After leaving the nuns at the orphanage, I spent several months on a Brazilian sugarcane plantation. The owner took me as a lover, and every evening we toured his vast demesne. A freight train arrived nightly, pulling miles of empty … Continue reading →

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Conchita Citron

Posted on May 12, 2011 by Firstname Lastname

Chilean Torera, female bullfighter.

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Le Butcherettes

Posted on April 21, 2011 by Firstname Lastname

I’m having a high school flashback to a song I’ve never heard before!!!

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Have you guys seen this?

Posted on August 26, 2009 by Firstname Lastname

Lifted from my new favorite website, “Tiny Ghosts”. Somebody clicked on my page looking for it and I was intrigued. It seems that the whole of the site has very generously been turned over to the public domain by the … Continue reading →

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Reykjavik

Posted on July 19, 2009 by Firstname Lastname
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We’re Famous!

Posted on May 28, 2009 by Firstname Lastname

A few posts back, I posted my friend Brett’s poem, “Spooky”.  It’s a sort of retelling of a night we hung out while we were getting to know one another. I think it was summer, which might explain some of my … Continue reading →

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