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TagEdith/Jonah
Edith
She’s been dead useful around the house – preserving fish, garnishing the margaritas. In winter, when the driveway gets licked with ice, I slip out back with a chisel and
Suspenders
Suspenders
I take rusty metal to the recycling yard. It is a staging ground for age to revert to youth. Padnos, the old Jew, stands outside the junkyard’s office door and smiles
Dread
Dread
What if I look down in the Port-o-John and there is a man under the filth, only his eyes and
forehead ribbeting like a cartoon frog in a swamp?
What if the bees keep d
Soteriology//Saturnalia
Soteriology//Saturnalia
“Art & religion, carnivals & saturnalia, dancing & listening to oratory—all these have served…as doors in the wall.” – Aldous Huxley, Doors of PerceptiHopes & Prayers Is Something You Say to Allow Yourself to Forget
Hopes & Prayers Is Something You Say to Allow Yourself to Forget
& I don’t even offer that.
Empathy weighs less than glory, holy things worth more bloodstained.
This a privile
Creation Narrative / The Last Particle
Creation Narrative
In the beginning, there was only God and all else was nothingness. God looked into the void and knew He was alone. And even God, who was infinitely knowledgea
Automatic Birds / Spontaneous Generation
Automatic Birds
We were lying on the couch together, listening to the birds sing.
“They don’t sound real,” I said. “When I listen to their voices, all I hear is synthesizers.
The Passion
Prologue
The Man Who Was Legion Testifies
I used to live over there, beyond those hills, in the catacombs, and sleep on the soft earth of fresh graves. I used to throw myself on t
Misery Movies: Episode 6 – Songs from the Second Floor
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In the latest episode of Misery Movies, the Misery Tourism crew discuss the Swedish surrealist black comedy Songs from the Second Floor. As always, the first half of the podcast is
Misery Movies: Episode 2 – The Redemption of General Butt Naked
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In the second episode of Misery Movies, we discuss The Redemption of General Butt Naked, a documentary about one man’s journey from Liberian warlord to Evangelical preacher. As wi