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“Get your ass up.”
I’m tempted to drift back to sleep.  I feel spent, wind blown out and gone away.  It’s five a.m. and I’ve got to get up.  A busy day ahead.  I’m laying there, eyes open, staring at the ceiling, exhorting myself under my breath.
“Get the fuck up.  Come on.”
And there it is.
A tug [...]

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I am crossing the intersection on my way to the post office in my borough yesterday.  I’ve got some change in my pocket, just about enough to get two stamps, in assorted dimes, a nickel, two quarters and a two pennies.  As I reach the sidewalk right in front of the super market, a homeless [...]

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First time I saw a gray, “for real,” I was in the middle of a deep meditation, at a moment in my life when I also found myself to be, willingly, though perhaps less than consciously, a gypsy’s mark.
The second (and third and fourth…) time I saw a gray happened like this.
Riding to the Japanese [...]

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Ball Bearings and Appearances
Ms. Vlado is behind me. So are the Lams. I think.
I’ve been hearing for, like months now, how you can get shrooms in Japan. They’re legal, see. To purchase. As “botanical specimens.” They’re not legal to eat, just to buy. They’re for the looking only.
It’s sort of like how [...]

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So, some folks are saying that Willy Loman, who made the original posting about the proposed legislation, S 1959, is crying wolf. They say that all S 1959 does is set up a commission to study the issue of “homegrown radicalization,” which the document seems to straight away conflate with “homegrown terrorism” and “homegrown [...]

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Disclaimer
This stream of consciousness conspiracy poetics is nothing but spoiler, so if you haven’t seen the movie a million times (or even once), you read the rest at your own peril.
One more thing: whether you choose to believe what follows is entirely up to you.
The Players
In Donnie Darko, Donnie plays our resident Christ. His story [...]

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The gods, likening themselves to all kinds of strangers, go in various disguises from city to city, observing the wrongdoing and the righteousness of men.

–Homer

That took longer than I expected. Figured I’d just get myself a little detoxifying tea at the local organic deli. In and out and then off to the A [...]

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So, lots of kids in New York public schools and elsewhere read Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God, a book much praised though I myself have not read it. However, what I have read of ol’ Zora is far more fascinating to me for what it tells us about this headstrong and amazing [...]

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I am a diver in the deep dark. Call me melancholic or of Saturnian nature, as the Renaissance would have it, but don’t call me depressive–that superficial reduction of a Reduced and Superficial Age that sees only surfaces and utility, for its power lies in the utility of manipulating surfaces to create people who [...]

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