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#178  [archive]

Naked (1993) Naked is
about an unemployed but over-educated smartass named Johnny. He talks a
lot, makes acerbic wisecracks, and treats women kinda shitty. … [read more]

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#177  [archive]
Who Killed Captain Alex? (2010) Streaming free on YouTube
This was made by an English-speaking Ugandan man named Nabwana I G G, with help from friends in their village of Wakaliga. … [read more]

With my chair tilted back
        and the cat in my lap,
I thought I might take
        a long afternoon nap,When out from the kitchen
        there arose such a clatter,
I slipped into my shorts
        to see what was the matter. … [read more]

Getting old means seeing death, and I’m old, with more friends dead than alive. The only way to get past each death is to keep doing whatever you do, and this is what I do — post my life for an audience of several, now reduced by one. … [read more]

Joe Gallo was a friend of mine, and I don’t have many. In the 1990’s he wrote a zine called Gulp Life, in which he chronicled his lousy job at a 7-Eleven, and every other aspect of being a fat misfit. … [read more]

My writing is usually longwinded, but believe it or not, some of it gets edited out. When I gave my car to Habitat for Humanity, for example, I didn’t mention that Habitat was actually my second choice. … [read more]

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#357  [archive]It’s obvious, ain’t it? Every thing Republicans do and stand for is about furthering cruelty.Even when the headlines are so ridiculous they’re kinda funny (see below), the backstory behind the news is always about making someone’s life worse — the gays and trans, women, the blacks, the poor, the victims, some individual who’s offended someone, or anyone who’s not rich, white, and male. … [read more]

You’ve always been on your own at the Burien Transit Center. A dozen bus routes converge there, and a few benches have been provided, and there’s a tall parking garage for commuters, and that’s it. … [read more]

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#176  [archive]American Revolution 2 (1969)This was filmed during and after the Chicago police riots of 1968, often oddly called “the tumultuous Democratic Party convention” or some such false wordplay. … [read more]