Dispatches – Get Ready…
This recent conversation was overheard at the Braindead Megaphone Cafe: “I read a story about a story about Trump? That he paid some Russian to pee on him…?” “I heard…
Graham Greene, Power and the Glory
“Hate was just a failure of imagination.” (The Power and the Glory, Penguin ed. pg. 131) – only slightly more inspiring than the words of Dr. Ben Carson: “It will…
Dispatches – Save a Job, Save the World
The Braindead Megaphone Cafe has gone nationwide, so there are many new opportunities to overhear new conversations on the state of the nation and the world. The following exchange was…
Think about it, AJ
Looking at “Pizzagate” and 9/11 from the conspiracy perspective.
What’s this about political butts?
John Wyndham was correct that we are fucked as a species: the seas will rise, and plants will hunt us for food and sport. But I’ve read this sentence from…
Don Quixote – 341 years into the future
Cervantes had Trump figured out over 300 years before that dofus was born: “[T]he man who never intends to pay isn’t worried about any problems when he strikes his bargain.”…
Dispatches – Picking on VW
This particular discussion, overheard at the Braindead Megaphone Cafe between two males, inadvertently veered into insightful observations on a current event and its implications for modern society: “You hear it’s…
Dispatches – What Pootin Wants
We live in interesting political times, if interesting can be a euphemism for society weighed down by populations living in opaque bubbles, blind to their own braindead expositions: “These pretzels…
Should have seen Drumpf coming
Infinite Jest has many layers of awesomeness, tough in places but always worth the price of admission, which requires true commitment given its 1,000+ pages and 300+ endnotes. Among its…
Something New
The short story “The Crook of a Tree” was done a few years back and first made “publicly available” as part of the compilation “Stories from Austin: A Collection of…