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…
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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…
“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…
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…
Looking at “Pizzagate” and 9/11 from the conspiracy perspective.
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…
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.”…
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…
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…
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…
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…