Monthly Archives: October 2010

Sebastian Horsley: Patron Saint of Gutter Decadence

“Let us pay with our bodies for our soul’s desire.” Theodore Roosevelt As with the sordid-beyond-words/odors person of diarhetic shock punk rocker GG Allin, Sebastian Horsley was another mess of flesh and bone and soul, poetry, blasphemy, drug abuse, and … Continue reading

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The Importance of Being Earnest–ly Honest about Blogging

This clip from the late David Foster Wallace ties into my evolving thoughts about blogging. (Of course, it does, or else I would not have posted it.) Wallace comments that with the exception a shrinking few who have been taught … Continue reading

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Hokey in Hawai’i

I type this with the familial respect that, in all honesty, only distance can produce. Anyway, not that Hawai’ian sovereigntist and all-around sweet ukulele player Israel Kamakawiwo’ole—Bruddah IZ to us—was family, but since my dad is from Hawai’i, all the … Continue reading

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Man Is Born to Blog

“…I have discovered that all the unhappiness of men arises from one single fact, that they cannot stay quietly in their own chamber.” ~ Pascal “Only degenerates go touring.” ~ Ignatius J. Reilly “When [the Lord] aims for something to … Continue reading

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