Month: August 2016

Mr. Bronco

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly -
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INT.  CLEANROOM - DAY  A transsexual Asian woman sits alone at a table in an electronics cleanroom.  The room is a Faraday cage.  A room specifically designed to prevent electromagnetic interference.  No radio.  No signal.  No wifi.  There is an analog telephone on the table, which begins ringing.  The woman answers it

Beauty, Longing, and a Hammock: My trip to Rio, the Land of The Asses

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Rio de Janeiro is one of the most beautiful cities I have ever been lucky enough to visit.  Check that.  The locale is the most beautiful place in the world in which to place a city.  As my plane was landing oh so many years ago, all I could think

CrimeBeat!: Take the Cannoli Edition

The Right Reverend Electric Mayhem -
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Well boys and girls, we made it. Training camps are all now officially "going on". Peter King is probably on some back road in Iowa between Mankato and Missouri Western State University, glorying in the soybean fields and meth shacks that he considers "Real America" and (God willing) getting crippling

Conflicted Feelings About Confusing Shit

jjfozz -
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Christmas is almost here. And I don’t mean that fucking bullshit holiday where I spent a million dollars on gifts and hear my kids say, “Is that all?” on a Christmas morning that is witness to a thudding headache and dry mouth – because the holiday season calls for bourble. Nope,

Commentist Beer Barrel: Cocktail Hour

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If there's any one trend in beer that I've been especially hesitant to adopt, it's the beer cocktail. When I want a beer, I just want a beer, not two or more beers mixed together. I want to drink the thing that a brewery carefully crafted, put its heart ans soul