Horrorshow
Conspiracy Goes Mainstream: CNBC’s Big Brother, Big Business
[November 30, 2007]Food Fight
[November 29, 2007]An abridged history of American-centric warfare, from WWII to present day, told through the foods of the countries in conflict.
Holy Land
[February 23, 2007]Israel and Palestine, December 2006 through February 2007 And did those feet in ancient time Walk upon England’s mountains green? And was the holy Lamb of God On England’s pleasant pastures seen? And did the Countenance Divine Shine forth upon our clouded hills? And was Jerusalem builded here Among these dark Satanic mills? Bring me my [...]
Cadillac Ranch
[November 23, 2006]Mexican radio stations join the dial now in a major way. I’m getting closer to California, thank god. I get hungry again and what the fuck do you do when you are hungry in Texas? Eat a gigantic fucking steak. I pull off in Amarillo at the Big Texas Steakhouse and attempt to do myself [...]
Train Station
[November 7, 2006]Burned out train station in Gary Indiana, November 7, 2006 Harold: Gary, Indiana! What a wonderful name, Named for Elbert Gary of judiciary fame. Gary, Indiana, as a Shakespeare would say, Trips along softly on the tongue this way– Gary, Indiana, Gary Indiana, Gary, Indiana, Let me say it once again. Gary, Indiana, Gary, Indiana, [...]
Madhouse
[October 3, 2006]The helo came in and we got resupplied recently and man did we need it. It seemed like I’ve been living off cans of tunafish and beans for the last week now. Don’t even have an opener and my leatherman got punked so I’ve been forced to use a fucking wrench. Fuck it… I’d use [...]
Improvised Explosive Device
[September 28, 2006]I came across this little pamphlet the other day for communicating the location of IEDs with Iraqis w/o speaking a word of Arabic. You come across these strange things in places like this.. the best stuff comes from the psyops or maybe the civil affairs guys, they have the most funny and bizarre schoolbooks and [...]
Subway
[August 23, 2006]Deep within the steaming underground – beneath Los Angeles in August 2006 Down between the walls of shadow Where the iron laws insist, The hunger voices mock. The worn wayfaring men With the hunched and humble shoulders, Throw their laughter into toil. Subway – Carl Sandburg
Coal Miner’s Daughter
[March 23, 2006]Philipi, West Virginia, February and March 2006 I was a coal miner’s daughter, I lived in an old coal mining town. When I’d wake up in the morning and hear the whistle blow, my daddy would grab his dinner can and off to work he’d go. He’d work hard all day and it weren’t no [...]
Overpass
[February 16, 2005]So I guess you can’t even go 2 or 3 weeks around here without someone complaining about something. Aside from all the bullshit of getting my taxes figured out and getting a mortgage set up and talking to realtors and buying a god-damned condo I am not given any slack even on the maintenance of this [...]
