May 2012
6 posts
Sunday May 27, 2012:
It is the hour when the afternoon turns on its heels towards night, and a darker hue transposes itself upon the almost impossible blue of the sky. I am on my porch, sweating a little, opening the collar of my work shirt as the far off shouts of children, the quiet hush of traffic, and the chortle of a lawnmower disappear into their own memory. I am lighting a cigarette; the...
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STRIP CLUBS, TAMPA
By Ken Meisel, 2006
Everyone has a story, even the woman dancing here in front of me fully undressed, and waving herself like a palm tree in front of my face at a strip club in Tampa, way back in 1983 while the music thundered through the booths like a flood. Can you believe it? So I asked her to quit the lap dance, and not to do anything else, but simply to tell...
April 2012
4 posts
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March 2012
7 posts
I have a podcast
Or at least one episode of a podcast, it’s about me trying to be better about connecting with people. You can check out the first episode on my other blog:
http://loserpod.tumblr.com
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I am working on a long form prose piece about...
A few days after graduating from college I packed my belongings into a two door Hyundai and moved from my Bushwick loft back to my parents house in Portland, Maine. Multiple news sources assured me that college grads moving back in with their parents was the new statistical norm; a fact that offered little comfort since I was the only person I knew in such a position. As my high school friends...
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February 2012
2 posts
January 2012
9 posts
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December 2011
8 posts
Happy Birthday Santa!
WatchChristopher Hitchens, 1949 - 2011
Whether or not you agreed with him - you cannot deny that he was the most badass of intellectuals. I would say rest in peace, but Christopher Hitchens isn’t resting, he’s just dead.
November 2011
13 posts
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It makes me wonder why I’m leaving you...
