Skinny Lenny is now 2 1/2 years old. He’s the 3rd cat we’ve had here on the Ridge and has somehow lasted longer than both of his predecessors. Dusty Sprinkles and Everest Lord didn’t last a year. They both lingered too close to where the forest meets the field. The forest has a way of…
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Review of Cavedweller – The Best Version of Gloria Ever There Was I spent a few hours driving today so flipped through Apple music trying to find something to listen to. (Don’t bother with the new Ringo Starr album). I was happy to discover Cavedweller finally landed on a streaming site that I have a…
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Spock, Diogenes, and It by Charles Potts Spock, Diogenes, and ItLeonard Nimoy rallies forSenator George McGovernPocatello, Idaho, 1972. I’m carrying a kerosene lanternTo ask my question how aboutGI Bill benefits for Draft Dodgers? Nimoy demurredNot politically feasibleMcGovern, A decorated pilot veteran of World War IIWas crushed by Nixon’s smarmy patriotism. Are we left to believeNixon’s…
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Tom texted me a photo of him and his son next to a dead wild boar. It was big and black with blood coming out of its mouth. Tom and his son were standing stoically with assault rifles across their chests. Under the photo he wrote, “Do you have a hanging scale?” I replied, “Yes”….
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Album release date – Nov. 1993 Label – MCA Nashville 10 tracks, 31 minutes. In an attempt to break the radio silence Jones had been experiencing MCA employed Buddy Cannon (who had just signed and produced both Billy Ray Cyrus and Shania Twain’s debut hit albums) to produce George Jones’ latest in hopes of appealing…
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O RANGE Crush by Josh B. flutter through the handsome rule of the isles of tamari weaken your strength hear the whisper of the birds while the wind chimes sing under the night of the first moon shh are you lit? why are you? Please sit in the fire your cell is being prepared with…
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Travis Catsull co-founded the print and online poetry publication, Haggard & Halloo in 1995. He was the poetry editor for The Temple Poetry Journal and Arthur Magazine until their closing. A collection of his poetry, “Death of an Image”, was published in 2010. A book of collages titled, “The Heaven Antenna” was also published that…
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