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vanity of the big-headed cubus
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All this talk of new media, and instead I give you a poem.

Investment Advice

I think, given the detrimental state of it all,
that our salvation, as a people and species, lies in the
restorative power of skimmed milk.
We all know that water will fail us—
it is, after all, susceptible to the whims
of braggarts and scallywags, tarred and [...]

06/27/2006
Why is the sky blue?
–I’ve been wondering…

There’s a great scientific answer available if you do the google thing. Otherwise, I’ll venture that the sky is blue because the cockroaches that secretly rule the earth told it to be blue. And it was good.

06/26/2006
I gave my number to a girl I met on Saturday night. I [...]

06/08/2006
“Quetzalcoatl”… The Book of Mormon

“The Book of Mormon”…Red Lobster

Why Doesn’t Ask Adri enable commenting on questions and answers?
–Bursting with Comments

Well, the main reason Ask Adri doesn’t do that is because Adri doesn’t know how to do that. She’s in the process of moving to Word Press or livejournal so this is possible, but in the [...]

What kind of a high do you get from absinthe? Does it hit you like a visual hallucinogen, or is it merely an altered mental state? Do you use it in your creative process?
–Mssr. La Verte

My (perfectly legal, Mr. NSA wire-tapper big brother guy!) experiences with absinthe have been pretty awesome. You drink it [...]

Who is your favorite slam poet in each of the following cities:
(a) Austin, TX
(b) New York City
(c) San Fran/Oakland
(d) L.A.
(e) Dallas
(f) Houston

So I started to actually answer this question. Like… I wrote out my answers and then I looked at them and thought about the poets I care for in every region. And honestly, I [...]