Questions

I drove out to my favorite local formerly Confederate sympathizing town last weekend, and sat on a plastic chair in the corner and took notes. There was a lovely lecture being given on a vegetarian settlement in Kansas. The settlement, like many utopian communities, lasted about fifteen minutes, but a lot of other history of […]

In Event of Moon Disaster

Fate has ordained that the men who went to the moon to explore in peace will stay on the moon to rest in peace. These brave men…know that there is no hope for their recovery. But they also know that there is hope for mankind in their sacrifice….they will be mourned by a Mother Earth […]

Big Fish Eat Little Fish

It “is always ‘symbolic,’ even when it is ‘real’.” -Marshall Sahlins, “The Ethnography of Cannibalism” “We’ll eat you up– we love you so!” -Wild Things to Max, Where the Wild Things Are I’m almost done with Typee, Melville’s… hmm… dumbest novel. I think Typee is the novel I could write. I mean I could write […]

Lecompton

The town died as soon as its industry left. They abandoned a Catholic church, half built. All the Catholics left. People who stayed took their heritage seriously, preserving a Victorian-era wreath made of human hair of the dead, clocks brought from the old country, and the yokes their oxen wore. Today it has a population […]