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Juan Carlos hits the switch

Juan Carlos saw the Greek girl sitting in the window. She was happy and animated. She might have been in love with his best friend, with teh best man he’d ever known.
It didn’t matter.
Once he grabbed the rifle and saw her in the scope she was dead. Juan Carlos was not that love that made [...]

Greedy priests

I grew up Catholic. Went to Catholic school K thru 12. Had Franciscan bro’s teach me important lessons in high school.
I had my share of sacremental wine after having a crappy cracker jammed into my mouth by a priest who only minutes previous had his fingers up an alter boy’s ass.
Thusly, I know pain and [...]

No trespassing you bastard

That picture was of an empty lot, nothing but gravel and three steps to nowhere. It did have that snazzy sign though and that’s more than most ugly desolate empty lots.

Nothing so lonely as beauty unshared

Lightening flashes, red from distance, red from dust. It’s night and I’m driving home after a 14 hour day, a long day. It flashes 15 maybe 20 miles away, the storm flying off to inundate some other desert land, but not here.
Cars zip past my truck, desperate to get home to their beautiful expensive houses [...]

Consider the muffin

The Muffin Man sits at a butcher block table in a restaurant kitchen. It is clean and orderly. All items in their place, it is well stocked, a few dirty bowls and a scattering of flour on the counters show that something has recently been made.
The Muffin Man is dressed with little care. Kind of [...]

What is love?

Another quote because I’m feeling a little compressed lately…
“Love would not be love unless it could carry one to a crime.”
from a quote in a footnote in The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James
Using that guide I may never have been in love. Although, it should be noted, at this time last year, I [...]

Beautiful and poetic

Hal Hartley’s movies are beautiful and poetic and if I ever managed to do anything half as good my brain would explode from self-satisfaction.
I love the oddness of the cadence of the dialogue, the combination of perfectly natural and completely unnatural acting in the same scene, and mostly the combination of humor and melancholy often [...]

What is comedy?

“Tragedy is the shattering of the forms and our attachment to the forms; comedy,
the wild and careless inexhaustible joy of life invincible.”
— The Hero with a Thousand Faces, Joseph Campbell, p. 28

“Tragedy is if I cut my finger. I’ll scream and I’ll cry and I’ll run around and I’ll go to Mt. Sinai for a [...]

Juan Carlos sees his future

Juan Carlos Boyatorov watched from a chair outside his tent in the jungle. He watched the Muffin Man cook for a gang of killers and madmen who had slaughtered women and babies hours ago.
He’d never seen anyone so joyous in a moment, so happy with a necessity of life, so exuberant in creation.
Juan Carlos pondered [...]