Finding out what happens when one goes Beneath! The Dungeonfloor!
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“Welcome to my DEAD TALK!” said Unnormal Norman. Unnormal Norman was a skeleton man, but instead of old rags like the rest of the Skeleton Boy Bonez Brigade, he wore a Hawaiian Shirt and sun glasses. On his feet were old leather boots that had been cut into flip flops, and the letters CILCIA were […]
I will always think of you in the early spring, when the thaw is just imminent, and the dead stalks shiver and the patchy snow dotting the unfilled fields lies in its grave- Dark, windy, quiet, illuminated only by the nascent moonlight and the occasional sweep of headlights from a nearby road. A tree-line in […]
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My dad picked me up at the airport. I was very brave and flew in an airplane, all by myself. I had to leave school early, and got called out of the musical assembly in the gym. I made a snowman mitten in art class. I used Green and Yellow. I am excited to see […]
My heart hurts in a million ways as I stumble through my day. Everything is gone now: the jokes, the mirth, the myth, the will to endure even a moment more without the other half of my incredibly childish brain, my burning heart, my atomic star heart soul. Once permanently overcharged and burning in all […]
I’m not an adult, not yet. The experiment has failed. I kick the empty pizza boxes out of the way and take my one hard-backed chair from my drawing table, placing it by the big window that looks out on Winneconne. I am utterly alone. They’re gonna shut my heat off in a few months…it […]
My feet are freezing as I lope over a terrace in “the back 40”, where the powerlines grow up high and mighty, stretching their massive arms out with wire that connects us to the world at large, not that I have seen much of it lately. My army surplus boot catches a frozen dirt clod […]
I am walking on an ice covered sidewalk in a warm coat. My head is freezing because I left my hat in my locker, the Barenaked Ladies are singing about the nature of dreams as I turn the corner from Martin Avenue onto North 15th. I pass a bar and a balloon store and another […]
Punk band The Plimhock Maniacs were instrumental to bringing the burgeoning sound of punk music to their native Newfoundland Province in Canada in the late 70s. They were (and are) well loved by their contemporaries and still play off and on at the bar they own on Plimcorninghock Bay, the Ship’s Mast. In 1996 they […]
Krayne Ryder, (made up of members from Heavy Metal rockers Yoggath Cthulogath and Emo outfit Stars Like Eyes Like Stars) started out as a gag that turned into one of rheost influential Rock Albums of 2014. Sunset boasts several tracks that many Rock Fans still rave about today: Bells of Ythakon, Her of Atlantis and […]
