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It was late, early spring, night time, nothing doing. I looked at some porn, found some funny internet videos, stayed up. I picked out this one with a cop and some chick who was trying to get out of being arrested. When she started going down on the ...
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For me Los Angeles epitomizes the homeless problem because of the close juxtaposition of the haves and the have-nots. In LA beauty and tragedy are right in your face. You go downtown and here are these magnificent buildings, shimme...
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Donald O'DonovanMittensMy sister Erin had a cat, a fluffy orange tabby with white front paws—little Mittens. Mittens didn’t amount to much but Erin was crazy about her. But my father hated that cat. He said she was a thorn in his side, wh...
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NIGHT TRAIN by Donald O'Donovanreviewed by Eric ChaetHow would you like to read a novel that scares the hell out you, then fills you with hope? It's about a man who lives on the streets of Los Angeles, taking dozens of low-level and dead-end jo...
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A Pleasant Show of EnthusiasmbyDonald O’Donovanfrom Orgasmo I got a call from Starz, Milton LaStarza, a cinematographer on the skids. Or at least that’s how I remembered him. We’d both been poor in Paris, but life&...
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I am the dead potter living onin the half-hearts of niggardly Man,slowly floating through the high death,through roughly spackled cosmic drifts,burning toward the center of the sun,Icaric without wing nor form.I am the royal high dead, flushlypicked ...
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from Night Train, by Donald O'Donovan, available at Amazon Kindle“Something’s rotten in Denmark,” Big Bluto announced at the company meeting today. At first I thought he was talking about the ten cases of Dr. Sharpe’s Shakti T...
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I had Giddi in my arms, draped over me. We were covered in sweat and I'm pounding into her. She's making these soft little noises in my ear and I've got a pool vac crushed up against my back. The noises become more urgent, you know like she's going...
DID and the Deconstruction of the...
The American Dream is one that is unattainable and yet idealized in capitalist American society as something that will, inevitably, lead to happiness. The American Dream is a concept that encompasses a number of priorities crucially important for...
DID and the Deconstruction of the...
The American Dream is one that is unattainable and yet idealized in capitalist American society as something that will, inevitably, lead to happiness. The American Dream is a concept that encompasses a number of priorities crucially important for...
The Novel: Fight Club as a Religi...
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Word to the the people of the world It’s in our water, as a loving Father (Or Bodhisattva) comes down to us From the skies, formed of his designs, By gravity of grace, here to remind Unblind, and hydrate all that has dried Into a realit...
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In Chuck Palahniuk’s novel Fight Club, the religious imagery present in the text relates to the practices of extremist Islam rather than those of Christianity. Fight Club portrays instances of group expansion via social connections...
Issues of Gender Identity and the...
Chuck Palahniuk’s novel Fight Club addresses issues of gender identity through the portrayal of the unnamed narrator and protagonist who struggles with the ability to reclaim his masculinity in a world overrun by consumerism and capitalism, a...
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What is there to say for rub- bing the end of your prick till you hear the sound of the next room and you are trying to get your semi e- rect dick e- rect and not listen to some one o- pening the fridge f...
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My window is the matte of night sky, the top of trees in its edge. A speck of light glides across. ...
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I've noticed lately, on warmer weekend afternoons in Five Points, some pick up drum circles on Welton St. and it brings a smile to my face every time I hear them. The other day, on my way to the store to pick up a jar of sweet relish (I like it in my...
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ThunderbirdThunderbird is the iconic American fortified wine. Walk down any major skid row in America—Fifth Street in LA, Mission Street in Frisco, West Madison in Chicago—and shout out, “What’s the word?” And from behin...
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Silent brutal beauty, spin brothers and sisters; infinite twins of the sky with the same cold fiber between their frozen spines, and wet legs. Unique fingerprints, snowflake finger tips. Clouds and bitter cold are the most creative of nature...
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I Live Under Your Wallpaper by Donald O’Donovan from Night Train (published by Open Books, available at Amazon Kindle) My quality woman, Corliss...that was her name, Corliss. Papageorgopoulou was right. She wasn’t young. Her hands were f...
On the Light Rail with His Holine...
"I think that there has been a change in my attitude towards myself and others. Although it's difficult to point to the precise cause of this change, I think that it has been influenced by a realization, not full realization, but a certain feeling or...
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In desperate need of some mayonnaise, a crucial element in my kitchen, I decided to walk to the grocery store and make an afternoon of it, the weather being as nice as it was that day. My one errand complete, I walked through Five Points, turning ran...
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Pasta a la me...Bring a pot of heavily salted water to boil (more salt than you might think, a good and trustworthy cook once told me that its pretty hard to over salt pasta water). Add a fistful of pasta and when done to taste, toss straight from th...
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The recent headlines about the selling of three two beer versus full strength beer in Colorado have got me thinking. The political, economical and social ramifications of selling full or half strength beer conveniently aside, it got me thinking abo...
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"The culture of the hop, with the processes of picking, drying in the kiln, and packing for the market, as well as the uses to which it is applied, so analogous to the culture and uses of the grape, may afford a theme for future poets." ThoreauI thor...
The Adulterous Act of Baking Brea...
"It doesn't cost much. It is pleasant: one of those almost hypnotic businesses, like a dance from some ancient ceremony. It leaves you filled with peace, and the house filled with one of the world's sweetest smells. But it takes a lot of time. If you...
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Grinning with glee, the old man ushered us into his house. Aside from a table and four chairs and an old, tattered easy chair, there was another furnishing that caught my eye and held it. Against the north wall stood a gleaming white refrigerator. ...
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A few months away from officialities, I’d consider myself 30 years old. And while that may not be many years to speak of in the grand scheme, I’d consider it enough to speak of dining. I’ve dined at many places in my life (&hellip...
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