When I was eighteen, fresh out of high school in 1994, I got a job working at a full-service gas station and automotive shop. Overall, it was a great job for a young man and the lessons I learned there (up to, and including, how to potentially get away with murder) have generally served me … Continue reading Marley’s Discovery of Imagination
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Explaining Hip Hop to White People
I came to enjoy hip hop rather late. Before I did, I admit I had all the typical complaints I tend to hear from white people about it. So I can certainly understand why many people can't get into it. As with any art form, it all comes down to a matter of taste. I … Continue reading Explaining Hip Hop to White People
Character
Character is what you crave because authenticity is what you lack. Character can only be developed through the slow grind of real life; being put to the test and succeeding or failing on one’s own merits. It is not to be found in sterile confines of a safe shoebox life. It is bodily fluids on … Continue reading Character
Body Rapping With Aiden
When I was about eight or nine years old I befriended Aiden, a small kid a year younger than me who lived nearby. Aiden was an only child with a single mom, and I guess he had things pretty rough. His mom was always working, so Aiden was by himself a lot. However, the big … Continue reading Body Rapping With Aiden
Cunt
Back in the day, I worked as a pump jockey in a 24 hour full-service gas station. I worked with a pair of brothers who lived together for years in an odd and vaguely incestuous way. I became pretty close friends with the younger of the two, Travis. Eventually, the elder of the two, Marley, … Continue reading Cunt
Natural
Baby birds fall out of their nests to be devoured alive by ants. Wildfires vital to forests' health burn up all the critters, cute or not. Look at nature, really see it and what it does, and realize there is nothing in the universe that entitles you to anything beyond sure death. Many think that … Continue reading Natural
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People Who Make Hyperbolical Attacks Should Be Shot
When hyperbolical postures are taken, liberties are sure to follow. Meat is murder, is it? An animal's soul is the equivalent of a human's, you say? If I look perturbed at this point it is only because it odd to me that you could believe those things, and tell me so over a lunch where … Continue reading People Who Make Hyperbolical Attacks Should Be Shot
Hedda and Lance: a Love Story – part six
by Balls Malone contents read part five The location for the swimsuit edition shoot was truly lovely. Hedda had always been useless at place names, so she had no clue what any of it was called, but she was very taken with it.The place was secluded; hundreds of kilometers up the coast, where the sandy … Continue reading Hedda and Lance: a Love Story – part six
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