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Chapters Four through Six by Bill Berry
"It was only the first time she'd ever smoked pot, and it was only the first time she'd run away from home. She didn't stay in her room this week and not go anywhere because her parents caught her stealing five dollars from her sister's piggy bank. She told them to fuck off because that's what punks do. All of these people told their parents to fuck off a hundred times, at least. This was only her first."
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scarecrows
by J. A. Tyler
"He rides a bike. It is yellow. And the sun is yellow. And the grass is green and the house is white and the tulips are red and his face is mindless."
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Three Poems by john e
"it's okay
having three green legs and
having to crawl.
that guy over there
has it worser."
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Disaster Statism: A Review of Naomi Klein's Book The Shock Doctrine
by Hogeye Bill
"Klein makes a big deal out of Milton Friedman's assertion that reforms are best made during crises. This is puzzling, since virtually every reformer/revolutionary, from Tom Paine to Margaret Sanger to Karl Marx, has said the same thing—that you need to strike while the iron is hot. Klein tries to construe the crisis can be opportunity idea as unique to Friedman and evidence of evil intent. It is neither."
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Economics - Psychology's Neglected Branch
by Sam Vaknin
"Economics—to the great dismay of economists—is merely a branch of psychology. It deals with individual behaviour and with mass behaviour. Many of its practitioners sought to disguise its nature as a social science by applying complex mathematics where common sense and direct experimentation would have yielded far better results."
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Nine Collages by Randel Plowman
Randel Plowman is a mixed-media artist living and working in Northern Kentucky. He has a B.F.A. in printmaking from Northern Kentucky University. His work is in many public and private collections both nationally and internationally. His latest project consist of creating and posting a small collage daily to his blog.
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ALSO IN VISUAL ART: Eight Paintings by Randy Thurman
Three Songs by Al's Place Bluegrass Band
So Al's Place is not a hardcore bluegrass band. More of a coastal, easy, harmonic approach which leads me to a big but: all these folks have hard-ass jobs. I tell you, Al's Place is a giant slice of Americana. The way I found them is by hearing some thumping bass every Friday evening while I was trying to put my daughter to sleep. After she was asleep I could go out to my carport for a cig and hear the songs being played. I heard tunes by Johnny Cash, Bill Monroe, Hank Williams, etc.
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Maybe
by Cecelia Chapman
Featuring music and art by Jeff Crouch and music by Grat Bodkin, Maybe aims to examine our modes of perception in less than a minute.
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Tatterdemalion
Gabriel Ricard Reviews the Book and Interviews the Author, Ray Succre
"I always start blank, in the sense that I don't begin with an outline. I let that take form in the early portions of the book. Like all of my writing, I started mingling a few ideas to see what would happen. Things happened. By the third chapter, I had the book outlined in my head. After the initial draft, I went back and rewrote the beginning. I have a similar process with poetry, which I write from the inside out, never from beginning to end."
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Acts of Faith
by T. S. Ross, September 2004
"The polls say that 50%+ would vote for #43 for four more years, which makes me think the election is indeed already stolen, and the press is in bed with, excuse me, "embedded" with the President. Despite thinking this, I managed to think this was a worthwhile witness to make, even if I was my own most important witness. But what was I witnessing to, aside from my own need to have people to stand beside me?"
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