Monthly Archives: February 2012

Barack Obama's Stoning of Medical Marijuana

In an early episode of the Coincidence Control Network podcast, co-host Joseph Matheny and I commented on federal threats to crackdown on California’s medical marijuana dispensaries. As this new article in Rolling Stone points out, this is the kind of arrest-the-sick policy we’d grown to expect from George W. Bush, but which we never dreamed [...]

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The Devil and Ken Russell

A flamboyant director whose early career as a pioneering creator of television programming foreshadowed a controversial foray into feature films, Ken Russell died last November at the age of 84. Russell had a penchant for taking sexual and religious themes head-on and he courted controversy with every film. His over-the-top production style was declared pretentious [...]

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Coincidence Control Network, Episode the 13th

If you haven’t been listening to Computer Control Network, you’ve got some catching up to do. Coincidence Control Network (CCN) features Joseph Matheny, Kim Monaghan, Ken Eakins and your’s truly in a weekly round-table chat about the current state of the counterculture. Our 13th episode just hit the podsphere. This time around we discuss: Sasquatch [...]

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The Way of the Intercepting Myth

Hey y’all, Bruce Lee was a hero of mine when I was a kid and as I’ve gotten older the man has continued to interest and inspire me. He’s always been an icon of the martial arts and in my own training in tae kwon do, boxing and kung fu, Bruce’s influence was always present. [...]

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New Phone Books You'll Actually Read

What up, peeps? Telephone booths are obsolete and ubiquitous. While I think it’s a good idea to have land lines I can operate with a quarter sprinkled throughout urban environments, few people agree. What if my phone dies? What if it was stolen? What if I couldn’t afford a cell phone? In many towns and [...]

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Joy Division – Lost and Found

Hey Peeps, Just recorded Episode the 13th for Coincidence Control Network today! If you haven’t followed the podcast you have some catching up to do! CCN features Joseph Matheney, Kim Monaghan, Ken Eakins and yours truly in weekly round table discussions about current counterculture. It’s really a blast and we’ve been getting amazing feedback. If [...]

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Bus Poem #2

Good day, As promised, here is another poem I wrote on the bus on my way downtown this morning: Camouflage Everyone is in camouflage and I’m in blaze orange. On this morning bus a devil’s food cupcake in a tigerstripe parka says, “It needs one more paint o’ coat” into a phone with no name. [...]

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A Verse for a Kentucky Cemetery

What up, world? I’ve had a busy Monday after a relaxing weekend that included a trip to Bowling Green, Kentucky with my partner-in-crime, AP. Bowling Green is about an hour north of Nashville – just far enough to feel like you’re getting out of town without logging a ton of miles. The longest road trip [...]

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