no stamina:
the journal of wasted opportunity,
unfulfilled dreams, and humorous and political musings completely unrelated
to those themes
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why i did this
...Reading about Meyer's fucked-up childhood and resulting neuroses
and subsequent methods for dealing with said neuroses -- and doing
so in a pain-induced heightened state of revelatory intensity
-- made me think about my own neuroses and fucked-up childhood
and subsequent failure to deal adequately with the aforementioned
fucked-up-childhood-induced neuroses...
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issue #1 spring 2002
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| no stamina: the story
...I had begun to run out of gas. Of course, running out of
gas is not a perfect metaphor for what I had begun to do.... An
internal combustion engine does not get sick of gas, even if it
has been fed the same octane gas from the same pump at the same
gas station over and over again for its entire lifespan. In other
words, the recipient's attitude toward gas is a constant. The
only variable is the presence or absence of gas...
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one hundred years of amagran cinema
...The water in the drinking fountains turned yellow, and many
in the audience had their own hallucinated versions of the school
years of Yakov and Ilia, the lingering death of the deaf stablehand,
as they spent grueling months in the lavatory retching into the
sink and fouling the toilet with diarrhea. The sound equipment
suffered minor mechanical failures, so that whole segments in
the film were mimed, long conversations conveyed only by glances
and twitching cheeks....
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welfare reform: a bad idea trying to get
worse
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