Cecil Vortex – Page 26 – "…something like the supervisor of an entire team of political agents…"

“Want to smell something wonderful?”

February 15, 2008 by Cecil Vortex

That’s what this lady at the table next to mine just asked her gentleman friend.
“Yes! Dear lord yes!” I want to shout.

Me and my tea

February 13, 2008 by Cecil Vortex

I’m drinking vanilla mighty leaf tonight.
The most macho tea.
Tough guys smell this brew they
back down. They should back down.
It makes me French with rage. Like some
French Bruce Banner. “Petite l’hommes!
Je crushez vous!”

Lift

February 9, 2008 by Cecil Vortex

Up on those shoulders. Over that soft tummy, the gray-haired chest slopping in.
Sitting up there, hands clutched together in clumps of see-through white.
He walks you around the edge of the lake. It feel so light up there on … Read on Macduff...

Calling CV

July 21, 2025February 5, 2008 by Cecil Vortex

Regular readers of this Extreme Punditry series have probably figured out by now that I’m about as good an election-predictor as my cat Sammy is an umbrella. Which is to say, not very.
Even so, even with my poor track … Read on Macduff...

An Interview with Keri Smith

July 21, 2025February 3, 2008 by Cecil Vortex

Creativity interview with illustrator and author Keri Smith
Photo credit: Jefferson Pitcher.
Keri Smith is an author/illustrator turned guerilla artist. She is the author and illustrator of several activity books aimed at jump-starting creativity, including Wreck This Journal (2007, Penguin Books), The Guerilla Art Kit (2007, Princeton Architectural … Read on Macduff...

Calling FL

January 29, 2008 by Cecil Vortex

Yes, and here we are, Fl primary day, and I’m sticking with Mitt in first, Johnny Mac a close second, despite the guv’s endorsement, and Rudy outta the race by tomorrow.
Any other other calls out there?

Clinton’s southern strategy

January 27, 2008 by Cecil Vortex

If you’ve been following this race obsessively, you prolly already know that Michigan was stipped of its delegates to the Dem convention for moving their election date up against party rules. Hillary ended up being the only candidate on the … Read on Macduff...