You’ll laugh. You’ll cry. You’ll take your Baby Robots out of their hermetically sealed, lead-lined vaults and give them a hug. This week on Monkey Vortex Radio Theater: “I, Baby Robot,” written by, er, um, me. And … Read on Macduff...
Emoticon Rescue
It’s the smiley that really breaks my heart
the little happy face you
tack on
right after you break goodbye, say the news, share that thing.
You’re happy. And I’m glad for it.
But where is your nose?
Now who … Read on Macduff...
It’s your prerogative
I’m surprised you’d
say that. I mean, you’ve
read the articles, right?
I sent you the articles, so you must have read them.
Which means you know all about my generation
and the way we
transformed
pipe-cleaner-beading
from a sort … Read on Macduff...
x-post: And the Monkey and the Vortex and the Radio Theater of it all
After nine months in the cooler, those nefarious Monkey Vortex Radio Theater-types are back with The Phone Call, Part I arguably their most sinister free-audio-download yet. Now available for your easy downloading good-times right here.
Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup Emotions
When your kid tells you they love you
and they’re laughing when they say it
wandering off toward slow down
toward stop and sleep well
everybody sleep tight.
sleepy tight everybody.
Ice Skating
Don’t hold on to that wall.
Don’t let it pull you backward
to its fixed side.
Hold my hand
and now we glide.
Biz Trip
Airplane seats never fit his body.
Not just his legs,
though there wasn’t enough legroom, that was for sure.
And you lower the tray and it goes right up
into his rib cage, like he’s a grown man
sitting in … Read on Macduff...
Pacing
Jake has lived with these dogs for four years now. They pace around his cage on dry paws. He rotates as they pace, tracking their progress but never catching their eyes.
He learned this truth in the first few weeks: … Read on Macduff...
A mellowing
I was so angry, so spinning with all my anger
I remember at one point saying to a good buddy
that I was going to tell everyone I met
for the next TEN years:
“if you meet someone named [her … Read on Macduff...
x-post: Brer Osama
So let’s see: Iran has a new democractically elected leader that, well, he’s not nice. Iraq is in the process of putting together a new government that’s likely to end up far more pro-Iran and pro-fundamentalism than the Bathists, and … Read on Macduff...