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x-post: and the monkey and the murder and the minute mystery of it all

November 15, 2004 by Cecil Vortex

More Monday, more Monkey Vortex Radio Theater. This week: Tony Jonick busts it 1930s-style with what some say may well be the greatest piece of recorded entertainment since Edison invented tiny, pocket-sized people who remember what you say and … Read on Macduff...

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By the window

November 15, 2004 by Cecil Vortex
There's a man there
by the window.
And he's speaking
with such precision
you can see the letters spit forth into air
shiny newborne
serifs spinning.
And his words are just hanging out there
piling up there
in a loose 
… Read on Macduff...
Categories Book o' Verse 1 Comment

x-post: And the Vortex and the poetry and the east coast of it all

November 10, 2004 by Cecil Vortex

Another week, another episode of Monkey Vortex Radio Theater. This week: an all-new spoken word spectacular from east coast letter-chef (that’s right — “letter chef!”) Lee Kaye, featuring beats by west coast stick-sensation (!) Shoeless Adams plus guest voicework … Read on Macduff...

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In my blue house

November 6, 2004 by Cecil Vortex

…by guest poet Shonny Vortex.
In my blue house
Everyone is I, I
Talking about themselves
In my blue house
Hearts bang on your head
With drum sticks
And stars twinkle
In the daytime
And fish swim into your mouth… Read on Macduff...

Categories Book o' Verse 4 Comments

Serenity. Now.

July 21, 2025November 4, 2004 by Cecil Vortex
Serenity Now
Something a bit more upbeat to end the day -- a moment: Heading home with two good pals after a weekend spent canvassing in Oregon.
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A world of tears

November 4, 2004 by Cecil Vortex

a moment to mourn.
that’s all.

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x-post: and the vortex and the John. And the Paul, George, Ringo of it all.

November 1, 2004 by Cecil Vortex

Welcome to another Monkey Vortex Monday. Congratulations on getting here. And most especially, on evading the many traps I set before you these past seven days. Particularly the thing with the stick. And the one with the swinging gate. And … Read on Macduff...

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x-post: Victory is nigh, baby

October 29, 2004 by Cecil Vortex

The Angry Liberal reminds us how the polls looked in late October, 2000. Read all about it in all-new Edgewise post.

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x-post: hereafter today, gone tomorrow

October 27, 2004 by Cecil Vortex

A thought or three about one of the many subtexts of Tuesday’s vote, now up on Edgewise.

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Stacks of digital photography books

October 26, 2004 by Cecil Vortex
And a long line of
enthusiastic
neatly dressed
retirees.
They're pressing toward the front.
And now they're strip-mining the table
saying:
   tell me
sell me
         how to stop time.
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