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x-post: and the monkey, and the POTA, and the pathos of it all

October 25, 2004 by Cecil Vortex

It’s another Monkey Vortex Monday. Now playing: two minutes and twenty seconds inside the mind of the most powerful human being on the face of the earth. It’s a Bill Cassel / Christian Crumlish script, starring the aforementioned Christian Crumlish, … Read on Macduff...

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Zach Braff vs. Yu-Gi-Oh!

October 22, 2004 by Cecil Vortex

OK, OK. So I haven’t written a feature-length movie about returning to New Jersey. But I ask you this: has Hollywood bigshot Zach Braff ever written a song about Yu-Gi-Oh!? And more to the point, has he ever written one … Read on Macduff...

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x-post: and the debate and the dancing to the rhythm of the beat

October 14, 2004 by Cecil Vortex

Bonus MVRT episode this week — a few highlights from the third presidential debate set to drums n keys. It’s a little number we like to call “You Be the Judge (Oh Yeah)” — now playing….

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trash

October 13, 2004 by Cecil Vortex

At every gas stop along the way, he pulls out trash with his wallet.
A scrunched up sheet of off-white paper
and a smaller one – a post-it.
Out, up for air and then he
bends over to close a … Read on Macduff...

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From out of the whispering past: Mac Davis

October 12, 2004 by Cecil Vortex

Back in high school I was lucky enough to have two excellent friends who were also great musicians — Heroic Imp and SKP. They’d jam, and I’d make up some words — insta-tunes, written and recorded in one night. And … Read on Macduff...

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x-post: and the Wetumpka. Sweet Wetumpka. Of it all.

October 11, 2004 by Cecil Vortex

It’s Monkey Vortex Monday. In today’s installment, Croatian malcontent Rodney K. puts our longstanding feud aside for one minute and 45 seconds — just barely enough time to bust it Poet-Makes-a-House-Call style with: Welcome to the City of Wetumpka — … Read on Macduff...

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x-post: pre-debate shpiel

October 8, 2004 by Cecil Vortex

Reality catches up with the President. Get the skizoop, here.

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x-post: door to door volunteering in the presidential campaign

October 7, 2004 by Cecil Vortex

In the next two weeks I’ll be making the (fairly freaky styling) leap to door-to-door political volunteering in my hometown and in a battleground state. If you’ve the itch your own self, and you’re curious how to look into that … Read on Macduff...

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Doorway conversation

October 5, 2004 by Cecil Vortex
Talking with her about her brother's death
years back now. And it's the first time we talked.
She just had a kid
first kid
last month
my son's almost four
good guy
big boy.
Their house looks the same
even 
… Read on Macduff...
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x-post: And the Shonny and the Wally and the sequence of it all

October 4, 2004 by Cecil Vortex

If it’s Monday, it must be Monkey Vortex Radio Theater — back with an all-new segment: The Sequence of Things. With script and music by yers truly and starring Bee Nisbet and M “‘n M” Smith. Plus: the MVRT … Read on Macduff...

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