"…something like the supervisor of an entire team of political agents…"
This weekend I dropped by to see Mr. Davis (not his real name), the ninety-four-year-old man who lives around the corner. He can’t see much, or hear much, or get around much. But he still has a bright smile. And his mind is sharp. I was interested in hearing from him firsthand what it was … Read more
summer midnight in the city and the bridesmaid just walked past without her shoes on.
Been yearning for a rant about how much air time those darn Swift Boat Vets for Truth have been getting? Well yearn no more. You’ll find one: here.
It’s a young man’s game.
Here’s a wee thing (voice talents: eb and xian) — 26 seconds of sound, a 415K mp3. It’s a scrap. A found object. A thin slice of terror. And, as an added bonus, it’s also an almost entirely misleading trailer for an upcoming Monkey Vortex Radio Theater feature entitled: “I, Baby Robot.” Enjoy. And watch … Read more
I’ll be gone for a couple of days, so I thought we’d try something a little differemt this morning — an open thread. The idear is that you folks keep the site crackling in my absence — overflowing with woosh! — by adding your own snippets of dialog, slices of lyric, poems, demi-poems, stories, or … Read more
Waiting around for election day doesn’t count as an activity.
She has a hard, twisted smile like she’s just taken poison and if you say one more word well, she’ll let some of it leak. Her jaw, it will slack and the venom will bubble oh there’ll be lots of trouble when she opens up that beak.
Never chew gum in an airplane bathroom. Because if you do your gum will taste like an airplane bathroom.
Are you like me? Love spoken word poetry? But maybe not so crazy about hanging out with, you know, poets? Well fear not — help is on the way! Monkey Vortex Radio Theater had folks just like you and me in mind when they created Poet Makes a House Call — in which real live … Read more