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The Web’s Leading Authority on “Exotic Bird Parks” in “Utah”

June 14, 2004 by Cecil Vortex

Scanning the site’s traffic log tonight I learned two incredible facts:
(1) Because of a pair of lines in a pair of poems… if you search “exotic bird parks” and “Utah” in Google, not only is cecilvortex.com the first choice … Read on Macduff...

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x-post: MVRT – and the marriage and the sketchbook of it all

June 14, 2004 by Cecil Vortex

New episode up on today’s MVRT Marriage is part of a continuing series from writer, illustrator, publisher, and dimensional contortionist Tony Jonick. Take yourself a two-minute 29 second journey to the icy border between East and West here.

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In the elevator at the Best Western across from Disneyland

June 14, 2004 by Cecil Vortex

He had a Mickey Mouse hat
and a Donald Duck shirt
and a nose that was just
and a nose that was just
and a nose that was just
plain goofy.

Categories They Can't All Be Winners 2 Comments

Slowly

June 9, 2004 by Cecil Vortex

Just because you turn
slowly slowly
to check her out
slowly
as she walks past
doesn’t mean
that she don’t notice.

Categories Book o' Verse 4 Comments

x-post: MVRT – the money, and the love, and the everybody

June 9, 2004 by Cecil Vortex

A brand-new episode is now up on ye olde Monkey Vortex Radio Theater: Everybody Loves Money. This four-minute phantastical was first written in Ubby-Dubby and then meticulously translated over to English by Bill “Mr.” Cassel. It features the voice talents … Read on Macduff...

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I’m pretty sure this is profound

June 8, 2004 by Cecil Vortex

So my 3-and-a-half-year-old son is busting kung fu moves in the living room yesterday. And his godfather asks him: “Did you learn that from Jackie Chan?” And my son replies: “No, I learned it from Chuck E. Cheese.”

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Culturally deprived

June 2, 2004 by Cecil Vortex

“Snow!” he shouted
tossing clouds of
thin, white sand at the beach
making snowmen
out of sand
with their heads
lying down
and their arms are wet planks
and their toes knotted kelp
and they never melt
until the sun … Read on Macduff...

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A hard laugh

June 2, 2004 by Cecil Vortex
It was a hard laugh. A cold laugh.
The kind of laugh that savages the funny. 
It pulls the funny outside.
Stuffs it into the trunk of a
'79 Chevy Impala.
Takes the funny for a ride.
It was a 
… Read on Macduff...
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Different

June 2, 2004 by Cecil Vortex
I must be someone very different to him
than I am to me.
Maybe I'm some fast-talking jack-ass
some know-it all jerkweed
some high-maintenance poindexter.
If he saw me in a bar
he would hate me in that bar.
I 
… Read on Macduff...
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x-post: Stack of Mitts up on MVRT

June 1, 2004 by Cecil Vortex

2 minutes and 17 seconds of all-new audio-fun adventure await you up on MVRT: Stack of Mitts, scripted by Cecil V. and starring Rodney K., M. Smith., and Lisa Bush.
Stack of Mitts, now playing on Monkey Vortex Radio … Read on Macduff...

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