Reel Positions
A Mermaid named Nala Met with Jessie the Rabbit To discuss what the Old Adage say. While sharing a laugh For each less than better half (Fixed Fools who were long drawn away), They pushed through the...
Category: Arts & Literature
Palestine Inside Out: A Review
This is a review of Palestine Inside Out: An Everyday Occupation by Saree Makdisi. W. W. Norton. 2008. Saree Makdisi is a Palestinian-American academic. What makes this UCLA professor stand out right...
The Damned, The Birth of the Demons
The previous installment of Chloe Bradshaw's tale is here. We, the Demons, came to this world like this: Thousands of years ago, there were Angels. They were the guardians of the world, when...
Hand Cat Wife
Dear Readers, please note that this story is meant to be contained within a single paragraph. How to begin. That is the difficulty. There are always innumerable points of entry. And the point of...
Cold War revisited: “The Thing”
As certain factions speculate that the world is headed toward a new Cold War, Mark Farnsworth examines the artistic legacy of this phenomenon. "The Thing" is the darkest film in the Kurt Russell...
Two Eyes Show
Two eyes show two streets separate. The one walks along normal, like it has a day to live out. The other mimics it. Forgets it. The other wanders about smelling its own sidewalks and imagining cars...
The Damned, Hunters and Demons
Chloe Bradshaw is thirteen. This is her second publication with GlobalComment. I have arrived in a house under cover of darkness. I can feel the hunger overwhelming me as I crawl upon the ceiling. I...
The “N”
Please note than an audio version is now available below the text. I have a friend who says the "N": A Whiteboy who's crazy as sin. "What up my 'N'!?" when my call Reaches him. "Nothing much, Homey,"...
The deaths that bind us: Solzhenitsyn, Pugovkin, Mordyukova
It feels instinctive to say that the death of Alexander Solzhenitsyn marks an end of an era. Which era, though? Solzhenitsyn's life spanned many eras: WWII, the gulag, the Khrushchev years,...
We, the Potheads
Please note that an audio verion of the poem is available below the text. Rise and Shine, Wake and Bake, Eat the Cake After some Shake 'n Bake... We, the Potheads, sure Love Pissin' Smokey off by Not...