The last time I remember was along mud-sand walls, buff, sizzling tink-tink-tink not too fast, they can’t shoot for sour batshit, I ran, bowing under the weight boots tight, mags full hands sweated onto parkerized dust “C’mon, Joey!” and he laughed that way like a kid, immortally cheerful, fantasy blue-eyed love doll to the Kurds Read More →
Jaxwords WED 16 JUN 10
16-June-2010Hooliganiacal (hoo-le-guh-nie-i-cal) adj. 1. Suggestive of or afflicted with insane lawlessness. 2. Characterized by excessive enthusiasm for aggression. 3. Obsessed with riding Aprilia motorcycles.
I Hate Myself
11-June-2010Someone needs to be jealous of me right now, and if You won’t do it, I’ll have to. Sitting poolside at the Riviera Golf Club right now, relaxing after a ride on Ducati’s newest Monster baby, the bike in pole position to make people wonder why in heck they ever considered a 696. For $9995, Read More →
Prepare to Monster
There’s a Monster out there with my name on it, literally. Specifically, a Ducati Monster 796, their new model with the single-sided swingarm, spiffin’ new headlight and other tasty bits. A little gold foil stickie on the tank says “LEWIS.” This may be important later; take the wrong Monster out of the paddock at Misano Read More →
Two-Minute Drill
6-June-2010Last fall, I was privileged to teach a writing seminar to wounded warriors of Task Force Phoenix at Fort Lewis, Washington. Part of the classroom curriculum was a two-minute writing exercise requiring use of an image to convey a feeling. No particular venue, theme or genre was prescribed; nevertheless, all but one participant wrote a Read More →
Bending the Bard
5-June-2010Poor old Bill. He zags from genius to fraudulence. Everyone wants a piece of Shakespeare (yeah — I recognize the irony of criticizing the impulse in the very act of typing out his name…). Quasi-avant garde lit geeks want to rediscover him as Chris Marlowe. In a perhaps even lower cut, menstruating-edge feminists insist on Read More →
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