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Ghost of Paper: January 2008
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Metaphoria #2: The Metaphor Store. So I just got back from the metaphor store, where I purchased a lot of "cleaning products," so I can "clean up" my "living space.". Last summer I "shaved my head," so I'd have a "new" "look.". I'm trying to implement some bigpicture changes in my lifestyle. But so far I'm a lot better at symbolism than actual change. Better at rites than passage. 13 Ways of Looking at a Frozen Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwich on Your Windshield. 3) Maybe someone somehow was dumb/weird e...
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Ghost of Paper: March 2008
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Around the Back and Between the Legs. Bloggers and academics alike suggest that the lighter fare of the Globetrotter exhibition is weighted with minstrelsy's complex legacy. Uncle Toms in their Uncle Sam starsandbars uniform. Wilt Chamberlain played for the Globetrotters. So did baseball Hall of Famer Bob Gibson. The Globetrotters played for Pope Pius XII in 1951. They have starred in two feature films, a Saturday morning cartoon, a variety show, and have guested on Gilligan's Island and Scooby Doo.
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Ghost of Paper: April 2008
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Message in a Bottle. The mellifluid sound of the bottle-born message subsurfaced to resurface and drift into the e-theric ocean. What seamonster there useless as a Eugene Levy-a-thon.[ Teaching Nabokov to glazed pupils redoubles my parapro-pensity toward lexically dextrous solliptical proseurism]. It's notsobad here on ghostofpaper island, but my beard itches and I'm weary of coconut milk. I smoke for signals. 1) How are you? You look really good, did you lose weight? 2) Have you ever seen that guy who h...
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Ghost of Paper: Anthropomorbid - The Charcoal Murders
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Anthropomorbid - The Charcoal Murders. Did you hear about this? NOTE: Please do not take my word for this. Facts probably not exactly right and this is an infinitely complicated story of power and politics in a region I don't have any pretense of understanding]. The silverback here is Senkwekwe. Now these are some truly arresting images. I certainly don't want to make light of them - animal cruelty is offensive to us all, but isn't the anthropomorphic quality of these another turn of the screw? E-Mission...
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Ghost of Paper: Dolor Bin
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Consider these two places: the VFW Hall and the itunes store. One is creaky, brownandyellow, smells like freedom's sweat. The other is virtual. But if it were a real place the itunes store would be spaceage designed. Whitelit. Maybe some of those veterans from the VFW grew up crewcutted and wanting to be astronauts. Wanting to be spaceage people. But I won't be hocking the record collection for a googlephone anytime soon. I still want to live in a world made of things. The record is what holds th...This ...
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Ghost of Paper: Who I Think You Should Vote For For President
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Who I Think You Should Vote For For President. I've given it some thought and I've narrowed it down to two options. 2)When I was 19 or 20 I wrote a poem called "I Wanna Go Outside." It was a poem about a girl. The first line went something like this:. Image in all the people" sang the blind John Lenin [sic(k)? As he picked up his hammer and sickle and saw . that his eyes were mirrors". This was my solliptical proseurism uncooked and marinating in Colt .45, beguiled by the presto! William James tells me t...
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Ghost of Paper: December 2007
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Do Good-Looking People Have Souls? Alright already. Enough of the Annual Holiday Introspectacular. Let's talk about good looking people. I wonder if they don't see the teeming mess of population. If they have a kind of infra-red vision for attractiveness, a glaze that relegates the rest of us to the blurry background. They operate on the slick surfaces of the world. The construction of inner life becomes a necessary effect of our secret automatic banishment from this world. She is trying to seduce me.
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Ghost of Paper: Around the Back and Between the Legs
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Around the Back and Between the Legs. Bloggers and academics alike suggest that the lighter fare of the Globetrotter exhibition is weighted with minstrelsy's complex legacy. Uncle Toms in their Uncle Sam starsandbars uniform. Wilt Chamberlain played for the Globetrotters. So did baseball Hall of Famer Bob Gibson. The Globetrotters played for Pope Pius XII in 1951. They have starred in two feature films, a Saturday morning cartoon, a variety show, and have guested on Gilligan's Island and Scooby Doo.
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Ghost of Paper: Flipped! by Alan Smithee
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So last night I watched a two and a half hour documentary about abortion. It's called Lake of Fire. And it was good. But first a note about director Tony Kaye. Tony Kaye directed the video for Soul Asylum's Runaway Train. Alan Smithee" is the go-to-pseudonym of disgruntled auteurs and it has a rich 40 year history. Among other things, Smithee directed the pilot of MacGyver and "The OJ Simpson Story" and wrote "The Tony Blair Witch Project."]. HERE ARE TWO THINGS THAT I LEARNED:. E-Mission / Statement, RE...
