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- 48. Blue-sky RocketshipNaturally, I thought of tampons. So I began filling in bubble D while the young girl and a woman I assumed to be her mother continued their walk through a field of flowers. As the girl listened intently to her … Continue reading →...
- 47. I Got a Headache“I got a headache.” This was not covered in Super Power Interview: Dominating Others and Charging Blindly Toward Your Future, a book I had borrowed from a bookstore downtown with especially poor security and had studied in preparation for this ...
- 46. The Thing With the Guy From the PlaceAfter being advised to return to Japan by a woman named Monique and an image of the Virgin Mary constructed from cigarette butts and crack vials (previous post), I seized the opportunity to grab the job section of a two-week-old … Continue read...
- 45. Hail Mary(In the last installment of this blathering blog, a crack dealer in Chicago’s Cabrini-Greene neighborhood was holding a gun to the head of protagonist Eddie Trombone, who had inadvertently conceded that he was part of a conspiracy by the white R...
- 44. Corner Boy(Like a gabby drunk at the neighborhood tavern napping occasionally between rounds, our story pulls its head off the bar, removes a few coins from its forehead, and resumes from where it left off last time, with Mr. Trombone in … Continue readi...
- 43. Stay Puft PsychiatristThere was a white lady at a big desk. Let me try that again. There was an extremely white lady at a very big desk. No, doesn’t quite capture it. How about this: There was a woman the female equivalent … Continue reading →...
- 42. Cultural Abduction“My name is Eddie, and . . .” The words caught in my throat. I closed my eyes against the blue smoke that filled the little church basement. “I’m a . . .” I couldn’t say it. Even with my … Continue reading →...
- 41. The End of Karma(It behooves me to note by way of explanation for the rambling nonsense below, that the manuscript pages for this particular passage were stained here and there with what our laboratory here at the Consulate has determined was a Japanese … Cont...
- 40. Karma’s for Suckers (Part 2)(Postings to this site have been delayed due to an overwhelming public backlash following the last installment, in which Eddie Trombone made several snide comments about karma, people from Southern California, and devotees of the Unification Church,...
- 39. Karma’s for Suckers(Apologies for the lateness of this post. This is due to Japan’s Golden Week, a series of holidays no one knows the names of that stretches out for a week or so. I believe one of the holidays is Green … Continue reading →...
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