Archive for January, 2008

Further Down On The Yellow Brick Road

Tuesday, January 29th, 2008

I am currently running down Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, which is amazing, a lucid dream. That this book is somehow ascendent right now in popular culture seems significant: that this is a time of the apocalyptic poet, the classical bent and beaten road scholar. Kerouac’s On the Road burst onto the scene in 1951. Some […]

bingo = HOPE

Tuesday, January 29th, 2008

I think that’s why so many churches run bingo nights: because they all somehow stand for the same thing, something bigger, better, beyond, even if it’s just a momentary flash and you have to pay five dollars to get in or however that shit works. I’ve never been to one of these things. I’m just […]