August 2010
17 posts
The Last Joke
Travis, the twenty-one-year-old customer service desk cashier of Save Rite supermarket, was helping Ryan, a sixteen-year-old bagger, with the store’s trash so they could get the hell outta there at nine o’clock. -Can you buy me some beers before you bounce? I’ll give you enough cash to get yourself somethin’ for the trouble. -Yeah. What do you want? -Heineken. -“Heineken? Fuck that shit! ...
No Concession
A tricycle came rolling down the hill in flames. I was sitting on the hill about twenty-five feet away, reclining on a blanket with a can of beer, the mid-July sun drawing beads of sweat from my skin and my fruit and cheese platter, watching a ball game. A breeze carried a cloud of smoke that stunk of the turpentine smeared all over the trike’s seat, handlebars and wheels. The scarlet...
Motorcycle Eats Child
The kid stood by the treadmark the motorcycle had made in the driveway. He looked back at the house. Inside he could hear the Motorcycle Man talking to his mom in the kitchen. From where he stood the man sounded like the bike had way down the street. He wondered if it was the man not the engine that made that growl. The kid ran his shoe over the treadmark and was startled to find it could be...
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For Your Belief in Foolish Pleasures: No. 1
Welcome to For Your Belief in Foolish Pleasures where Jillian from For Your Pleasure and Josh from What a Fool Believes have a chat about topics that affect YOU!
Today’s topic: True Blood Season 3: Episode 8 – “Night on the Sun”
The Four C’s / Bill’s Tracksuit / Scrapbookin’
Josh: This episode was all about the Four C’s: Cryin’, Comfortin’, Kissin’ and Cheese. Sookie cried, Bill cried,...
For Your Pleasure On Entourage →
It’s been four years since I’ve seen an episode of Entourage. It seems that nothing really has changed except the ‘yo, bro’ chauvinist wish fulfillment has spiraled into ‘OOC, Are You Freakin’ Kidding Me?’ territory. From what I observed, a show that was once thinly about male camaraderie…
Jillian nails it.
A Fool's First Listen: The Arcade Fire - The...
Welcome to A Fool’s First Listen! I am your host What a Fool Believes!
Today on A Fool’s First Listen it’s the new album by the ambitious Montreal-based indie rock band The Arcade Fire, The Suburbs.
Like many in 2004, I was swept up by the band’s first album, Funeral, and its thrilling tales of escape and hope. 2007’s Neon Bible, other than the magnificent...
