Monthly Archives: August 2010

Some Like Them Ugly

August 25, 2010 – 10:30 am

Sean Penn has been photographed in drag during the filming of a movie in Dublin. Scary creature without the kiss of klieg lights. Some men aren’t born to be tranvestites. Or drag queens. The camera never lies.

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Joni Mitchell Drag

August 25, 2010 – 10:28 am

I was born in 1952. Doctors during that prehistoric period had no way of predicting an infant’s sex, yet my mother was so convinced that her second child would be a girl that a year’s worth of pretty pink baby clothing lay neatly stacked in a crib. I imagine she experienced a more than a […]

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Green Lantern Gems / Bet on Crazy by Peter Nolan Smith

August 24, 2010 – 9:14 pm

Earth has been traveling through the universe for billions of years. During these eternal eons the planet has been subjected to radiation from a myriad of sources, although none greater than the Earth itself and this intense contact with radioactivity is what turns diamonds into the second rarest of colors “green’. The process actually alters […]

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Alternative Ulster / Stiff Little Fingers

August 24, 2010 – 9:02 pm

Nothin’ for us in Belfast The Pound so old it’s a pity OK, there’s the Trident in Bangors Then walk back to the city We ain’t got nothin’ but they don’t really care They don’t even know you know They just want money They can take it or leave it What we need is (Chorus) […]

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Gone For Good

August 24, 2010 – 8:59 pm

Afghanistan has three times been the cemetery of imperial pretensions. The British twice and the Russians once. Both powers understood intricacies of the Great Game, yet were thwarted by the tenacity of the ruthless tribesmen beyond the Khyber Pass. Balochs. Uzbeks, Pashtuns, Hazaras, Turkmens, Tajiks, Arabs, Gujjars, Pamiris, Nuristanis, Brahuis, Qizilbash, Aimaqs, Pashais not to […]

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