the contents are strange and icky.

I’ve been mugged before. It happened at bus stop in the dark a few months before I left Atlanta. I watched two guys scope out the area to make sure no one was coming and then one showed me his gun and insisted that I know “what this is.” No one got shot and the [...]

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Refused is a Swedish punk-ish* band that you may have heard of, either in the late 90s or recently as they’ve gone on tour with bands of contemporary import. That’s not to say Refused isn’t relevant but they did break up for a good long while and could be considered part of a recent trend [...]

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I kind of hate year-end top ten lists. Usually I just scan them for items I support and begrudge the author for logic-defying inclusions/snubs. When we discussed doing Top Ten lists on Monsters, a wild hair sprung. We had to do something different so we came up with the concept of the awards (like “The [...]

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§46 · December 31, 2010 · The Overly-Personal · (No comments) · Tags: , , ,


Looking into the back of Jonathan’s pick-up truck, I tried to calculate the odds that one of the boxes would fly onto the street and spill my life into a Peoplestown gutter. What shook me from the gaze: (a) my painful inability to calculate the odds of anything (see my poker skills) and (b) all [...]

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