Today’s (Random) Featured Posts
The Sunshine Bores The Daylights Out Of Me
September 7, 2005 By Brad Zellar Leave a Comment
I’d ask you to wipe that smirk off your face. This is a serious matter. This world is plunging further into darkness. Okay, so maybe I’m being overly dramatic, but I can barely hold my head up. It’s damned hard to hold your head up when you’re living in a crawl space. Ordinarily in a [...]
An Old Thing, from Somewhere Else: Something Heavy Being Carried Away
December 30, 2007 By Brad Zellar Leave a Comment
I WAS 38 YEARS OLD and washing dishes in a strip bar, forced to wear a ridiculous chef’s hat because the place clung to its delusions and had the audacity to serve food. The all-you-can-eat chili special was a big draw with the oil boys from the refinery across the highway. I’d punch out at [...]
These Fragments I Have Shored Against My Ruin: A Collection Of Scraps From One More Sleepless Night
February 22, 2005 By Brad Zellar Leave a Comment
How ashamed must be the loathsome models who wake up in the morning in bed with ZZ Top? In the old bar of my early days as an inebriate there was a mural there on the wall, a tableau of drunken trolls, a forest scene, I seem to remember, a vertitable sprawl of blasted trolls, [...]
"Mrs. Iowa Pulled It Out Of My Foot"
September 2, 2007 By Brad Zellar Leave a Comment
It’s kind of nice when a headline can make your day, and even nicer when the story is even better than the headline: “Beauty Contestant Bitten By Rattlesnake.”
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