Monthly Archives: October 2013

Folly’s Adieu

Posted on October 31, 2013 by Gene Stewart

Writing life into words afflicts some of us. It’s maddening when our best is too good for print. Like being over-qualified, I suppose. We are men of letters in an unlettered dark time. There is a basic distinction to be … Continue reading →

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The Erotic Novels of Everett Bedford

Posted on October 28, 2013 by Gene Stewart

A guest blog from Everett Bedford in which he discusses genuine, unrestrained alternatives to various shades of pale vanilla imitation that have currently cluttered the  erotica market.  Want the good stuff?  Here is some of the best there is, just … Continue reading →

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News-Like Shows

Posted on October 23, 2013 by Gene Stewart

As Paddy Chayevsky warned in the script for the astonishingly-prescient film NETWORK, in 1976 mind you, the first hard shove toward the complete downfall of media journalism came when news organizations were placed under the entertainment banner and became responsible … Continue reading →

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Midnight In Peking, A Review

Posted on October 18, 2013 by Gene Stewart

Midnight In China by Paul French Penguin, 2012, 1st American Edition ISBN: 978-0-14-312100-8 260pp, Hardcover, $26/US b&w and color photo section source list, no index A Review by Gene Stewart Midnight In Peking: How the Murder of a Young Englishwoman … Continue reading →

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Trust, Ashes

Posted on October 16, 2013 by Gene Stewart
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Clips from FB from my birthday last year until now

Posted on October 13, 2013 by Gene Stewart

Failure is art, and art is failure. We fall short, inevitably, even if awarded. It’s nice to have community accolades, and it does have an affect on how one’s art is perceived and thus its community worth, or value, but … Continue reading →

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Heads-Up-Display: Don’t Blink

Posted on October 13, 2013 by Gene Stewart

Rat Stew A Column for Tom Sadler’s APA zine The Reluctant Famulus TRF #96 by Gene Stewart Heads-Up-Display: Don’t Blink Shit floats and imagines itself superior. That’s what came to me as I thought about writing. As I thought about … Continue reading →

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Wednesday Afternoon, No Closer To Knowing

Posted on October 9, 2013 by Gene Stewart

photo courtesy of Krysia Jopek   No strings, she said. Hollow instrument of Seductive curves. Serpentine cuts, Dark interior. It won’t play, she said. I cannot play it. Soft thumps Flat of echo Mocked us as We set it down … Continue reading →

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Just Another Ape Behind Glass

Posted on October 7, 2013 by Gene Stewart

Like any other rape in any other zoo, he knew the glass was there but didn’t understand why. Or did he? Glass was considered more humane than bars, but bars allowed at least the chance of touch. Glass didn’t even … Continue reading →

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Fragment of Liturgy From Hessia Abbey

Posted on October 5, 2013 by Gene Stewart

Vast is the Earth, yet so is it small. To a demon, Earth is a bauble. To one lost in a desert, Earth is a solid echo of the sky. Between those truths we live our mad scramble lives from … Continue reading →

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