Police were reviewing video from surveillance cameras in an attempt to identify who trampled to death a Wal-Mart worker after a crowd of post-Thanksgiving shoppers burst through the doors at a suburban store and knocked him down. … Items on sale at the Valley Stream Wal-Mart included a Samsung 50-inch Plasma HDTV for $798, a [...]

Have started transcribing journal entries from a few years back – there is actually a lot of material, though the transcription process is slow and painful. Come to think of it, there is a lot of quotidian junk I can share…

I hear the threnody for untold cyclesSpit harmoniouslyFrom over-heated processors

It is 02:36 CST on Thanksgiving Day. A festival of ethanol. My story: Went to a burger joint that is open until 03:00 CST, picked up a Deluxe, a Special, two orders of French fries, and a medium Coke. Moved along to the donut shop next door, grabbed a Bismarck and savoured that cream filling. [...]

Since you are not going anywhere and things are not going very well, why not? could try stitching together the vituperative convocation, thoughts chewing each others’ throats, blood clotting on fangs and gristle in thick reddish-black drippings – simultaneously sinuous and gritty mucosal grift, lifeblood cashed out – Everything falls apart, sooner or later. something [...]

I cannot keep it to myself – the laughter, the joy of a job well done. I yawn, staring at my reflection in a window just long enough to recognize the resemblance to a skull – there is not much left in the way of flesh. Finally becoming something, slow corporeal metamorphosis. I am become [...]

What are freedom fighters really fighting?

Rarely does an artist spark my interest with minimal exposure in the way I now find myself lost to Ligotti’s “special plan” – any plans I had for my own creative pursuits can only be described as Ligotti knock-offs. Pathetic? Desperately, for Ligotti is great. When everyone you have ever loved is finally gone when [...]

The sleepless nights are painful, though I need to catch up on my insomnia… Insomnia: metonym for the clarity of perception which arrives when the brain gives up pursuits aetiologic and starts choking down unfiltered reality with willful abandon. Glutting on ideation which lacks the quality assurance of a well-rested perspective may result in paroxysms [...]