Like a complete unknown, like a rolling stone.
The Purposeful Double Negative of Can’t Get No Satisfaction
Author: Joseph D. Newcomer
DADA/Author/Podcaster
Currently promoting my latest book, Thought and Other Absurdities Vol. 2, while publishing great indie writers, writing, operating the Dead Star Press Bookmobile, and curating an insane comic book collection for my daughter.
Heroes & Villains
All of our heroes were flawed. Upon this realization, we were slighted by our broken, self-invented promises of their perfection, and, even before that, by the unrelatable nature of it. We began to champion villains. We became what we revered. The openly vile are anything but disappointing and everything but unrelatable.
The Inner Voice of Treason
Hey guys, go ahead and hang the toilet paper any way you want, buy it all up, order a steak well done and put ketchup on it, double-dip your chips, use than and then like they are interchangeable—your and you’re and there, their, and they’re, too or to if you prefer, and leave your grocery [...]
Despite All The Rage
It seems impossible, but we’ve been simultaneously convinced that we are rats in a corner, fighting for our lives, and lions who need to remind all else that we rule this reality. Our acts reflect that we believe both of these fallacies at the same time. We are no such things. We are deeply troubled [...]
The Cheap Trick of Persephone
It is our nature, our instinctual response to avoid the difficulty of confrontation. Some ignore this internal pull-back, this filter between our psyche and reality, and they may be considered, at the best, brave, or, at the worst, insane. But the hesitation exists in all. Most of us will go to such great lengths to avoid the [...]
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