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Aug 191 min read
Hell Roads
Is my hero, Rhodes, really off--with jutting jaw, or merely Beckettian shuffle--to the flames of Hell? What is the end, in the final...
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Jun 141 min read
Fargue-in awesome, as always
Soon, there was nothing before the last men but a long boulevard beyond which the Void could be read like a poster. The Earth Affair was...
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Apr 301 min read
With A Mouth Full Of Vomit
We can't go on. We go on. We'll stagger through the miasma of corruption that lies ahead, then we'll try to vote in the fall. The...
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Mar 151 min read
A Harmonica, or A Calendar
You expect life to contain its own magic. You want to reach into it and pull out, I don't know, a... calendar, or a harmonica. But no, it...
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Jan 121 min read
Yikes! Rhodesie in jail!
This is bad. Is my guy--your guy, Rhodes--in a foreign jail? Has his exquisite rage with humanity caused some giant misunderstanding?...
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Dec 9, 20231 min read
Before It's Too Late!
Bukowski writes "orientate," as a verb. I mean, I know he's supposed to be rough, but not that rough. And Rhodes, Harrison, you know, my...
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Nov 27, 20231 min read
Pablum! Melt-down! I'm drowning!
It's the pablum of paratactic parity! Melt-down to mediocrity! There's no above or below--no hierarchy of values I can grab like a branch...
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Nov 21, 20231 min read
Forehead blister
The latest flouncing, smirking, thrusting little irritation that's about to give me a hemorrhoid on my forehead is the tip-swivel, the...
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Jun 22, 20231 min read
Melancholy Vomit
So, a novel of mine begins (OK, shamefully) with my hero, Rhodes, vomiting in an alley in Morocco. Suggestive of his life's travails,...
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May 11, 20231 min read
Oh The Stench!
Really, how are we supposed to breathe (let alone share a laugh over our favorite Harrison Rhodes novel), with the effluvia wafting up...
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May 7, 20231 min read
Rhodes Ready to Rumble!
Rhodes checked in, can't believe my luck #RhodesToMorocco #BughouseBlues. It seems he's happy enough with his tale (Bughouse) of our...
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Apr 19, 20231 min read
OK, No More Grammar-Grump
The real issue (and, trust me, Rhodesie agrees) is the hot "literary fiction," including award-winners, we're seeing spread out like porn...
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Apr 11, 20231 min read
MyAneurysm@blogspot
I think I'll be OK, I think so, with people saying "lay" when they mean "lie," "unchartered" when they mean "uncharted," "irregardless"...
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Feb 28, 20231 min read
Oh Where Oh Where Can This Bonnie Lad Be?
Too much to ask, I get it. For my hero, Harrison Rhodes, to check in. I mean, with the state of... with the way the world is. Right? His...
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Jan 17, 20231 min read
Harrowing and Unsavory
Hearty thanks for kind comments--really, for bearing up under the onslaught--regarding Bughouse Blues. #Bughouse blues #Rhodes To...
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Nov 27, 20221 min read
Loony but heartfelt!!
We hope you trudge, and sometimes twitch, alongside our hapless hero, Rhodes--as he deals with the unspeakable affronts life has to...
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Nov 7, 20221 min read
Oh Frabjous Day!
Right, it's hard to concentrate on something like literary translation, with the elections tomorrow. Our hero, Harrison Rhodes, being...
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Sep 23, 20221 min read
FROM AFRICA TO THE MADHOUSE
OK, Rhodes is elusive. But really, with the latest, Rhodes To Morocco, just out, and his sharing a mirthless laugh or two over it--we...
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Aug 28, 20221 min read
Rhodes To Morocco
Super responses to the novel (above) -- all gratitude here. Rhodes seems cheered, but, in truth, a tad evasive as usual. Can't pin down...
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Jun 2, 20221 min read
Rhodes is off to Morocco!
Well, Rhodes has done it now! Poor guy is in the mountains in Morocco, not sure what has brought him to this teaching post--and beset by...
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