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Eddie Florence usually wore the peacoat. It was his best winter coat, a Christmas present from his his mother. He never left the house without it on.
“When Earthly wonder became mundane I turned my lusting to the stars.”
It was spring and the sun was still making its way to the tropics. The day was warm but not unbearable, and when I reached home I found father sitting on the front porch, drinking sweetened milk tea and eating digestive biscuits. Avoiding his eye contact, I crept into the bedroom, closed my door, cried,
“We’re all victims, Marcy,” he told his wife. “You, me, anyone who was touched by this. As much as those poor bastards who actually got limbs blown off.”
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That image was to give John a long and colorful afterlife, one that traversed the boundaries of time, space, and media. More importantly, his image was destined to be the ancestor to the most pervasive and perplexing of modern phenomena…that of the cultural meme.
The trick was to find an acceptable level of death and destruction while gaining the sociopolitical advantages of going to war.
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The images on my laptop are horrific. At my side, my phone is trying to connect to my parent’s number, but keeps failing. According to the news, the lines were down. According to the images online, half my country is rubble.
“Grampa, this isn’t a coin. It’s a washer.”
“Huh? Goddammit, do you want it or not?”
Books
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“America is now wholly given over to a damned mob of scribbling women …”
An appreciation of poet Denise Levertov.
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Fall 2015
Culture
Eva Maldonado
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Fall 2015
Culture
Eva Maldonado
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Fall 2015
Culture
Eva Maldonado
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Fall 2015
Culture
Eva Maldonado
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Dumpster babies in tanning beds. Cannibalism. An abundance of glue huffing. Milk steak, rum ham, and an obscene amount of alcohol. These are just a few of the key tenets that It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia is built upon.
Fall 2015
Culture
Eva Maldonado
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Fall 2015
Culture
Eva Maldonado
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