– 1 – A TALE OF TWO EMPIRES Some stuff happened to make what we call the earth. And then some more stuff happened to make what we call people. Some people got together to create what we call civilization. And then two of those civilizations grew to become...
Untitled (autobiography) TEXT & MEDIA 1st Quest (LINK) Deceit & Love (LINK) 2nd Quest (LINK) Gods & Cages (LINK) 3rd Quest (LINK) Calm & Captivity (LINK) TEXT ONLY 1st Quest LET ME TELL YOU A STORY… (lined paper self portrait) My name is...
Why I’m Right Outline 10 pages: 35 pages: 18 pages: 30 pages: 7 pages: 18 pages: WHY I’M RIGHT A PERSONAL GUIDE TO PACIFISM Why I’m Right The Founder and the Follower: Patriotism and the American Conscious Part I: America Your America (Sunday) Part...
Valentine’s Day in Bushwick One Valentine’s Day was so much like another, in those hectic Brooklyn years, that I can never remember whether I juggled one dozen roses for my girl or one dozen girls with empty hands. All the Valentines fold into my two-toned...
CSUSB: Stories Driving to Cal State San Bernardino took Shazz Baric half an hour on highway 215. The school was set against a backdrop of hills, the northernmost edge of San Bernardino. He drove a Mercedes and liked to tell his classmates this, although he did not...
Citizen’s Audit Jan. 18th, ’10: CRESCENT CITY Redwood Hostel Alicia and I hit the road the weekend of Jan 15th. Just outside Crescent City we stopped to check out the Redwood Hostel. I noted a print on the wall describing the logging industry in the area. And...
Amnesty ¡Es con voz de la Biblia, o verso de Walt Whitmann, que habría que llegar a ti, Cazador! ¡Primitivo y moderno, sencillo y complicado, con un algo de Washington y cuatro de Nemrod! -A Roosevelt by Rubén Darío (1867-1916) IN MEXICO, OLD MAN MO HAD A SON,...
DECIBELS & THE WAR DEAD Let’s say, for the sake of conversation, death has a sound intensity of 50 decibels. Now I understand that some deaths are as violent as roaring traffic, an explosion or a gunshot. But then a large portion of deaths are also quiet aren’t...