Parallel Structure
While the FUCK YOU Movement made it abundantly clear that we are AGAINST EVERYONE and FOR NO ONE (or at least for no one who could make it into mainstream politics), I would like to offer this tidbit of editorial advice to the Kerry/Edwards campaign. The title of your book Our Plan for America: Stronger […]
Read MoreSuperLefty on Zmag.org
The fine folks over at Zmag.org picked up the Mcsweeney’s piece.. Read it in a different font now!
Read MoreSuperLefty on McSweeney’s Internet Tendency
Further proof that either SuperLefty or our government is seriously unhinged. Read it here.
Read MoreThe FUCK YOU Movement
Even if you had not just spent a week on a remote farm in Peru with no access to media, then stayed up all night, then travelled for twenty hours zonked on Xanax and arrived in New York at two a.m. unable to sleep until the following night, you might find the Republican National Convention […]
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You leave the farm through the gate and go up the road, where you can probably catch a moto. A moto is a motorcycle-tricycle with a seat in the back for a passenger. The moto takes you to the gas station. At the gas station you can catch a collectivo taxi. For the equivalent of […]
Read MoreOllantaytambo, Peru
Mesclun They were the stars of another hemisphere, flung in unfamiliar patters. This time, the constellations were easy to discern, being three-dimensional and in a vague kind of unwieldy motion, like balloons at the Thanksgiving Day Parade. We started up the road out of the town. The walls and shadows and street and sky were […]
Read MoreCusco, Peru
Your Super Lefty comes to you now from the Southern Hemisphere. She looks North to see the sun and shivers in her hiking boots at night, since it is winter here. In addition to her hiking boots, she wears at all times a fleece and a backapck, making her indistinguishable from the other gringa backpackers. […]
Read MoreLima, Peru
Since Saturday I have observed the following: 1. Coney Island is an ideal place to spend your final night before leaving the country for the Southern Hemisphere. Your memories of your hometown will be at once surreal, quaint and trashy. My travelling companions and I scrambled our way out onto one of the rock jetties […]
Read MoreLa Dolce Vita Leads to Hypothetical Violence
Seeing a movie in New York City is almost more trouble than it’s worth. It costs nearly $11. You have to get tickets hours, if not days in advance. You have to get to the theater at least forty minutes early so you don’t end up sitting way in the back of way in the […]
Read MoreQuestion #4
Let me get this straight: The Rosenbergs were traitors, becuase they sold secrets to the Russians, America’s then-enemy. But Halliburton is doing business with Iran, America’s current enemy, and they are “[compliant] with applicable laws and regulations” because they’re doing it from the legal loophole of a tax shelter? Someone please explain this to me.
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