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Revolution? Yeah, Right.
2009-05-13 10:53:00
Taxation without representation has been going on in this country the moment personal income (mentioned nowhere in the Constitution) mysteriously became taxable.Today I read articles of people crying about the health care issue. Yesterday they were crying about bailing out corporations. Tomorrow they will be crying about something else. Seems I have been reading articles about people crying in this damn country for as long as I can remember, yet have not seen anyone do a thing about it.You people can bitch and moan all you want from both sides of this issue (or any other issue) but the bottom line is you pay enough taxes already to fund any program you want. With the amount of taxes you pay, you should be living in a fucking paradise. Too bad the people you elect continue to ignore you and spend your money on only what they deem worthy, with zero accountability to you or anyone else, and with absolutely no regards to waste.There is also no oversight to determine if the trillions o...
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Twitter Short Story
2009-05-11 06:37:00
I have come up with an idea for Twitter . I am not sure if it is unique, and I don't care. The concept is simple. I would like to assemble a group of authors to co-write a short story or a novella utilizing the Twitter platform. This would be a low pressure activity done in our spare time to take our minds off our serious daily activities.Here is how it works. You create a Twitter account. Other users can follow you and you can follow other users. When you make an entry you are limited to 140 characters. Twitter has become my social network of choice because the people I follow have to make their entries short and to the point. Also, I decide who I want to follow, which means I decide what types of information and entries I read. What I like most is instead of having hundreds of followers like had on my other social networks, Twitter allows me to limit who I chose to interact with. I think this allows me to build better relationships with those who I do interact with.Anyway, here is...
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MSI Wind U120
2009-04-29 19:30:00
After two months of research, I have settled on my new laptop...except it's not a laptop, it's a netbook. The MSI Wind U120. I had two basic requirements when I began my search: it had to be be built sturdy, and it had to have at least a 10" viewing screen. The only two netbooks that met this were the MSI Wind and the HP Mini's.Acer turned out to be nothing but a piece of plastic junk.After further research, I found for about $200 less...and a total out of pocket expense of $330, I could snag the MSI Wind with a similar hardware configurations as the HP Mini. The MSI Wind U120 is a steal, and is receiving great tech reviews from people who are experts in these things.So I plan to order one middle of next month, and retire this antique I have been using to craigslist. Anyone out there looking for a cheap mobile netbook with top notch specs, this is the one for you. Here is what mine is coming with:Intel 1.6Ghz Atom N270 Processor Display 10" backlit LCD maximum resolution 1024 x ...
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Polluto
2009-04-28 14:15:00
Polluto #4 is out. If you are not a subscriber, or have yet to see an issue of this magazine, then you are missing out on probably the best journal out there. Period. Polluto is a UK high polished magazine published not only in soft cover, but in limited edition hardcover. Good luck snagging one of those. It also features some of the best anti-pop culture writers and artists out there. Yeah, it has one an award or two also. Who says the small press is dead?But I will stop rambling. Here is the scoop from Editor Adam Lowe:Polluto Issue #4 Queer and Loathing in WonderlandPolluto has donned its frilliest frock, slapped on the make-up and stepped into a pair of heeled ruby slippers to fight terrorist munchkins on the road to Oz. Grab your baseball bat and join the fray!Cross-dressing and black power in Wonderland, with Deb Hoag's 'Queer & Loathing on the Yellow Brick Road'Satirical stories from Polluto regulars Rhys Hughes and Steve RedwoodRobot sex toys in 'The Androidgenous Zone'...

Astronaut Says UFO's Real
2009-04-22 12:25:00
According to a CNN report April 20, 2009, former astronaut Edgar Mitchell told an audience at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., that the basic story of a 1947 UFO crash in Roswell, New Mexico, is true.Mitchell was raised in Roswell. For the full story: American ChronicleRC Edrington
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Zygote In My Coffee #6
2009-03-31 23:11:00
ZYGOTE IN MY COFFEE #6 is now out and available for ordering.100 page , perfect bound collection of SMALL PRESS poetry & more! NOW AVAILABLE FOR A MEAGRE $5 (includes shipping)! THAT'S $3 OFF the cover price of $8!Check it out here: Zygote #6Also check out the back issues, and latest Flipbooks available.RC Edrington
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Twitter
2009-03-19 08:36:00
Haven't had much time for any in depth posts here lately. That should change. Until then, you may be interested in my Twitter babble. Hope to start using that more. For convenience sake I have include the Twitter widget in the bottom right hand column of this blog so you don't have to go skipping all thru cyberspace to keep track of me. Hell if you want to reply to any of my babble, join in the madness.RC Edrington
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Wow and...
2009-02-13 20:15:00
I have been neglecting this blog. That's a given. No mystery or deep dark secrets really. I have been working on an album. It is a rather long and involved task as it is extremely difficult to translate the music in my head into a tangible reality. I have had this difficulty all my life...which is why I have never released music before when all the signs dictated that I was much suited a musician than a writer.However my ego and arrogance (perhaps ignorance) always kept me from collaborating with other musicians. To me any form of artistic collaborations was akin to fraud.Anyway, it is a fun process. The technology today is amazing. I have lots of catching up to do. Look for a sample song posted here soon.Thanks for caring enough to follow this journey.RC Edrington
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Underground Voices: Print Edition Vol. 3
2009-01-11 09:14:00
Underground Voices: Print Edition Vol. 3, 2008: Drugs, Guns, and Crazy Detectives edited by C. Powell is now available for purchase. The softcover book runs $17.95 or you can download the ebook for only $6.00. Another great publication from Underground Voices. Still one of the best small press publishers around.Visit here: Underground VoicesRC Edrington
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Christmas Song
2008-12-28 16:28:00
RC Edrington
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Infected
2008-12-14 12:56:00
time nothing morethan a slow throbof sunlightthat flickers sharpbeneath a bruisedsheath of skinsyringe after syringe we soothe our veinswith the false kissof forever midnight& like timid vampiresat the cusp of dawnfail to chase hours backinto an oiled blacknessmuch more deeperthan polluted alleysfrom which we slidRC Edrington
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Flesh Wound
2008-12-14 12:33:00
love nothingbut skin on skin& accept itlike a deformed childheld tightlyin your armsfear notthe dull acheof a phantom limbbut cherishthe glorious flawto nibble the applein spite ofthe wormRC Edrington
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Zygote is Back
2008-12-10 18:46:00
Zygote In My Coffee is back on the small press scene. Brian plans to publish two online issues and two hard copy journals per year. The first revived Zygote issue is planned to appear sometime in January 2009.Brian will also be publishing several chapbooks of poetry per year. My chapbook, Apocalypse Generation is slated for publication sometime in 2009.RC Edrington
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Pallets
2008-11-09 18:16:00
I still can't sleep in a bed. After all the flop houses, shooting galleries, garage floors, and camp sites along some battered highway...I guess I just never learned the comforts of a bed.When I decided to clean myself up this time...dope free 2 years this month...I went and got me a decent apartment. Something clean. Something I could call my own. Whether I would be able to turn it into a home or not, I wasn't quite sure. But I was willing to give it try. Hell by this point in my life there were few things I hadn't tried. Making a home should be easy. Right? Well I'll let you know when or if it happens.One of the first things I went out and bought for this new era of my life was a big queen size bed. It collects dust in the corner over by the window. I can count on two hands the number of times I have actually slept on that thing during the two years I have lived here. I am sure there is some psychological mish mash of an excuse for this, but I will be damned if I know or if I ...
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Presidential Election 2008
2008-11-04 22:55:00
Today I went and voted for...John McCain. My apologies to all you liberal elitist spread throughout the small press literary scene, who most likely pulled the lever for Obama.RC Edrington
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Cold November Ramble...
2008-11-01 20:41:00
* No thoughts on the election. Nope. Could careless whether you fools elect the socialist or the bumbling fool. Nothing short of armed revolution can fix this mess. And I have no desire to fix anything...* I like the cold. When it is cold, people are less likely to go outside for no reason. Less people outside means less people with the potential to knock on my door. People in general are overrated creatures. When I stopped needing dope, I stopped having a reason to deal with these creatures...* I have wild fantasies of moving to Alaska. The middle of nowhere. But while I have little need for people, I have a big need for pussy...so unless I develop a desire for farm animals, total isolation is out of the question.* Strange. Over the last year I have developed a strong aversion to sleeping in a bed. I have been piling blankets and sheets into a pallet on the floor next to the bed. My sleep is much deeper. Perhaps I am reverting back to my old flop house and crash pad days. Years wen...
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Dead Flies
2008-10-17 20:48:00
The small press literary community has lost another publisher. It has been announced that Zygote In My Coffee has folded. No reasons have been given, but then reasons are never really needed when you are dealing with poetry. No one supports poetry. There is no money to be made. I have long been an avid reader and fan of Zygote. It is sad to see it gone, for many reasons. The least of which is that they had planned to release my chapbook "Apocalypse Generation" in 2009. That won't be happening. I have no current plans to submit this chapbook to any other publisher.RC Edrington
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Ensenada
2008-10-16 03:41:00
I need to feel morethan this polluted bloodslow course thruthese sunken veinsI need to driftlike cigarette smokethru these rusty barsdown into thosemexican streetswarm myselfin the soft smearof morning sunlightas it slices opena fresh woundin the cloudsthat tumble likedrunken troubadoursonto the sandbut there are no doorsonly 4 cinder block walls& the insect-like hum of florescent lights as insomnia masturbates& moansin broken spanishwith toothpastein the next cellRC Edrington
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Dee Dee Ramone - Chinese Rocks
2008-09-30 06:33:00
RC Edrington
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Polluto Issue #3
2008-09-26 03:08:00
Polluto, the award winning quarterly magazine from the UK, has just published Issue #3. It is available now at: Polluto #3. This issue is titled: "Sex in the Time of VHS". Editor Adam Lowe writes, "Think about the relevance of love and relationships in a time of technological change and obsolescence; think about cybersex and teledildonics; think about technology and fetishism, and how the body integrates and changes the mechanical; think Videodrome meets the Marquis de Sade; think media culture, the flesh and desire; think pain, glory and perversion." Among other fine writing, this issues includes my column "Live Without A Net" as well as some of my select poems. Support the small press!RC Edrington

Coke Dealer's Gas Surcharge
2008-09-22 18:50:00
Cops: Indiana man passed along rising fuel costs to drug customersSEPTEMBER 18--Spiraling gas prices led an Indiana drug dealer to levy a fuel oil surcharge on customers purchasing cocaine, according to investigators. Anthony Salinas, 18, tacked on the gasoline surcharge when he sold a confidential police source coke on two occasions in June. While arranging one buy, Salinas told the source that a quarter-ounce of cocaine would cost $240--$215 for the drug itself and "$25.00 for gas money to deliver the cocaine," according to the court affidavit, a copy of which you'll find below. Salinas, a Hammond resident, was named last week in a two-count felony information charging him with "dealing in cocaine."Post Source: The Smoking Gun. View 4 page document.RC Edrington
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Note To Kindred Scribblers
2008-09-13 12:56:00
If ink were outlawed and you were required to use your own blood to scribble your words, how many of you would still be writing? Very few. Which is why I read very few of you, and associate myself with even fewer. As for myself, I am quite certain my blood could be put to better use than scribbling broken prose diatribes, poorly disguised as poetry, concerning my boredom with god and the very concept of humanity itself. I am not certain which is more absurd, the fact I still write poetry or the fact you still do. Who is more foolish? The jester tumbling before a crowd, or the crowd itself pissing themselves at the absurdity of his movements?RC Edrington
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Delivery 2 a.m.
2008-09-12 15:44:00
shadows ooze wetblood likemelt togethera fuck & suckrape sceneagainst the looselydrawn candlelit drapesoutsiderain licksmy freshly shaven headas the rusty lawn chairsags likeher drunken tricksmiddle-age dick& I wait until this bloodyshadow play blasts back intothe emptinessfrom which it was birthedwith the violent flickof a motel light switchwhile she runs barefootfrom the dooralmost trippingon her white bra strapacross the slick sidewalk& tosses two $20 billsinto my lap& only asksdid you bring a rig?RC Edrington
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ACLU To Auction Henry Rollins Tix
2008-09-11 05:17:00
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is auctioning off a pair of tickets and meet & greet passes to the Henry Rollins Recountdown tour for a date of your choice!Current bid is at $1,000 (a far cry from he $2 I paid to see him do his spoken word thing circa his Polio Flesh days.) All proceeds go to as good a cause as any: the ACLU. So if your up for parting with some of that post punk coinage, you can place your bid by going here: Henry Rollins Meet & Greet.RC Edrington
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RadioTime
2008-08-29 00:47:00
RadioTime is an online radio service that allows you to listen to your favorite AM/FM stations and Talk Show Hosts on thousands of stations. The benefit of this is if your local market no longer carries your favorite broadcaster, you can listen to them in another market. Another plus for this service is that since almost all radio hosts are now syndicated across the country, you are not limited to the times you have to listen. For example, I like to listen to the Phil Hendrie show, but in my market it comes on at 1 a.m. All I do is log into RadioTime and it will tell me not only when the show will be replayed on an affiliate, but it lets me connect directly to that affiliate without having to search out individual radio station websites.It also allows you to create your own list of presets (see below). So in effect, this free service allows you to program your own radio station to be listened to at your leisure. Check it out....RC Edrington

Do You Wanna Know A Secret?
2008-08-11 14:03:00
Ask anyone over the age of 45 who was even remotely apart of the chaos that was the West Coast music scene of the late 70s what they thought of the band The Germs and your most likely answer will be they were a complete joke. The band couldn't play, Darby's vocals rarely made it into the microphone, and the only reason kids showed up to what few gigs The Germs actually played was to fuck shit up. The Germs only became semi-legendary by the second wave of punk kids searching frantically in desperation for some romantic hero.Punk wasn't about heroes. Nor was it about leaving any kind of scar on art, literature, fashion, music or culture. Punk was born to finally achieve the total annihilation of the self taking with it everything around it.Darby Crash, lead screamer of The Germs, almost got that part right. But don't buy into the hype surrounding this new revisionist history flick about The Germs called "What We Do Is Secret ". Darby's allegedly genius 5 year plan to rise from now...

Untitled
2008-08-10 10:26:00
hot oil bleedsfrom the busted gutof a junked motorcyclelike mascaradown a bruised cheekin the dustbeer bottles scatteredlike gold teethswallow the sunflowersI rememberthe bloody bloomof ocotillohemorrhaging againsta cement graymonsoon sky& your facealmost forgotten nowlike some sacred languagelost to the windRC Edrington
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You're Ugly
2008-08-10 03:08:00
RC Edrington
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Random Scribbles
2008-07-17 08:11:00
* I am currently putting the final polish on a series of pieces for a new chapbook. The working title is "Apocalypse Generation". Brian Fugett at Zygote In My Coffee has read thru 10 of the poems and has expressed interest to publish. I will be getting him a final draft in the next few days.* Sometimes I get the feeling I have been writing the same poem over and over for the last 15 or so years. It remains imperfect and flawed. Now that I have been reasonably clean for a nice stretch, it may be time for some deep soul searching that will bring about not only a complete style change, but subject matter change as well.* Summer has always been a very unproductive time for me as far as writing is concerned. Seems I'd rather be spending my time involved in things instead of just thinking about things I have done in the past.* I recently finished watching a documentary on Dee Dee Ramone. Seems he still feels cheated that Johnny Thunders stole "Chinese Rock" from him and only gave him par...
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Vinerepylenoma
2008-07-11 02:54:00
Vinerepylenoma is a feature length documentary currently in production which revisits the underground music scene of Los Angeles during the 1980's. The documentary primarily focuses on the music and features never before seen live concerts of bands like X, Tex & the Horseheads, Concrete Blonde, Meat Puppets, Minutemen, Beat Farmers, Fishbone, Black Flag, Violent Femmes and many more. It celebrates the raw energy of an era often forgotten and very poorly documented.I am not sure what happened to this project. I first heard about it a couple of years ago. Aside from this trailer and the archived website no other information is available. Anyway here is a taste of history:RC Edrington
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