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- Six Songs that Remind Me of the ‘Horrible Old Movies’ on Channel 44′s ‘Creature Feature’ (hosted by Doctor Paul Bearer) May 20, 2013If you grew up in the Tampa Bay area in the 1970′s, as I did, we had our own version of Krusty the Clown: Doctor Paul Bearer, a chain-smoking cadaver with a glass-eye that pointed the wrong way (and nearly popped out of his head), wearing a cravat. I worshipped him lavishly, and not just because he lip-synced to the Tom Lehrer classic “Poisoning Pigeons in t […]John Sheppard
- 1585 May 20, 2013The average cold lasts 5-7 days; the flu can leave you feeling dragged out for a couple of weeks. Even a broken bone heals eventually. I have had daily chronic pain since 2009. 4 years, 4 months and 19 days. 225 weeks. 1585 days. Almost 40,000 hours of nearly non-stop aching, burning, gnawing, itchy, lancinating, pulsing, radiating, shooting, spreading, tear […]G Bitch
- The Monster Inside May 20, 2013I parallel parked with, I thought, impressive efficiency, quickly getting out of the way of a pickup pulling a trailer, but the truck slowed to a stop alongside me and a college-age white guy in the passenger seat motioned for me to roll down my window. “Hey, man,” the scraggly kid said, motioning vaguely behind us, speaking in a mock-sorrowful tone, “I thin […]Derek Bridges
- Programming Note May 13, 2013B2L2 continues to publish on a monthly schedule, but now the month’s posts will be published in clusters of 2-4, roughly once a week, instead of all at once. […]Derek Bridges
- Monsters May 13, 2013[…]Gerald Cannon
- Narasimha May 13, 2013As a kid, I was fascinated with the tales of the ten avatars of the Hindu god Vishnu. Brahma creates, Siva destroys and Vishnu is the man in the middle who preserves, he keeps the universe going. According to Hindu mythology, there are ten times when things got so bad on Earth that Vishnu had to take on a mortal form and show up to, you know, preserve. Retur […]Maitri
- Five Monsters May 13, 20131. The Alien There are so many great monster movies. Monsters from the deep. Monsters from outer space. Monsters from the laboratory. The walking, crawling, shuffling, sprinting dead. My favorite monster movies? Off the top of my head? Nosferatu. Frankenstein. Godzilla. Alien and Aliens. Let’s see, that’s one vampire, one experiment gone horribly wrong, one […]John Hicks
- Bride of Svengoolie May 13, 2013In first grade, while doing a Svengoolie impression in the mirror in the bathroom, I was discovered by a teacher who moonlighted as an actor at the Robert Young Repertory Theater, a leftover from when Smithville was a resort town, a place where Chicagoans would go to avoid the summer city heat. The teacher was hiding in the middle stall, cloistered for a mom […]John Sheppard
- Where in the hell is Jimmy Gabacho? May 13, 2013Rumors have been flying across the internet regarding the whereabouts of Jimmy Gabacho. He hasn’t posted anything since March and was last seen in a seedy airport in San Juan, Puerto Rico, getting ready to catch the Cape Air flight 269 heading to the West Indies. When this reporter spotted him, he declined to comment about his recent activities, which set […]Jimmy Gabacho
- Television April 17, 2013[…]Gerald Cannon
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Single Ladies Social & Pleasure Club parade with the Hot 8 Brass Band (2012).
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