https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/category-1628-week-of-nbsp-03-02-09 en 2005-2012 shakespearesmonekys@gmail.com 42.65593 -71.33391 Wed, 10 Jun 2026 18:19:58 GMT yacs http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 70 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-11022-fractalcide https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-11022-fractalcide Diaphanous Heliotrope Mercieca, Andrew MosquitoBytes Volume 07: Irradiated mDNA Retrovirus - 2006 Tue, 10 Mar 2009 09:09:01 GMT /section-709-mosquitobytes-volume-07-irradiated-mdna#comments 2 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/11022 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/11022 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A11022 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-11027-americana https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-11027-americana "welcome to Cracker Barrel!" streaming Muddy through my iPod, "Train Fare Home Blues", i'm the one member of this wolfpack possessing no Lebanon heme. it's no consequence in the stillframe shots day-to-day. they and a blue-shirted family of strangers say i'm welcome.   amerafrican rhythms snake into my eardrums, wireless ghosthowls of dead-'n-gone Mississippi jukegods. and Waters' eureka of it being no crime to carry brownskin notes into the white man's home jump to mind. table for six, five-minute wait. trademark: half restaurant, half store, all country.  truer words never spoken, i browse through merchandise unmistakably Dixie and Midwestern. laptop-large Hershey bars, assorted distractions for Stepford youth made in China. and sniff my way through Yankee candles, remembering how my Appalachian grandparents never crossed a border and achieved downhome with callused hands, lumbago and a Bible by their bedside.  exclusive albums from Dolly and Kenny, a century of music 'tween 'em with fifty large in botox and airbrushing.  it sure do take a ton of jack to look that cheap. next in line.  i feel more welcome already. note more smiling ethnic folk there these days, waiting tables or to be served. lilywhite got kinda legislated outta the swellin' Bible Belt bottom line a ways back, made them proprieters add a hug to the menu. they guarantee colorblindness save for green now.   unless, of course, you sang at the Opry here and there. now we sit, preparin' for comfort food in hardbacked wood chairs.   the staff's attentive, adhesive to our requests for iced tea and breadgoods lickety-split. i already know my selection: chicken-fried steak, that ol' Tejas legend, brown gravy, mashed taters, green beans, corn and fried apples.  take me back to my ancestral kitchen. i'll eat like a king while wonderin' to myself if Obama ever had to wait behind a crew of anonymous wonderbreads before aspiring to President.  my girlfriend nudges me to remove my Bluetooth, banishing Chicago from the table.  i comply just as our feast is laid out, and we grab utensils, pray and prepare for our Rockwell portrait with one catch: white cream gravy. ... more Pablo Just another presto-digitator Thu, 05 Mar 2009 07:47:22 GMT /section-445-just-another-presto-digitator#comments 0 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/11027 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/11027 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A11027 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-11025-oisin-and-niamh https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-11025-oisin-and-niamh I looked! I looked! All the moment long her chains enchanted; forever I was changed. Her eyes! Her eyes blinded Oisin's. No hound or horse, no kinsman's hand could steady my stand. The earth had stopped. Banished and abandoned; all bonds were broke. Now heedless of home, nothing held. Her grace was my grave, my groan of love. There was nothing now but the name of Niamh. I craved her calls; at her bidding came. She spoke her spells, then all was spinning. We wandered waves far away; the faery fathoms carried my fate to the lovesick Land of Lasting Youth. Long I lingered everlasting in her clutch and clasp; I held her close and Niamh nourished me. Full of need, I wept for weakness and worshipped her till time returned and I woke trembling still stricken but restored somehow. Renewed I knew all mysteries unknown. ... more u668857 The Personal Space of U668857 Wed, 04 Mar 2009 13:47:46 GMT /section-449-the-personal-space-of-u668857#comments 0 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/11025 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/11025 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A11025 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-11024-desert-storms https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-11024-desert-storms Diaphanous Heliotrope Mercieca, Andrew MosquitoBytes Volume 07: Irradiated mDNA Retrovirus - 2006 Tue, 03 Mar 2009 06:39:08 GMT /section-709-mosquitobytes-volume-07-irradiated-mdna#comments 0 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/11024 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/11024 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A11024 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-11023-somnambulant-wisdom https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-11023-somnambulant-wisdom Diaphanous Heliotrope Mercieca, Andrew MosquitoBytes Volume 07: Irradiated mDNA Retrovirus - 2006 Tue, 03 Mar 2009 06:38:24 GMT /section-709-mosquitobytes-volume-07-irradiated-mdna#comments 0 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/11023 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/11023 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A11023 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-11021-pondering https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-11021-pondering Diaphanous Heliotrope Mercieca, Andrew MosquitoBytes Volume 07: Irradiated mDNA Retrovirus - 2006 Tue, 03 Mar 2009 06:36:09 GMT /section-709-mosquitobytes-volume-07-irradiated-mdna#comments 0 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/11021 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/11021 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A11021 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-11020-servant https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-11020-servant Diaphanous Heliotrope Mercieca, Andrew MosquitoBytes Volume 07: Irradiated mDNA Retrovirus - 2006 Tue, 03 Mar 2009 06:35:01 GMT /section-709-mosquitobytes-volume-07-irradiated-mdna#comments 0 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/11020 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/11020 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A11020