https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/user-45-daniel-ridges en 2005-2012 shakespearesmonekys@gmail.com 42.65593 -71.33391 Tue, 09 Jun 2026 13:20:00 GMT yacs http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 70 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-3835-jesus https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-3835-jesus Jesus? Doctah Idges Mistah_Kurtz_HeDead: Daniel Ridges Sat, 01 Nov 2008 19:24:40 GMT /section-93-mistah-kurtz-hedead-daniel-ridges#comments 8 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/3835 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/3835 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A3835 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-3872-photo-to-accompany-my-poem-help-the-water-is-rising.-pleas. https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-3872-photo-to-accompany-my-poem-help-the-water-is-rising.-pleas. I have nothing else to say. Please read the poem; then, talk to me. You don't ever talk to me. Photo to accompany my poem, "Help! The Water is Rising. Pleas." Doctah Idges Mistah_Kurtz_HeDead: Daniel Ridges Sat, 01 Nov 2008 19:24:40 GMT /section-93-mistah-kurtz-hedead-daniel-ridges#comments 2 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/3872 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/3872 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A3872 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-2365-beer-haiku https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-2365-beer-haiku Cerveza buenafour-ninety-nine at Aldidrink & write; repeat anstey Daniel's DMV Work Tue, 10 Jul 2007 02:29:30 GMT /section-94-daniel-s-dmv-work#comments 1 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/2365 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/2365 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A2365 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-4829-two-haiku-for-june https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-4829-two-haiku-for-june I can't even put into words the stress that has enveloped my life over the past few months. I'm ready to let go Doctah Idges Mistah_Kurtz_HeDead: Daniel Ridges Fri, 15 Jun 2007 13:17:22 GMT /section-93-mistah-kurtz-hedead-daniel-ridges#comments 3 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/4829 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/4829 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A4829 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-4745-pushing-the-envelope https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-4745-pushing-the-envelope Eh, crap!!! I'm drunk and crude. Love me, anyway; or, love me because... I'm infatuated with semicolons: I've made semicolons my bitch! And that ain't no small feat Doctah Idges Mistah_Kurtz_HeDead: Daniel Ridges Sun, 10 Jun 2007 00:49:52 GMT /section-93-mistah-kurtz-hedead-daniel-ridges#comments 3 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/4745 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/4745 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A4745 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-4621-it-s-beentoo-long-a-short-story https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-4621-it-s-beentoo-long-a-short-story This is a semi-autobiographical fiction piece written in the format of a Chicago Reader personals submission. This is the closest I've come to a publishable piece, but any comments of suggestions are welcomed Doctah Idges Mistah_Kurtz_HeDead: Daniel Ridges Sun, 03 Jun 2007 19:11:58 GMT /section-93-mistah-kurtz-hedead-daniel-ridges#comments 2 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/4621 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/4621 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A4621 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-2369-the-mechanics-of-sex-and-life https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-2369-the-mechanics-of-sex-and-life I want to write my life storyon the inside of your eyelids;Line seven digitsacross the small of your back.Your thighs will be my tablets,waiting for a masterpieceto finally emerge. Our lives,once stagnant, common nouns,will lurch daily(until they do it unprompted)into one beatific verb Latifa Daniel's DMV Work Fri, 10 Aug 2007 21:04:11 GMT /section-94-daniel-s-dmv-work#comments 3 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/2369 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/2369 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A2369 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-4571-making-friends-with-the-italian-consulate-in-chicago. https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-4571-making-friends-with-the-italian-consulate-in-chicago. I had an actual phone conversation with the gentleman with whom I am corresponding in these emails right after I sent my first email. He was a giant cock in the conversation -understandably so. The funny thing is, I did an about face in the middle of the conversation with him after I realized the error in interpretation that my Au Pair made (and, in turn, I made), and apologized. Now, it's just plain fun Doctah Idges Mistah_Kurtz_HeDead: Daniel Ridges Thu, 31 May 2007 12:08:49 GMT /section-93-mistah-kurtz-hedead-daniel-ridges#comments 4 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/4571 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/4571 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A4571 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-2359-the-number-six https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-2359-the-number-six When three in a row,put the Ouija board away!We'll tell jokes instead Tracey Daniel's DMV Work Tue, 22 May 2007 13:43:46 GMT /section-94-daniel-s-dmv-work#comments 1 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/2359 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/2359 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A2359 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-2383-my-basement-is-a-golgotha https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-2383-my-basement-is-a-golgotha When thinking of deathone buries himselfin a shroud of pixels,receipts,and unfinished paperwork. There are three of us hereseeking salvationsomewhere along this cluttered desert. I am the thief, invertedgranted respect and forgivenessby my Neighbor,waiting for the messagewhispered through the skull'shollow eye Doctah Idges Daniel's DMV Work Wed, 02 May 2007 11:35:13 GMT /section-94-daniel-s-dmv-work#comments 0 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/2383 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/2383 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A2383 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-2352-caity. https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-2352-caity. four ay yem: tinyhand snakes past my chin, grabs myear; sleep, little one! Shannon McEwen Daniel's DMV Work Sat, 21 Apr 2007 02:46:19 GMT /section-94-daniel-s-dmv-work#comments 3 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/2352 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/2352 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A2352 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-2360-mary-magdelene https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-2360-mary-magdelene Mary staggersinto the partyand whispersI fucked Jesus Under her dressher flesh is splitfrom glass and razorsshe steals frommedicine cabinets of friends Sighing,she parts the crowdgoing forthtowards the ChivasRegal and anothernight's suffering. Jesus Rodriguezleans against the wall,arms folded, the wayhis Tio taught himfifteen years ago. He has a feelingthat a baby growsin his girl's belly,and this feelingis stronger than rice.It is stronger than the Latin Kings.It is stronger than the bleary-eyed magnetism drawing histired, damaged mother backhome every time. On the sofaSophie Perez leansin and giggles in timeto the drunken patoisof the guy she'll ... more u668857 Daniel's DMV Work Wed, 22 Aug 2007 13:34:07 GMT /section-94-daniel-s-dmv-work#comments 2 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/2360 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/2360 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A2360 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-2376-the-future-of-american-education https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-2376-the-future-of-american-education I am not that rose's keeper;a brother by any other nameis still related by marriage,or by a mother of another color. Point being No amount of Black&Tan choplogiccan keep the world from turningin our favor. There are kids inFrance who know they are fated toassembly line reality and the truthof the matter is if you follow me My child of kindergarten ageis multiplying two-columns,the tax-base of our school districtcould keep a small country running,and in ten years the schoolswill be run by the government. Education is going corporate, baby! My kids are going ... more Doctah Idges Daniel's DMV Work Fri, 20 Apr 2007 19:10:09 GMT /section-94-daniel-s-dmv-work#comments 0 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/2376 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/2376 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A2376 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-2353-help.-the-water-is-rising.-pleas. https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-2353-help.-the-water-is-rising.-pleas. James Brown saideach time you shakeyour best friend's handmay be the last time. Reckoning; apocalypsemight be swiftcompared to the death soupslowly rising in the living room. Pinned to the pointwhere two walls meet ceiling,that crevice cradles your headlike a caul. And all your grappling,denunciation of Faith and Forevergives way to a desperate scrambletowards Light and Absolution from Life's unheeded warnings. Please. Please. Please. I love You so Derma Kaput Daniel's DMV Work Fri, 20 Apr 2007 18:56:26 GMT /section-94-daniel-s-dmv-work#comments 1 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/2353 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/2353 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A2353 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-2374-her-knack-for-simple-poetry https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-2374-her-knack-for-simple-poetry She uses wordslike soul and truthwith reckless abandon;I remain grizzled:defining artwith eyes clenched,fists gripping nothingbut allowing everythingto sift through Doctah Idges Daniel's DMV Work Fri, 20 Apr 2007 18:44:29 GMT /section-94-daniel-s-dmv-work#comments 0 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/2374 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/2374 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A2374 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-2380-acrimony-cheese https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-2380-acrimony-cheese Bob Saget is a liar and a pervert!His voice comes to herfrom the McDonald's drive-thru speaker;he tells her things -not Columbine things, no.Information. He tellsher things. She smiles, and there is silence.She says at least she's not a dangerto herself or others;at least not now,not this week.She smiles: silence. Besides, she adds,it is October:the ground is getting too cold. I love her with the ferocityof a young boywho has never heardthe creak crunch of someonetearing herself from existence. She says she feels more comfortable with guys.The girls ... more starla Daniel's DMV Work Tue, 26 Feb 2008 09:40:16 GMT /section-94-daniel-s-dmv-work#comments 4 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/2380 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/2380 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A2380 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-2370-marriage-1 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-2370-marriage-1 At a family party, we mentioned getting a dog, exchanging surprised glances with one another at the amount of time that had elapsed since we first broached that topic. A few nights before that, we held each other and cried, lost and angry over the deaths of our mothers. The rhythm of the everyday pulses through us, making us sublime poets of life. Catch my gaze again, and let's begin another verse Doctah Idges Daniel's DMV Work Thu, 08 Mar 2007 04:28:01 GMT /section-94-daniel-s-dmv-work#comments 0 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/2370 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/2370 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A2370 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-2349-king-pain https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-2349-king-pain Jerry Simon walked into his kitchen, dropped his keys onto the counter, pushed the Play button on the answering machine, and began putting away groceries. He had three messages, one from Julie asking him to please stop smoking cigarettes in front of their son Samuel because he is asking why, if grandma died from smoking, how come daddy still smokes, and things are just too damned complicated right now to have to deal with any more stress205 Jerry pressed the Erase button. The next message was Julie again, but Jerry did not erase this one. She said that they needed ... more Doctah Idges Daniel's DMV Work Thu, 01 Mar 2007 22:28:55 GMT /section-94-daniel-s-dmv-work#comments 0 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/2349 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/2349 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A2349 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-2358-divorce https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-2358-divorce Sometimes we're ready to throw the roses outonto the asphalt where they will not grow,but unwillingly let their lives pigment the synthetic ground. Sometimes when the television is flickeringthrough the blinds,I imagine myself on the front lawn,straining to see you inside.I imagine you taking the baby in your arms,kissing your partner goodnight,the three of you ascending the stairs. I, with feet firmly rootedbetween blades of grass,croon dirges into the opaque sky. On this nightI imagine that I own Jupiter,the space gasses, and the strange natural beautyof Eastern European women; ... more Shannon McEwen Daniel's DMV Work Mon, 09 Apr 2007 16:35:30 GMT /section-94-daniel-s-dmv-work#comments 4 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/2358 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/2358 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A2358 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-2348-indian-summer https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-2348-indian-summer Wolf spider crouching behind two leaves in the yard; cricket's summer ends anstey Daniel's DMV Work Sun, 18 Feb 2007 06:22:20 GMT /section-94-daniel-s-dmv-work#comments 3 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/2348 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/2348 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A2348 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-2357-fortune-teller-a-ditty https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-2357-fortune-teller-a-ditty Government Grandpa death factoryInstitution Grandmother wineryIt's all just fine with me;I'm making money. Big-earred fool mincing wordsOrganizations divide the world into thirdsThe children are eating live birds;Grown-ups don't think it's funny. There's a veil over our eyes,a lock & key concealing our thighs,this morning I wasn't surprisedthat my eggs were runny. I'll find someone to go along with you;you, who're simultaneously gentile & Jew,buried in your pharoah's tomb,a bouncy baby mummy. Climb into my rum & coke,snort a line & take a toke,tell the latest nigger joke ... more Doctah Idges Daniel's DMV Work Fri, 16 Feb 2007 23:22:31 GMT /section-94-daniel-s-dmv-work#comments 0 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/2357 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/2357 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A2357 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-2345-in-the-margin-of-a-book-on-issa https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-2345-in-the-margin-of-a-book-on-issa Caity's breath recordsthe temperature; gaspingsmile for the wind. anstey Daniel's DMV Work Wed, 14 Feb 2007 16:23:25 GMT /section-94-daniel-s-dmv-work#comments 1 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/2345 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/2345 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A2345 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-2363-latin-kings https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-2363-latin-kings It was six thirty in the evening, December 31, 1987, and I was explaining to a girl that (it is not you -Lord no! It's me.) I could not hop on a CTA bus and go downtown with her to celebrate the New Year. It wasn't my parents. In fact, I was doing well in school and curbing my alcohol and drug use; they were practically pushing me out of the house that evening. My friends and I were in an in-between period then, due to my wanting to limit my intoxicant intake (pity, because if I were the ... more anstey Daniel's DMV Work Tue, 13 Feb 2007 15:45:32 GMT /section-94-daniel-s-dmv-work#comments 1 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/2363 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/2363 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A2363 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-2347-apex https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-2347-apex Her skin has aged; there is more of her than before; yet, he sees a girl anstey Daniel's DMV Work Sat, 10 Feb 2007 16:30:31 GMT /section-94-daniel-s-dmv-work#comments 1 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/2347 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/2347 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A2347 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-2364-chicago-story https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-2364-chicago-story I am droop lidToilet seat humorListless edgy crackerJazz type linguistBack alley rumble flowKerouac beat echoWithout the self-doubt. We today is stellarin our ignorance.We today is millionaires.We today is lost,tagged, tracked,boxed up, sent outand purchased by ourselves.Concrete defines us;wires connect,and any hint of humanis instantly denied.We today has checked out.We today is fiiiineand in control.We is iron lyrics,harsh and yellow.Too indifferent to make us understood. We remain small and afraidand take out onto Clinton Av. :gray and utterly humanand inhospitable to yellowteeth and $1.00 newspapers.We ... more anstey Daniel's DMV Work Sun, 11 Feb 2007 03:55:42 GMT /section-94-daniel-s-dmv-work#comments 2 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/2364 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/2364 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A2364 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-2381-bmx-vicki https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-2381-bmx-vicki I made the B honor roll on the last report card of seventh grade. I had been bugging my parents for months to buy me a BMX bike; the kind I knew we could not afford; any make, actually, that would make me an equal in the eyes of my contemporaries. When my father, a homicide detective, arrived home from his second job as night-shift security at the 7UP plant carrying the chrome and red Columbia Pro Am (a shameless Redline knockoff), I could not complain. I could, however, remove the chain guard, the decals, and any other evidence of ... more Mistah_Kurtz_HeDead Daniel's DMV Work Thu, 08 Feb 2007 17:23:29 GMT /section-94-daniel-s-dmv-work#comments 0 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/2381 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/2381 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A2381 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-2351-revelation-at-the-barnes-noble https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-2351-revelation-at-the-barnes-noble "Fate isdirectly connectedwith faith,"she said,winking overthe spine. The hardbound authorityof this particular Nietzchegripped between herblack fingernailsstill could not deflectthe idiocy of the statement. But, my god,that ass;sweet Jesusin heaven,that ass She said she mightbe open to athreesome;maybe let medo her from behindwhile she suckssome random guy'scock. I'd be into it, too,if she weren't flippingthrough an Us Weeklywhen she said it Leanne Daniel's DMV Work Tue, 15 Apr 2008 20:33:15 GMT /section-94-daniel-s-dmv-work#comments 2 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/2351 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/2351 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A2351