Category Archives: Rambles

Pablo Marìn, August 11, 2014

Posted on September 13, 2014 by Brown

After a few hours of bombarding myself in the big city with big-screen big-finance digital entertainments – a surprisingly, and even somewhat embarrassingly, for how I thought I self-identified aesthetically, tolerable experience – I shot myself between the termini of … Continue reading →

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Whirlwind in the Dust Jacket

Posted on May 21, 2013 by Brown

One of my most memorable experiences as the nonremunerated, lazy, undisciplined and unpublished writer that I still am was typing an email reply to a friend 1.7 thousand miles to my west while also facing in that direction one frigid … Continue reading →

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Zero Interest in Dirty Malarkey

Posted on February 26, 2013 by Brown

Plenty of solid criticism has circulated regarding Zero Dark Thirty since before it was even released specifically bemoaning its (gritty, of course) celebration of torture despite both the illegality of the practice and the fact that the particular torture depicted … Continue reading →

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A Sale of Two Toxicities

Posted on December 10, 2012 by Brown

Originally submitted to a Latin American Studies course in April 2012. Flaws: egregiously conflates MDMA with the “methamphetamine” that makes up the MA half of its abbreviation (the statement containing the conflation in question is true, but requires further documentation); … Continue reading →

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Bernie & The Avengers: A Case Study of American Summer Superheroes

Posted on December 7, 2012 by Brown

Originally written early summer 2012, prior to the atrocious Batman film and the associated theater shooting. Even though The Avengers is bland, forgettable, recycled, predictable and unengaging, at a certain point – probably the climactic battle sequence – one comes … Continue reading →

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Self-Helpless Guide to Social Life

Posted on December 6, 2012 by Brown

Originally posted to The Pink Wreck in May 2012. Perhaps like the non-practicing pansexual engendering agent of these familiar shapes you have at times been cast as the lead role for a script in which the main character approaches a … Continue reading →

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I Talk to the Wind Tunnel of 21st Century Schizoid Men

Posted on December 4, 2012 by Brown

Originally posted to The Pink Noise (now The Pink Wreck, now RIP?) in October 2010. This one goes out to all the people in the house, outside the house (residing without progenitors, enjoying terrestrial delights, released from sanatorium), in transit … Continue reading →

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