http://www.greatsociety.org The chap with wings there. Five rounds rapid. Wed, 24 Apr 2013 13:58:33 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.greatsociety.org/?p=3094 http://www.greatsociety.org/?p=3094#comments Wed, 24 Apr 2013 13:58:33 +0000 nacho http://www.greatsociety.org/?p=3094 #leftcontainerBox { float:left; position: fixed; top: 60%; left: 70px; } #leftcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; clear:both; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; padding-bottom:2px; } #bottomcontainerBox { height: 30px; width:50%; padding-top:1px; } #bottomcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; height: 30px; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; } A House in Taos — poetry. Something Popped in my Lower Abdomen when I Was Peeing Just Then — memoir Remind Me Not to Kill Again — thriller It’s Not My Blood — memoir/family stories The Overt Shenanigan — collected essays I Seriously Can’t Spell Convenience. Like, Even When You Spell It for Me — [...]]]> http://www.greatsociety.org/?feed=rss2&p=3094 0 http://www.greatsociety.org/?p=2406 http://www.greatsociety.org/?p=2406#comments Thu, 18 Apr 2013 14:45:53 +0000 nacho http://www.greatsociety.org/?p=2406 #leftcontainerBox { float:left; position: fixed; top: 60%; left: 70px; } #leftcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; clear:both; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; padding-bottom:2px; } #bottomcontainerBox { height: 30px; width:50%; padding-top:1px; } #bottomcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; height: 30px; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; } About a year ago, I discovered Slavery Footprint, which tracks the “virtual” slaves behind our posh lives here in the world’s last, great empire. Because I’m a Luddite who wears the same clothes for 20 years (or until they fall to pieces like some sort of lunatic castaway leaping around on the shore of an [...]]]> http://www.greatsociety.org/?feed=rss2&p=2406 0 http://www.greatsociety.org/?p=3058 http://www.greatsociety.org/?p=3058#comments Fri, 12 Apr 2013 14:22:02 +0000 nacho http://www.greatsociety.org/?p=3058 #leftcontainerBox { float:left; position: fixed; top: 60%; left: 70px; } #leftcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; clear:both; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; padding-bottom:2px; } #bottomcontainerBox { height: 30px; width:50%; padding-top:1px; } #bottomcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; height: 30px; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; } Between 1992-1995, I stole $30,000 from the County, and it felt good. The County started this pilot composting program. They hired this guy — some wide-eyed hippie motherfucker with a creeper mustache — and pushed these cheap plastic composters on the Clintonian neo-yuppies of suburban Maryland. These were the younger years of the armchair environmentalist [...]]]> http://www.greatsociety.org/?feed=rss2&p=3058 1 http://www.greatsociety.org/?p=3073 http://www.greatsociety.org/?p=3073#comments Sun, 31 Mar 2013 20:59:14 +0000 nacho http://www.greatsociety.org/?p=3073 #leftcontainerBox { float:left; position: fixed; top: 60%; left: 70px; } #leftcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; clear:both; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; padding-bottom:2px; } #bottomcontainerBox { height: 30px; width:50%; padding-top:1px; } #bottomcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; height: 30px; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; } Jabba and Slave Leia Cosplay. Presented without comment.]]> http://www.greatsociety.org/?feed=rss2&p=3073 0 http://www.greatsociety.org/?p=3081 http://www.greatsociety.org/?p=3081#comments Tue, 12 Mar 2013 13:22:24 +0000 nacho http://www.greatsociety.org/?p=3081 #leftcontainerBox { float:left; position: fixed; top: 60%; left: 70px; } #leftcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; clear:both; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; padding-bottom:2px; } #bottomcontainerBox { height: 30px; width:50%; padding-top:1px; } #bottomcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; height: 30px; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; } I have finally completed my 20 year study on why women think it’s acceptable to stick their fingers up your ass. The results are below. I first encountered this phenomenon in high school when Natasha, the chain-smoking, heroin-addicted gal I met behind the teacher’s parking lot wall every Tuesday and Thursday after Intro to Psych [...]]]> http://www.greatsociety.org/?feed=rss2&p=3081 1 http://www.greatsociety.org/?p=3065 http://www.greatsociety.org/?p=3065#comments Mon, 04 Mar 2013 12:02:54 +0000 nacho http://www.greatsociety.org/?p=3065 #leftcontainerBox { float:left; position: fixed; top: 60%; left: 70px; } #leftcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; clear:both; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; padding-bottom:2px; } #bottomcontainerBox { height: 30px; width:50%; padding-top:1px; } #bottomcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; height: 30px; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; } I was in New York with friends in the early 90′s shortly after I cranked out the second half of the Boble. At the time, I was running a tiny little publishing company called Purple Publications, where I put together homemade chapbooks and sold them for around $5 a pop.  The Boble was my top [...]]]> http://www.greatsociety.org/?feed=rss2&p=3065 4 http://www.greatsociety.org/?p=3062 http://www.greatsociety.org/?p=3062#comments Mon, 25 Feb 2013 18:19:59 +0000 nacho http://www.greatsociety.org/?p=3062 #leftcontainerBox { float:left; position: fixed; top: 60%; left: 70px; } #leftcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; clear:both; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; padding-bottom:2px; } #bottomcontainerBox { height: 30px; width:50%; padding-top:1px; } #bottomcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; height: 30px; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; } I figure that I can’t die until I’ve lived longer than the following people: Jesus Christ (33 — success!) Mom (46) Mohammed (62) Dad (69…uh…dude) Siddhartha (80)]]> http://www.greatsociety.org/?feed=rss2&p=3062 0 http://www.greatsociety.org/?p=3055 http://www.greatsociety.org/?p=3055#comments Tue, 19 Feb 2013 20:56:29 +0000 nacho http://www.greatsociety.org/?p=3055 #leftcontainerBox { float:left; position: fixed; top: 60%; left: 70px; } #leftcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; clear:both; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; padding-bottom:2px; } #bottomcontainerBox { height: 30px; width:50%; padding-top:1px; } #bottomcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; height: 30px; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; } I was the third generation of my family to go to our eye doctor, Dr. Bradley. A Navy man! Old Commander Bradley! He’ll fix you right up. He worked on my grandparents, their kids, and then we hit my generation and his one time humble office had turned into a bustling, popular practice with four [...]]]> http://www.greatsociety.org/?feed=rss2&p=3055 0 http://www.greatsociety.org/?p=3048 http://www.greatsociety.org/?p=3048#comments Fri, 08 Feb 2013 13:42:52 +0000 nacho http://www.greatsociety.org/?p=3048 #leftcontainerBox { float:left; position: fixed; top: 60%; left: 70px; } #leftcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; clear:both; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; padding-bottom:2px; } #bottomcontainerBox { height: 30px; width:50%; padding-top:1px; } #bottomcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; height: 30px; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; } The question asked one happy hour was: If you could go back and give your 18 year old self one piece of advice, what would it be? Everyone had the usual answers like invest in Google or whatever. I think that’s the 40 year old in all of us talking. I think we should pause [...]]]> http://www.greatsociety.org/?feed=rss2&p=3048 1 http://www.greatsociety.org/?p=3045 http://www.greatsociety.org/?p=3045#comments Fri, 25 Jan 2013 13:16:10 +0000 nacho http://www.greatsociety.org/?p=3045 #leftcontainerBox { float:left; position: fixed; top: 60%; left: 70px; } #leftcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; clear:both; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; padding-bottom:2px; } #bottomcontainerBox { height: 30px; width:50%; padding-top:1px; } #bottomcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; height: 30px; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; } I learned my “haste makes waste” lesson from Catherine Tolnay, my 4th grade teacher at my Catholic grade school. And I hope she died a lonely death at the end of a hard, empty life. I had forgotten my tie one morning. My first time doing so, but I slept through my alarm and had [...]]]> http://www.greatsociety.org/?feed=rss2&p=3045 2