Which canonical writers would enjoy fast food in 2008? Elliot would hate the vulgarity, of course. He wouldn’t even go to Shaw’s, opting instead to send a female banking intern on runs to Whole Foods. Pound, though, would love the unifying force of McDonald’s–the order. An entire nation acting in concert. He couldn’t resist. He’d […]

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How long ’till Bonny Rait falls off the wagon? Will she fall off the wagon before she releases another record? Will she ever release another record? Did she ever go on the wagon in the first place? No one could touch her in the mid-90s, she got more juke-box play than anyone else at Warwick […]

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The one pictured above is my favorite–to find it, you have to leave the beaten path to ascend a hill that leads to a fence along the highway.  And there rising from the unmowed grass is our noseless friend — lets call him Keith –  who’s waited maybe a century for his moment in the […]

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Statement Against Boomers:
You didn’t invent sex out of wedlock, F. Scott Fitzgerald did. Coltrane’s Greatest Hits will not make the dinner party any less insufferable. Ditto for Joni Mitchell. Your anti-war activism during Vietam did not define the 20th century, the hoola-hoop did. No matter how much cash you raise for Hillary, you can’t obscure […]

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West Coast fiction, West Coast rap (both the thug anthems and falsely poetic underground shit), West Coast art galleries, West Coast state legislatures–none of them turn my cranks. Everyone out there’s either running from something back East or has ancestors who did. Give me Boston, NY, DC, even Baltimore if it comes to that. […]

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I don’t usually post this late. Just wanted to apologize. Things got crazy at work today. I’m gainfully unemployed, so you can imagine how tough my fake job must be, if it keeps  me from issuing a Rumbling until just before 11 p.m. Nothing good happens after midnight. But they all get prettier. Who sang […]

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I have never watched a full episode of Seinfeld.  That’s not a mark of distinction, just a fact.  Still, I heard Jerry Seinfeld interviewed on the radio today, and he said: “Economy is essential to all good art.”  So is a willful withdrawal from the ‘marketplace of ideas,’ or ‘the national conversation,’ or whatever the […]

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American readers real and imagined–with apologies to the Fins, Latvians, Brits and South American readers who visit this site…I just don’t know enough about your legislative processes to include you here–please write your congressmen in support of a YouTube Quality Uploading Statute. I get sick and tired of watching cell-phone clips on the site. They’re […]

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I hereby renounce my former anti-statism ’cause they’re just not cool. They’re all from the Midwest. I’m sure I’ll pick it up again once I start feeling “bitter.” In pint news, bitters are highly overrated. Pilsners pack the biggest wallop for the smallest dime.

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Though a committed anti-statist I’d like nothing more than a job as a public transit operator underground. You get TV, iced coffee and–from what I can glean–very little responsibility. I know this is a hackneyed argument, but cliches often get a bad rap. All too often.

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my ‘couch’ is now a large coil of springs and hacked up wood waiting to give someone tetanus. destroying a piece of furniture is like butchering an animal (or rather, that’s the image that kept springing to mind as i dismantled the slightly singed motherfucker).
where does RI’s ‘hope’ flag come from? i’ve found circumstantial evidence […]

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Julian Schnabel’s paintings are terrible. His films are great. There’s no shape to what he does on the canvass. There’s lots to what he does on screen. To put it provincially, my kid could paint like him. I’d let my kid act in one of his films, provided he didn’t try to screw us out […]

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or a true story ’bout fucking with weird mojo…
we here at MOL, along with the inimitable natasha brooks-sperduti, have been working on a kind of psychic map of providence. one of my main interests in the project has been the occurence of fires in prov. as relates to numerology and zeitgeist (roughly meaning the spirit of […]

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I despise Back Bay homemakers skipping along Newbury St. with their yoga mats. I’d like to think it’s because I’m a principled anti-statist, and these women vote for Dirty War Dems. But really I’m just jealous. I want their spare time. I want their money. I want their wine cellars. But now’s a good time […]

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Did Mazzy Star have any other singles besides “Fade Into You”? That’s a great anthem for bar-flies in their early thirties, and I just discovered it in my late twenties. Maybe I’m ahead of the curve! Wouldn’t be the first time. I predicted Gen. Wesley Clark’s ascendacy to LIC (Left-wing Interventionist Czar) at the Pentagon. I […]

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