Tell me this: What’s a blind-ass Mexican—on either side of the fence—to do?
You’ll say: “Hug a cactus.”
I’ll say: “If I wanted to do that, I’d give my ex wife a call.”
You’ll say: “Buy a donkey.”
I’ll say: “Why would I do that when I have an ass standing right here, in front of me?”
Then, trying to be serious, and helpful, and practical, you’ll say: “Get a seeing-eye dog.”
And I’ll say: “No, thanks, I’ve had enough of bitches jerking me around.”
Can I get an amen?!
As luck would have it, Jesus is at the Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf on Sunset, across the street from the DGA in West Hollywood. Fortunately, he isn’t incognito—we are so blessed!
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Echo Lake, the new novel by Letitia Trent, concerns the time spent by a mother and daughter in the community of Heartshorne, Oklahoma. The mother, Connie, fled the town as a teenager for initially undisclosed reasons.
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A boy watches a television program with his mother. The program follows an elderly lady in a beige pantsuit as she interviews the impoverished on sidewalks. One of the three women interviewed screams at Jesus
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Douglas Kearney’s Patter is a book of various and inventive forms, the title of which plays on the Latin for father and on the sound of little feet, suggesting, too, a verbal ease that seems deliberately at odds with the book’s difficult subject matter.
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William T. Vollmann From Last Stories and Other Stories by William T. Vollmann. Reprinted
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The arm rests in what looks like a child’s casket. The casket rests atop Dean’s coffee table in the living room of his one-bedroom apartment. Dean stands beside the table, his eyes roaming over the remains. A navy blue silk handkerchief covers the severed end.
Continue readingA little person revolution is well underway. TLC plays host to numerous shows chronicling the lives of the little. Lifetime: Television for Women wanted in, and produced “Little Women LA.” Clever! Surely, once A&E finds little duck hunters, bounty hunters or realtors
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When we hear the term unaccompanied minors, we imagine young travelers ushered on and off airplanes by nurturing flight attendants, wearing wing pins and given extra snacks during flights so they know they are cared for.
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