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CASE STUDY # 4 (pursuant to case study # 3 pursuant to case study # 2 pursuant to case # 1: The Donnie Diaries: an ode to Ipecac) Warning: the following rant may contain extremely offensive and disturbing images of… but I already said that last time didn’t I, and the...
Good Morning America, How are ya?
Okay, so I'm gonna be the guy that's narrating The Donnie Diaries (meta-fiction or no fiction) - ALL of them, but in the meantime, I'm using Confessions as parallels and contrasts. For example, his America, Augie's, the guy telling that story, is the America you see...
Lonnie and Donnie
Every now and then when the news hits an all time level of absurdity, my old Madison Ave. jingles come flooding back like a poor commercial you can't get out of your head - and mea culpa! - I'm guilty now too. Recidivism is what they call it if you're a criminal....
TRUMPLANDIA II (a further descent into madness)
CASE STUDY # 3 (pursuant to case study # 2 pursuant to case study # 1: The Donnie Diaries: an ode to Ipecac) Warning: the following rant may contain extremely offensive and disturbing images of... but I already said that last time didn't I? - a Lucy in the sky with...
TRUMPLANDIA (a descent into madness)
TRUMPLANDIA (a descent into madness) CASE STUDY # 2 (pursuant to case # 1 - The Donnie Diaries: an ode to Ipecac) Warning: the following rant may contain extremely offensive and disturbing images of logorrhea, hebefrenia and dissociation, contrasted by excessive...
A Tale of Two Trilogies
A tale of two trilogies: Confessions of St. Augustine and The Donnie Diaries. More specifically for right now, we introduce The Donnie Diaries: An Ode To Ipecac. The two trilogies have a symbiotic relationship, a doppelganger or yin and yang that bookend a common...
New York New York
So let me conclude Confessions of St. Augustine for the moment with this quick summary so I can tellya about The Donnie Diaries. 'Cause ya wanna know the REAL cause of it all? Lemme make it real simple: Confessions of St. Augustine (a 21st Century post post-modernist...
Guilt
"If there is no God, then all things are lawful." Crime and Punishment. Guilt (a mid-Indian summer night's dream or the pepperoni I had in Alice in Wonderland's Restaurant?) So if there IS no God, why do I feel guilty, Alice? Because I'm thinking of Maybe creating a...
Moon Over Miami
Years ago when I was young and wanted to write the great American novel, I took a security guard job working in a condo in Miami. Actually I started the thing a few years earlier when I was teaching, but because of the time and creative drain I decided I'd do better...
How His Life of Crime Ends
If you've been following our narrator's life of crime, you'll realize it's more of a philosophical statement - an act of rebellion - an existential statement: "if you don't believe in God, then anything's okay, right? Sartre said that" and so did Camus, Genet, and a...
His Life of Crime Continues
The best one is when I slide a steak up my dungaree jacket: if I stick my stomach out (what's left of it), it's just about tight enough to hold the steak. At least long enough to get out, which isn't that easy. You see I usually buy a loaf of bread. That makes it look...
His Life of Crime Begins
So anyway about that cop thing this morning I was gonna tell you about except I can't remember most of it tell ya the truth too stoned too stoned, all I remember is that knocking and asking who was there, but no one answers, so I open up and hear - "The police!" when...