My latest poem, a political satire entitled “A Message from Homeland Security to all Neighborhood Homeowners,” has been published online in the Dissident Voice Newsletter.
Category Archives: News
Like Child’s Play for a President: New Poem up on Light’s Poem of the Week
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Please visit Light Magazine’s Poem of the Week to see my latest poem regarding the President’s current assault on our water supply. Click here: Light Magazine Poems of the Week to read: Like Child’s Play for a President Thank you … Continue reading
Disappearing Times
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The times table, the New York Times, bed time, tea time, time out and disappearing times…
New Poem Published: “The Last Action News”
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My latest published poem, “The Last Action News”, is now online with HCE, Here Comes Everyone. The issue’s theme was a call for brutal poetry. Please visit it by clicking the following link: The Last Action News. (Or, cut and … Continue reading
Fear
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Fear faces us every day whether we acknowledge it or deny it.
The Last Action News: The Sunday Whirl – Wordle
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Sex, politics, senseless shootings, exploitative news. It’s all here.
Solutions; Or, What Jon Does When Sandra Prattles Forever On About Something or Other … Friday Fictioneers
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Love and marriage. The world and casual couple conversations. Politics and practical polemics. Solutions and ….
Feds To Investigate Fowl Play By Local Police: Friday Fictioneers
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Shaking the Snow Globe, Watching the Sun Rise: The Sunday Whirl – Wordle
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Hot off the Presses: Cartoons Honoring the Slain Cartoonists of Charlie Hedbo
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World Cartoonists: Je Suis Charlie (Photos) Please click here to view these amazing cartoons depicting the recent events in France and images of the pen vs. terrorism.* From The Daily Beast by Nina Strochlic As news spread that 12 people, … Continue reading
Some Things I Didn’t Write to Ponder, huh?
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For those of you who are working and plan to have children, those of you who lost their jobs because you were having children, and those who wished they had some help when they had to choose between jobs and … Continue reading
Reflections on “The Interview”
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Mrs Robinson, Paul Simon, and I, all check in on “The Interview”. What the heck?
Post Toasties: Limerick Off Monday
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Limerick Post (Limerick-Off Monday) of MAD KANE’S HUMOR BLOG challenges readers/writers to write, obviously, LIMERICKS! This week’s suggested first line that I chose was: A fellow who wrote for the Post I. A fellow who wrote for the Post knew … Continue reading
Heavenly Helen: Friday Heaven or Hel-eneers
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Come Play in my Garden
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Sinful
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Post Thanksgiving Thoughts: Time to Get Back on the Political Path Now That the Turkey’s Devoured
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The Greatest Public Contribution: Life Slices
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Watson and Crick Go DNA: Picture it and Write
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Picture It and Write from ermiliablog@wordpress Write a paragraph of fiction or a poem to accompany the image. The picture prompt for this week is below: Watson and Crick Go DNA What … Continue reading
Tahrir Square Squared
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A renewed call, another uprising, from northern Africa to the middle east, to Tibetan Buddhists and monks, then maybe to Europe and to cities across the US, and maybe more… phtoshop pic by Randy Mazie Tahrir Square … Continue reading
The Bridges of Men
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Just for a change of pace, we’re going for a one act play here today. It’s entitled The Bridges of Men. The scene takes place in the kitchen of Frank and Gina’s apartment in a city in Italy. Frank and … Continue reading
Alec Baldwin and Hilaria Thomas Wedding Clerihew
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Not that I keep up with celebrity news, but this wedding caught my attention especially in light of all the headlines that have been showered on Cruise and Holmes. Alec Baldwin and Hilaria Thomas Wedding Clerihew (click for … Continue reading
Jamie the Dimon… Money Talks… CEO walks (Clerihew)
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I want to talk about me. I want to talk about you. I want to talk about money. I want to talk about life, living, and the American way. And none of it lately is funny. Dimon and Other … Continue reading
Debt Most Deadly
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Article by Barbie Latza Nadeau, posted in the Daily Beast (Newsweek) on June 18, 2012. It addresses: Recession and austerity fuel suicide in Italy. Debt Most Deadly Please take a moment and read it – as a companion piece to … Continue reading
Suffer the Death of Our Fathers
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In Italy fathers are killing themselves, committing suicide, pre-meditated, so that their families will be absolved of debts that they have incurred because of the economy. They see no other alternative.They’re throwing themselves out of buildings, off of bridges, and … Continue reading
Finance Executives: Tax Us Before We Kill Again!
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This is a great article that appeared today in the Huffington Post. And this is a great way of painlessly raising revenue in this country. And a great way to minimize financials from playing the market with our money (because … Continue reading
Who are they – those others?
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The world has become a world of others. They are getting more than us. They are wasting our money. They aren’t contributing. The others. The Others We are the others; you and me. We: are the ones they want to … Continue reading
Bleeding Cash Conservatives
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Peter S. Goodman, Business Editor of The Huffington Post, writes about Bleeding Cash Conservatives as opposed to the old Bleeding Heart Liberals. Please take a moment and read his “Bleeding Cash Conservatives Wasting Money To Punish Vulnerable Americans”” by clicking … Continue reading
A Few Words About the Necrophiliac:
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This post is rated “X” It contains strong and vulgar language. It is not a typical Writers Village Post. If profanity offends you, then please by-all-means skip today’s entry. I am writing as much as I can here so no … Continue reading
Powerful Words
In a recent Letter to the Editor in Newsweek, J.S. wrote:
“…women are not going back into the kitchen,
blacks are not going to the back of the bus,
and gays are not going back into the closet.”
Today we’re “clerihewing” our Facebook editorial from yesterday
Faceless
Zuckerberg’s Eduardo Saverin,
Facebook’s faceless evil twin,
took American dollars ne’er to be seen ag’in, off-shore
to Singapore.
Randy Mazie
Face Off With Facebook’s Eduardo Saverin
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Eduardo Saverin was born in São Paulo, Brazil. His father became wealthy, Eduardo became a potential kidnap victim, and the family moved to Miami – to be safe and secure in the arms of America. Eduardo attended high school, went on to Harvard, … Continue reading
Upon Maurice Sendak’s Death…
wild thing, you made my heart sing…