O-blogger Post #21: Outsider NYRB Personal Ad

Mid-western mesmerizer, Atkins and Tae Bo toned body, described as cross between Loni Anderson and Whoopi Goldberg. My personal trainer says I look “barely legal.” Bi-costal (the Mississippi and the Ohio). Loves people, places, things. Fried chicken salad at Bloomington (Indiana) Bennigan’s, Ultimate Nachos at Lebanon (Illinois) Hoollihan’s, 5-way w/ extra onions at Delhi Skyline. Reading Dan Brown at Wisconsin Dells, Sue Grafton at Lake of the Ozarks, M. Proust in the XVI Arondissement. Midwestern roots but new RV means loves to travel and has sense of adventure: Busch Gardens, Niagra Falls, Gatlinburg, Utica, Vacaville, Innsbruck (Illinois and Austria), Salzburg, Rome in August, Madame Tussaud’s. Looking for man’s man for Sundays in bed reading (Washington) Times, Fridays at home watching Ultimate Fighting, and Wednesdays at MOMA.

Outsider NYRB Personal Ad
by Heddy Fishbone-Hovenweep
Bic pen on overdue Laclede Gas bill

Animal O-Blogger Post #3: The Three Party System

I don't like the two party system. There should be a three party system. Here are the three parties:
1. The Progressive Party - you vote for this party if you want things to change in a futuristic way. Some of the politicians are more radical than others. Some think about tomorrow. Others think about times 1000 years in the future. Some wear special space suits.
2. The Stasis (Static) Party - you vote for this party if you want things to stay as they are.
3. The Regressive Party - you vote for this party if you think things were better in the past. Again, some of the politicians are more radical than others. Some want to regress only to the Clinton administration. Others want to go back to the Middle Ages or even further to a time before man walked the earth.

Naturally, many politicians swtich parties often.

There is also the Egressive Party but they don't count as an official political party. They just want to stay out of the whole thing.

"The Three Party System"
by Vodya the Penguin
Presented at Open Mic Night, The Fountain, Silver Spring

O-blog #20: Predestination and the Politburo

Everything you do, even this conversation, has been pre-determined before the year 2000. If you hit a home run today, that hit was created in 1993. It's not even you hitting the home run. It's someone from the past. Everything you read in the newspaper has been cleared by the politburo. Everything you see on TV has been cleared by the politburo.

"Predestination and the Politburo"
by Bob Hohensee
Shouted on the streetcorner (1st and Independence)