Poems

  • Summer’s over

    Summer’s over, originally uploaded by juggernautco. Gargoyle spits over no one. No more trampled buildings. It’s all left now to lanyards businessmen taking pictures, and mimic remains.

  • Mohammed Attas Nissan – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    That’s some quality detail there: Mohammed Attas Nissan – Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaA 2001 Nissan Altima, 1n4dl01d81c212547 is the VIN of a blue rental car belonging to Alamo Rent A Car, that was found in the Portland International Jetport parking lot, following the September 11, 2001 attacks. It was issued a Massachusetts license plate 3335…

  • How to act during war

    The University of Chicago Press has a couple new books that are of interest to Iraq-based soldiers: Instructions for American Servicemen in Iraq during World War II and The U.S. Army/Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Field Manual. The World War II book reminded me of a book I found in the stacks when I was a student…

  • Haunted by the Vaughns

    Vetting the picture of the Vaughn family taken by the Sun-Times for a real estate feature story one month before the deaths of Kimberly Vaughn and her three children is crushing. All striped shirts and vests. He is charged with killing them.

  • Bardball: Reviving the Art of Baseball Doggerel

    A friend of mine just launched a new  site— Bardball: Reviving the Art of Baseball Doggerel.