Posts Tagged ‘ Prose ’

“Cookin’ MCs Like a Pound of Bacon,” by Jeff Kass

May 20th, 2009 | By

Motherfuckers gotta represent. Yeah, I’m White, so what? White like a piece of Xerox paper dunked in a barrel of bleach. I’m White like vanilla ice cream if you take the flavoring out. I mean, there’s not even any vanilla in my shit, fake or natural. I’m just pure no-color fucked-up White. I’m so White

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“Amahl and the Night Rider,” by Jenny Piersol

May 20th, 2009 | By

When people ask me where I live, I tell them that I’m a professional nomad.   It’s not so far from the truth.   Such is the life of a non-equity actress, hopping from actors’ housing in Clarksville, TN to rented beach houses in Ocean City, NJ, for the sake of the stage.   I’ve never minded the

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“Transcript of a Moderated Discussion on the Relative Success of Competing Explanations of the Origins of Humankind, Between Gideon and Darwin, Circa 2009,” by Murray Brozinsky

May 20th, 2009 | By

Moderator: Ladies and Gentlemen, Christians, Muslims, Jews, Atheists, Agnostics, Fanatics, and members of the Kansas Board of Education, we have a rare treat for you this evening. {Jeers from the audience} Since the presidential candidates declined an invitation to participate in debate, invoking the confidentiality of Skull and Bones, we had to scramble to fill

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“An ‘E-mail’ from the Amish,” by Jimmy Chen

Apr 20th, 2009 | By

Hello, people of the  ’internet!’ We are completely blown away here; had no idea how many  ’e-mails’ were in our  ’inbox.’ 928,391. That is just crazy! Our Commissioner of Contemporary Culture informed us that someone had created a  ’hotmail account’ for us in 1999. That’s ages ago! That’s when we were still churning our own

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“The Passion of the Christ(iansen!),” by Jesus Christiansen

Apr 20th, 2009 | By

Sometimes, when I sit and really think about it, I realize I’m a lot like Jesus. Not in the “I’m going to preach about love and peace to people who won’t listen in order to help the world” sense. More like, in the sense of, “Here I am, I’m not going to change, I’m here

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