REMEMBERING EAST TANGIERS
      The Sinister Mayfly of a Blog that Was

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Jimmy Dixon
Fourth Grade
Mrs. Glockenspiel
A Vision of the Apocalypse

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I met a man, called himself Empty Barrels,
"I'm an honest man,
when my pistols are dry,
and my pistols'a been dry
since the night she spit in my eye,
since the night she spit in my eye."

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City Councilman Tomas Apping has a monster living in the bunker in his backyard. The last thing I saw before I was interred alive in this ramshackle excuse of a living grave, was a glistening wet tentacle, whipping frantically into the dark recesses of the Cold War era bunker in elected official Tom Apping’s backyard.

   -- posted on the commmunity billboard outside the game room of the Monad Assisted Living/Intensive Care Establishment.

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Rick Machette: [Africa's] like a big, beautiful woman, eager to engage you, undeniably sexual, but complicated, violent. And black. She's a black woman, definitely. And for a man as potent and virile as myself, her darkest corners are irresistible.

SL: I see. Don't you think that's a somewhat overplayed metaphor? That something is like a woman?

RM: Not if it is true.

SL: True or false: You have killed Zulus?

RM: True. Zulu sorcerers actually.

   -- from An Interview with Rick Anything, part one

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Ican’tbelievethatyesterdayisnottodayandthattommorowmyeyewillbeworseagain.

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To east Tangier's fine elderly citizens,

I do not have a monster living in my bunker. Claims that recently appeared in this space are quite obviously bogus. Though claims were made by an anonymous dissident, I do hope that you will take it upon yourselves as concerned members of your community to locate the errant scribe and see that he understands the absurdity of his claims.

Your help is appreciated and I look forward to your votes in the upcoming season.

Your concerned civil servant,


Tom Apping

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SL: You killed Zulu sorcerers with nothing but a dull straight blade?

RM: I'm here telling you the story now, aren't I?

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July 9, 2005, 4:39 AM                (link here)