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Condem(nation)
Take a look at your hair, your skin the color of your eyes the space between your teeth and your words, the cadence with which they erupt from your imperfect mouth, the syntax tripping, flowing, smooth like broken glass Take a look at the things that keep you up at night, the sites you visit…
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Artists, Please Don’t Give Up on North Carolina
Earlier this week, Bruce Springsteen announced that he was canceling an upcoming North Carolina concert because of his opposition to HB2. The law, also known as North Carolina’s “Bathroom bill,” removes state protections against discrimination, and demands that people use single-sex restrooms in public facilities such as schools and government offices in accordance with the…
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Songfacts Interview: JD Wilkes on ASL, Angry Punks, and Doing What You Love
The first time I heard Legendary Shack Shakers, I was sitting at a little tattoo shop called Freaks & Geeks in West Asheville, waiting to go under the needle for the first time. If you had told me back then that one day I’d be interviewing the lead singer and songwriter for the band, I…
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JD Wilkes of the Legendary Shack Shakers, Asheville NC 02-10-16
Last week, I interviewed JD Wilkes of the Legendary Shack Shakers. The Songfacts interview will be published shortly, along with a few of my favorite photos from the show at Asheville’s Grey Eagle on February 10, but until then, here are a few of the favorites that didn’t quite make the official article cut. (I’m…
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If I
If I stay to watch the fog creep in and overtake the hills devouring the trees and leaving only the damaged voices of coyotes in the dark If I stay to watch the sun come up and bathe the sky in vulgar light and blind me with the privilege of sight If I stay to…
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Time Capsule
Everything else of significance will fit in your palm, tarnished and worn…
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White Car Involved in Hit and Run with Erwin Middle School Bus
Update: The alleged driver in the hit and run has been arrested. Local friends, especially around the Leicester and Erwin Hills area, be on the lookout for a white car with recent significant damage to the front passenger side. This morning around 9:45, a school bus was hit at the corner of Erwin Hills and…
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Left for Dead
I tore off my face I tore off my face and set a new one on, one without the scars, one with real eyes where the maggot holes had been one without the sounds of mad dogs barking in the ears, relentlessly. I tore off my face, and set a new one on one with…
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Mid January three something indecent deity
There are ghosts in every corner Tapping holes into their faces with their Broken fingernails This is a place where when the stars come down They change their course and keep The sideways dark Look out the light Will make you blind And the holes keep growing bigger The skin around the edges chapped and…
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Have A Very Goopy Christmas, Take Two
I posted yesterday about my new blog, Math Makes Me Poop, but apparently I was still suffering from Almost-Christmas-Break Teacher Brain and the link I tried to post didn’t actually work. So let’s try this again: here’s a post from the new blog. I hope you like it. Have a Very Goopy Christmas | Math…
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