If I were a big game hunter, one place I would absolutely not ply my trade would be a zoo. It wouldn't be an honest…
Posts published by “Flynn Washburne”
It was a lovely early summer Albion day and I was enjoying it in the front yard with my Hungarian bombshell neighbor. Hungarian-American, I suppose…
It appears that Native Americans are currently part of the national cultural conversation and I — well, wait. I should probably qualify that by saying…
And now the news from Fort Bragg, where the women are patient, the men spend a lot of time at home, and the children are around here somewhere… It's officially summer and the marijuana is already as high as a Doberman's thigh. It's expected to be a bumper crop this year if you talk to Rollie Deschutes down at the Weed Feed 'n' Seed as some do, though I wouldn't recommend it, given the condition of his oral hygiene… Rollie's let himself "go to pot," so to speak, since that big disappointment with the VFW poetry contest in the early spring. Turned out the whole thing was a fever dream brought on by a surfeit of immature peyote buttons served to him in the guise of Brussel sprouts by his practical joking cousin Ephraim. Rollie's 5,000-word ode to jellybeans, written entirely in squid ink on discarded plywood sheets, will be on display at the back of the store until August.
What I love(d) about living in the big city is the wealth of opportunity. I'm not talking about the potential for cultural enrichment or the…
There’s nothing funny about suicide, unfortunately; one cannot employ humor to mitigate the horror, not and remain within the bounds of humanity and good taste.…
I'm sitting here looking at the February 11 issue of the AVA and wondering what I should make of the fact of my work being…
Ever since I first discovered meth in 1981 — no, that's not right. I believe I should correctly say that since Meth, out on its…
There are scourges, and then there are scourges. Dutch elm disease, the Golden Horde, AIDS, potato blight, Spanish flu, Japanese beetles, Nazism, Maroon 5, war,…
In 2009, you may recall the nation underwent a severe economic downturn -- a consequence, I gather, of Jesus expressing his displeasure at the American…
I've always been a sucker for music. I don't mean that I love it, although I do; I mean I'm susceptible in the extreme to…