Totally Awesome Picture of the Week 68
In the dark corner of a far away forlorn church stand these three forgotten souls. Bruised, dirty, chipped and abandoned they doze like wallflowers in the shadows as patrons play hooky for every reason but lack of sin.
In their bright vestments creased with dust the saints and...
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Totally Awesome Picture of the Week 67
When it’s 90 plus degrees with 100% humidity and your neighbor’s coal smoke is pumping along with the encephalitis mosquitoes through your broken window screen and down on the street the men who actually wear shirts have them rolled up past their nipples, while inside your apartment the...
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Totally Awesome Picture of the Week 66
“Together we can change the world” she said to me that night. We were watching my favorite show. She knew I didn’t like her to talk to me when it was on. I looked at her in a moment of drawn out suspense. From...
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Totally Awesome Picture of the Week 65
Hey! You! Hippopotamus! Yeah, you. Can you take a hint? I’ll crouch here, wiping this soapy water over my non-smelly motorbike while you fat, needy beast wallow there in your own filth with a perfectly good bathtub not 5 feet away. You’d think you’re some...
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Totally Awesome Picture of the Week 64
There is a new stench in the monkey house. In addition to the usual miasma of scattered manure and stale ejaculations that your primordial brethren so love to assault your intruding nasal passages with lay heaps of molding unconsumed Chinese food morsels, at once proving the ape’s...
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Totally Awesome Picture of the Week 63
In search of silence
pebbles pierce thinned street soles
backs angled under iceberg burdens
small to the eye, heavy on the mind.
As a parched tongue receives a rush of water
so our ears dance freely to the curses of the wind
bleating goats echo like church bells fighting nature to be heard
a heavy,...
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Totally Awesome Picture of the Week 62
The boy stands spinning the long thread of twisted foil with unfettered fascination. His eyes, in following the shiny extension of his arm, cause his head to move in small circular nods as though also attached to the magical whip.
Much like the powers of Dorthy’s tornado, this...
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Totally Awesome Picture of the Week 61
“Baba, where is our roof?”
“Aiyo! Do not be so ignorant. Even a simple man could see that it has been harmonized.”
“But Baba, why our roof and not the Tailor’s next door?”
“Ungracious too! Have I raised a horse’s ass? You know very well that we are...
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Totally Awesome Picture of the Week 60
See that mark? That carefully printed red symbol on the far right that looks similar to the tattoos American teenagers like to have injected permanently into their skin? Unlike those, this is not a sign of innocence. This is the chai, indicating the approach of...
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Totally Awesome Picture of the Week 59
It doesn’t matter that this lineup of eager drivers is waiting for the signal in Hanoi, Vietnam. It’s no different than in China, except maybe the fact that these people are wearing helmets and are actually waiting.
All of Asia thinks they’re racing. I’ve known this for...
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