Posts Tagged ‘Ray Harvey’

  • What Do All Good Sentences Possess In Common?

    July 10th, 2024 | Writing | journalpulp | No Comments

    Long, long ago, on a hushed and snowy Monday night in December of 2019, a friend at my bar told me, apropos of nothing but my handwriting, that the hashtags #handwriting and #allthedifference were currently trending on something he called TikTok, which I’d never heard of. Three hours later, however, I’d downloaded the app. Some […]

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  • Ex High School Basketball Star

    June 20th, 2024 | Basketball, Poetry, Prose poetry | journalpulp | No Comments

    You were a pure shooter, a long shot. You were a star. Just another nobody boy, half-black, half-white, raised in a nowhere town, in a fractured home in middle America: a drunk father who worked twenty-five years for Clayton County, and a mother who loved you but was always too passive, it seemed, to truly […]

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  • Gap-Toothed Girl & America’s Got Talent

    June 6th, 2024 | Gap-Toothed Girl | journalpulp | No Comments

    Somebody just told me about this recent episode of America’s Got Talent, which I don’t watch. I do, however, have very good reason to think that Dusty May, my character from Gap-Toothed Girl, who inspires me so much, also inspired Ms. Ashlee Montague, as I also have very good reason to think that Dusty May […]

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  • The Latest But Not The Greatest Death Threat I’ve Received

    September 17th, 2023 | Coronavirus | journalpulp | No Comments

      These are real messages. The number listed is fake. I know because I still work part-time for a private detective. These sorts of death threats have, for over a decade, become somewhat commonplace for me — beginning in earnest in late 2017. (And you should see those photos. They remind you of Saint Paul […]

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  • All Rights Are Individual

    August 3rd, 2022 | Rights | journalpulp | 6 Comments

    The concept of justice is inseparable from the concept of rights. The words are deeply interwoven and interconnected — linguistically, legally, lexically, historically, epistemologically. The word “justice” derives from the Latin word jūstitia, which means “rightness” or “righteous.” Jūstitia in turn derives from an even deeper antecedent — and with it the idea of rights: both terms were built upon a now little-known […]

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  • Human Happiness

    March 31st, 2022 | Beauty, Metaphysics, Philosophy | journalpulp | No Comments

    Human happiness is lightness and joy. It is the light and joyful glow over the fact of being alive — of living life with energy and with zeal and enthusiasm: a buoyancy of spirit and benevolent sense of delight over the anticipation of what life, in all its strange and magical wonder, has in store. But […]

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  • Reservation Trash & Something Worth Fighting For

    July 1st, 2021 | Reservation Trash | journalpulp | 4 Comments

        Chapter 9 A peach-colored moon hung aloft over the edge of the sparkling city, and there were nightingale among the fig trees. On the outskirts of town, through which the three trashmen now drove, a squadron of bull bats, like little angels of black death, tacked and veered through the twilight air. Farther […]

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  • Reservation Trash & The Human Race

    June 30th, 2021 | Reservation Trash | journalpulp | No Comments

    It can neither be stated too often nor too emphatically that socialism in any form is by definition an ideology of force and violence. It can operate in no other way. By virtue of what it is, socialism can function by no other means. To achieve even a tiny fraction of its stated aims — […]

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  • Reservation Trash & The White Rose & the 31-Year Anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre

    June 4th, 2021 | Tiananmen Square massacre | journalpulp | No Comments

    I’ve retitled and extensively rewritten Reservation Trash, which is now called Reservation Trash & The White Rose. The book is still a novella — 35,000 total words — but it’s 13,000 words longer than before, with five new chapters, and also a number of elaborations, as well as significant cuts. I sought to integrate it more […]

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  • Justus Quidem Tu Es, Domine, Si Disputem Tecum, Verumtamen Justa Loquar Ad Te

    March 20th, 2020 | Poetry | journalpulp | 1 Comment

    Justus quidem tu es, Domine, si disputem tecum; verumtamen justa loquar ad te: Quare via impiorum prosperatur? Thou art indeed just, Lord, if I contend With thee; but, sir, so what I plead is just. Why do sinners’ ways prosper? and why must Disappointment all I endeavour end? Wert thou my enemy, O thou my […]

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  • A Fruit Cool and Sweet Yet Forbidden

    March 4th, 2020 | Books | journalpulp | No Comments

    She drove the southwest alone. With the help of her father and his translations — translations of Silverthorne’s Greek and Latin into English — Justine searched for days that turned into weeks. The western sunlight glanced heliotropically off her car, helmut-headed insects splattering against the windshield-glass like paintballs. Over and across the ghost-towns and all the […]

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  • Sacred Shadows Breathing With Latent Light

    February 12th, 2020 | Literature | journalpulp | No Comments

    He was going out by way of a narrow system attended by whispering voices that seemed to him sourceless, a static hiss growing louder, and angular shapes on the periphery of his vision which broke apart and rejoined in giant jigsaw pieces. These puzzle pieces snapped and clicked about him. Down this gun-barrel corridor that […]

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  • Will You Set A Pick For Me At The Free-Throw Line Of Life?

    January 9th, 2020 | Basketball | journalpulp | 13 Comments

    I need someone to set a pick for me at the free-throw line of life.

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  • All The Sand In All The Sea

    January 7th, 2020 | Bartending | journalpulp | 17 Comments

    I recently discovered this song — on an obscure FM radio-station — and I fell in love with it. So I decided to make a bartending video to go along with it.

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  • The Path of the Just is as a Shining Light which Shines More and More Unto the Perfect Day

    September 22nd, 2018 | More and More unto the Perfect Day | journalpulp | 6 Comments

    This is a repost from some time ago — the most articulate and thoughtful and heartfelt review of this book that I ever received, from a wonderful person I’ve never met and with whom I barely communicated, and that was a long time ago: I finished reading Ray Harvey’s More and More unto the Perfect […]

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