Scott's Brain Meat: Recreation

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Tuesday, November 29, 2011

American Airlines Bankruptcy: Carrier And Parent Company File For Chapter 11 Protection

Yet another example of how Free-Market Purists are full of it. If the airlines hadn't been protected and supported by the government, many commercial airlines would have collapsed decades ago. It air travel a vital part of national and international commerce? Definitely. But don't sit there and pretend it isn't a failed business model, then complain when Ford gets a boost.
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost

Friday, April 8, 2011

But Say a Man Does Know

Cover of The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter"But say a man does know. He sees the world as it is and he looks back thousands of years to see how it all come about. He watches the slow agglutination of capital and power and he sees its pinnacle today. He sees America as a crazy house... He sees a whole damn army of unemployed and billions of dollars and thousands of miles of land wasted... He sees how when people suffer just so much they get mean and ugly and something dies in them. But the main thing he sees is that the whole system of the world is built on a lie. And although it's as plain as the shining sun—the don't-knows have lived with that lie so long they just can't see it."

Jake Blount - The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers

Saturday, February 12, 2011

Short Story Saturday: The Unavoidable Dilemma of Chauncey P. Simm

The Unavoidable Dilemma of Chauncey P. Simm

by S. Michael Wilson

“Squeaky Cheese.”

Those were the words she spoke to me before she walked out of my life forever.

Image by katiecarman via Flickr She stood framed in the splintered doorway of our spacious loft apartment, her full lips stained and puffy from an excess of pistachio nuts. I knelt in the far corner, the random fragments of my Berlin Wall Commemorative Beer Stein clutched in disbelieving hands. Her glare traveled across the room like a retired postal worker on a three day excursion through Fort Lauderdale, pausing momentarily near the singed potted palm for directions to the pitiful loser, then parking a few inches from my tear stained face and delivering her scorn through a passenger door window cracked open enough to let the contempt out and keep the air conditioning in.

There was a pause during which I was meant to do or say something, but my copy of the event’s script had accidentally made it into the washing machine with my Day-Glo Buddhist robes, the words running together so that all I knew for sure was that I was supposed to do something with a ‘P’ and an ‘E’ in it.

The moment passed, lost like a child in Sears, and before I knew what had happened, she spoke those fateful words.

“Squeaky cheese,” she said.

Then the door slammed shut, and I could hear her turn on her heels and stalk away huffily. I tried to speak, but the words stuck in my throat like an olive laced toothpick. That was it. She was gone.

Book Cover Update!

Head on over to the Official Author Website of S. Michael Wilson and check out the cover for the upcoming anthology Butcher Knives & Body Counts: Essays on the Formula, Frights, and Fun of the Slasher Film, due out in October from Dark Scribe Press, featuring work from over seventy authors, including yours truly!

Friday, February 19, 2010

Speaking of Jigsaw's Obsession with Dust...

After reposting my old Saw parody involving last year's Pledge Glass Box commercials, I found that one of the commercials I posted was no longer available. While doing a YouTube search for the commercial, I actually stumbled upon someone who took the idea and edited a Saw trailer together featuring the same premise:

Not bad, eh?

Friday, February 12, 2010

Cheerleader Devoured

Much more entertaining and realistic then the last Jurassic Park sequel.