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Mr. Fish |
Minus the macabre resolve of a dead soldier’s leg standing alone inside the gentle rain of vaporized meat, the death of my great-uncle was made beautiful to me by relatives who decided, like so many others prone to the questionable practice of ventriloquizing the deceased, that heroism works best when the person chosen to be the hero no longer exists.
Posted on May 9, 2012
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Mr. Fish |
The sad fact is that all traditional modes of dissent, whether they’re protest marches or boycotts or sit-ins, must ultimately fail because they are generally powerless to prevent their own inception. What does that mean?
Posted on Apr 2, 2012
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Mr. Fish |
As Samsa Gregor awoke one morning from uneasy dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a human being.
Posted on Mar 20, 2012
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Mr. Fish |
In his satirical lexicon on human nature, “The Devil’s Dictionary,” Ambrose Bierce defined truth as “an ingenious compound of desirability and appearance.” In deference to the profound wisdom offered by that definition, it’s not hard to see why I’ve spent my whole life being fleeced by bullshit and blindsided by a reality indifferent to truth.
Posted on Mar 10, 2012
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Mr. Fish |
Is there no more convincing proof that there is nothing like a presidential campaign to demonstrate just how profoundly detached we are as a nation from recognizing why ours is a functioning democracy in reputation alone?
Posted on Feb 17, 2012
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Mr. Fish |
My first reaction to the video released recently of the four U.S. Marines urinating on the bodies of dead Afghans was that it was too ham-fisted and bombastic a metaphor to add anything of real value to the ongoing critique and analysis of this country’s über-mortiferous foreign policy.
Posted on Jan 23, 2012
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Art Spiegelman’s “MetaMaus” is a 300-page user’s guide to his own Pulitzer Prize-winning “Maus” (you know, Holocaust-graphic-novel-Jews-as-mice-Nazis-as-cats).
Posted on Jan 20, 2012
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Mr. Fish |
It said DOG on his food bowl, and because he showed no signs that he’d ever learn how to read or write, she decided that he must be dyslexic. So she called him GOD.
Posted on Jan 11, 2012
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Zuade Kaufman / Truthdig |
One William C. Smith had the unenviable task of capturing the singular Mr. Fish within the span of relatively few column inches for the new year’s first edition of the Philadelphia Weekly. So how’d he do?
Posted on Jan 4, 2012
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Mr. Fish |
It was like meeting a clown outside of his makeup, away from the hysteria of his profession, who appears lovely and handsome and noble, if only because he isn’t trapped in a spotlight at the center of a ludicrous pie fight.
Posted on Dec 17, 2011
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