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News And Events From The Piss Pool Office For The Week Of November 17-23
Every car manufactured after 1952 has come stocked with an FM-radio receiver, but every generation born after the end of the American Century has suffered a lower standard of living than the one before. It’s bad and getting worse and no one should have to suffer anything other than a cease fire on the airwaves or at least a recalibration as we consider who the Real aggressors are for working people.
—Letter To Steve Inskeep, Reporter, NPR Middle East Crisis Explained
Kid, we found your name on an envelope at the bottom of a half a ton of
garbage, and just wanted to know if you had any information about it…
—Arlo Guthrie
We can reach our destination,
but we're still a ways away…
—R.E.M.
Clapping grackles from city wires, canvassing campus dressed as a Hershey’s Kiss and power-washing the pigeonshit off the bottom of I-95—I’ve had some jobs, Subscriber. Of all these, writing was the loneliest but there’s a bad side. Why my father had such a problem with authority and I had such a problem with him have genetically predisposed me to take station at this desk and to tell it what else. Welcome to the Countdown…
My anger is justified, living at the throes and blade of capitalism and my justice is swift when removing the crying-eye of plebes and social doms sweating me for my Art as you and I rightly know—it’s not made for them, anyone or anything but the truth!
A writer writes and a hater hates. It’s too early to get catty so I won’t. Presales for PISS POOL are meager, but thank you for your purchase. It’s looking like I won’t be able to fund the publication but if I rob Peter to pay Paul and get at least 100 of these thangs in my hands I can take the show on the road and prove it to you all night— yelling into a mop handle and telling it what else.
Keep bleeding,
TRAINER
AUSTIN TX
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