The Funhouse Wonderland and Wasteland of our Lives
11/11/11 approaches. Does that mean anything? Does anything mean anything? There is a imminent arrival of the unknown into every life; today, tomorrow, next week, next year? We shall see
Marching to the River on the Tree of Liberty
When the corporation police shot the veteran in Oakland, I saw my Fort Sumter moment
Blind, Naked and Clueless
People say that if they had money and fame they would do things differently but since most have never had much of either, they don’t know the kind of power that money and fame possess. I have a passing familiarity with both and I will tell you: don’t go
The Curious Nature of the Self Chosen Few
The truth is a lonely citadel surrounded by intricate, Byzantine lies. It is the temple of immortality. One only needs to brush away the cobwebs and climb the ancient steps
In the Mosh Pit with the Black Pots and Kettles
I’m not any kind of gifted prognosticator but I would have to say that, irrespective of that, these next few weeks look like any given day some event will be enough to change this world beyond all expectation
Transparent Lies from the Division of Dumb and Dumber
My heart goes out to everyone caught incarnate in these unpredictable times. Surely much greater transformations, upheavals and transitions wait ahead
Condo Dwelling in Perpetual Hamster City
Smoking Mirrors reflects on times past in San Francisco, on Ginsberg and Manson and what they mean for the Wall Street movement today
Is Hang a Banker Day coming to a Theatre near You?
While the corporate media studiously looks elsewhere the Occupy Wall Street phenomenon is going viral, diversifying like a stock portfolio and popping up all over the place
Nick Cage is a Vampire and I am the Wizard of It
On bad movies, plagiarism and how the time has come to make a change from the life you knew into something better
On This Potpouri Sunday
Nothing rings more prophetic and pertinent in the moment than that poem by Yeats about the second coming. We be there
A World Declaration of Liberation from Criminal Israel!
Patrick Willis’s rendition of Smoking Mirrors recent post. Stirring stuff
The Grantig Army in the Fata Morgana of Paradise Veiled
A little something different for Smoking Mirrors and certainly more indicative of what goes through my mind and where my real concerns lie