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Archive for June, 2011
WiShY wAsHy
June 30th, 2011 by Corey A. Edwards
Summer
June 29th, 2011 by Corey A. Edwards
Garamon Green
June 28th, 2011 by Corey A. Edwards
Overheard Onna Bus …
June 27th, 2011 by Corey A. Edwards
Racist
June 25th, 2011 by Corey A. Edwards
“Are you a racist?”
The question comes from the back of the bus. It is not inflected in the way you might expect: no anger, no indignation, no shock; just a loud, open question that hangs in the air like a heavy curtain pulled between those of us in earshot and our lives of careful make-believe.
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Blooming Idiot
June 21st, 2011 by Corey A. Edwards
Pressed for Words
June 17th, 2011 by Corey A. Edwards
Just a quick notice that I am in the process of moving from the Google Blogger platform to a WordPress blog integrated with my website, www.coreyshead.com.
The blog is still called “Brother, I Can See Your Skull.” and, once everything is fully migrated, I will be shutting down the Blogger version of the blog for good.
You’d think I would’ve done something like this a bit this sooner but I only just recently got off my ass long enough to move to a server that can handle the requirements of PHP and MySQL.
Other than the new features of categories and tags, it should be a very similar experience and I can assure you the same level of quality and attentiveness with which I have attended this space … *cough*
Hotcha.
Artificial Mystery Flavor
June 8th, 2011 by Corey A. Edwards
So I’m at the bank depositing a check when, at the end of the transaction, the teller asks, in the depths of her professional rut: “Is there anything else I can get for you?”
Now people learn, after just a few transactions with me, not to ask such questions but this woman has never served me before and, thus, has no idea just what kind of ass is on the other side of the glass.
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Mäusepiep the … Mouse
June 8th, 2011 by Corey A. Edwards
(part of a series on the advertising character toys of German shoe maker Salamander AG)
Mäusepiep the Mouse.
Being unfamiliar with German beyond movies and a few chance meetings, I can only assume “Mäusepiep” is pronounced similar to “Mousie peep” which has some disturbing implications if one is, like myself, immature enough to move past the more obvious and palatable thought that the “piep” stands for the sound the little critter might make as opposed to the stain and stench he leaves behind.
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Igelmann the Hedgehog
June 3rd, 2011 by Corey A. Edwards
(part of a series on the advertising character toys of German shoe maker Salamander AG)
Igelmann the Hedgehog.
Igelmann the Hedgehog is the third in a series of vinyl toys I’ve been profiling from German shoe company, Salamander AG.
Igelmann – is there any more inauspicious of a name? It even seems short a letter: for weeks I’ve misread it as “Ingelmann.” Having now realized it lacks the letter “n” that my eyes first imagined, my onomatopoeic mind now envisions Igelmann as a rather squirmy, wiggly character … but no matter.
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