“I was going to die at the impassioned hands of a half-Japanese cowboy on a grade-school sidewalk, and I was going to do it slowly and in immense pain.”
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Farceblech
July 23rd, 2012 by Corey A. Edwards
What with all the changes in my life of late – all the new responsibilities, all the new distractions, all the new fun, plus a return to musical expression after a long hiatus – I have very little time, or even inclination to be totally honest, to do much e-shareable creating. That being said, I have kept up with my weekly profile update on everyone’s favorite complete waste of time website, Facebook, and so feel an urge to share here with those who may not have caught sight of my unending brilliance on said site.
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American Idle – Part the Second; Still In The Basement
June 30th, 2012 by Corey A. Edwards
The last few months have seen my return to music creation at the cost of much else in my life. I remain obsessed with regaining – and then hopefully surpassing – all past musical endeavors and, as such, have spent much time in pouring through the audio diary I’ve kept (more off than on these last five years) since 1991.
Thinking quite correctly that the better bits would be at the end rather than the beginning, I started transferring the most recent tapes to digital and sifting through the resulting tracks for nuggets with which to kick start the practice and aim of my renewed passion.
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Gemini: June 21-July 20
June 21st, 2012 by Corey A. Edwards
Flea Market Finds: Glass Eye
June 18th, 2012 by Corey A. Edwards
Aw Nuts
May 19th, 2012 by Corey A. Edwards
Taurus: May 13-June 21
May 13th, 2012 by Corey A. Edwards
You Spin Me Right Round
April 21st, 2012 by Corey A. Edwards
Back before you could steal music from the internet, you actually had to go to the effort to drive all of the way into town to shoplift it from a store. And if you were into vinyl, it was a bitch to get that shit under your shirt without anyone noticing.
Oh, record stores, how I miss your once, near ubiquity.
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Aries: April 18-May 13
April 18th, 2012 by Corey A. Edwards
The Facebookening
April 13th, 2012 by Corey A. Edwards
In the 70’s, They’d Whap You
March 27th, 2012 by Corey A. Edwards
They would. They’d just walk up and give you a smack.
You start a choking-cough at the table nowadays and people just sit back politely and wait: “Are you okay?” Maybe they reach over and lightly pat your spine. “Don’t try and talk. Have sip of water”
Not in the 70’s, man. In the 70’s, they’d whap you.
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Piping the Dwarf
March 20th, 2012 by Corey A. Edwards
(part of a series on the advertising character toys of German shoe maker Salamander AG)
Don’t worry, kids. I’m not going to kill you!
Piping der Zwerg – I can only assume it’s not pronounced “Piping,” as in “who’d like a plate of piping hot dwarf?” but “Pipping.”
Further, though “zwerg” translates roughly to “dwarf” in English, I really think the little bugger is more gnome-like – but who am I to nitpick? Dwarf, Gnome, Brownie, Creepy Little Dude – it’s all the same in the long run.
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Hopps the Frog
March 18th, 2012 by Corey A. Edwards
(part of a series on the advertising character toys of German shoe maker Salamander AG)
Hopps the Frog and his hypnotic, acid-eyed stare.
Hopps der Frosch – the frog – is another in a series of often naked-but-for-their-shoes advertising characters from the German shoe-maker, Salamander AG.
Part of a group of six vinyl toys, Hopps is described as leader Lurchi’s best friend, curious, cheeky, and adventurous. Given what I’ve seen from the rest of the group’s sculpts, Hopps is actually *less* cheeky than most of the others … but maybe they weren’t referring to his rump.
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The Way History is Taught Ought To Be History
March 13th, 2012 by Corey A. Edwards
If you’re like most people, you hated history class. The names, the dates, the strange places, the seeming irrelevance of it all …
Now me, I was one of those kids who actually enjoyed history class. I was fascinated by ancient cultures, human behavior, what has gone before. I’d often sit in class reading ahead in the book or, on my own time, reading in greater depth about that which was being taught. I still enjoy history, considering it as good if not more entertaining than fiction … not that I manage to retain much more than a general sense of what I consume but the minutiae of the past continue to fascinate me.
So, knowing that about me, allow me the heresy of stating that history, as typically taught, is a great waste of time.
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Pisces: March 11-April 18
March 11th, 2012 by Corey A. Edwards
Color Me Nostalgic – The Coloring Books of Troubador Press
March 9th, 2012 by Corey A. Edwards
I recently flashed on a memory of a series of coloring books published by Troubador Press in the 1970’s. Though I have never counted myself as a fan of “coloring,” the designs in these collections left an indelible impression on me.
There is a specific smell that pervades the elementary classrooms of my memory. The thick, heavy scent of broken crayons and reams of low-grade paper. Maybe you’d expect me to focus on the pungent miasma of squirming, unwashed bodies, funky shoes, and forgotten lunches? Maybe with a little bit of puke and piddle thrown in for good measure – but no. When I think “kindergarten,” it is the unmistakable, unavoidable, almost (but not quite) pleasant redolence of crayons and paper that wafts back into my mind.
Not My Vocation
Now, I don’t know about you but I was never all that taken with coloring as a kid. Oh, I had crayons, colored pencils, pens, and markers at my disposal. I just never really moved much past the primitive, “random scribble of color inside (and maybe outside) the frame” approach.
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Aquarius: Feb. 16-March 11
February 16th, 2012 by Corey A. Edwards
Mausoleum of the Muse
February 13th, 2012 by Corey A. Edwards
Excerpt From A Story I Can’t Imagine I’ll Ever Write – short fiction
January 31st, 2012 by Corey A. Edwards
