Category: Yo Ivanhoe

  • The Knife Of God

    Yes, boy, I could sure go for some beef stew and a chicken bone. That’s it. –Last words of Christopher Newton, whose execution by lethal injection in Lucasville, Ohio took nearly two hours (May 24, 2007) I summon you now Not to think of The ceaseless battle With pain and ill health, The frailty and…

  • The Grindstone And The Garden

    …if people who expect nothing come away empty-handed, then there really is no hope. —William Maxwell, Time Will Darken It The dead flicker like candles around you. They are burning their memories for warmth. —Kelly Link, “Flying Lessons” This world is full of war criminals, many of whom have never fired a weapon in their…

  • Back To Zero: Ptolemy's Heroes

    A history of zero. Null. Nil. Naught. Nada. Zip. Zippo. Goose eggs.

  • Put That In Your Pipe And Smoke It

    The Twins have scored ten runs in their last six games, and 34 in their last fourteen, dating back to July 23 in Toronto –I’ll do the math for you: that’s an average of 2.4 runs a game. This nonsense, this incomprehensible futility, after scoring 34 runs in two games versus Chicago on July 6.…

  • Hogwash: Divert Yourself With This Business, Why Don't You?

    This’ll be everywhere in the morning, but in the meantime I can only say that after returning from the Dome tonight I had the odd sensation that I had had an experience similar to this pathetic fellow’s. Or at the very least that I’m going to need some similar procedure very soon. Read the story,…

  • Summer Rerun, with an Update: Was There, in Fact, an Alcoholics Anonymous Chapter in Rockford, Illinois with a Mascot Parrot tha

    I broke my brain. I’m not shitting you. It was joggled around in some giant, anonymous pair of hands and tossed end-over-end, without hope or desperation, down a scarred velvet table in a dark and nearly empty casino. Have you ever felt like a moth that has been pinned to a post and is being…