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Bread, Circuses, and the Cupertino Dummy Factory:

July 24, 2025 by wp-admin

Filed: July 24, 2025 Bread, Circuses, and the Cupertino Dummy Factory: Can I Have That With a Side of Scroll Drool, Please? A Manifesto from the Margins on Sovereignty, Screens, and Breaking the Feed. By Oscar Slamp Let’s talk about the scroll. That hypnotic, bottomless pit of thumb-jiggling slot machine nonsense we call “content.” Aza Raskin … [Read more…]

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About Louie

July 18, 2025 by wp-admin
Willie Lyonsan's spirit guide and constant companion, Louie

Filed: July 18, 2025, About Louie Willie’s Dog, Louie. An excerpt from MOSTLY TRUE TALE: ROOFIED IN TOKYO. Scene 5, The Maria Incident. Willie rescued him from a shelter in mid Michigan and both their lives changed forever. …Not your Westminister variety Boston Bull, Lou was thicker-set and blocky. His forty pounds pressed the outer … [Read more…]

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Scene 3 A Sijo and Kentucky

July 12, 2025 by wp-admin
Willie Lyonsan with Lexi in a vintage LeMans – desert highway scene

Filed: July 12, 2025, Lexi lit the spark Excerpt: Scene 3 The Starlite – Vacancy. It looked like it hadn’t seen a renovation since Elvis faked his death. A horseshoe of tired little rooms wrapped around a parking lot the color of scorched toast. A single bulb flickered above the office door. Willie parked under … [Read more…]

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Something Strange Happened a Few Days Ago

July 8, 2025 by wp-admin
Willie Lyonsan received a traditional Sak Yant tattoo from Thai Phram while in Tokyo

Filed: July 8, 2025, The Reveal Thanks to my wife, and the deep ancestral roots she carries into this part of the world, I’ve experienced things most people only brush against in dreams. Soul-level things. Things that defy language, because language was never designed to hold that kind of truth. There’s an occurrence in the … [Read more…]

Posted in: Dispatches Tagged: #KhmerTattoo, #SakYant, OscarSlamp, TheMostlyTrueTale, WhatOscarKnows, WillieLyonsan

Found in a Tin Roof Bar Near Cambodia Border

July 2, 2025 by wp-admin
Oscar Slamp reading a book alone inside a dim, tin-roofed roadside tavern near Cambodia border

Filed: July 2, 2025, somewhere near the Cambodia border. You ever get so empty the wind blows straight through you, like you’re not even real? That’s how I found Willie. Or maybe that’s how he found me. Depends on which one of us you believe. It was a few weeks after the fallout—after the rescue, … [Read more…]

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