The Crow, Not The Crow®

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To think, my disdain for the overrated Russell Crowe nearly dissolved my allegiance to the mighty lustrous species of the crow.

The crow had flown for four long non-stop days at the beckoning of an urgent call from the spirits of nature. Its once steady flapping wings reduced to erratic near-floundering spastic thrusts. During this mockery of flight, a solitary black wing detached itself from the crow and fell to earth.

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As The World Turns

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The band Rush said it, so it must be true. “The world is, the world is
Love and life are deep
Maybe as his skies are wide.”

 

He was feeling more than uneasy. You would too, if you were transported 528 years from the past. Not only that, he was hungry, as in very. His stomach growled so loud; it shook his body.

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Dear Senator Grassley

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Sad, yet true, Senator Chuck Grassley from Iowa thinks he’s secretly giving you the middle finger, or cleaning his ear. In other words, he’s old and senile. Image Source.

Grassley,

Thank you for making it easier to sleep at night. With good strong people like you at the helm, I am no longer worried about a country unfit for old men like us. I assume you’re a man of so much work there is no time left for play, so I will fill in the reference. There is a Coen Brothers film called No Country For Old Men based on a novel of the same title, written by Cormac McCarthy. It was a frightening fictional world, which you are in the process of preventing from becoming a reality. Thank you again.

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Alternative Hangover

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Believe it or not, this is better than the alternative, swirling irrational fears concluded by a senseless bullet in the head.

 

Little did Morton Saltzberg realize, overnight, in a deep sleep, he transformed and woke up as an anomaly. If he had been conscious of the metamorphosis, he would have been ecstatic. He had long desired to deviate from what his peers deemed standard.

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