Sever The Cucumber From The Vine

bsc \/\/ the undeniable badassery of elephants

By chicken flava

This week’s theme has something to do with worshiping Shiva and cucumbers equaling immortality. I didn’t really follow the logic because everyone already knows the the only way to become immortal is to find the philosopher’s stone and make rock soup mixed with the fungus of longevity while simultaneously listening to the phoenix song... »

the vines and the trash of life

By eileen garcia

Now you’re gone, and it’s hotels and whiskey and sad-luck dames And I don’t care if they miss me, I never remember their names They say if you get far enough away, you’ll be on your way back home Well, I’m at the station, and I can’t get on the train Must be blind love, only kind of... »

a taste for castration? or, what would bob kaufman do?

By mfsandler

The golden age of poetic castration is always well behind us. Even Swinburne was faking it, like in his appropriately titled verse play Chastelard (1865): They say men dying remember, with sharp joy And rapid reluctation of desire, Some old thing, some swift breath of wind, some word, Some sea-blossom stripped to the sun and burned At naked ebb… The... »

schwarzenegger \/\/ crusading, castrating

By tyler re

In 1994, Carolco Pictures balked at the proposed $120 million budget for a project called “Crusade”. Attached director Paul Verhoeven and star Arnold Schwarzenegger walked away while Carolco bankrupted itself producing legendary flop Cutthroat Island instead. Still unproduced, the Crusade script was written by Walon Green with revisions by Gary Goldman. It follows Arnold as... »

cut the fruit from the vine, and the whole world falls away

By obsidian blade

I used to have a definite deathwish. During my twenties, I decided that I would kill myself when I turned 33. I wasn't depressed, I simply didn't want to grow old. “Decrepitude” has such a nasty ring to it—did then, still does—and an even nastier smell. And now, almost four years past that expiration... »

this week on the avant guardian \/\/ sever the cucumber from the vine

By tracey d

“The same thing can be both good and bad. Whenever you speak of good, bad is also present. The world is a mixture of both. There is not good without bad. They are both sides of the same coin. Both are necessary. We have been given free will and discriminating capacity to select what... »