By: Donnie Casto II “I hear the train a comin’ It’s rolling round the bend, And I ain’t seen the sunshine since I don’t know when, I’m stuck in Folsom prison, and time keeps draggin’ on.” – Johnny Cash, Folsom Prison Blues On September 6, 2006, President George W. Bush admitted […]
by Donnie Casto II “I don’t believe in fairy tales, because there is no happily ever after in life.” The words hit him harder than a sucker punch to the stomach. Life broke everyone to a degree, but to hear such a statement from a child whose biggest worry should’ve been […]
Interview with Rev. Dudely Noted of the Church of the Latter-Day Dude Unless you’ve lived under a rock for the last 17 years, or you’re too young, you’ve probably seen the movie “The Big Lebowski”. I have a sweatshirt that I wear quite a bit that says “The Dude Abides” on the front […]
By: Donnie Casto II Great and Unknown Magnet of existence, Allow me to embrace this race, with a love and a grace of a movable feast. May I drink this art like Hemingway; shake my creativity in a Gonzo way. Let tears of answer and silence water the Capote well […]
A Troubadour’s Reflection on the 36th Frame (The Dude meets Raoul Duke) by Donnie Casto II It seems life, like the great magnet, a.k.a ‘God’, ‘Creator’, or whatever title you assign IT, operates at polar extremes. Wiser men and women than your’s truly have often said that what is evident in […]
By: Donnie Casto II “The final test of truth is ridicule. Very few dogmas have ever faced it and survived.” – H.L. Mencken The blood of innocent lives has been shed in France. Paris, it seems, has suffered their equal to our very own ‘Boston Massacre’, an event in which the […]
By: Donnie Casto II “Women aren’t logical, that’s why they make no sense.” said Julius. For the past five minutes he had went on about the common situation I imagine most couples go through at some point and now it seemed that due to a potentially lost flash drive that […]
Donnie Casto II The average observant eye, this man was at best a prototype. Three times in his life, he had faced death and survived. Perhaps it was a spiritual blessing from the Cherokee roots that flowed through his veins. Maybe it was his Nordic temperament to survive the coldest […]
Donnie Casto II “Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.” – H.L. Mencken, Prejudices: First Series The newswires and Facebook feeds stream with madness, fear and loathing today over the long overdue report […]
How Christopher Cantwell became Neo, awakening me from the paradigms of the Founding Fathers By: Donnie Casto II It’s a gray, dreary and rainy day here in Columbus, Ohio. A freezing rain and an evident razor blade wind makes itself known outside the window. My more spiritually in tune friends […]
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