Tin Penny Nail
By Donnie Casto II A second hand pawn shop soul who escaped from hell, A heart of flesh replaced with a tin penny nail. A spiteful specter in a clay shell condemned to eternity, With God’s tin penny nail.
Articles by Donnie Casto II
Something Old, Something New
By Donnie Casto II Recently a news story made the headlines on my news feed. The picture shows a high boot torture device, designed to crush the foot or the leg (not the genitals) of its intended victim, with the catchy headline “Oklahoma’s New Law To Punish Sex Offenders Has Many […]
Breaking through The Twilight Zone
By Donnie Casto II “It has forever been thus: So long as men write what they think, then all of the other freedoms – all of them – may remain intact. And it is then that writing becomes a weapon of truth, an article of faith, an act of courage.” […]
The Cult of Nemesis-Part II
The Cult of Nemesis: Part 2: Tale of the Reaper… (read Part One here) By Donnie Casto II The troubadour found himself troubled at the writing of the Nemeian acolyte. “How could such a cult gain such a following over the minds of mankind?” he wondered to himself. Turning around, […]
The Cult of Nemesis-Part 1
The troubadour found himself in the midst of tombs and holy places where the soulless and dead were to rest. Deep in empty thought, where the souls of dead spoke in the flutter of the wind, a being clothed in scarlet robes with flaked dry and scaled skin dropped to […]
The Façade of Freedom: In Support of Abby Martin
Art by Josh Chambers: “As I’m painting the illustration for Donnie Casto II’s Abby Martin piece, I’ve been thinking about the whole situation a lot. As a Marine Corps veteran who served 9 years and fought in the Battle of Ramadi, Iraq in 2004, I wholeheartedly support Abby’s right to speak […]
Psilocybin, the Green Fairy and a walk on the edge with Oscar Wilde
By: Donnie Casto II, a.k.a the Dark Troubadour “This has to be a dream!” he said, sitting there in the cafe sipping coffee, with a glass of absinthe on the side. He knew he had no passport, and knew he certainly wasn’t in France before he went to sleep. “I […]
The Rug Life: One Dudeist Journey on the Gonzo Trail
One Dudeist journey on the Gonzo trail to finding Jeffery ‘The Dude’ Lebowski By: Donnie Casto II “We all have a Dude and a Walter in us, and that’s the point, they’re in us, they don’t define us. You have to be the you that you want to be, be […]
Individual Rebellion: A Gonzo? Point of View
Editor’s note: In the wake of the pointless controversy between GT and the Facebook group “Gonzo Journalism and the legacy of Hunter S. Thompson,” our resident paradigm assassin questions the validity of our use of the term “gonzo” and whether it’s worth all the hub bub. However, he did ask us […]
A Strange and Heavy Cloak of Evil Descending
By: Donnie Casto II “State power will always win. We’ll paint you as a child molester, and we’ll paint you as a methamphetamine manufacturer. We’ll say any lie we want over our propaganda machine, the mainstream media, and we’ll burn you and your children in your fucking home. So, you […]