Articles by Gonzo Today
In Shades of Why
By: JB Fertile and fueled by a rage, an age, a circumstance, time and chance… And she screams Why, why, why? In shades of cool and blue and orange and green and yellow and crimsons Compelled, derailed, broken, outspoken and resurrected in the depths And there she stands, staring, holding […]
Too many of you move like this
by Kevin Eickmeier You floated through like the remnants of a long dead dream only to spread promises of pain back over already healed scars. I still remember the night you drifted off into the darkness, the way you tried to push me off the top of towers so tall […]
Obama trying to win more support for TPP
by Mark Linnhoefer – On Tuesday, Obama started a sales pitch that included a call to farmers to urge their congressmen to pass the treaty that he considers “an enormous achievement.” The president is looking to gain support from the Republican-led Congress and, according to the White House, will be making […]
German officials turn blind eye to sexual offenses in refugee shelters
by Mark Linnhoefer – On Tuesday, German officials were accused by both the police union and women’s right groups of not necessarily ignoring but definitely playing down reports of all kinds of sexual offenses happening in refugee shelters for fear of an adverse public reaction to those seeking asylum. The German […]
Bill Murray-Saving Painting Returns to Chicago
Bradley James Weber — “Song of the Lark,” the 1884 painting that actor Bill Murray credits with saving his life, makes its return this week to Gallery 222 in the Art Institute of Chicago. In an early 2014 press junket for the movie The Monuments Men, Murray recalled being so troubled […]
Kim Davis’ Lawyer: ‘Stay Strong!’, says Pope in Supposed Secret Meeting
According to her lawyer, Pope Francis met controversial Kentucky county clerk Kim Davis last week at a secret audience at the Vatican embassy in Washington, D.C., encouraging her religious zeal and discrimination. The Vatican sort of confirmed the visit Wednesday morning. “I do not deny that the meeting took place, but I have no […]
For Preventing The Children of Poor People in Ireland From Being A Burden to Their Parents or Country, and For Making Them Beneficial to The Public ”I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed is at a […]
Reading Frank Stanford, Bob Mould & Dinner with my Children
by Patrick Werle art by Josh Chambers I think about the Southern things that ride my back-mind, the easy things, the rock-n-roll things and the boiling water things waiting for the macaroni from a box that I make for my children on a Monday evening when we have worked too […]
Oblivious in Dubai: Part 1
by J.G. Oblivious art by Josh Chambers There I was. Nineteen, tanned, clean-shaven; business casual. Standing in the hallway of the top floor of a strange hotel, just after midnight in Dubai; pushing the elevator button relentlessly in an effort to speed up my not-so-swift retreat. Flight to Kandahar in […]
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