I, by the way, cribbed that title from French philosopher Jean Baudrillard. I used to teach that idea as a kind of fascinating thought experiment, but emerging from prison into
Your Jazz InterludeYour Jazz Interlude
I never got around to adding a post last week. There were multiple things I wanted to talk about, but I couldn’t get my desires out through my fingers. That’s
Not Swedish meatballs, but Königsberger KlopseNot Swedish meatballs, but Königsberger Klopse
I have never been to Sweden. I wouldn’t mind going, particularly since I have met some bomb-ass (as we say in prison) Swedes in my day, but that trip won’t
Cat heads nouveauCat heads nouveau
When I wrote about the salisbury steak option for prison dinner a few months ago, I mentioned that it was a substitution for meatloaf on the Bureau of Prisons menu.
Have you tried deworming the inmates?Have you tried deworming the inmates?
It’s not a sad shock that some prison doctor in Arkansas was, in seems, an early adopter or ivermectin as a quack COVID-19 treatment. Given the level of general competence
3 Articles show The Washington Post is at it AGAIN.3 Articles show The Washington Post is at it AGAIN.
I couple months back I posted about The Washington Post and the article it ran about federal inmates’ prison accounts. You can (re)read that post here if you like. Well,
Bread is the staff, not gravel, of lifeBread is the staff, not gravel, of life
Since I have been out from behind the razor wire, I have taken to making bread a couple times a month. I’m not your home baker who weighs and kneads
As James Baldwin says…As James Baldwin says…
I was poking around through various tests this morning, trying to find something that I might want to use in the writing class I’m teaching. I’m not sure that James
A Primer for Prison (abridged)A Primer for Prison (abridged)
Back when I was a respectable human being, each day on my way to the office I would walk past a display case in which creative young men and women
With a name like Custer, what could go wrong?With a name like Custer, what could go wrong?
When you are a convicted, but released, felon, there might be some coordination you have to do between between various government agencies to keep yourself from going back to prison.