RANDOM JACK

Subject: Beatlick TR: Out of Nashville Date: Jun 17, 2009 6:39 AM Just a quick report to say the Nashville episode is over, the house is com...

In 2003 the Jazzman proposed a March of Silence to protest the war on terror in an essay entitled Code of Silence (The Jazzman Chronicles, V...

By Jack Random When little George Bush “won” re-election by a sliver over a weak (read: senatorial) Democratic candidate, he claimed a manda...

by Chris Mansel in a room with Susan Sontag as she progresses in the steps of death, she talks I can't copy it all down onto my hands s...

None of the founders wrote or spoke more eloquent, or more important, words than these. When will we learn that the aggression in our nature...

Date: May 11, 2009 11:01 AM Beatlick Joe and I pulled into Nashville this week during another pouring rainstorm. The rain has followed us al...

Date: May 6, 2009 6:31 PM The Trace We pulled out of Louisiana so stuffed with crawfish, oysters, beignets, and pralines that I have serious...

JAZZMAN CHRONICLES. DISSEMINATE FREELY. By Jack Random I’ve got news for the talking heads: Nobody cares about the party identification of...

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Dear President Obama, On behalf of myself, friends, family and lite...

Beatlick TR: Not in the desert anymore Next morning the skies are still gloomy. There is so much moisture in the air that neither Joe nor I...

Ooh that smell. Can't you smell that smell? Wet pavement on the open road. How long has it been? Well down Highway 90 my navigator Beat...

by Chris Mansel I was writing a play, about a man who went blind in the middle of a war. He crossed the lines over and over till he was sho...

Beatlick Travel Report: Aguirre Springs With a conflicted heart I am pointing my van east toward Tennessee. My little house back there is mi...

Subject: The end of unlimited internet Dear Friends, I loathe emails that try to alarm me, usually to sell advertising. I do not watch news ...

Subject: Beatlick TR: Santa Fe Date: Apr 8, 2009 5:54 PM Beatlick Travel Report: Santa Fe After two weeks to distress in Albuquerque and ano...

Date: Mar 28, 2009 10:34 AM Well maybe I do have a few reports left in me as long as I'm doing something interesting. Things have calme...

Date: Mar 20, 2009 2:16 PM So bright and early the next morning I am calling "Sparky" the VW guy, my phone works fine, and he...

Dear Reader: My novel The Killing Spirit -- a metaphorical story of a modern day Crazy Horse, the Indian Holocaust, and the history of evil ...

Date: Mar 20, 2009 1:42 PM Forgiveness is the key to happiness and grace is the door to the peace beyond the mind. Rumi "Grace is the ...

Date: Mar 18, 2009 9:27 AM We pulled out of Quartzsite onto I-10 and picked up Highway 60 in just a few miles. It was a beautiful day, a bea...