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1937
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Queen
Of Vernon
1994-2007
Reality
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Midnight
For Cinderella
Released!
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The
Gueem
1997-2006
A
jc novel manuscript optioned
by film production company.
Autographed
copies of
Trailing Jesus available!
Reviews:
7/16
Brick Township Bulletin Feature
6/29
Minnesota Star-Tribune Review
4/22
Union County Advocate Feature
4/23
North County News Feature
6/5
Cary News Feature
American Writer Monthly
interview.
Writer's
Manual interview.
Erin
Page
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Quote of the week!
"Everything
is everyone's fault but mine!"
-Nancy
Pelosi, Speaker Of The House.
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RAINN
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City
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The New Book!
Nearly
every horrid, petulant, fury-inducing, truth-mongering
morsel from the Reality Check News & Information
Desk for the past five years, and then some.
Not for the weak
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The
Third Book!
This
introspective and controversial Holy Land journal
from the edge follows the mysterious path of the
Galilean mason's radical revolution of spirit all
the way to 20th century Jerusalem.
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The Second
Book!
A
collection of missives, barbs, cracks, essays, and
beneath the belt journalism practiced in the belly
of the beast.
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The
First Book!
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One
man's journey into the soul of a NJ club band
full of fierce portrayals and moving stories.A
runaway underground bestseller without the benefit
of a big time publisher or much initial publicity.
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More jc Inside!
jc's
haunting tribute to the Lost Generation, "Resurrections
in Babes Clothing" is included in this
intriguing collection of various poets and essayists
born between 1960 and 1982
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info on this book
More jc Inside!
Two
of jc's columns on the events of 9/11/01 are
part of this charity compendeum available now
from American Publishing.
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info on this book
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RealityCheck
Weekly
contemptuous gonzo blather by jc. |
Octoberr 1, 2008
WELCOME TO THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF AMERICA
Presiding Over The Ashes Of Free-Market Capitalism In
The Age Of Avarice
This
is a valley of ashes!-a fantastic farm where ashes grow
like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens;
where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys and
rising smoke and, finally, with a transcendent effort,
of men who move dimly and already crumbling through
the powdery air. Occasionally a line of gray cars crawls
along an invisible track, gives out a ghastly creak,
and comes to rest, and immediately the ash-gray men
swarm up with leaden spades and stir up an impenetrable
cloud, which screens their obscure operations from your
sight.
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby
And
maybe all the things
You thought you got coming to you
Ain't coming to you
Not in this life
And maybe all the promises
You thought were broken
Were never really made Promises never made
- Dan Bern
Toledo
Calvin Coolidge's doomstruck "Every Man For Himself"
convention speech of 1924 roused the tycoon brigade
and whipped off a flapper-rich parade of blank checks
from Wall St. to Main St. The Roaring Twenties were
already careening into what F. Scott Fitzgerald later
called the "greatest orgy of excess and greed known
to modern man". That night Coolidge was for all intents
and purposes reciting The American Manifesto, the "Where's
Mine" siren to every Mr. Jones who lived under the illusion
that a Golden Ticket was the birthright of a generation.
Slick hucksters with nary a piss pot began living high
on the hog on the backs of millions of ghetto rubes
and sucker farm hands who were soon to be flattened
by The Crash.
That
was the year of the Awakening, when Land Barons & Fat
Cats found Jesus and ran hat-in-hand to Mother Government,
forging a golden age of American Socialism. The New
Deal's avalanche of investigation, transparency and
oversight saved us from ourselves before WWII thinned
us out for the Baby Boom and helped to wipe clean the
nasty memories of economic suicide.
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