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"Journalism
is a despicable trade. I know this because I practice
it—but only part-time—because there is no earthy reason
to allow one’s self to have to live on such painfully
wretched means. I have known this as fact for over 20
years now. I knew it when I wrote for my high school newspaper,
college newspaper, and every publication since. It’s not
so much the reporting or writing, or even the act of putting
those two talents together to disseminate reasonable information,
but the inevitable sycophantic regurgitation of all that
is crude and inane."
- jc from Fear No Art
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Reality Check
"It
is customary for this space to espouse the ever popular theory
that everything is fucked. Has been, always will be. Don’t let
anyone tell you how great the 1950s’ were without hearing from
African Americans, women, artists, and the remainder of those
who might have had a friend or two of Eastern European persuasion.
And don’t listen to those boring Baby Boomers drone on about the
love and peace revolution of the 60s’ unless you contact those
mired in drug clinics, veterans of cop beatings, and the poor
suckers who worked on Robert Kennedy’s campaign."
- jc from In Defense Of Larry Flynt & Other Scumbags Like
Him 2/12/99
THE
9/11 SERIES
This five-part commentary is now lauded among readers as some
of jc's finest columns in the wake of the events of 9/11. Two
of these brutally honest pieces were included in the charity compendeum,
"Glory: A Nation's Spirit Defeats the Attack on America."
(2001)
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Pop
Culture
"Appealing
to the lowest common denominator is the golden rule of flash
entertainment. The Romans knew a good Christian lion feeding
meant big numbers, but the advent of television put to shame
anything those monsters could've ever dreamed up."
-jc from Fear No Art
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Politics
"We
the people, enduring this imperfect union,
do here by fully admit to being its author. Yet, long before we
were handed the torch, the original bearers suspended reality
and stuck us with a fixed game. This republic, bound by these
purple mountains and fruited plains, must finally conclude, in
the waning moments of its self-proclaimed century,
that although it is in God
that we trust, what supreme being would bless
this fucking mess?"
-jc
from The Last Train From Little Rock 2/29/99
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Sports
James
Campion Sports Bio
"The
American star athlete lives in his own high and mighty society.
It is a landscape of excuses and leniency, where young boys
who are able to throw a baseball 98 miles and hour, score a
touchdown or dunk a basketball, can run wild through infinite
puberty."
-jc from Above The Rim - Beyond The Law 12/30/97
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Music
"Most
of all it's the music that never leaves you, a blessing and
a curse you're straddled with from birth. In a perfect world
you could cultivate its voice and conquer its terrible noise;
but it's not a perfect world, and sometimes you must muffle
it with the quandary of everyday life. However, you eventually
learn that's just a human mechanism built in to ignore the obvious;
that music is the sanctuary, the crib, the womb that some of
us cannot do without."
-jc from Deep Tank Jersey
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