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THE FRANCIS FORD CUPPOLA SAGA PART 6

THE FRANCIS FORD CUPPOLA SAGA PART 6

THE PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MIME Following the disappointing results of the New Japan Fighting Championship Tag-Team Tournament, the team of Francis Ford Cuppola, Comme Çi and Comme Ça (the French Mime Assassins), and Francis’ assistant Rodney P went their separate ways. Francis, as you know, never stopped searching for new ways to get his foot into the wrestling business. The mimes,…

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The Transmanifesto

Maybe it’s the Trannifesto. I’m not sure it’s a good idea to write when you’re sad, or angry, or hurt. I said in my last blog I wasn’t going to write another blog for a while, but here we are. It’s like a continuation of my “Transgender Chronicles” blogs. What follows may end up being a rant, or just a whine, I may swear, or express strong opinions, I don’t know exactly what’s coming. If…

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STATE OF THE THINGS - AN UPDATE and Music!

STATE OF THE THINGS – AN UPDATE and Music!

I go stretches at a time without posting blogs. If you follow this site with any frequency, you know this, and I apologize. Sometimes it’s because I don’t have a coherent idea to write about. Other times it’s because things I’m thinking about are still being processed, and other times it’s literally I don’t have time to do much. In between my various hustles, I’m writing a book, working on a…

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Top Five Worst Years of All Time

Top Five Worst Years of All Time

Was 2020 bad for you? Maybe we’re too close to ground zero to make any objective value judgements yet.For me, 2020 was the same as any other year, except I couldn’t randomly walk into a store and buy something. And I started wearing a mask everywhere. I took up jogging, built my own PC, started writing and developing my own music more actively. In many ways, I feel like I developed as a person.…

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May Your Words Pass Through three gates...

May Your Words Pass Through three gates…

Nighttime, about 3 am. About halfway up the winding, snow-covered drive toward the hilltop apartment complex, my car started to slow before starting to list sideways. It would go no further in the snow.“Welp, this isn’t getting done,” I muttered, forced to turn back as much by my own recognition of my car’s limitations as the fact the car was effectively turning itself around on the slippery…

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THE FRANCIS FORD CUPPOLA SAGA PART 6

THE FRANCIS FORD CUPPOLA SAGA PART 6

THE PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MIME Following the disappointing results of the New Japan Fighting Championship Tag-Team Tournament, the team of Francis Ford Cuppola, Comme Çi and Comme Ça (the French Mime Assassins), and Francis’ assistant Rodney went their separate ways. Francis, as you know, never stopped searching for new ways to get his foot into the wrestling business. The mimes,…

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THE FRANCIS FORD CUPPOLA SAGA PART 5

THE FRANCIS FORD CUPPOLA SAGA PART 5

Prelude to a Mime

August 8, 2008 Stade de Reims Reims, France.

They were celebrated tag-team champions going into that match. André Bruleé and his partner “Crème” René LaFlame, or ‘Crème Bruleé’, were the most feared tag team to lace up the boots. Together they’d amassed a stunning series of victories that had catapulted them to the apex of French Sports Entertainment.

Until that day.

A…

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THE FRANCIS FORD CUPPOLA SAGA PART 4

THE FRANCIS FORD CUPPOLA SAGA PART 4

HOW DO YOU SOLVE A PROBLEM LIKE MIMESIS?

The French Mime Assassins sat on the green room couch after the press conference and stared expressionlessly at Francis as he stood and angrily berated them.

Francis Ford Cuppola: You meant to do it, didn’t you? DIDN’T YOU? Who taught you two to mime like that, huh? ‘the difference between Jam and Marmalade’. Do you realize how FOOLISH you made me…

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THE FRANCIS FORD CUPPOLA SAGE PART 3

THE FRANCIS FORD CUPPOLA SAGE PART 3

THE MIMECHURIAN CANDIDATE

The New Japan Fighting Championship Tag-Team-Tropolis press conference table had been reset after the last team hosted their press conference. The French Mime Assassins sat near the end looking ruefully out at the parade of reporters the here to cover the event.

The French Mime Assassins

Beside them sat Francis Ford Cuppola’s ever-present assistant Rodney P…

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THE FRANCIS FORD CUPPOLA SAGA PART 2

THE FRANCIS FORD CUPPOLA SAGA PART 2

Mime Meld

The DSLR camera shook with excitement in Rodney’s hands as he captured another local tag-team finding themselves unexpectedly on the receiving end of a loss at the hands of the French Mime Assassins. Featured here:

The French Mime Assassins

He was giddy as he rushed along the lane-way of the gym to tell his boss. Rodney waded through a semi-circle of people in the center of…

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The FraNCIS fORD cUPPOLA sAGA pART 1

The FraNCIS fORD cUPPOLA sAGA pART 1

A MEETING OF THE MIMES

Francis Ford Cuppola strode through Haneda airport on a mission.

Behind him, hurrying to keep up with the beret-wearing, scarf-bearing avant-garde D-List director turned wrestling promoter walked his assistant, Rodney P,

who had organized the entire venture based off his boss’ desire to promote the greatest wrestling Tag Team he could find from France, (he’s…

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Looking for Alphagetti....

Looking for Alphagetti….

Jerry is in the supermarket looking for some canned pasta. He rounds a corner and enters the canned foods aisle. A frown on his face he looks down the long, straight aisle. He sees a stocker with a store-branded apron on. Jerry approaches.

JERRY: Excuse me, I’m looking for some sort of a canned pasta.

The stocker thinks a second then smiles.

GROCERY STOCKER: You’re thinking of…

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Looking for something to enhance your performance...?

Looking for something to enhance your performance…?

Well look no further! Back at it with more silly bullshit, it’s ya boi with another….

She nervously peeks through the curtain out onto the gymnasium floor, where a rival gymnast is completing her routine to furious applause. The walls reverberate as the judges scores are read out loud over the speaker system to an approving crowd. She sighs loudly and looks pensive down at the floor. Her…

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Transgender chronicles Part 3

Transgender chronicles Part 3

I set a pretty eager goal of one post a day all week to commemorate Trans Awareness week. While not short on content, I’m predicting I’ll be short on time as the week progresses, so wish me luck. Last post I spoke briefly about my experiences with dating thus far. I’m by no means an expert. I feel like being trans and dating is largely the same relative experience to being cisgender and dating.…

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Transgender chronicles part 2

Transgender chronicles part 2

It’s Trans Awareness week. As I began writing part 1 of these here Transgender Chronicles I tried to remember when the day of remembrance was so I could align my efforts more meaningfully but I forgot on what day Trans Remembrance fell because I’m a pretty bad member of the club.

This is part 2 of an attempt at catharsis. There’s not any intended linearity to these posts. I’m not tying…

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The Transgender Chronicles Part 1

The Transgender Chronicles Part 1

I’ve been meaning to write a blog on this subject for a while, but the combination of how personal it is, coupled with the lack of available free time have discouraged me from delving too deeply into trans-ness.

It makes me feel moderately selfish to talk about myself. I avoid it in general. I have a weak self esteem, and don’t feel like much that matters to me is worth talking about. I…

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Only Her Shadow – A Short Transgender Story Preamble: This was a short story I wrote submitted some years back to, I think, a queer-friendly journal looking for submissions.