Author: Todd Long

Today the sunlight tickles the land for but a moment. Winter Solstice has always been my New Year, a day of reflection and renewal,

…..and up from the ground came a bubblin’ crude…. It’s oil that feeds the need and runs the machine – all the machines. Our

This was taken outside earlier – a large metal “e” that I mounted to the back stoop. The “e” was once part of a

This afternoon I was beating brush along one of the more bacteria-laden creeks in the city. Mostly I was scoping out the carp and

The signs of spring….

I don’t know what my fascination is with the unrest in Haiti as of late, but I ain’t gonna let it bog down all

It seems as though Mr. Seibold is once again incorrect in his assertion that the aliens can’t exceed the FTL barrier…..Poppycock!!! As a matter

At least this is what the attorney for John Hinckley Jr. had to say about his client the other day. What a difference over

Indeed, as is typical for Jan. 2 , I will lament the fact that I must be at work. No matter that yesterday I

Several years back I vowed to never again waste even a quick doodle on the foulness of politicos. Nevertheless, election years do happen, and

Here we go again…throw some more scat into the election year cauldron…. Dubya is looking to bust out hardcore Kennedy-style into the “infinite &

Iowa 2004 is in the books, write that one down. And out of the dust and haze of a few trampled cornfields all that

This freakish ghost has nothing else to wear But some cheap crown he picked up at a fair Grotesquely perched atop his bony corpse.

I don’t know what’s gonna happen man, but I wanna have my kicks before the whole shithouse goes up in flames… – Jim Morrison

Trouble No Set Like Rain Jamaican Proverb It’s Crunch Time in Tennessee. Actually it is Tuesday and voting time, moments of hand-rubbing bliss and

The psychological rape has now ended, and in the hazy aftermath I have gained intimate access to the innerworkings of my psyche. What the

Be nice…until it’s time, to not be nice. Dalton, bouncer at the Double Deuce Silence. The wall-embedded TV finally ceased the constant drone that

Well, I noticed today that my collection of Smoky Mountain photography is reaching an elevated stage of fullness that is anything but parsimonious. Electronic

This weekend past a sliver of spring fell upon the valley of East Tennessee flicking away the shroud of winter for a moment –