Eight to the Bar

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Thursday, April 3, 2008

License to Deadpan

A nearly empty nightclub, a tall, skinny man with no expression at all stands in a pool of light.... License to Deadpan by Joyce Melton I had to pay for my dog's license the other day. He never has any money. Any of you have a dog? Sir? They don't allow dogs in the club, you'll have to call a cab to... Sign in to see full entry.

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Birdsong -5- Too Good for Pie

Old friends remember what you like... Birdsong 5. Too Good for Pie by Joyce Melton Birdsong and Connie drank Mountain Dew and Diet Pepsi in a restaurant just down the hill from the I-15-215 interchange. They'd eaten spicy chili made with tender pork and flavored with hot green ortegas, sweet red... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, April 2, 2008

Turnipseed Economics

If you're selling turnips......and the cost of getting turnips to sell goes up, you don't make as much money. Doesn't work with oil, apparently. Why not? Three reasons: 1. Inelastic demand, the demand for oil is pretty constant because for some purposes there are no alternatives. 2. Oligopolistic... Sign in to see full entry.

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Birdsong -4- Living Like a Rockstar

She knew what she had to do.... Birdsong 4. Living like a Rockstar by Joyce Melton The Worths, Nolan and Tracey, lived in a mobile home parked inside a chainlink fence on a quarter-acre lot in a part of La Cadena known officially as Elmwood (there were no elms) and unofficially as Wheel Estates for... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, April 1, 2008

John Cash

Probably no one much under fifty is going to get this one but I think it's funny and that's what's important, isn't it? John Cash by J.E. Melton Sentient toilets had a vogue for a while in the capital city of the Bergenalter Empire. Actually, they were a sessile flupe of the warrior caste of the... Sign in to see full entry.

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Stories, poems, songs, jokes, recipes and musings by Joyce Melton. The title comes from music, the boogie-woogie style of jazz has eight beats to the bar. It's fast and intense. I'm going to try to blog daily for awhile and see if people are interested in my stuff.

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