Sunday, December 22, 2024

Layovers

I remember that time,
we were lying on the floor

and Anthony Bourdain was drinking Japanese whisky
on the television.

You looked so peaceful,
wide-eyed at his debauchery,
soft, upturned lips smiling
at his barbs about hipsters.

Now,
I am lying on the floor

and Anthony Bourdain is drinking Japanese whisky
on the television

and he looks gaunt—
tired of being replayed,
and used
as a replacement.

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Nick Laugher
Nick Laugher
Never profiting from the pithy pitfalls or pedantic antics of the common journalist, Nick "Noose Papermen" Laugher has continuously baffled readers by demonstrating a rare understanding of the vagaries of our current cultural climate. Rumored to have been conceived and raised in the nook of a knotty pine somewhere in the Pacific Northwest, Laugher was forced to abandon his true calling (pottery) after having one night experienced a vision in which a wise and generous hawk appeared to him through the shimmering static of his television set. The apparition spoke to Laugher of an aching need for some new kind of media perspective, one that elegantly incorporated esoteric vocabulary, gratuitous alliteration and penetrating pun-manship. And so it was. And so it is. And so it always will be.
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