Pax Nortona – A Blog by Joel Sax
From the Land of the Lost Blunderbuss
Month: August 2003
A Peace from Hell
Posted on August 22, 2003 in War
Progressives know that this war will not go away, that the troops will not wake up with happy dreams about warm welcomes of the Iraqi people.
Francesca Woodman: Tortured Artist Doll or Person?
Posted on August 22, 2003 in Culture Photography Suicide
Could it be that Woodman created these images in a “high” period? Could her suicide be founded on something else and these pictures leave us with no clue about the motives? I think it is likely.
Return to the Center
Posted on August 21, 2003 in Book of Days Citizenship
Sorry for the skimpiness of these thoughts. Sorry that I haven’t spoken about my love of eavesdropping. The heat has given me a headache.
Oliver North
Posted on August 21, 2003 in Scoundrels War
At that proud purr of your voice, the war in Vietnam was lost — by you.
Expectations of Unfolding
Posted on August 21, 2003 in Hope and Joy Weather
Though the heat declines in intensity and we’re supposed to have rain, I still feel the soft-cratered spiritual morbidity in my temples and above my eyes.
Thief of Your Own Time
Posted on August 20, 2003 in Book of Days
How can we say that we are free if we cannot dream when the visions come?
Interview by Jeremy Puma
Posted on August 20, 2003 in Interviews
Can you imagine George W. Bush acting like that? He’d frame someone.
But I Live on the Second Floor!
Posted on August 20, 2003 in Quizzes
You are the unnamed narrator of “Notes From
The Underground”. Due to hard times and a
paronoiac and obsessive character, you have had
a hard life, and have reacted by rantings,
philosophizing, and outbursts of corrosive
bitterness. Due to these and guilt over past
misdeeds, you have ended up holed up in a
cellar, obsessively analyzing yourself and
confusedly talking about mankind and the
future.
Which Dostoyevsky protagonist are you?
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Can you Hear Me Now, You Bastards?
Posted on August 20, 2003 in Censorship
I don’t care what you think of labor unions: this kind of behavior by Verizon deserves censure.
Two Companions at the Desk
Posted on August 20, 2003 in Body Language
I’m sitting at the computer with two companions: Lynn’s black leatherette Bible and a headache that fits over the top of my head like a helmet.
A Tip for My Inner Critics
Posted on August 19, 2003 in Book of Days Satire
I’m overdue for the silent treatment
It was in The New York Times….
Posted on August 19, 2003 in Censorship Satire
It’s got to be true, right?
