Monthly Archives August 2008

Religion

So, I am not religious, but I went to a Disciple of Christ school, and so, perhaps through osmosis, learned a thing or two about religion. My personal thought on religion is if you are not handling snakes you are a dilettante as far as Jesus goes. There is a religion where the [...]

I never thought there would be so many

HowManyOfMe.com

There are966 people with my name in the U.S.A.

How many have your name?

American Anaesthetics

American Anaesthetics
by Jonathan Holden
In the Shreve High football stadium,
I think of Polacks nursing long beers in Tiltonsville,
And gray faces of Negroes in the blast furnace at Benwood,
And the ruptured night watchman of Wheeling Steel,
Dreaming of heroes.
All the proud fathers are ashamed to go home.
Their women cluck like starved pullets,
Dying for love.
Therefore,
Their sons grow suicidally beautiful
At [...]

essay

This is an excerpt from a great essay. Click the link below to read the whole thing.
A photograph of me writing the figure “$128,000” on a blackboard was widely published. I deposited the net amount (a little less than that) and began to try to understand the life I’d created. Part of it was [...]

Films

I don’t make films.
But, if I did they would have a Samuria.