• Artist Greg Robison asks Patterson’s Vagabonds to Compare and contrast! This Is A Watercolor Of A Pig…   Is It Still A Watercolor Of A Pig? You Decide !

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  • Our Midwest Vagabond, Mancheenee, has weighed in with his thoughts on the Democratic and Republican Nominees. Consequently, at his request, we take our first survey of the Free Thinkers of the Inner Sanctum, Patterson’s Committee of Vagabonds. Mancheenee, cultural critic, and lifelong movie buff, after viewing both Democratic and Republican conventions, summed up his impressions…

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  • Greetings

    Please allow me to introduce myself: I’m the man the first ten amendments to the American Constitution were intended to protect. That’s right, it’s me. I’ve read them, memorized a few even, and I can tell you, until further notice, I’m watching my back. Let’s review: Bill of Rights

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  • How Did We Get Here? Six months ago you could ask any Democrat from Santa Barbara to Portland, Maine, and they would have said the same thing regarding the eight or so candidates seeking the 2008 Democratic nomination: “I’ll take any of them!” But “time changes everything” as the old song goes, and Chris Mathews…

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  • Links

    Literature Rose Solari Poetry, Prose and news from our favorite poet, lecturer, and playwright (http://www.rosesolari.com) The Writer’s Center An outpost of Civilization in the Capital of the Empire (www.writer.org) Gargoyle Magazine (www.gargoylemagazine.com) WordWrights Magazine (www.wordwrights.com) The Henry Miller Museum (www.henrymiller.org) Sante Fe Writers Project (http://www.sfwp.com) An Independent Press With Some Pizzazz! Left Coast Writers (http://www.leftcoastwriters.com)…

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  • The PHEROMONES

    common scents

    The History & Music Like Goliards of old, The PHEROMONES crisscrossed North America in the 1980’s and ’90s lampooning the local clergy and constabulary and anyone else who fell into their satirical cross-hairs. From the epicenter of chicanery and peccadilloes depravity, Washington, D.C., the ‘Mones took on the right wing, the arms industry, lawyers, yuppies,…

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