<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3078018600916269546</id><updated>2011-10-17T16:53:15.396-07:00</updated><title type='text'>flim flam</title><subtitle type='html'>gonzo journalism: periodismo vernacular</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://flimflamflamflim.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3078018600916269546/posts/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://flimflamflamflim.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>AmericanSappho</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16892042416907576306</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>4</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3078018600916269546.post-8733535651427483960</id><published>2010-12-25T16:29:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-12-28T08:12:41.047-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Senate Runaway Breaker</title><content type='html'>There's lots of talk about a runaway&lt;br /&gt;breaker his name's something sounds like baner,&lt;br /&gt;and the crooked look in his eyes is bare&lt;br /&gt;hatred with glare, oh he seems vicious&lt;br /&gt;and was recently appointed the Pit Bull&lt;br /&gt;of the Senate of Yahoos (Jonathan &lt;br /&gt;Swift was the one who invented the Word-&lt;br /&gt;ah! just another friggen poet's mots.)&lt;br /&gt;The jesters and the acrobats have struck &lt;br /&gt;a chord of public glee, hee hee hee ho.&lt;br /&gt;Obama's gonna get it a shellack&lt;br /&gt;he thought was tough at Midterm elections...&lt;br /&gt;is he up to snuff? Will he stand up straight&lt;br /&gt;when the archer's apple's placed on his head?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3078018600916269546-8733535651427483960?l=flimflamflamflim.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://flimflamflamflim.blogspot.com/feeds/8733535651427483960/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://flimflamflamflim.blogspot.com/2010/12/king-of-senate-runaway-breaker.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3078018600916269546/posts/default/8733535651427483960'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3078018600916269546/posts/default/8733535651427483960'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://flimflamflamflim.blogspot.com/2010/12/king-of-senate-runaway-breaker.html' title='Senate Runaway Breaker'/><author><name>AmericanSappho</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16892042416907576306</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3078018600916269546.post-8037091270200512689</id><published>2010-12-19T15:20:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2011-02-16T12:14:21.339-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Sinators Sin Sintido: Down You Arrogant DreamCrows!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xr43qOoTugw"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;When you came as Visitors, you were Fed&lt;br /&gt;and taught to Farm, Hunt, survive the Seasons&lt;br /&gt;of your Malcontent, at Massachusetts&lt;br /&gt;Bay, Wampanoag, and in California,&lt;br /&gt;and las Ciudades del Maya, Mexica,&lt;br /&gt;and The People. No, not Tribes but Knowledge&lt;br /&gt;Bearers, inVentors of Language, Zero,&lt;br /&gt;and Agriculture. You called this Voice Up~~&lt;br /&gt;you took our Offerings, the Beautiful&lt;br /&gt;Dreamers, small Gods and Goddesses, and Souls,&lt;br /&gt;and all of the Dreams that they Accomplished&lt;br /&gt;and which you--U.S. Dementors, 5 Plus&lt;br /&gt;or minus from each Payasado--&lt;br /&gt;(Two Parties and NO FUN allowed!)....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;and you smashed them like Perverse Pinatas.&lt;br /&gt;You have no Manners, Illiterate Brutes,&lt;br /&gt;Fancy Sinators Sin Sintido. You've&lt;br /&gt;asked for this Poetic Rebuke in a&lt;br /&gt;Language you don't even Speak, Ha! How great&lt;br /&gt;is your Understanding? It's a Sonnet--&lt;br /&gt;a Poem that is above You. You run a&lt;br /&gt;Country and you can't recognize Sonnets?&lt;br /&gt;You say you Love English, Americans?&lt;br /&gt;Let me teach you some Shakespeare if only&lt;br /&gt;by Argument. For I will violate&lt;br /&gt;Shakespeare's APproach: Hate not Love, Hate not Love,&lt;br /&gt;Hate not Love. This will live on as a Two-Handed &lt;br /&gt;Slap Down, You Unlearned Arrogant DreamCrows!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3078018600916269546-8037091270200512689?l=flimflamflamflim.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://flimflamflamflim.blogspot.com/feeds/8037091270200512689/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://flimflamflamflim.blogspot.com/2010/12/sin-sintido-sinators-fuck-you-arrogant.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3078018600916269546/posts/default/8037091270200512689'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3078018600916269546/posts/default/8037091270200512689'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://flimflamflamflim.blogspot.com/2010/12/sin-sintido-sinators-fuck-you-arrogant.html' title='Sinators Sin Sintido: Down You Arrogant DreamCrows!'/><author><name>AmericanSappho</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16892042416907576306</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3078018600916269546.post-6897190920203529521</id><published>2010-12-17T13:43:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2010-12-19T21:43:52.409-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='tax'/><title type='text'>Lame Duck Congress: Paying for My Civil Rights with Interest</title><content type='html'>We exchange our rights for your Money, Peeps&lt;br /&gt;are saying that. Look at the Congress, first&lt;br /&gt;things first:  No Taxes for the Wealthy,&lt;br /&gt;Wealthier, and Wealthiest. We will Throw&lt;br /&gt;Money at Money or the Sky may Fall&lt;br /&gt;on Us. The Deities don't tolerate&lt;br /&gt;Negligence, no they require First Fats&lt;br /&gt;burned on their Pyres. Oh Rich Senators,&lt;br /&gt;Tax me, and Tax me twice, three times, Four more,&lt;br /&gt;I still prefer my Civil Rights to your&lt;br /&gt;Carnal Capital Desires. My Life&lt;br /&gt;is spent in small and Large Letters. Money&lt;br /&gt;is your Thing. I get it. Its your Fetish&lt;br /&gt;to Keep Count of decimals and Dollars, &lt;br /&gt;and I'm at ease measuring Pentameter.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3078018600916269546-6897190920203529521?l=flimflamflamflim.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://flimflamflamflim.blogspot.com/feeds/6897190920203529521/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://flimflamflamflim.blogspot.com/2010/12/conngress-111-paying-for-our-civil.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3078018600916269546/posts/default/6897190920203529521'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3078018600916269546/posts/default/6897190920203529521'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://flimflamflamflim.blogspot.com/2010/12/conngress-111-paying-for-our-civil.html' title='Lame Duck Congress: Paying for My Civil Rights with Interest'/><author><name>AmericanSappho</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16892042416907576306</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3078018600916269546.post-8489328170774862888</id><published>2010-12-17T09:57:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2010-12-19T21:43:14.963-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Scrooge Senators From the Future at 16 Years Old N.A.F.T.A. Blues</title><content type='html'>I’m your Moral Conscience, Gentle Senate.&lt;br /&gt;Leave me Now and you will regretez vous.&lt;br /&gt;You and I are not new dance partners. We&lt;br /&gt;waltzed together at my Quienceañera.&lt;br /&gt;I’m a Global American, I navigate myself,&lt;br /&gt;A soul boat worthy of my Debt to Humanity&lt;br /&gt;-- A program to generate cognition&lt;br /&gt;by Language, a Kiss before you Walk Out.&lt;br /&gt;I will be back after I’ve Gone Again&lt;br /&gt;and Again. My task is to Excoriate&lt;br /&gt;You.  My Love is Truth in Language, and no other.&lt;br /&gt;I’m an Asset to Poets--Try me!&lt;br /&gt;You might remember my performance in&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;A Christmas Carol. &lt;/i&gt; I haunt your Future.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3078018600916269546-8489328170774862888?l=flimflamflamflim.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://flimflamflamflim.blogspot.com/feeds/8489328170774862888/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://flimflamflamflim.blogspot.com/2010/12/dickens-grinch-seantors-from-future-at.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3078018600916269546/posts/default/8489328170774862888'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3078018600916269546/posts/default/8489328170774862888'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://flimflamflamflim.blogspot.com/2010/12/dickens-grinch-seantors-from-future-at.html' title='Scrooge Senators From the Future at 16 Years Old N.A.F.T.A. 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