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RHETORICAL ANSWERS: Coming Soon...

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My given name is Charlie Emerson Jr. That is, before the name Hollow was hung on me. They drew lines around this hole in our country and named it a state on the day I was born, but our federal government gives us less thought than the Indian folk they have herded between here and Texas. Personally, I enjoy the value of being overlooked. It gives me occasion to observe, to see what most chose to overlook. On nights like these I am the shadow myself. Stay Tuned for. Hollow Hell Bent. Top [url=http:/ www&#4...

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RHETORICAL ANSWERS: January 2010

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Things Everyone Should Know. We're not all geniuses, professors, academics, or TV detectives, and I'm okay with that. But by the same token, there are things that human beings who are awake more than they are asleep, who can operate a cell phone while maintaining their balance, and who might have any charge over another human really really should know. I have conveniently listed a sampling of these bare minimums below. 1 Why centuries are so confusingly named. Why are they so oddly named? The common prob...

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RHETORICAL ANSWERS: November 2009

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I went backpacking in Ecuador in the fall of my twenty-third year. It was the most significant thing I had done up until that point. It had unfolded almost exactly as it was supposed to, with as many wrinkles as there tend to be during life's significant events. Airports are unique as elements of our civilization because of how they distinguish themselves from the places they are doorways, or more to the point, portals into. A quick question: Have you ever paid or heard of a Departure Tax? That being sai...

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RHETORICAL ANSWERS: June 2010

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Things Everyone Should Know II. As promised in my previous post of a similar name, and because shortcomings of this kind are depressingly abundant, here is Part Two of my list of things everyone should know. If you are suffering, or more to the point causing suffering, from a lack of knowledge of one or more of the items listed below, please read through to the end. Instructions will follow. How to use Four-Way Stops. If you answered yes, you are in the minority. Almost worse in my opinion, than the lack...

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RHETORICAL ANSWERS: September 2009

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One of the great socio-pop-culture observations:. 8220;What really matters is what you like, not what you are like.”. It states that we are all judged, not by the quality of our character or our accomplishments, but by the preferences that clothe our lifestyle, the flag that flies over us, the pastimes and cravings that move us, and idols by which we choose to stand. And it's true for worse and for better. We are what we like, defined by what we want to like. We all choose the things we like. If on some ...

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RHETORICAL ANSWERS: March 2009

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We all want to be cool. We have no idea what cool is. Cool is expensive horseshit. The cool is a fallacy. The very attempt to ascend into one of our society’s hallowed fantasy hats is by definition a contraction of cool itself. Adorning, pretending, mincing, portraying, purporting an identity that is not a natural part of your core is insecurity and denial, and about cool. Sometimes being ostracized is a service to the pack. Sometimes an attempt at cool deserves a cold reception. We seem to, on a psychot...

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RHETORICAL ANSWERS: The Dilemma of Fight Club

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The Dilemma of Fight Club. This is called the change over, the movie goes on and nobody has any idea.". And that common consideration is not entirely wrong, from the stand point of plot, but that analysis loses this fist fight if you're after a victory and if your dilemma is theme. As the first act moves into the second, the confused male identity encounters the assured and their friendship produces a series of possible answers to the image of the masses polishing the brass on the Titanic. We in the ...

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RHETORICAL ANSWERS: Chapter Two

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The Second Chapter of my Novel for your reading ecstacy. The people of the court settled into the stiff wooden furniture. The court came to order. 8220;To the charge of assault and battery on the night of the 16th, how does the defendant plead? 8220;The defendant pleads guilty your honor.”. 8220;The prosecution recommends jail time in consideration of the defendant’s reoccurring criminal offenses.”. 8220;Because, I…”. 8220;Don’t answer that, son.”. 8220;I think…”. 8220;…The details of your file mak...

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RHETORICAL ANSWERS: Chapter One

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Enjoy a sample from my Novel. You know the look the bad guy has on his face when he’s at his baddest? When he’s got his gun cocked, his situation in hand, and his ill-gotten gains in sight? When he’s harnessed all the electricity coursing from his victim’s defeated expression and the urban swamp surrounding them, a feral grin rises up his face, and he knows the world could crumble within his closing fist? Roy was the bad guy. Roy abused life. Life would soon return the favor. Roy brought his face in clos...