Dear Ninety Nine Percenters,

The anthem song you’ve been looking for is on the next page. Now go tear down a system or two, would ya?

Happy May… full story HERE »

Friends of La Cuadra, here’s a new song, Grifter Moon, by Matthew Grimm from his upcoming, but as yet unnamed album. For more of his music, visit either www.redsmear.com or hie thee to YouTube for some songs from his once and future band, Then Hangdogs. His album with Red Smear can be purchased here.

Grifter Moon by Matthew… full story HERE »

Tell you what: I’ll buy the next round if you shut the fuck up for five minutes. No offense, you’re completely entitled to your retarded opinion. It’s just, if I hear one more goddamn patriotic Real American bray about the real meaning of “liberty,” my reaction is to start affixing wicks to booze bottles. You… full story HERE »

She visited me three times, maybe more, that soft ghost who smelled like violet, violet and fabric softener perfuming age-perfected jeans. She only came in when nobody else was there, seemingly always as my consciousness ebbed. She didn’t say anything at first, mostly, or if she did I didn’t hear it…. full story HERE »

Sit on the deck chair of this club that otherwise wouldn’t let me in to park cars, much less as a member, and gaze inside with booze-frosted eyes, as if beholding a crux moment of a film shot by Haskell Wexler. Late summer cool cascades off the inlet on northern Long Island, rectangular lights of… full story HERE »

When Venezuelans amassed in the streets of Caracas and loyal military units faced down rogue superiors in April of 2002, they may have symbolically ended more than just the coup d’etat against their republic’s constitutional government. Though conflated by Western media as an internal conflict spurred by the precipitous, firebrand ways of president Hugo Chávez,… full story HERE »