East Meets West
Ishmael and Mescaline Franklin to the Crackpot Mind’s Rescue
© 2016 James LaFond
JAN/3/16
Today, on January 2nd 2016, I received two parcels from readers a world apart.
Mescaline Franklin, the man who is sponsoring my exploration of the eastern United States mega-ghetto, sent me:
Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness in paperback
H.P. Lovecraft, The Complete Fiction—five pounds, easily
Hans Christian Anderson, Classic Fairy Tales
Ishmael, the Mountain Man who is betting that I will never want to return to the ghetto of the Eastern United States [An hour glass-shaped Latina could go a long way towards convincing me of staying on in the Rockies after Shayne kicks my ass on the Commissary Ridge] sent me the following:
Challenge of the Trail, video by Jeff Hengesbaugh and Wes Housier
Foraging the Rockies, by Liz Brown Morgan
Big Damn Book of Sheer Manliness by the Von Hoffman brothers
I’m on it, guys.
all-power-fighting
the greatest lie ever sold
on combat
dark, distant futures
time & cosmos
the greatest boxer
wife—
triumph
when you're food
america the brutal
menthol rampage
hate
song of the secret gardener
let the world fend for itself
ranger?
songs of aryas
honor among men
the sunset saga complete
beasts of aryas
fiction anthology one
the year the world took the z-pill
your trojan whorse
the fighting edge
fanatic
the combat space
fate
broken dance
into leviathan’s maw
masculine axis
by the wine dark sea
under the god of things
solo boxing
the gods of boxing
sorcerer!
uncle satan
orphan nation
barbarism versus civilization
the first boxers
cracker-boy
winter of a fighting life
book of nightmares
thriving in bad places
blue eyed daughter of zeus
sons of aryas
on the overton railroad
the lesser angels of our nature
predation
advent america
logic of steel
logic of force
within leviathan’s craw
son of a lesser god
taboo you
z-pill forever
night city
James, I know a couple of young Latinos that fit the description, but most of them my age look like a bean bag chair.