The Denial File
What We Can't Think About—and Why
The Resentful Center
Bruce Floyd | May 30, 2011
In almost every person, to one degree or another, lies the rankling idea that he or she, this person we are talking about, is nothing …
Steve Earle, Me, And Ol’ Causa Sui
Bill Bornschein | May 26, 2011
Musician and author Steve Earle has long traded in stories of limits and transcendence of limits. This is the case in his latest offering. Perhaps …
The Psychic Bartender’s Handbook
Kirby Farrell | May 23, 2011
Guy comes up to the bar and bends your ear: “Listen, Joe. I’m in finance. I’m worth billions. I got limos, seven houses, a private …
Cross-Species Altruism? Something to think about…
Daniel Liechty | May 19, 2011
I had a very strange experience earlier this week that has really stuck with me. I don’t want to over-interpret it, but it really got …
On The Porch
Bruce Floyd | May 16, 2011
Most members of the EBF, I’d wager, have heard of Wittgenstein’s little fable of the fly in the milk bottle. Earlier this afternoon, while I …
Getting Drunk on Osama
Kirby Farrell | May 12, 2011
Listen, pal. Osama bin Laden’s dead. Somebody just told me about a bar that’s begun serving “Osamas” – some sort of fruity blast of alcohol …
The Single Hound
Bruce Floyd | May 5, 2011
Below you will find the poem with the phrase “single hound” in it. It’s a metaphor for self-consciousness, that creature, entity, phenomenon (you call it, …
Thoughts on the Death of Osama bin Laden
Daniel Liechty | May 2, 2011
The news this morning is that Osama bin Laden is dead. He chose to live by the sword, and so it has come about that …