"The electric things have their life too. Paltry as those lives are." - Philip K. Dick (1928-1982), from Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? OXFORD, Ohio (ZP) -- Somewhere in time, on some drunken night of mayhem, he'd shattered his iPhone against a brick wall. Chunks of ancient red dust from some ...

- PROLOGUE - "Can you fucking believe that?" the undergrad said, crushing her cigarette out beneath the heel of her Uggs. "Not only do I have to FIND a job but NO SPRING BREAK!" "Well, maybe your folks are having a tough time... getting a job's not--" She put her hand in my face, almost burnt her ha...

“You're young, you're drunk, you're in bed, you have knives; shit happens..." - Angelina Jolie (1975- ),Actress and Adopter of Orphans * * * * "If I can't dance, it's not my revolution." - Emma Goldman (1869-1940), Anarchist and Feminist OXFORD, Ohio (ZP) -- He's a regular Killer Diller, walking t...

OXFORD, Ohio (ZP) -- Sometimes the world spins, the floor rushes up from the bottom of the mosh pit, the ceiling blurs into fleshy hands and arms all around you, and you realize that, in that perfect quixotic moment, where you stand on every issue in the universe. Such a liberating experience, the o...

Politics, the environmental crotch rot, Whole forests destroyed while the world's too hot to Live in...Where the fuck do I begin? A baby is dead from an overdose, Mama tried suicide after suicide But couldn't get close enough to meet the Big Man in heaven, The TV sliced and diced God down to sweet m...

OXFORD, Ohio (ZP) -- I sure get the flu a lot. At least once a year. Goddammit. Once I finish my "Virus Removal" regimen of elderberry tea, orange juice, and enough dried acai/edamame, flavonoid-rich trail mix to kill this motherfucker dead, I'll return to blogging. Seriously, right now, approximate...

A RARE PROLOGUE "So what you're saying..." said the drunk undergrad earlier in the night,"is tha...if... if I was completely naked and all over you right now, you wouldn't fuck me... because I'm wasted?" "Exactly," I whispered back in her ear. "But you can call me when you're sober." "That's fucked ...

"I'm not drunk, I'm surreal sober. Now put that somewhere... wait... did somebody take my bra off?" - Recently minted Local U. alumna, On her last weekend in Oxford Yeah, we'll leave it at that. Fun first weekend back in ol' Oxford Fucking Ohio, really. And I can honestly say that I've never eaten a...

PASO ROBLES, Calif. (ZP) -- I didn't think anything of it at first. A group of very drunk women in the midst of a pub crawl, eight in all, with one hollering something about knowing me from somewhere, staggered past me as I pulled cash from an ATM. These things happen. Particularly when there's drun...

People living in poverty have the least access to power to shape policies - to shape their future. But they have the right to a voice. - Nelson Mandela SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. (ZP) -- There he sits, this wretch of a rogue, this public menace so foul that the local city council was forced to ban sitt...