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2012 Stories by Michael Simmons

• Oliver Stone

  published November 1, 2012

  Despite our creation myth, the story of America can be legitimately explained as one motherfucker after another chopping down the cherry tree and... More >>

• Best Proof That One Can Talk While Playing Guitar With One’s Teeth

  published October 25, 2012

  “Once you are dead, you are made for life,” said Jimi Hendrix in 1969, a year and a half before his sad departure. He’s thusly... More >>

• Poems for Sociopaths

  published October 11, 2012

  "At last, their smugness is united: their compatible vacuity, their insufferable beaming. They were meant for each other . . . ." So reads a... More >>

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  Hendrix on Hendrix

  published October 4, 2012

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  It’s Not Just For Juvenile Delinquents Anymore

  published September 27, 2012

        It’s Not Just For Juvenile Delinquents... More >>

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  Beatles Stories

  published September 27, 2012

    Of Fabs & Fans   Cultural fragmentation is a pervasive marker of The Twenty-Worst Century, however virtually... More >>

• Sincerely L. Cohen

  published September 20, 2012

  Sincerely L. Cohen As a young teenager, Leonard Cohen literally hypnotized the clothes off the family maid, an act followed by lifelong obsessions... More >>

• Michael Ochs

  published August 2, 2012

  In 1977, Michael Ochs founded and made available the most comprehensive collection of rock photography in the world — the aptly named... More >>