Love and Marriage

Phoebe Bridgers storms the gates of my goddamned soul

Phoebe Bridgers storms the gates of my goddamned soul

Why I’ll never be a poet

To Live Forever

Searching for evidence of a checkered recording career

A New York City Travelogue

Jesus fucking Christ on a stick

… is loose again. And if you find him … better let him into your heart

Wasted: A Story of Love Gone Toxic, chapter 6: Trust Your Nose

My noided friend The Word Herder has this to say about “In My Prime”: “Oh, I wish you lived nearby. LOLOLOLOL Too fun. ^_^”

… I expressed long ago in a song

The sharp tip of a vast, unseen transgressive iceberg. Click to read Biffogram, by Biff Thuringer, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.

Angry poetry 1981-1992, the WTC years

A song from another life re-emerges

Angry poetry 1981-1992, the WTC years

Angry poetry 1981-1992, the WTC years

Angry poetry 1981-1992, the WTC years

Angry poetry 1981-1992, the WTC years

A song to make your temperature rise

Angry poetry 1981-1992, the WTC years

You all can stop doomscrolling now

Angry poetry 1981-1992, the WTC years

There’s no way out, and I feel fine

There’s no way out, and I feel fine

Handel’s ‘Messiah’ makes way more sense as a gospel-tastic refugee story

Handel’s ‘Messiah’ makes way more sense as a gospel-tastic refugee story

“Creepin’ Jesus” emerges from the vault that time almost forgot

Emergency 911

A philosophical memoir chronicling the life, times and existential musings of Biff Thuringer, nee Stephen MacLean Hopkins. Click to read Biffogram, by Biff Thuringer, a Substack publication with hundr...

Boarding the Soul Train

Happy Father’s Day

You’re telling me there’s a power-mad cabal that’s been kneeling on humanity’s neck for the past 2,000 years? Maybe so, my friend, but it’s not “The Jews.”

The Uncertainty Principle

Knee-jerk NIMBYism rears its ugly, shortsighted head in tony western Massachusetts

Something has indeed gotten too big and unwieldy and seems headed for a totalitarian abyss, but what the fuck is it, really?

I Had a Dream Last Night …

Anonymous

Old Man River

The Last Supper

Beneath the idyllic green rolling hills of a well-off rural area lurks the stench of mafia-dumped toxic waste, polluting the air, the water supply and the food chain, killing off the wildlife and givi...

Book of Revelation

“Trump letting a trans woman “groom / rape” his underage granddaughter.” Ok this is very funny.

Con Air

Coming of age in the golden era of cultural bullshit

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