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Website: http://josephwood0.tripod.com
Superpowers: Art, Poetry, Harmonica
Favorite Quotes: Money don't matter, when you' free.
Biography: سلام!حالت چطوره؟ من دوست دارم که یک روز ایران رو ببینم به مردم ایران است ، من برادر خود را مرگ بر همه ستمگران از مردم ایران ، چه آن شاه یا رهبر مرگ بر دیکتاتور

My Humble Diary Entry

By Joe Wood on Wed, 04/14/2010 - 1:53am |

This morning, I awoke at 10 AM. I dressed quickly, styled my hair in pigtails, and set off. Passed a bright pink tree in bloom. Touched the petals lightly, as I would a pet dog. Arrived at thrift store #1,...

I am Become Myself

By Joe Wood on Fri, 04/09/2010 - 2:35am |

"I saw myself on the central mountain of the world, the highest place, and I had a vision because I was seeing in the sacred manner of the world. But the center of the world is everywhere." -Black...

A Day for the Stillness of Repose

By Joe Wood on Tue, 04/06/2010 - 4:48am |

I wonder how many times you can do the same thing before you lose your mind, or before someone notices. For two days, I have been walking the same road, thinking, looking. I move past signs and billboards and enterprise. ...

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America, The Beautiful

By Joe Wood on Sun, 04/04/2010 - 3:21am |

I usually go once a week to a local thrift store here, and sometimes I find some cool little things that you don't see anymore, usually for less than a buck. I walked in there today, and found two finds...

Why I Need This Bill

By Joe Wood on Fri, 03/19/2010 - 3:15pm |

I am 32. I have three small children. Two years ago, I made $15 dollars an hour; the most I have ever made since I began working as a metal-shop worker 15 years ago. Two years ago, I had health...

Depending On The Kindness Of Strangers

By Joe Wood on Tue, 03/16/2010 - 4:51pm |

Sometimes just when you are at your lowest, that's when you realize that you are not alone in this sometimes friendless world. I had a few weeks recently that had me questioning whether or not America works anymore. Not only...

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Newsweek Is Full of Shit

By Joe Wood on Fri, 03/05/2010 - 3:29pm |

Newsweek: Perhaps, one day, we will say that the recession saved us from a parenting ethos that churns out ego-addled spoiled brats. And though it is too soon to tell if our economic free fall will cure America of...

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Why Telephone Poles Infect My Soul

By Joe Wood on Mon, 02/15/2010 - 10:09pm |

I am an artist. Many artists are quite selective in what subjects they choose. I usually don't think about it. I just try to portray whatever I am painting or drawing with some truth, and embed it with some...

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Washington Doesn't Work For Me

By Joe Wood on Fri, 02/05/2010 - 8:50pm |

Why do people have to sit and wait? The nightly wait in front of the computer or a TV set for some news, some word--that help is on the way to them. Selling things you never wanted to part with,...

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The Unclanged Cymbal

By Joe Wood on Thu, 02/04/2010 - 12:56pm |

The fault lies not in our stars, but in ourselves.If Obama has fallen short, it is only due to what hopes and unreal aspirations of "CHANGE" and "HOPE" we assigned to this noble prince. Though I see him as a...

The Failures of Technological Advances on My Sense of Belonging

By Joe Wood on Thu, 02/04/2010 - 3:08am |

Recording devices should have been made not only for mass producing and capitalizing on another's musical ability for profit. They were, most likely, an invention to get bored people with money to buy another sure cure-all for their...

Who Cares About Las Vegas

By Joe Wood on Wed, 02/03/2010 - 9:02pm |

In the midst of 10+ percent unemployment, who gives a crap about what Obama says about wasting money in Las Vegas? I care about finding a job. Not even a good paying one anymore. Just a job. I have been unemployed...

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It's A Hard Rain A Gonna' Fall

By Joe Wood on Sun, 09/27/2009 - 3:41am |

What happens to a dream deferred?Does it dry upLike a raisin in the sun?Or fester like a sore -And then run?Does it stink like rotten meat?Or crust and sugar over -like a syrupy sweet?Maybe it just sagslike a...

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Physician, Heal Thyself: Where The Hell Is The Left?

By Joe Wood on Wed, 08/19/2009 - 9:02pm |

As a disclaimer, I am one of those laid-off people who worked hard and played by the rules. I have no health care. I am a diabetic. I had no health care when I did work last. The last time I did have...

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On Being Polite At A Debate

By Joe Wood on Wed, 08/12/2009 - 7:17am |

When I was a young boy, I remember constantly being scolded over and over by my Father on how to be polite. "Don't yell." "Watch your mouth, dammit!" Apparently, I was always saying or repeating something that made me either...

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A Letter From An American To The People Of Iran

By Joe Wood on Sun, 08/09/2009 - 4:48pm |

سلام به دوستان In America, for the past month my family and I have watched the images and sounds coming out of Iran. We have stayed up nights to listen to the voice of the Supreme Leader, to...

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A Letter To The People of Iran

By Joe Wood on Tue, 06/16/2009 - 5:13am |

If we did not care about Iran before, we do now. Through five American Presidents, we knew Iran as a Turban on a white-bearded man's face, a man with dark brooding eyes. We knew Iran as a group of hostage...

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Racism Is Not About The "N" Word

By Joe Wood on Sun, 06/14/2009 - 3:45pm |

As noted in another post, many white people in our media, as well as many of us, seem to think that racism ends when we go to school with bussed in children, or when we choose not to use the "N"...

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My White Aryan Resistance: Dissecting The Lone Nut in American Politics

By Joe Wood on Sat, 06/13/2009 - 7:14am |

I have two rifles; both are pre WWI, a 7mm and an 8mm Mauser rifle. When I was 15, I got my first guns. My best friend and I would go to our private range underground, and shoot .303...

Just Words: The Results of Hate Speech Part II

By Joe Wood on Wed, 06/10/2009 - 6:39pm |

Today a 89 year old man with a Confederate flag and a rifle walked up to the Holocaust Museum in Washington DC, and opened the door. His website and his book unfurl his feelings towards Jews and Blacks. He is not...

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