http://towerofbabel.com There's a heaven above you, baby. Thu, 09 Oct 2008 04:17:49 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092   By: Charles Clifford Brooks III   I was eight-years-old, growing up in small town Georgia, when I first felt God. Crawford was a languid Southern community with one traffic light and old men telling stories at the barbershop. My home was nestled beside a lake surrounded by thick tracts of forest so ... http://towerofbabel.com/2008/09/09/gingin-her-wig-and-the-holy-ghost/ One of the rare but ugly dangers of rock shows is that occasionally, a nut-job can attack you onstage when you're not looking.  Noel Gallagher just found that out the hard way, poor bugger. - Rudy Carrera. http://towerofbabel.com/2008/09/08/gallagher-hurt-after-stage-attack/ CORPORATE ORGANIZATIONS: PATRIOTIC CALL   I have watched with disgust over the past few months, an act which I feel is very unpatriotic, selfish and disturbing.   I watched adverts of some Nigerian firms on CNN and I became very disappointed. As a matter of fact, I have decided to distance myself from such ... http://towerofbabel.com/2008/09/05/corporate-organizations-patriotic-call/ Last week was a uniting week for me and my Family. the previous months were quite challenging for the family due to some huge misunderstanding merged with my immediate elder sister's wedding scheduled for the 25th and 26th of July 2008. I was on the opposition together with my mum, my ... http://towerofbabel.com/2008/09/05/getting-married/ by: James Schwartz To my birthday boy on his twenty eighth On August thirty first two thousand eight I present to you my poetic faith A man of your own ideals: gay or str8. To my longtime muse I present a toast: May your year be of wine, roses and song May your year be another year ... http://towerofbabel.com/2008/08/27/scott-and-zelda-a-sonnet/ by: James Schwartz 4.2.07 marked the 6th month anniversary of the Nickle Mines, PA. school shootings. On 10.2.06 Charles Carl Roberts IV, shot ten little girls (age 7-13), killing five in the rural schoolhouse. The tragedy made international headlines including the Old Order Amish community reaching out to the killer's family, ... http://towerofbabel.com/2008/08/20/out-amish/ by: James Schwartz Among his most favored night-time toys Absinthe, liquor and phosphoresce hair frost Of all my dream lovers and phantom boys In reality I'm easily lost Laughing, intoxicated he will baste Brown bottles of luminous fire-fly Anointing his head with celestial paste Of stars liquidated into hair dye He is always reckless in his passion Blithely flinging raver ... http://towerofbabel.com/2008/08/19/phosphoresce-a-sonnet/ After traveling in Europe for two months, I was worried that I might come home to San Francisco and find it rather sad and small, and unlovely. I wondered how my homely little town--my village, really--could compare to Rome, London, Paris, or even Brussels. And I arrived back at the end ... http://towerofbabel.com/2008/08/15/on-coming-home/ [lang_en]My mother recently passed away unexpectedly, and going through this has left me with a few tips to give to friends of the bereaved. First of all, most importantly, is to do something. Call, visit, write, text: it doesn’t so much matter what you do, just so much that you ... http://towerofbabel.com/2008/08/12/800/ [lang_en]What if there were no men anymore? It could happen. The Y-chromosome has been shrinking for millenia. A few years ago, the media was abuzz with stories of the "Incredible Shrinking Y." Most said that the Y was in no danger of completely withering away, but some argued the other ... http://towerofbabel.com/2008/08/11/the-reptilian-future-of-humanity/