Welcome to a new round of Rants! Back by popular demand, the rants began again in June and have already been linked to three wrist-slittings, four drive-by salad shootings, seven overthrows of seven governments, nine elevations to a higher plain of consciousness, eleven complaint letters, twelve bold-faced lies, and thirteen screaming orgasms. No shit. I, however, remain my good, humble, god-beering self. While Lara Croft parachuttes into moving Jeeps on the Serengeti, and John Connor bangs Claire Danes like it's the End of the World, I pass yet another summer in impoverished obscurity in what has come to feel like an infinitely-looping, loopy pursuit of an agent, a publisher, all that. But I can dream. And I do dream, all the time. And if Death catches me yet-dreaming and unrequited, I will go without regret. I will go smiling, knowing that my obstinate pursuit of a dream worked, knowing that I won if for no other reason than I never quit. Ever. I am the Terminator, the Wordinator. Mettle exoskeleton. Duracell heart. Hundred Proof soul. -Lord Duke RSM Please help keep me ranting! Most of the time, I subsist on less than $100/week. Think about that. 100 bucks! Still I manage to keep writing, very often w/o eating. Even $20 can mean so much. Arts Vertical Portal Rants Take 3: June to Nov 03 (beginning with the most recent) 11/29: Gravity Sucks 11/17: My Weird Life & Luci in the Sky with a Smile Burning Man `03, Part 5: Wheat Grass Juice with Werner 11/9: The Rants Return Burning Man `03, Part 4: Carey, Pogo, Shuey & Time Burning Man `03, Part 3: Big Tool Cracker Camp Burning Man `03, Part 2: Once We Were Pirates Burning Man `03, Part 1: Crashing the Burning Gate 8/21: The Orgasmatron 8/13: Hole in the Ground 7/28: Arrows for the Ancients 7/26: Pleading with Today 7/25: Where art thou Agent mine? 7/19: Purple desert bed flight 7/16: Formulating the Question 7/12: The Jetty 7/9: The Sillies have it Starfish Halls Chapter Two 7/7: Toady the Radiohead 7/6: The Path & the Plath 7/4: Indie Pants Dance Day 7/3: Moby Dick, Duke, & the celebrity stomp 7/1: Alice & the Big Milk Starfish Halls Chapter One 6/23: Robyn O'Packi & the Kramer vs. Kramer Hammer 6/19: No Plan B 6/17: Sky City & the Crazy Money Lottery 6/15: Big Belly Bad Ass Brad Two YEARS of RANTS! Write Me! ©2003 Rick McKinney ALL RIGHTS RESERVED