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Beetlebottom #3 Lanky Pete, Slim Jim and Warm Piss Water Beer.

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Meanwhile, Lanky Pete and Slim sat on the ground below an old apple tree. Just off an old dirt side road,where nobody hardly ever drives by. Slim and Lanky pulled two beers out of the paper bag and fumbled with opening them. They toasted each other by reaching over and clinked the bottles together and then…took their first pull on the bootlegger's cheap, but pricey beers. Now recall, Lanky Pete and Slim Jim had been through a lot today, with the theft of the donation jar, the embarrassing beatdown by Monty, and the bold illegal purchase of alcohol. All this leading up to the reward of sitting under an old fruit tree, on a Wednesday afternoon, facing towards the warm sun.  The beer was warm. At first gulp, the beer mixed with dried blood from lips and loose teeth as it fell to the back of their throats. The taste was, hops, sugary sweet, some kind of citrus peel and arm pit sweat. Slim Jim and Lanky Pete didn't have much experience with beer, but somehow knew this wasn't go...

Beetlebottom #2 Always Right Rose and Paula Pissypants vs Sheriff Fussfutter

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Always Right Rose and her sister Paula Pissypants were full members of the lifetime in Beetlebottom club. Always Right Rose was getting up on “ that” age. Married twice, divorced twice. She was kinda engaged to an out of town man for a spell. Carl, was his name. Good enough, well intentioned guy I suppose. Carl tried to end the relationship for whatever reason about five years ago. Apparently that didn't go over well with Always Right Rose. Carl has never been seen …anywhere since that Saturday afternoon. The Beetlebottom gossip generated down at the HazBean Cafe, murmured about a wood splitting axe and a midnight dropoff at the backside of the town dump. Others suggested that Carl just saw the writing on the proverbial wall, and drove out of town for distant points unknown. Lili Swivelhips, owner operator of the HazBean Cafe was fairly quiet about the whole Carl mystery, mostly because she slept with him twice.  Well, truthfully, nobody slept, and one of the times was a rolling an...

The Town and People of Beetlebottom

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The Town and People of Beetlebottom  [ images by ChatGPT and Mike Pearson ] Installment 1. These people and this town are unknowingly affected by small amounts of noxious gas emanating from a fissure in the earth. Where once upon a prehistoric time, hot volcanic fury poured out of a crack in Mother Earth...now just a silent trickle of stupid juice ( a blend of nitrous oxide, methane, carbon monoxide, radon and the gas from partially rotted dinosaur teeth) oozed out and settled about ten feet deep in the atmosphere of a small town called Beetlebottom. It took about 10, sometimes 15 years for a resident of Beetlebottom to be fully affected by the low concentrations of mind altering emissions. But for sure, after 15 years of exposure, the DNA and brain fibers of all humans in the area were forever altered...and not for the better. The residents of Beetlebottom were completely unaware of the effects. They had no clue that the long arc of increasing stupidity and dense thinking was caus...

Cosmic Riptide

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A surrealist fiction with A.I. generated illustrations.... by Mike Pearson  Undercover agents of a future fore warned by the ancient voices from the backroom of the universe.  Sumerian newcomers marvelled at what had come before. The vastness of forever laid out before then. Songs of Forever  Swimming in salmonella rivers with tangerine laughing ghosts that have seen it all before. In awe and dusty tears of gratitude and fear. Entropic corroded gears and levers work feverishly to keep up with demand for horizons , zeniths and molecules.  Death had to be invented when the curiosity got too overwhelming and someone volunteered to go into the black cranberry night of electric soul magic.  We have been waiting ever since, killing and starving in feverish fervour .....in hidden hope that someone might get in touch and ask us to stop sending souls to the time grinder Looking back behind the horizon Welcome to the arrival of yesterday yet again Against the fence as hi...

Sam Fitzpatrick, Death on a Kiewit Project / Media Collections

  A Collection of News Articles About Sam Fitzpatrick's 2009 Death on a Kiewit Project Squamish Chief Newspaper https://www.squamishchief.com/local-news/squamish-man-dies-at-toba-inlet-3338076 The WorkSafeBC report on the Sam Fitzpatrick workplace death on Kiewit project http://thetyee.ca/Documents/2013/04/07/Toba Inlet Worksafe Report.pdf Sam Cooper/ The Province Newspaper https://www.pressreader.com/canada/the-province/20120513/281655367103737?srsltid=AfmBOoqo12MWnxyhX_L0rJuuBG2Sj0Bf1uA9_hpqJ3GAayAoEeIpXs1e Construct Connect https://canada.constructconnect.com/dcn/news/others/2009/03/kiewit-rock-scaler-dies-at-toba-inlet-project-dcn032848w The Tyee https://thetyee.ca.nmsrv.com/Analysis/2019/09/02/Death-On-Job-Criminal-Trial-Contractor/ CBC Bethany Lindsay https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bc-sam-fitzpatrick-death-kiewit-eleventh-anniversary-1.5469468 Construct Connect https://canada.constructconnect.com/dcn/news/ohs/2021/09/timeline-the-case-of-kiewit-and-sam-fitzpa...