Hookers or Cake

Where the self-obsessed get serious about silly
I'm too wacky to be hip.

--------------------------------

    • Illustration
      •
    • My Videos
    • The best of Hookers or Cake
      • ------------------------------------- How this blog got its name

      ------------------------------------ There was a large painting of Evel Knievel shaking hands with Richard Nixon. It hung in the Mayors office. Late one evening after everyone went home. I took it down to the lab. I zoomed in on Evel’s left eye a 100x and enhanced it. It was an address. I went to the address. It was a modest, 1970’s style, split level ranch home in the suburbs.

      ----------------------------------- Inside I found a dead parrot lying on a waterbed. I revived the parrot with some saltines and adrenaline. We became good friends. The parrots name was Randy. One night a few years later while Randy and me played Gin Rummy, he sang me a song about a fire. The title of this blog was never mentioned but I sensed it, and Randy confirmed it by giving me ‘THE LOOK’.

      -----------------------------------

      Amazon.com Widgets

      -------------------------------------- more fun categories

      --------------------------------------

      • Inspiration
      • art
        • ----------------------------------------- some tumblr friends

        -----------------------------------------

        • Rrrick
        • Fuzzy Dave
        • Wonder Tonic
          • ----------------------------------------- some writing

          -----------------------------------------

          • Josh Luft
          • I'm a Veronica
        • Mr. King was here
          • Aloha Friday
          ----------------------------------------
          tell me lies! Submit stuff
          • September 10, 2012 12:59 pm

            My good friend, former roommate, and future collaborator Carlos Londono is debuting his film “All Wars End” at the Fort Lauderdale Film Festival tomorrow night. Its also doubling as a fund raiser for The Wounded Warriors of South Florida as the film is about a US Marine dealing with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). 

            If you live in South Florida and want to go its this Tuesday at 7pm at Cinema Paradiso. If you can’t make it because you live in New York or California or some other far away locale you can still .

            As you can see by the preview Carlos is a talented young filmmaker and I can vouch for him being a real stand up human being. Hopefully you will see something here in the next few months about us doing some short film together.

            Thanks for your time and support and maybe I’ll see ya at the premiere.

            - Jade Bos

            94 notes Filed under:  film, ptsd, fliff, fort lauderdale film festival, prose, war, USMC,.
          • November 26, 2011 12:10 am
            The old story spoke of a blood red bird that lived in a dark tangle of wires inside a robots chest. The robot was a medic in the military. It retrieved the bodies from the front line. Once the robot brought back all the wounded and the dead it would be repaired if it’d been shot up or damaged. The bird would also be watered and fed. In the evening the bird would sing the robot to sleep, and sometimes sing to it all night long, however long it took. And when the robot awoke in the morning it would be refreshed.

            The old story spoke of a blood red bird that lived in a dark tangle of wires inside a robots chest. The robot was a medic in the military. It retrieved the bodies from the front line.

            Once the robot brought back all the wounded and the dead it would be repaired if it’d been shot up or damaged. The bird would also be watered and fed.

            In the evening the bird would sing the robot to sleep, and sometimes sing to it all night long, however long it took.

            And when the robot awoke in the morning it would be refreshed.

            63 notes Filed under:  prose, war, bestofHoC,.
          by Peter Vidani. For .
          © 2009–2013 Hookers or Cake