Here’s a sweet little rhyme for you next time you are out at the beer hall, surrounded by friends. Just swing your mug and sing along… Let’s go out and give a toast To the devil and the holy ghost Keeping us in lock step harmony. Let’s stand before the firing line Bullet holes […]
Category Archives: The Word
*The correct spelling is of course Guatemala

I made it a point to go without shaving a month before my college graduation. The beard was my own subtle protest. But I wasn’t protesting the school really. Sure, I didn’t get the absurd, life-changing education of Hollywood movies, but I didn’t regret my time at the University of Florida. I’d had a good […]

All photographs are taken by Chris Semel on Flag Day, 2012, most in a parade in Three Oaks, Michigan, except for this one taken on the coast of Lake Michigan, in front of a Russian family tourists.




If you visit a former speakeasy called the Midway in South Bend, Indiana, Al Capone’s ghost will visit you in your sleep. It will be neither a good omen nor a bad omen. If all a-drunk your shoe you lose, Find some grass in which to snooze You don’t need a student ID to see […]