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Arts and Farts and Crafts - The Wind Beneath My Wings

Posted by Mike Spoodles on July 24th, 2008 filed in arts and farts and crafts, fiction

Arts and Farts and Crafts is a weekly artistic challenge. Every Thursday, a new prompt will be posted here on Ugly Food for an Ugly Dude. Then, you will create some sort of media based on the prompt. Is it a rhyming couplet? A ten-page story? A photograph? A drawing? A recipe? Whatever you’d like. [...]

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Arts and Farts and Crafts: Stealing People

Posted by Mike Spoodles on July 17th, 2008 filed in arts and farts and crafts, fiction, movies

Arts and Farts and Crafts is a weekly artistic challenge. Every Thursday, a new prompt will be posted here on Ugly Food for an Ugly Dude. Then, you will create some sort of media based on the prompt. Is it a rhyming couplet? A ten-page story? A photograph? A drawing? A recipe? Whatever you’d like. [...]

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Arts and Farts and Crafts Week 4 - Naked in NYC

Posted by Mike Spoodles on July 10th, 2008 filed in arts and farts and crafts, fiction

Arts and Farts and Crafts is a weekly artistic challenge. Every Thursday, a new prompt will be posted here on Ugly Food for an Ugly Dude. Then, you will create some sort of media based on the prompt. Is it a rhyming couplet? A ten-page story? A photograph? A drawing? A recipe? Whatever you’d like. [...]

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Arts and Farts and Crafts - Week 4 - Prison Clouds

Posted by Mike Spoodles on July 3rd, 2008 filed in arts and farts and crafts, fiction

Arts and Farts and Crafts is a weekly artistic challenge. Every Thursday, a new prompt will be posted here on Ugly Food for an Ugly Dude. Then, you will create some sort of media based on the prompt. Is it a rhyming couplet? A ten-page story? A photograph? A drawing? A recipe? Whatever you’d like. [...]

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Arts and Farts and Crafts Week 1: Writing - “Tar and Feathers”

Posted by Mike Spoodles on June 12th, 2008 filed in arts and farts and crafts, fiction

We’ve decided to take a more “mixed media” feel to our artsy-fartsy challenge (once called “Writer Wrong”), so I’ve decided to call it “Arts and Farts and Crafts” in reference to one of my favorite films.
Next week’s medium is PHOTOGRAPHY. The theme is OUTDOORS. If anybody would like to play along, create some [...]

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Inspiration

Posted by Mike Spoodles on June 10th, 2008 filed in fiction, food

I am writing again. And not silly blog-writing, either (although that will continue at my normal, leisurely clip). I’m going back to my training in creative writing and actually putting things down on paper.
I was inspired, in a way, by a lot of these weekly/monthly food challenges on the Internet (see especially: [...]

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My Pee Buddy ‘N’ Me

Posted by Mike Spoodles on September 14th, 2007 filed in fiction

I peed next to Indian Doctor. Twice.
It must be said that I don’t keep a regular urinary schedule or anything like that. I drink seven bottles of water a day (for good luck), and so I go two or three times in an afternoon. It was just a coincidence that Indian Doctor and I met [...]

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Arbor Day

Posted by Mike Spoodles on March 23rd, 2007 filed in fiction, food

Annie Pitts cuffed her right hand to her husband Leroy’s left hand. Then she did the same, except with the opposite hands.
“Nobody else is here.” Leroy’s face was pressed on the bark.
“They’ll be here,” Annie replied. She could not see Leroy.
“It’s raining.”
“So?” Annie’s face was not pressed on bark.
“So they don’t [...]

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“The taste is completely different from a gummy bear, yet somehow familiar”

Posted by Mike Spoodles on January 26th, 2007 filed in fiction

In my increasing efforts to branch out from my ever-multimedia-saturated posting, I’ve decided to also review things that take shorter to digest (er…ingest). Food. And what better way to start than sweet, delicious candy? And what better candy than…
Gummy bears! Specifically, Wolfgang Gummy Bears! I got these puppies (not really puppies) on Easter 2006. [...]

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Self-Inflicted

Posted by Mike Spoodles on September 2nd, 2005 filed in fiction, food

Chunks of tender beef deep fried with batter and sautéed with orange peel and scallions in spicy sauce.
My best friend was a self-mutilator. A cutter. For years, he would draw and trace, trace and retrace the lines on his arm with a kitchen knife. With the silver and shiny blade he would rip at the [...]

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