A mass rally is in the works for the June 3 Moral Monday. Details at Facebook event. I recently had some time to consider the peculiarities of my character while sitting in the Wake County Detention Center, shoelaces and belt gone, waiting to be booked, fingerprinted and charged after walking into the Legislative Building in […]
Duncan Murrell
Bio: Duncan Murrell is the writer in residence at the Center for Documentary Studies. He lives in Pittsboro.Twitter: http://twitter.com/dvmurrell
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A tiny flame of disloyalty
This was the Fourth of July for a Marine at Camp Pendleton: burgers and tacos, fortified wine, cruising Pacific Beach, learning but never perfecting the art of breaking a bottle on your head, bungee jumping from a crane, the Led Zeppelin laser light show at the museum, fireworks at the track in Del Mar. No […]
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Nothing up his sleeve
Reading a Doug Marlette novel is rather like falling into an apperceptive dreamland, where everything is not merely recognizable but remembered, and every character is a doppelganger of someone you’ve known or seen. This is not merely verisimilitude, which a novelist might strive toward, but a kind of kidnapping and theft. Marlette takes the things […]
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Purification
I watched the game at the bar where I made my first friends in Chapel Hill, the place where I met my wife, the place to which I keep returning from Pittsboro like a fish upriver, unlearning but obedient. The seat at the end of the bar was inexplicably empty when I arrived. “Take it, […]
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Compromising positions
The Miss North Carolina Pageant Organization wants to see Rebekah Revels’ bare breasts. These are the same breasts that so rattled them a year ago, they made Revels resign as Miss North Carolina 2002 without ever seeing them uncovered. But they’re not afraid of those breasts anymore. Now they want to look at them. Now […]
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Semper Fi
I’m thinking about the Marines these days, because my friends who are still in the Corps are getting ready to go into action again. I got your jihad right here, motherfucker, I can hear them saying. I know them, I know them as you know someone in the intimacy of fatigue and pride and boredom […]
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Is this thing on?
So, WUNC is dropping classical music in favor of a news and information format, “to focus on our public service mission,” as WUNC General Manager Joan Siefert Rose put it. There was much rejoicing this weekend after the station announced the changes. The prevailing theory seems to be that WUNC’s classical programming was so bad, […]