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Maxwell Despard

About Me


Segue, the debut chapbook by yours truly , is now available from Destructible Heart Press for the sexy low price of $10!
Maxwell Despard is currently on hiatus. Subscribe to the blog or check back periodically for details.

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Music:

Member Since: 12/03/2007
Band Website: http://mdespard.googlepages.com
Influences: Richard Brautigan , Isaac Brock , Tony Brown , Charles Bukowski, Kurt Cobain, Gregory Corso, E.E. Cummings, Ani Difranco , Adam Drucker / doseone , Mike Doughty , Paul Gagnon , Timothy Green, Jeff Hewitt , Michael Hyde, Jeffrey McDaniel , Nivek Ogre , Malcolm Powell , Adam Rubinstein , Walt Whitman , Saul Williams , William Carlos Williams, Jonathan "Yoni" Wolf / Why? , William Butler Yeats, Thom Yorke
Record Label: Destructible Heart Press
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Query Regarding the Organization of Food Drives

Any of you ever put together a successful food drive?Did you solicit businesses for contributions? If so, how?Did you work with a preexisting organization, such as a local Food Bank?Some comrades and ...
Posted by on Sat, 28 Mar 2009 20:42:00 GMT

National Day of Solidarity w/ R.N.C. 8

(the following was liberated, with permission, from a comrade of mine; changes are minimal).Friends and comrades, [today is] the National Day of Solidarity with the R.N.C. 8. The R.N.C. 8 are our comr...
Posted by on Sat, 28 Mar 2009 09:19:00 GMT

2009-02-19: from ColorOfChange.org / Racist and Violent Cartoon in The Post

(I didn't write any of this, by the way)Dear Friend,Yesterday, the day after President Obama signed his stimulus bill into law, the NY Post ran a cartoon depicting the bill's "author" as a dead monkey...
Posted by on Thu, 19 Feb 2009 08:41:00 GMT

2008-11-03: Get Out and Vote Tomorrow

Tomorrow is the day, get out there and vote.Some things to remember:-Up to three Supreme Court appointments can be expected in the next eight years; they're life-long appointments.-The economy has gon...
Posted by on Mon, 03 Nov 2008 23:56:00 GMT

2008-09-19: Will the Real Maverick Please Stand Up

(link)Dear readers, I have had a shocking and dramatic change of heart. John McCain and Sarah Palin have convinced me that overturning Roe v. Wade is a magnificent idea and we must pursue it at once. ...
Posted by on Sat, 20 Sep 2008 03:36:00 GMT

2008-09-19: Scientists may have cured cancer last week - more on DCA

(link)Scientists may have cured cancer last week.Yep.So, why haven't the media picked up on it?Here's the deal. Researchers at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada found a cheap and easy to p...
Posted by on Sat, 20 Sep 2008 02:51:00 GMT

2008-07-27: U.S. Army Covers Up Brutal Rape (from colorofchange.org)

LaVena Johnson was a 19 year old private in the Army, serving in Iraq, when she was raped, murdered, and her body was burned--by someone from her own military base. Despite overwhelming physical evide...
Posted by on Mon, 28 Jul 2008 11:32:00 GMT

2008-05-01: The Christian right are angry about gay men on a soap opera; lets fuck with them

(borrowed from stoneself; please repost)from the christian right afa:Procter & Gamble has resumed using explicit, open-mouth homosexual kissing in their soap opera, "As the World Turns." P&G d...
Posted by on Wed, 30 Apr 2008 23:45:00 GMT

2008-04-01: Update, hiatus continues

I was evicted from my previous living situation, and have found myself in a spare room at my father’s for an as-yet unknown length of time. Time, energy, means of transportation, and money haven...
Posted by on Tue, 01 Apr 2008 10:47:00 GMT

2008-01-25: Hiatus

I've been unofficially on hiatus for a couple of months. It's now official. I don't know when I'll return to the fold, but for now, there's a whole lot of life that needs attending to.More details as ...
Posted by on Fri, 25 Jan 2008 00:50:00 GMT