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Emmitt Owens

Essays

  • The Bug, I Didn’t Remove

    The Bug I Didn’t RemoveA Whimsy-Whirly, Topsy-Turvy, Tale of Delightful NonsenseBy: Emmitt Owens In two-thousand-seventeen, so the story goes,Everyone was keeping score with their…fingers and toes! Of a game nobody wanted, a game with no rules—I said, “I won’t play!” and they thought “he’s a fool”. Ten years before that (or was it eleven?)I found Read more

  • A Poem Disguised as a Rant Disguised as an Essay Disguised as a Tuesday.

    Tuesday feels like everyone’s got a checklistof thingsthat shouldn’t bother thembut doHoward wrote three posts this weekabout baseball caps facing backwardThree separate postsSame capSame complaint.Same energy of a man who says“I just keep scrolling”while absolutely…not keeping scrollingInstead…He stopsHe has to post about itHe has to post about howthe plastic strap bothers himThat little adjustable piecestretched Read more

  • Signs the Devil Holds: Volume VI (1990-2000)

    SIGNS THE DEVIL HOLDS: 1990-2000A Documentary History of American Moral PanicBy: Emmitt Owens(Index #11112025 – 11222025) ───────────────────────────────LEGAL & FAIR USE STATEMENT───────────────────────────────   This book is a work of documentary history and cultural commentary.   It incorporates short quotations from publicly available materials for purposes of analysis, education, and historical discussion under the Fair Use provisions of U.S. Read more

  • Signs the Devil Holds: Volume V (1970 to 1990)

    SIGNS THE DEVIL HOLDS: 1970-1990A Documentary History of American Moral PanicBy: Emmitt Owens(Index #11062025 – 11102025) ─────────────────────────────── LEGAL & FAIR USE STATEMENT ───────────────────────────────     This book is a work of documentary history and cultural commentary.    It incorporates short quotations from publicly available materials for purposes of analysis, education, and historical discussion under the Fair Use provisions of Read more

  • Signs the Devil Holds: Volume IV (1950 to 1970)

    SIGNS THE DEVIL HOLDS: Volume IV (1950-1970)A Documentary History of American Moral PanicBy: Emmitt Owen(Index #11032025 – 11062025) ─────────────────────────────── LEGAL & FAIR USE STATEMENT ───────────────────────────────     This book is a work of documentary history and cultural commentary.    It incorporates short quotations from publicly available materials for purposes of analysis, education, and historical discussion under the Fair Use Read more

  • Signs the Devil Holds: Volume III (1930-1950)

    SIGNS THE DEVIL HOLDS: Volume III (1930-1950)A Documentary History of American Moral PanicBy: Emmitt Owens(Index #10312025 – 11032025) —    Between 1930 and 1950, Americans identified at least twenty distinct signs of Satan’s work on Earth: marijuana, comic books (intensified), Superman, juvenile delinquency, swing music, zoot suits, pinup girls, bikinis, television, rock and roll’s precursors, Read more

  • Signs the Devil Holds: Volume II (1910-1930)

    SIGNS THE DEVIL HOLDS1910-1930A Documentary History of American Moral PanicBy Emmitt Owens(Index #10282025-10302025) —    Between 1910 and 1930, Americans identified at least fifteen distinct signs of Satan’s work on Earth: jazz music, motion pictures, comic books, radio broadcasting, women’s suffrage, flappers, bobbed hair, makeup, smoking in public, short skirts, the Charleston dance, speakeasies, gangster Read more

  • Signs the Devil Holds: Volume I (1890-1910)

    Signs the Devil Holds: 1890-1910By: Emmitt Owens(Index #10282025-10292025) A Documentary History of American Moral Panic    Between 1890 and 1910, Americans identified at least ten distinct signs of Satan’s work on Earth: electricity, women on bicycles, portable cameras, ice cream sodas, telephones, automobiles, penny dreadfuls and dime novels, “white slavery,” ragtime music, and the waltz.   Read more

  • The Blunt Bible: The Call of Abram (Genesis 12:1-20)

    THE CALL OF ABRAM (Genesis 12:1-20)The Blunt Bible EditionBy: Emmitt Owens(Index #10202025) —– ✍️ Author’s Note:   Following God without knowing the full plan is terrifying.You don’t get a roadmap. You don’t get a timeline. You don’t even get a destination address.   You get: “Go. I’ll tell you when you get there.”   And somehow, you’re supposed Read more

  • The Blunt Bible: The Tower of Babel (Genesis 11: 1-9)

    THE TOWER OF BABEL (Genesis 11:1-9)The Blunt Bible EditionBy: Emmitt Owens(Index #10192025) —– ✍️ Author’s Note:   When I was 14, I experienced what linguistic confusion actually feels like.   I walked into a church service where suddenly—within minutes—half the room was speaking languages I couldn’t understand. Overlapping. Loud. Intense.   And I sat there, frozen, completely disoriented.   Read more