I quickly scan the room for a familiar face upon entering. There are three. I don't want to talk to any of them. I take a seat in the 'artist corner', literally the bar's corner ( Read more... )

so i was curious about all the brouhaha over antony and the johnsons.

so i downloaded a few tunes.

so i swear i could feel my dick shrinking as i listened.

DAAAAVIIIIDE:
will you please email the mormon missionaries back and tell them it was just a prank? no, i don't want the damn dvd and book of mormon they're trying to deliver to me. they've called three times now!!! and it's gettin redic!
i almost feel sorry for the poor guys.

thank you.

your bud,
JD

message from unknown number: Niggas be eyeballin my chick ( Read more... )

guy w/ mustache: "so, what did you think of my friend Sean? he's great isn't he?"

tattoo guy: "yeah he's cool--- but i just can't hang with him."

mustache: "oh. why not?"

tattoo guy: "um, it's just he's too clean-cut. i mean, he doesn't even have a sleeve."

mustache: (uncomfortable) "oh.......ok." (pauses) "yeah, you're right, not even one star

sitting at the bar of my local coffee house, i was browing through the paper. a story caught my eye:

"hey T, get a load of this: 11 children found in 9 cages in nothern ohio home", i read. continuing, "huron county sheriff's office is investigating possible charges of neglect and abuse ( Read more... )

the weather is beautiful today. sunlight poured into my bedroom window this morning and woke me early. i decided to walk down to the ohio river. there, the great river was swollen; hurricane remnants dumped rain in this valley for two days nonstop. as i stared at the muddy river, it occurred to me this water too will eventually wind its way to ( Read more... )

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last night, after the bar closed, i went with M back to his house to retrieve my phone i had left over there. (how typically me.) he lives on a quiet, dark, residential street still lit by gas lamps. i let M's dog out when we got there. i decided to hang off a tree limb above the sidewalk like a monkey, watching the dog do its business. a ( Read more... )

I used to think a tree kept its branches and leaves around for company as long as it could; kept them there even though they were dying just so it'd have some audience; kept them because it was harder to give them up than to see them sick and weak, because sick and weak is better than alone. And I used to think the leaves and branches, being what ( Read more... )