there's a guy on the bus today whose name i can't remember but who i once was vaguely acquainted with, back in my dorm days...and by 'acquainted' i mean i knew him in my mind as Stoney McJackass. this girl gets on the bus and they start to talking ( Read more... )

Twelve Reasons To Be Against Gay Marriage ( Read more... )

i am not gonna lose you, we are gonna stay married in this house like a louisiana graveyard where nothing stays buried.

-the Mountain Goats, from "Southwood Plantation Road", off of Tallahasseegod, this album is good. too many fantastic lines to list here. this is what concept albums should be; it has all the makings of a Great ( Read more... )

today i bore witness to a phenomenon that is undeniably a K phenomenon: K is a magnet, except not with chicks so much as old men (at least, the chicks are a different matter entirely). they flock to him, these old men. where chicks would be squealing "eeee! we WUV you!!!!" old men do their own version, namely, "oh, that K, he's a good kid. i dunno ( Read more... )

k and i drove a little ways up to coast to a place he called Four-Mile, where we parked the car and walked through the bushes and across the train tracks to the beach. there were a few people around, some with their dogs, but not too many, and the dogs made us happy when we watched them. they were so very excited about the birds. walking through ( Read more... )

"Insomnia is fun for the entire family
that lives inside my head."
-T. J.

i don't even know how to deal with my life lately. there's been so many upsetting and stressful problems, big and small, popping up, leading to other new and varied issues. it's gotten to the point where i can't tell which issues are original, which are derivative, and which are entirely inconsequential ( Read more... )

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i forgot to tell you all that k and i went to visit the Winchester Mystery House a week or so ago. it's like an inversed mini-Disneyland: instead of being built for people to visit, it was built for a single reclusive widow; instead of representing the wonder of childhood, it was the product of grief-stricken madness (and lack of understanding ( Read more... )