i'm back, you kafkaesque creature! but not here. this is one of the following things, depending on which image you prefer: a husk; a shell; a burned-out city; a petrified turd; an excrement floating in the cerulean sea near Nice; the skeleton of a macaw; a threadbare cassock; a destrung and warped stradivarius; the carthaginian chieftain's iron ( Read more... )

I am trying to escape the High Baroque. I have a love-hate relationship with it; it sucks the life out of well-placed adverbs ( Read more... )

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In spraypainting a stencil onto a t-shirt I stepped backward in the darkness on a slug, who ejaculated his innards and left a bright stain on the concrete. A turd, maybe. It rolled over and died on me. I deemed it more officious to pick him up by the tail and with my pincer and toss him at least for the grass to devour. An intestine and maybe a ( Read more... )

through certain cycles i find myself assessing ways to spend my time more efficiently, to do more than one thing at once (they call it multitasking, but i put that word in the same category as things like 'parenting' and 'consulting'- momentary verbal malfunctions and yuppie fads) so i was listening to the radio news while arranging flowers but ( Read more... )

a) woman said her car was so old she'd not have noticed if i hadn't left a note, and that i was sweet to do so (but tactically, leaving a note was far and away the best recourse, because of things like trajectory and witnesses ( Read more... )

a) i hit a car in the parking lot (i hit a parked car) but in my defense, the parking lot really couldn't be worse-designed, the thing has its spaces crosshatched like a parquet floor. BUT she said the car was so old she wouldn't have even noticed the mangled trim hanging off the side, so i didn't have to pay ( Read more... )

my stomach hurts, (maybe; who besides britons say perhaps?) because i ate a carrot i dropped on the floor of my kitchen. aerobatwn (this means 'walking on air' but isn't nearly as elegant or nuanced in english--> this is one of the things 'socrates' does in aristophanes' clouds and another is to kreittw logon meizw poiwn which is 'making the lesser ( Read more... )

realized two things of moment today: this summer has been deliriously happy so far, and i have made it so; and that i live without things that most people i know have: a computer, a laundry hamper, a dresser. a drive toward minimalism? do we err? am i hungry? is the cupboard bare ( Read more... )

ima kill a bitch
psych, i wrote that last night when i was DRONK. i don't know why i was interested in killing bitches, because last night was so much fun.

also, i am one of the most pleasantly ridiculous humans alive