My aunt Sue is a liar through and through. While I was sitting across from her in her living room in Atascadero, California, I noticed she was still wearing her sunglasses. "You can't hide your lyin' eyes," I thought. Then I remembered it was a lyric from an Eagles song, and wished I hadn't noticed the glasses ( Read more... )

from this sunlit computer lab I can safely say that it snowed in Santa Cruz county, I was spoken to in a disdainful accent for the first time in years, and working on my pending literature degree is giving me all the satisfaction of a bad hair day and an overcooked potroast.

February 26, 2000 ( Read more... )

We rode around in the car with elf hats on, smiling into the heat and convulsing with laughter. We cleared our throats simultaneously. We laid our insecurities down on the coffee table to be inspected, compared, and diminished respectively. I gave you a twenty-five cent token of my esteem, and my esteem, and you took it with a grin and buckled ( Read more... )

Oh and there it is, oldness, it crept into me like arthritis as I thought to myself, " i can feel today becoming the rest of my life."

waiter, don't be stingy with the wine.

the FRUIT FLIES have replaced Julia in our house but not our hearts! The reading of much Hemingway has not improved the condition of my heart, which is missing Julia, for while she roams Paris I am continually reminded of her roaming by my homework.

Also, I'm starting to eat "on a budget" today... "On a budget" means "free" and "from the dining

I’m fairly convinced that depsite looking like an elf, my life is very enviable. I had the privelidge of yet another great western adventure, this time in a lumbering volvo and with three exceptional lady friends ( Read more... )

" Think of me
You know that I'd be with you if I could
I'll come around to see you once in a while
Or if I ever need a reason to smile
And spend the night if you think I should"

listen to Todd Rundgren's "Hello It's Me", please, it's a really good and has some nice organ* in it.

*not liver or spleen

After a rather bad incident this evening I just want someone to talk to about a minor religious conflict who doesn't think that HAVING religion IS the conflict. I know it is a kind of dependency and a strong belief system, but it's just a lot cooler to have drugs as your dependency and veganism as your strong belief system instead. I feel like ( Read more... )

There is a decidedly Western feeling about traveling east. After rambling (and vomiting, and playing cards, and whining, and stringing christmas lights, and drinking perm-flavored water, and laughing hysterically, and trudging, and searching, and sleeping, and growing ecstatic, and growing impatient, and stealing, and whispering) with the one I ( Read more... )