Nothing works.
The air is choked with ghosts.
Sell my houses.
Move to Spain.

The world never did feel right.

Inevity ( Read more... )

Have to say Friday evening was fun. Two of the best bars for happy hour with a round of the best teachers, then the Shins show, then off to three parties... details later? Then down Negley, the temperature of my face dropping 20 degrees in 10 seconds, and making the light! What roller coaster could be better ( Read more... )

Whew. That first Spring yardwork is fun. I would have chosen a later date given my back's current condition, recovery, but the neighbours started it first. They were nice enough of course to trim my side of the hedge as well. So, in collecting the trimmings I've made the perfect fagot. Did you think the subject title was in reference to ( Read more... )

“Make of yourself a light.”

in other words, i go back to work today after a wonderful, refreshing two weeks break ( Read more... )

I am have been thinking all day of a news-conference apology that Orson Welles gave the day after his infamous War of the Worlds radio broadcast. I have seen it in a film called Brother Can You Spare a Dime, but have not been able to track the text of it down on the intarweb. It is not the one that most people have heard. In it there is a clear ( Read more... )

He could hear the bulb of the red wine glass shatter, somewhere, above, on the roof, clattering like fallen icicles, spraying the shingles with the green glow of Radioactive Long Island Iced Tea, a hastily thrown together recollection from a theme-party held apartments ago, substitutes dashed in with rum's absence at the party. He hoped he had ( Read more... )

about posting today. instead, i'm biking to the sousside.

in case you were wondering what i do these days ( Read more... )