"stay alert! their relentless pursuit requires your constant vigilance!" - note discovered in the automobile of a missing arizona doctor ( Read more... )

i'm worried about gus. he's been clucking all night like a tiny chicken and i'm afraid things might be going a bit awry. it's hard with hamsters because there's never really anything you can do. it's not like cats and dogs where people build their whole professions around making sure they last. there's not anywhere i can take him or anything i can ( Read more... )

tonight the apartment feels lonely, somehow, even with the tv and the company all day and basil licking his little paws right next to me. i think it has something to do with the belmont rapist (struck again last thursday and still not caught. and this has been going on for years. it's absolutely unacceptable.) and the thought of g already moved to ( Read more... )

Q. what do you call an exploded kitchen?
A. linoleum blownapart!

it's raining today. woke up like a letter folded into envelope arms. threw out the pumpkins and brought november back to bed.

i am that weird kind of bored that lends itself to odd sorts of expression: formless gnawing noises on the phone and spinning ceaselessly in the living room. the energy gets pent up between finger bones and lodges in the spinal column. it works at itself whether i allow it or not ( Read more... )

i've been reading the veterans memorial profiles at http://www.virtualwall.org.

these kids are my age. i'm putting myself in their pictures.

how is it that we slaughtered an entire generation of men before they had a chance to live?

Word of the Day for Tuesday October 22, 2002 ( Read more... )

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i'd be hard pressed to find a mood less inclined toward paper writing at the moment.

i have this awful case of cabin fever from spending the entire afternoon inside in the dark watching splendor and crash (i will have nightmares featuring james spader making out with the skin seam on the back of rosanna arquette's mangled leg tonight, i ( Read more... )

"An Art Memorial is a framed, professional, museum-quality painting with your loved one's photograph as its centerpiece. The photograph is blended with a beautifully rendered, painted background, created by internationally renowned artist, Wayne Weberbauer, whose work has sold to collectors and galleries all over the world ( Read more... )