the Mad Apple show was like therapy for me
because every time I hear "It's OK (When You're Old)"
I am tempted to shout
"You mean I DON'T have to commit suicide!?"

I will not obscess about ( Read more... )

Many congratulations to David M. Oshinsky, author of the profoundly marvelous Polio: An American Story, for being awarded the 2006 Pulitzer Prize in History!

Olympia is not South Carolina ( Read more... )

the south is a shocking, marvelous place ( Read more... )

The latest update in the World's Dumbest Epiphany series ( Read more... )

I just bought good clothes on this Sassiest of Sassy Saturdays
and cleaned far too much dross out of my car
read a little and messied my poor room more
waited in vain for my parents to return my calls
I want to reread Love in the Time of Cholera and The Innocence of the Devil for their pretty titles and magical realism ( Read more... )

Cecilia Fire Thunder is my FUCKIN' HERO. Here is why ( Read more... )

So, I'll be in South Carolina from April 5-10!
I'll be based at Furman University in Greenville, but I'd imagine a touch of traveling will also occur.
Excitement!

this isn't a poem either ( Read more... )