( Read more... )

I have such trouble with family. Poverty and illness has made keeping up with my parents a mostly depressing task that I'm bound to continue, despite how it drags me down. As for the extended part, my mother's side is out of touch, and my father's side is across the ocean, closer to my girl at film school than to me.
It's why I'm so fond of the ( Read more... )

( Read more... )

James' place is empty of him. In the end, none of his people would help him leave, out of spite, I think, because they don't want him to go, so the two of us loaded his history in possesions into a U-Haul for tomorrow's trip that ends in New York City.
The apartment he lived in but never loved is cold and startlingly white and empty like space is ( Read more... )

( Read more... )

Just read this in Excerpts from “Weekend Update” on NBC’s “Saturday Night Live”: Meyers: In a preview of a looming 2008 election battle over stem cell research and global warming, Hillary Clinton Thursday accused President George W. Bush of waging a “war on science.” Of course, based on his previous wars, this will probably just end up creating ( Read more... )

( Read more... )

You read enough books on writing (popular or scholarly), you run into these literary laxative exercises for defeating writer's block, or jarring something magnificent loose, or making yourself feel better. Typically it's free-writing until you forget what you're doing and write something you actually care to say on paper, but not all the ( Read more... )

Oh holy god! I left my music playing as I went to sleep, and just a moment ago I was woken up by Tom Waits' "What's He Building?"!! I nearly wet the bed! That is the worst song I can possibly imagine waking up to in the middle of the night!
I'm still scared. I am quaking and cowering over this damn song.
Holy fuck. Someone help me. I will ( Read more... )

I don't usually do these things, but I was amused - most of the answers have a punchline quality. Now -

Quiz rules:

1. Put your music player on shuffle.
2. Press forward for each question.
3. Use the song title as the answer to the question.

NO CHEATING. . .
1. What does next year have in store for me?
"Perfidia" by The Kronos Quartet (performing ( Read more... )