Cherished confrere, in drafting prose that secretes secrets, the humble writer fain pulls silence from the sky, developing histrionic phrases for agency. It is coherence in disguise forged by mimetic congruencies and the paranoid insistence that transgressive text forms a congress of instantiation. As expiation to the virtuosic interpreter of ( Read more... )

Oh silly boy, photographing random things and writing and going on adventures close to home. One night I curled up in my apartment with a bowl of popcorn and watched Slither, which made it difficult to eat the popcorn. Another night I hopped in puddles and pretended I was wearing red sneakers, which made all the difference ( Read more... )

I watched Amelie again. I want to be the guy with the photo album! The love story is so quirky and wonderful and she is adorable! And she sings so beautifully in the shower scene.

(300, Zodiac, Idiocracy, Hollywoodland, Rumor Has It, Dude, Where's My Car?, Dangerous Beauty, United 93, A Dirty Shame)

Exhibit A: "I stopped reading your journal because everything is a euphemism. Unless I'm included in the reference, I don't understand it ( Read more... )

A caressed ego is the lasting touch of physical affection. To assist the agents of memory against the keening inducement of accumulative outpourings of lesser value, we post bearings for reorientation.

The Lake House and The Number 23 and a pair of kittens began the weekend, which concluded with snowbound scouting of personals to share the weight ( Read more... )

Beginning my fourth month as a vegetarian, I find myself gazing wistfully at things that are unrelated to being a vegetarian.

I like the idea that considerate friends of the water planet must not practice despair, but hope. I also like the phrasing of quiet influence.

Breach, Crank, Jarhead, Bobby, and Picnic at Hanging Rock, which opened with ( Read more... )

In a grad course in which a typed lecture summary is required as proof of attendance, I venture into observations at once quotidian and tentatively subversive:
I was considering the socks of the student next to me, thick fabric curled darkly like an enchanted forest that offset a crayon green vest over a white collared shirt. In her ensemble ( Read more... )

For allies, one necessarily nurtures opposition ( Read more... )

The men downstairs start cooking around midnight. Cloaked in curry, my eyes burn and the darkness convulses to the ingrained staccato of lines of code leaping up and down and slantways.

During The Queen I was affrighted by the quantity of elderly people in the theatre coughing and gagging. I held my breath and hid in my sweater and fixated upon ( Read more... )

When it rained during first grade recess, my classmates and I unearthed the diversion we had been instructed to bring for such an occasion. Most students had coloring books, but I had a large creativity book with half-completed illustrations and stories that needed to be finished. I was enthusiastic about the venture until I realized that I had no ( Read more... )