Sunday August 7th 2005 Brunch with Katheryne & Greg at Strawberry St. Cafe was followed by a walk around the Park & Kensington & Strawberry area of the Fan & wound us up at the Virginia Center for Architecture at the Branch mansion on Monument where we discussed an unusual mansion in Kentucky called simply Monster about which a book should surely ( Read more... )

Written on the back of an envelope, and I don't want to forget:

Restaurant:

Da Una Bomb

all the waiters dress in dark glasses, mustaches, sweatshirts with the hoods pulled up;

food is brought to the table in paper parcels

etcetera

It was a long Winter this year. The groundhog predicted six more weeks of it, and even he underestimated. March crawled by, cold and grey, teasing us with a few scattered hours of sunshine. While the neighborhood hid inside, huddled around televisions, consuming the predictable "madness" of college basketball, I stood on my porch and tried to ( Read more... )

NAPTON, PA- An unshakeable spell of late afternoon drowsiness struck nearly the entire citizenry of this small Pennsylvania municipality today. Reports as to the cause of the listless dozing varied from the overcast weather to the large portions of food consumed at lunch. Most of those affected proved unresponsive to questioning, however, until ( Read more... )

Once upon a yesterday, the King of Markland (a very small, gray, convoluted country almost entirely surrounded by walls of bone known collectively as The Great Skull of Markland) sent an urgent missive by e-page to the Queen Mother of Rowan, who resided in Sharishortland (where all they eat is Sharishortcake) and rashly, resoundingly, and ( Read more... )

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Ma calls him Eel. He's the best of sons, he's the worst of brothers. You don't know about him, without you have read my book by the name of Adventures Most Weary, but that ain't no matter, in the beginning. It goes a long way back, some twenty solstices, and it's largely my story, anyway. Now with another radiant, oppressive Summer mustering ( Read more... )

Fraud ( Read more... )

It wasn't the most promising method of prospecting, I confess ( Read more... )