To put out the raging oil fires in Iraq during the first Gulf War, firefighter soldiers dynamited the center of the fire, which in some way or another extinguished it ( Read more... )

i wore high heels and a suit to my grandmother's visitation, which included no body, no ashes, just piles of flowers and pictures of her in her wedding dress, with her book club, holding up three ducks that she had shot while hunting. i leaned over to hug so many shrunken women with beautiful wrinkled skin that was smooth and soft to the touch, and ( Read more... )

so i just got tickets to go see tom waits in my home town. uh, yeah.

and tonight is the fashion show, with high culture/cheap whiskey duds by erin & mia (grignotine), knee shy, and petra: it's ok to stare.

a leftist that supports coca production got elected in bolivia and a man got acquitted of a rape charge because he was sleep-walking at the time ( Read more... )

goodbye to freaktooth and hello to face face.

she ran around and tasted three colors of cotton candy while my back was turned. and then she put on the white and blue tu-tu and pranced around the stage until i felt as though i had been turned into a vinyl record album and spun on the turntable, at thirty-three rpms; she danced until i became the music and she did as well. we were shiny black ( Read more... )

Ready or not, here I come...

i just have one thing to say ( Read more... )

aka the best dream ever ( Read more... )

here is what i did this weekend ( Read more... )