"She could see it all so clearly, so commandingly, when she looked: it was when she took her brush in hand that the whole thing changed. It was in that moment's flight between the picture and her canvas that the demons set on her who often brought her to the verge of tears and made this passage from conception to work as dreadful as any down a dark ( Read more... )

I can’t begin to imagine what it must have been like to be the age I am now but to live in the United States during the year of 1968. Nowhere and no place in time was the death of a national identity and decades of ensuing strife more prevalent than during that one year. The madness of that one year was what caused the Weathermen to begin bombing ( Read more... )

I've been letting the days trickle by in reverse again. Rest my head at the sunrise, bleary eyes opening at sunset. Another paper, another night piling cigarette butts into the ashtray; the towers of empty pop cans shading the bare bulbs. Take a break from placing interesting words between stale terminology, stare out the window at the rows of ( Read more... )

Another sleepless night, gets like this sometimes. When my fourth floor casket can't escape the damp and all the leaking floor lights from the building across mine shine in like constellations. There's a muted wail of a distant train, hazy air of endless cigarettes burn against the night, dew creeping up my window panes telling me: winter is coming ( Read more... )

During the past summer, the Chen family has been a regular weekend fixture at our house. The sound of cheers from a Mahjong win and the rattle of the porcelain pieces clattering together with the smell of steamed lobster and minced garlic ubiquitous throughout our house. They're a perfect fit: the husband doesn't drink and reeks of corporate life, ( Read more... )

"Women are always so confused when guys tell them that their dicks have a mind of their own. They can't really relate, vaginas don't have much personality. But cocks are like individuals. They get hard on their own, they get sleepy, sometimes, during the night, they reach orgasm without us, and we don't even find out till the next morning, they get ( Read more... )

A little rabbit is happily running through the forest when he stumbles upon a giraffe rolling a joint. The rabbit looks at her and says, "Giraffe, my friend, Think about what you're doing to yourself! Come with me running through the forest, you'll see, you'll feel so much better!" The giraffe looks at him, looks at the joint, tosses it and goes ( Read more... )

Razors pain you,
Rivers are damp,
Acids stain you,
And drugs cause cramp,
Guns aren't lawful,
Nooses gives,
Gas smells awful;
You might as well live.

You know you're watching the show too much when you're in a waiting room looking at everyone and wondering how gruesome it's going to be.