Wake up clammy when two alarms ring ( Read more... )

hello all. i know the pig has sickened you for many moons now. i have boldly, on the 4th of july no less, decided to write again ( Read more... )

I suspect this post is going to offend and/or sicken some people (this means you, Chicken), but I'm OK with that. The story has everything: a brave escape, a tragic death, a run-in with the law, unforeseen redemption, and a timely reminder to properly maintain your bean shed. It needs to be told ( Read more... )

So we've had some Australian visitors lately--our friend Michael Bailey from Melbourne came for a weekend, and then a few days later Hamlet and Michelle dropped by. We had a good time. As usual, everyone was good for some quality conversation. Audrey, Mike and I determined that gay incest should be totally cool, as long as there are no iffy ( Read more... )

it's the haunting of the morning
the raw pulse of waking
grabbing and ripping the brain alert on its foundations
pulling it forward through the moist and creaky
doorways of your eyes.

i'm moved to type by lovely anonymous who misses me ( Read more... )

Audrey's a great gal, and I love her dearly, but it's no secret that she's a bit of a weirdo. Her speech, for example, melds accents and idiosyncrasies in the most puzzling ways. If you heard her say, "Soap up those goats, Todd," as she did yesterday, you'd swear she was from Chicago or Wisconsin. Her inability to pronounce "sorority" ("sowority ( Read more... )

Our elected representatives are unbelievable. The number of Americans living in poverty rose for the third year in a row (to 36 million), 45 million people don't have health insurance, we're mired in a war of dubious legitimacy with frightening, potentially destabilizing outcomes, the world faces a mounting environmental catastrophe (habitat ( Read more... )

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it's getting crazy hot here in the desert. i suppose, of course, it's to be expected, but this is my first arizona summer since 2001 and i have become slightly less hardcore. what i have done, remarkably, was decide that i was going to walk to work. it's about two miles to my new job from my place--which doesn't sound crazy, but is a tad nuts ( Read more... )