It's being shipped to Columbia and NYU tomorrow.

( feedback would be appreciated, if you've got the time )

1. What did you do in 2006 that you'd never done before?
Drive alone.

( RIP 2006 )

O Lutefisk, O Lutefisk, how fragrant your aroma ( Read more... )

So Candlewick Press is publishing a poem of mine in some anthology and... get this: they're paying me for it ( Read more... )

An elderly patient with poor hearing arrives late in the day clutching a large leather bag. As he sits, something shifts within and creates an indiscreet buzzing sound that can be heard all through the office. I spend a few minutes looking around, trying to figure out what it could be, but before I discover the culprit, one of the massage ( Read more... )

Is there anyone who would be interested in going to see Joanna Newsom play this Wednesday at a small venue in Malibu? Apparently she'll be with a full orchestra.

When two members of the family come down with a stomach flu within days of each other, don't order curry from the Thai restaurant, chew everything as though life depended on its liquidation, drink at least three times as much water as you normally would, don't go to the beach with your friend Griff when you know it's going to be windy and cold, ( Read more... )

When my grandma dies, her house will be wheeled away in pieces after we clean it out, and what remains will look something like this:


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...for a rousing 16 months ( Read more... )

As many of you know, or have chosen to forget, the last year I have numbed myself into a coma-like state between the hours of 9 to 5, and in doing so I have not been keeping up with what made me feel human pre-bank account. Recently, due to certain circumstantial job-related issues I will not reveal here, I have been prying the nails from my coffin ( Read more... )