smoking panda

In tennis, the term 'love' is used for scoring zero points in a game. Before a few hours ago, I had no clue about tennis' scoring terminology, nor did I know much about the history of the game in general. Thanks to hours of free time and a decent internet connection, I know a few more useless facts. We'll get to Jamie T in a second, so ( Read more... )

A FINAL SONNET

for Chris

How strange to be gone in a minute!         A man
Signs a shovel and so he digs         Everything
Turns into writing a name for a day
                                                            Someone
is having a birthday and someone is getting
married and someone is telling a joke ( Read more... )

dead bodies weighing a minimum of 160 pounds and to maneuver a gurney ( Read more... )

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Dancing on stages might be one of my top five activities these days.

i wish that you were a wonder twin, except only one of you. though i guess it would be pretty cool if you were twins. only that'd be twice as much talking. except, i guess if you were twins, you'd have the same thoughts a lot of the time so it'd be just like talking with one of you anyway. so i guess you could be twins, but only if you're identical ( Read more... )

i'm in my old room, in what is now an office/storage space. the door is closed, as it so rarely was when i lived here. i closed it so that i could wrap my parents' presents without them stealing a glance, but now i'm getting distracted by the change in setting. it's not as though i don't visit The House I Grew Up In, shit. i swap cars with my ( Read more... )

i forgot how cost-effective being alone really is, now that i'm a-running around.

I want to write a taxonomy of evil. This occurred to me five Thursdays ago, during lunch, which I ate, as I do each Thursday, on the Fragrance Terrace of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. The Fragrance Terrace is for Garden staff. I’m part-time staff, so I get to eat there. Four of my colleagues were with me, and we-or they-discussed the torture of ( Read more... )

“I should have gone to college and gone into real estate and got myself an aquarium, that’s what I should have done.” - Jeffrey Dahmer