i'm writing a book about everything a grizzly bear and a bunch of children can do in a barn. it's called THE BEAR IN THE BARN. how far does one have to get into writing a book to say "i'm writing this book...?" i guess the nature of the language is murky enough that i could simply be intending to write it. but i'm more than a few pages in ( Read more... )

john updike is dead.

12 hours. then i'll be good. then i'll be good.

we are so close to history being made, and i am so close to going home. we have promises to keep, biden kept saying. and i'll i can think is

and miles to go before we sleep,
and miles to go before we sleep

reasons to be happy about returning to school ( Read more... )

I shouldn't have bought a whole carton of the periques and I shouldn't sleep all day because all doped up on the nicotine and the sleep whatever good things they produce I'm watching the Golden Globes and downloading Home Movies and not depressed at all for the first time in a long time. Is this the remedy? Absorption by media, chemical ( Read more... )

The Real World's choice to include a trans-woman fresh back from her SRS in the genderqueer capital of the world is clearly an attempt to ride the coattails of ANTM and the whole Isis debacle which led me to stop watching that show forever midseason forever changing the make-up of my Wednesday nights leading me to take up watching Whacked-Out ( Read more... )

"don't confuse legibility with communication"

example:

sunshine

xxx

Mystic River is a fucking damn good movie.

i was sick, i think i'm good now, sleeping all day. i'm having the strangest dreams. race tracks constructed on earthquake-ruined landscapes, stretches of hardened tar high up in the air, supported by delicate wooden struts. first i'm driving by, then i'm in the race. there's a technique one must learn. the tracks being thin, one slender lane ( Read more... )