I have a friend in TO with whom I regularly exchange cd compilations with, of any music we'd like each other to hear. I have a tentative plan of making this a larger web of ppl exchanging music with each other--is anyone interested? the only rule is u cant use the same artist mroe than once in a mix.

yes or no?

Sometimes I want to crumple people up and toss them in the trash. Sometimes I just want to punch a random person in the dark until their face is nothing but pulp and gore. I want them to be bones and blood and splatters on the wall. After I do this once, I think, then I can go back to being my walking, talking, patient self. People can take me for ( Read more... )

i just want to officially thank my body for working so hard. it is such a strong body, and so brave. it won't let me succumb to illness even though i overwork it. it won't fall apart even though I underfeed it. thank you, body! may you have an excellent quality of living. i promise not to let you get old and frail and incontinent.

i have a new friend named ricky. the most unusual thing about him is his unusal smell, like antiseptic or iodine. i sometimes catch a whiff of it when he's talking and then i feel like im in a clinic. it probably has to do with the fact that he's waiting for a dentist's appointment and in the meantime he's taking a bunch of painkillers to tide him ( Read more... )

the crocodile hunter died from a ray's stab wound to the heart ( Read more... )

If not now, when ( Read more... )

stop

I was lying on my bed remembering what we said online. She asked if I was leaving TO tomorrow so I could be in AA on Thursday and I said, “Why? Do you miss me already?” and she replied, “No. You said you were going to Chicago on Thursday and were leaving soon after.” No. No. I thought about that word, and then I said, “I’ll be awhile yet. You don’t ( Read more... )

The place was closed. The door would not open. I sat for a while on the cement planters, feeling the limp white petals between two fingers. I decided to see whether you were home. On the way I was making up excuses for why I had come, as I never used to do. I was in the area, I was going to say. We both know there is nothing else for me in those ( Read more... )

I always believed words could save me (but they’re not enough!)