"Back in New Jersey with our daughters, around the time M*A*S*H went on the air. From the time they were little, Arlene and I would often conduct family conferences around a picnic table like this. Everyone would get to challenge our decisions and argue her case. Then there would usually be an explanation from us that we were not a democracy. ( Read more... )

come with me
my love
to the sea
the sea of love

i want to tell you
how much
i love you

During interviews or any other intimate one-on-ones with strangers, there is a nervous laughter that seems to cut through my block of gibberish. I have never been able to pinpoint where it originates from. Maybe from the inner workings of my bowels, it sounds about the same. Inside that small office, I tried to sit as upright as I could, as if ( Read more... )

"What are you doing?" he asked ( Read more... )

somewhere by the side of the long, winding road there is a perfected vastness. there are rows and rows of unindentifiable crops and they run to the back, averting your eyes. you are travelling at a good speed, the flatness is a flutter in your rapid blinks. the air feels weighed down from all the breathing while the outside, bright and hot, is ( Read more... )

Are you a good sculptor? Good! Now get the bone saw! Finally! My knees can benefit from the hands that modeling clay has never appreciated.

He'll save children but not the British children

"I reckon they ain't got no forces bigger den they lil' nubs. We must save the ladyfolk! Hi ho! Yaaaah!"

Select Criterion Collection DVDs are on sale now. 45% off! Titles like Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, The 400 Blows, Brazil, Traffic, otherwise known as what Steven bought. And more ( Read more... )

Two weeks and it's finished! I'm proud of myself. After a while, regardless of anything else, it just feels like a trap. And traps laid in plans not best laid, they work. Number crunching and most likely that faithful, loyal companion stress, well, they're temporary guests for now. But I am proud of myself, I don't take that back. I'll figure ( Read more... )

Today is going to be a long day. I feel like Jack Bauer whenever I say that. Excpet I do it without panache, guns, or tribal arm tattoos.