too hot for the cat
stretched out to her fullest
     but still in the sun

In the past 3 years, 2 friends of mine from New Jersey have had their fathers decide (after being married for about 20 years, and having 2 kids in both cases), that they're gay, and run off with some guy. And now the #^@$ing governor. What gives? Something in the water? Something about the sort of person who chooses to live in Jersey? My ( Read more... )

I just found this marvelous haiku (well, translation of) by Issa. A pinnacle of modernist thought, circa 1810 (i think).

Writing shit about new snow
for the rich
    is not art.

Fills me with hap to read that, it does.

I just got tickets to see - get this - Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Dave Holland, and Brian Blade play tomorrow night in San Francisco. Unbelievable. It's like, 4 of the 10 most influential jazz composers of the last 40 years all playing together in a single group ( Read more... )

( i'm a sucker for surveys )

This is funny.

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judytuna, you did an evil, evil thing.

( my day boils away )

Some (very off-the-cuff) thoughts I've been having about the death penalty today ( Read more... )

and I should, really. She's right ( Read more... )

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