A word of explanation before I begin: The following list is not necessarily the BEST matches I have ever seen, although I can say that is true for a fair portion of them. This is simply my personal top twenty, whether it be due to nostalgia, a fondness for the participants, historical significance, or what have you. This list is entirely ( Read more... )

I've spent more time than I care to recall like this. Hunched over my father, a rolling pin in my hands. He lays on his stomach and I hover above him, shoulders slumped, my ample weight pulling my shoulders forward and causing a hunch in my back to rise as it has since I was in middle school. I manipulate the pin to its exact specifications, ( Read more... )

I've been thinking about comic books. Not because I'm going to a comic con tomorrow, or because lately I've been having all of these conversations with B about the obscure and crappy and wonderful comics that our brains are full of, or because I've started drawing an extremely esoteric comic strip based on these conversations. I've been thinking ( Read more... )

1. What is your middle name ( Read more... )

Walk a few yards into the water and the shelf just drops. The beach is short and narrow and comfortable as hell. Maybe fifty yards from shore there is a large growth of coral so circular and dense and uniform that it more closely resembles a giant rock, sitting serenely at the bottom of the seabed. Here fish feed, not as exotic or as varies or ( Read more... )

Up under the trees, where we lay our bags, the sand is so fine that it's barely tangible, but littered throughout with leaves and bugs and twigs and rocks, things that make you step lightly and quickly and say ouch and inhale sharply. Cigarette butts and charcoal are the order of the day. A few feet from the trees the sand is hot and coarser, ( Read more... )

For some reason, when I was in Hawaii, I dated all of my journal entries in my Moleskine 9/whatever. Didn't even notice it until just now, and no idea why that might have happened.

See you suckers when I get back.

1. You have $10 and need to buy snacks at a gas station; what do you buy?
Orange-Carrot Sobe. It is the only good flavor of Sobe. Beth recently turned me on to TGI Friday's Cheddar and Bacon 'tater skins. They're powerfully delicious. Diabolically so. I'd probably also buy a king size Snickers, because when buying snacks at a gas station, my ( Read more... )

I have no tolerance for anyone who laughs at Larry the Cable Guy ( Read more... )