She said "life is the lesson and death is the pop quiz"
wrong answer?  try again. and again and again and again until what?

is there really "unsaid"?
electricity in wordless air can be pretty damn vocal

there was a beauty queen in the southern backwoods
whose talent was skinning a muskrat
I don't remember who told me that story
or if she won...

my dad ( Read more... )

SO right now.

and by the way, all those words from people who read my words made me feel better than I can possibly articulate here.  Such an honor to be received by such minds.

I'm still learning how to realign my breathing to hold everything I've learned and discovered and been blissfully swept away by in
the last couple weeks.  And not all of it ( Read more... )

Are people still reading this?  Hugs to you.

You know what's weird, y'all?  April has been AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  Last year I was ripped apart around the time of my dad's birthday, but whatever came through has made something possible that -- well, anyway.

We'll catch up, right?

But it's been immense and it's been beautiful and it's been full ( Read more... )

 Have you had spiced hot chocolate this Winter?
Have you had spiced hot chocolate with chartreuse?

Why yes, it was warm.
And no, I would not have ordered it if I knew it was $9, but luckily the Rio Rita bartender agreed to split the difference on a regular one because I wouldn't have indulged if I had been informed.

Now, for future reference, I am ( Read more... )

I don't know what to say.
It's snowing in Texas.

It is snowing and we're in Texas and it's snowing.

It's snowing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I just had to mark this down somewhere, because I didn't think we did that, here.

Woohoo!  Night:  Planned.

I had a poetic entry planned out a couple days ago about why you should watch Danger: Diabolik and CQ immediately afterwords, and how it will help you break open the color spectrum make you feel like your tongue is tingling from intergallactic frozen desserts, or something, but I couldn't embed it with the pictures needed ( Read more... )

Would any of you lovely Austin people like to come see Santaland Diaries with me tonight?  I have two comp tickets from the Austinist, and I was wrong about John's schedule for tonight.  It's written by David Sedaris (and possibly Amy too) so it should be really funny.

Or, rather, see a list of the films I want to see ( Read more... )

Ohhhhhh, the loveliness.

A perfect evening.

Calm in all the right ways, laugh-full in all the most wonderful ways -- a FEAST made from scratch by the incomparable www.myspace.com/leilabela">Miss Leila Bela, and warmth and warmth and warmth and warmth and warmth.

Plus -- about an hour or so before we arrived at her abode I had mentioned to merrickm that I  ( Read more... )

I am Thankful for ( Read more... )