This has been 
 the best  year of my life &
 I wish you all peace, love and light 
 for 2008.

The Plan: Convince Warren Wilson tuition is relative, money is paper and as an environmentally-friendly college, why not conserve and forego excess?
The Likelihood:  Zip.
What I Should Be Doing Right Now: The Romanesque Period is probably the worst thing that ever happened to the history of art.

As of late, I have been immensely satisfied with my life.

july

i remember the summer of the onions

all those days my mother had me spend listening

to the clicking of the chopping knife

against the cutting board.

my job was the onions

my task to peel their crunchy skins

from their pungent cores.

in return the onions snatched

burning tears from my eyes,

offered a strange sharpness to the side of my tongue.

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artichokes

twice a week

armed with a molting feather duster

i launch an assault

on artichoke hearts

in wistful canned columns

perpetually filmy with grit,

beat ceaseless rows

of sodden vegetable organs

forever marooned and disregarded

on solitary shelves

rest the artichoke castaways

botanical reflections of the purest

of human hearts

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The Fossils and the chillins are heading out to Molena today, 
meaning the house is all mine. Excitement.  Greenfest tomorrow, 
Brighter Day in a few minutes. I am going to see him next weekend:


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Excerpt of a narrative written by my thirteen-year old brother, describing his summer vacation:

We had to go across one of the great lakes, Lake Michigan, to get to Wyoming. I had a wonderful time. We stayed with some of our friends. Every part of my body was warm, except for my shoe which was urinated on by the dog, and the pee froze that night ( Read more... )

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“...colleges being nothing but grooming schools for the middleclass non-identity which usually finds its perfect expression on the outskirts of the campus in rows of well-to-do houses with lawns and television sets is each living room with everybody looking at the same thing and thinking the same thing at the same time while the Japhies of the ( Read more... )