I took these excerpts from an essay by James E. Walmesley, called “In The Beginning, There Was The Word ( Read more... )

I got thermal underwear for christmas...and an electric toothbrush

I’ve had a real aversion to going to the mall, and I’m glad I haven’t bought a single gift from there this year ( Read more... )

I was riding my bike today and I thought I saw my friend matt walking on the other side of the street so I yelled “heyyyyy!” and he yelled “heyyyy!” back and I made a U turn so I could go talk to him and then when I got about three feet away I realized it was some person I had never seen before, but we laughed and I introduced myself anyway, he was ( Read more... )

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Too fucking high, riding our bikes, it felt too fast. It felt like we were satellites orbiting the mall, circles of traffic, the continuous motion of pedestrians, cars and bicycles in the hot glare of the afternoon sun ( Read more... )

Mike, the new yorker, ate the husk on a green corn tamale when we took him to El Torero.

Yesterday he had a bad encounter with some cholla cactus, not once, but five times. I think they're out for him.

the people you love
are the best at sticking it to you

I was in the mall yesterday walking through dillards with my mom when I saw a woman behind a makeup counter I could have mistaken for divine,

Some things are wrong but you crossed the line lady.


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I was in the kitchen and all of the sudden I got the feeling there was something under the right side of the stove. It was screaming out at me. I got down on my hands and knees and sure enough there was something under there, and it was weird looking! Some kind of plasticky circular object with a pattern of concentric rings and a hole poked in the ( Read more... )