So as I turned up my nose at all the crafts and wares at the Renegade Craft Fair this weekend, I came across a booth for Crosshair silkscreen priting. My friend had told me there were posters at the fair for local shows, but I figured there were nine fucking thousand other people doing the same thing, most of whom are online, so who cares ( Read more... )

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Subject: Do you want a prosperous future? difficultlight drew thinking. short miss here luck full luck ( Read more... )

Mildred Pierce combines power with environmentally friendly emission control ( Read more... )

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The men's restroom smells like toothpaste--theorize:1. That one teeny, tiny, small guy lost consciousness during his post-lunch brushing, and fell to the floor with toothpaste tube still in hand. Unknowingly, the janitorial staff swept him behind the trash can, while he continued squeezing unconsciously ( Read more... )

As it was with most conversations between my parents, my mom had hidden me in the car. Tucked into the red vinyl of my mother’s Chevy Nova, I twiddled my thumbs through my knit mittens and waited for her to finish arguing with my father ( Read more... )

“As Little as Possible ( Read more... )

"The evolutionary advantage of self-deceptions of various kinds is that in order to go ahead with many activities you need to convince yourself that the activities will be worthwhile, that there will be a payoff down the line. You have to keep the faith ( Read more... )

Written in collaboration with SHThe motion-activated paper towel dispenser in the men's room at work has been broken for weeks, so le Croque du Soleil and I came up with some ways to fix it ( Read more... )

SH: Since I was a teenager, I'd always wanted to hear Husker Du's Zen Arcade, and I found the song titles to be really evocative. I'd even written a memo before with a sentence for each title, and I figured it would be a good way to go about it. So I finally got it, and each chapter of the book corresponded with a song title, and the book was ( Read more... )