from hejira-

You know it never has been easy
Whether you do or you do not resign
Whether you travel the breadth of extremities
Or stick to some straighter line
Now here's a man and a woman sitting on a rock
They're either going to thaw out or freeze
Listen...
Strains of benny goodman
Coming thru' the snow and the pinewood trees
I'm porous with ( Read more... )

moving again-
listening to joni mitchell's hejira-
thinking tons.
a few weeks ago i was checking my mailbox constantly for a postcard from mexico-
and then today it comes.
joni sings

" The drone of flying engines
Is a song so wild and blue
It scrambles time and seasons if it gets thru to you
Then your life becomes a travelogue
Of picture-post-card- ( Read more... )

when i left david howard's office today
he touched my shoulder (again)
and said softly-
i only wonder what your classmates make of you-
you must appear to be some kind of alien.

thanks david.
i think if you're going to make us read  slavoj zizek
we should be given some kind of drug to make the end results more bearable.
or at least give us cocktails. a ( Read more... )

 last night i danced it up proper.
enjoyed some free beers.
i was also drunk proper.
twas good.

great costumes:
someone went as a facebook profile-
there was a fantastic ziggy stardust bartender
my friend angela went as the colour red which she later regretted b.c of the sweaty makeup factor
margot (andrea vincent)  and richie tenenbaum - whose costumes ( Read more... )

in my studio class we had to find precedents for our work-
I found myself going back to Jim Maunder's Body Conscious series-
specifically this piece- which I think is gob smackingly brilliant.
if you get a chance to hear Jim talk about his work -
it's worth it.
He's lovely.


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i'm having a hard time switching livejournals.
i feel a bit more comfortable writing on this one.
but we'll see.
The trip to Toronto was great- but totally surreal-
left Thursday evening- scrambled off a report to the board post library shift
and literally ran to the shuttle
It occurred to me that I've made that trip I think three times-
the first time ( Read more... )

on suffering
from allison bechdel's blog.

Somebody on the blog said they miss the sketch diary entries I was putting up for a while. I miss them too. I started one the other day about the two hours I spent sorting out a fraudulent charge to a website called Mr. Skin with my credit card company. But then I realized the cartoon would take at least ( Read more... )

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 and just like that

everything changed.

thanks be to god.

especially to the thoughtful words of a smart priest.

i can safely say- i'm no longer living in something written by stephen morrissey.
mostly i'm just living.

life is good

quoth vonnegut-

And now I want to tell you about my late Uncle Alex. He was my father’s kid brother, a childless graduate of ( Read more... )

 sometimes i can't tell if it's better or worse to know exactly who you are.

is it good or bad to know that your personality is vaguely akin to virginia woolf's?