Peaceful and serene, I sit at my desk. Pens and paper litter the landscape, while a cup of over brewed coffee (now cold) from 7-11 sits next to me. I stare at the blank screen and wonder about my life. What is it that brought me here in the first place? Was it my love for the written word? The fact that I consider myself a creative person who can ( Read more... )

I'm supposed to be working on the several articles and various other projects that are due, but I heard about this and suddenly nothing seemed as important. At first I was shocked, like that first hallucinogenic wave when you realize you're high and nothing is familiar. But then it was immediately followed by the old familiar taste of disgust and ( Read more... )

For the past hour I've been sitting inside Gigi's bakery/cafe, a small shop by the freeway off Water street in Santa Cruz. A steady drizzle streams from the silver clouds above as I gaze out the large crystal windows to my left. "It's not a hard rain" as an elderly customer says with a grizzled laugh; just enough to clean the world. I fumble ( Read more... )

1. The Sea Captain's Wife - Martha Hodes ( Read more... )

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Wrote this back in April and forgot about it. It's short and written in a wine blur, but i think it conveys my thoughts nicely. I might even say I'm proud ( Read more... )

Shit. It's about time I update this thing. My problem is that I'm too diverse; I have two other paper journals besides this and I have the damnedest time switching between the three. But a month or two is a long time in between ( Read more... )

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Warped Tour 2009 Review ( Read more... )