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I saw Wong Kar-wai's Happy Together when it was in theatres. In a post on her blog Pam says she noticed something that I'm sure we...

Seth has an essay in 10 points about the magnitude of the devastation caused by hurricane Katrina. I'm reminded of one of Bush's fa...

a bruise blossoms on your left bicep, an injury that surprises you as you don't remember having tripped on a root to fall on a stone, do...

Two people who want replacement library cards. The second came so fast on the heels of the first that I thought he must have heard my instru...

Bro David is posting the first issue of his comic book Misspent Youths . D says he's posting the comic because he doesn't have any ...

Pooh. Looks like I won't be able to update my homestead site again. Today I tried to thread my way past the homestead demands we old fr...

"[M]ost contemporary poetry is boring. It is. But that's always been the case." -- Tony Robinson, poet "Tony, I also agre...

It's 4:30 and I've just logged in to Blogger. It's been bih zee! Phone ringing, people walking up, even forming a line. And now,...

Last Thursday I went to the 5th anniversary reading for Shampoo . It was held at a gallery in San Francisco's Embarcadero Center. I lik...

you're half awake, the other half half asleep, the final quarter in a new state we can call by its name when its name is given us and be...

Leaving the library, a black teenager in a blacker baggy tshirt. On the front a grainy white square in which is silhouetted a figure at a mi...

Haven't had a whole lotta energy lately and what energy for writing there's been has gone to a project. I'm not going to talk ab...

And so Monday rolls round again. Shambling. That's it! Hagrid from the Harry Potter movies. A tall husky young man in long black trench...

Still have to do dishes. But K replaced two faulty light switches and I replaced a burnt out bulb. So we have s'more light. And I buried...

your life begins its left turn next door, where the acanthus slings her blanched blooms over a railing so wrought it's obvious it's ...

Is it Monday? It must be Monday! The first public RFID self-checkout station is in use. I didn't see it earlier because they've posi...

Just back from brunch at Saul's, a Jewish deli & restaurant around the corner from our house. Kent has been coveting a long salami a...

Been having trouble sleeping. Some days this week I was half sleepwalking even while showering. I'm surprised I didn't konk out at m...

your mouth hurts, so you escape from October by means of a thin wire looped several times around a blue beam that was balanced three years a...

Kent is upstairs making cherry ice cream and watching Big Brother 6 . His last batch of cherry was the best of his ice cream creations, yumm...