Besides everything. what really puts me in the mood is organizing my stuff. I’m a hoarder, especially of memories, which every so often I have what I call a ‘memory dumping’, garbage day for my neurotransmitters; they leave old memories…
My birthday’s coming on the 29th and that means my Solar Return; when I moved to New York nine years ago from San Francisco as a platter of plasma with ID, one of the first things I did was to…
I just got a letter from my cable company that my promotional period has ended and bill is going up by about $35. I wasn’t aware it was a promotional period; I guess symbolically it is the beginning of my…
and the twain shall meet inside a bossanova and settle it all out. I just realized, watching old episodes of The Incredible Hulk, which is what turned me on to turning green and smashing things when I was young, though…
lives in Urbandale, IA; he is always thirty four years old and goes to Supercuts to get a side parted trim every six weeks. HIs girlfriend comes over three times a week and they eat pasta and a plate of…
I’ve always known I would write. In 4th grade and 6th grade I was chosen to go to Young Author’s Conference while living in Indiana; both stories were about orphan boys looking for homes; I’m adopted; psych majors can ring…
I bought an artificial Christmas tree, something I said I would never do. Last year a friend of mine fed me grief pellets through my shame cage for buying real trees, dressing their corpse in decorations for a couple…
One of the worst jobs that ever had me, and as an artist all jobs are at best a nuisance and mostly a time gobbler, was at Kaiser Permanente, the health insurance company out in California. KP’s corporate office was…
Back in New York time which is three clocks stuffed inside one as my brain re-acclimates and puts all the thought monkeys back on the treadmills; I will say, coming back from a week in suburban Pittsburgh that I am…
Happy Thanksgiving to those indoors, outdoors, suffering, joyful and essentially all breathing living creatures. As the earth breathes out here in the next year or so and the dust of history fills the air with a temporary smog and our…