May 2010
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April 2010
1 post
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Now on Sale: "Assam & Darjeeling" for the...
March 2010
1 post
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I tend to think that what fame has done is to replace the sea as the element of choice of adventure for young people. If you were a dashing young man in the 19th century you would probably have wanted to run away to sea, just as in the 20th century you might decide that you want to runaway and form a pop band. The difference is that in the 19th century, before running away to sea, you would have...
February 2010
1 post
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Superman is a dick.
Poor robots…
January 2010
1 post
Now on sale!
Amazon Barnes & Noble Lulu Marketplace
December 2009
1 post
Buy now!
Hardcover
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Ridiculously Overpriced Special Edition
Amazon Kindle
October 2009
1 post
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Samhain
One of the four primary holidays in the Celtic calendar, celebrating the end of the harvest with bonfires and festivals. Generally believed to be a time when the boundary between the world of the living and the world of the dead is thin; a time of migration between this world and the other. After this, then winter.
September 2009
1 post
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August 2009
2 posts
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“In solitude I used to wander about the garden, alternately collecting birds’...”
– Bertrand Russell
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July 2009
3 posts
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“To have the management of the mind is a great art, and it may be attained in a...”
– Samuel Johnson
“We enjoy warmth because we have been cold.
We appreciate light because we have...”
– David L. Weatherford (via brokenmachine)
“Once you have established a belief, the phenomenon adjusts its manifestations to...”
– John Keel
June 2009
4 posts
How Much Do I Owe?
About $430 buck, actually — which seems to be much lower than the average. I will say this, I did rack up at least one or two of the big ticket items. I’m not bragging, just saying.
What’s all this about, you ask? Check here for the rules.
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“When the Lord finished the world, he pronounced it good. That is what I said...”
– Mark Twain
“Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is...”
– Alan Ginsberg
May 2009
3 posts
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“If a street is named for a tree,
it is right that flowers
bloom purple and...”
– Naomi Shihab Nye
“Death steals everything except our stories.”
– Jim Harrison
April 2009
1 post
“Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead”
– W.H. Auden
March 2009
8 posts
“I have bought this wonderful machine — a computer … it seems to me...”
– Joseph Campbell
“The war that raged for years will come to a close,
And so will everything else,...”
– Mark Strand
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“For the price of a poem
The beloved is yours again.”
– Gregory Orr
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WatchAurohn Lake, MI
March 15, 2009
WatchSlide
February 2009
1 post
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“I’m haunted to the point of panic by the...
As I come to the end of my life, there are four times as many registered astrologers in the United States as there are physicists and chemists. Four times as many. The wife of our sometime Prime Minister wears an amulet against “space rays.” There is not a corner of our lives now that is not invented, invited, invaded by idiocy of irrational superstition, [such as] people who pay vast sums to have...
January 2009
14 posts
Video of Charlene Chua creating an illustration... →
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"In the winter, in the dark hours,
when others were asleep, I found these words and put them together by their appetites and respect for each other. In stillness, they jostled. They traded meanings while pretending to have only one.”
William Stafford
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Good night, Andrew Wyeth
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"The more serious you are as a writer, the more...
that you’ll never be someone who is going to organize the world and transform it in a logical way; you’re never going to think in any kind of politically logical way, and you’re never going to really have any power.”
William Kennedy
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quote
“The universe is a machine for creating gods.”
Henri Bergson
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quote
“It’s funny, we were unreal people… and yet we were real.”
Maureen O’Sullivan
conversation
J : What’s that?
Me : It’s called mead.
J : Is it like beer?”
Me : I don’t know.
J : Does it taste good?
Me : I don’t know:
J : Then why are you buying it?
Me : Because it’s what the Gods drink.
J : The gods?
Me : Oh, yes.
request
Dear universe,
I don’t mind the odd, disturbing dreams of last night. I enjoy that sort of thing, in fact. But I would appreciate it if you stopped casting my ex as a walk on character. That I can do without.
Many thanks…
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word to the wise
“Gods don’t like. They love and they hate and they ignore.”
— Neil Gaiman, The Kindly Ones.
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request for submissions
Open note to trash collectors in Michigan:
I inadvertenly threw out a stack of playscripts this past week. Please contact me if your union would like to stage a production of any of them.
yup
“Looks like someone just shook up the snowglobe…”
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Oh. Thanks.
Client showed up late for the meeting. We all waited and missed lunch.
Why were they late?
They went to lunch.
[stomach rumbles]
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"out of their deep caves"
I would not have been a poet except that I have been in love alive in this mortal world, or an essayist except that I have been bewildered and afraid, or a storyteller had I not heard stories passing to me through the air, or a writer at all except I have been wakeful at night and words have come to me out of their deep caves needing to be remembered.
— from VII by Wendell Berry
Client in the Office
People are walking and talking differently, wearing their grown-up clothes.
Someone’s added low grade anxiety to the coffee pot.