It’s Catching Up May 1, 2010

My best friend from elementary school died of cancer. (age 28) I had to turn around on a hiking trip after rangers closed the trail to recover the body of a guy who fell off a cliff. (age 23) A friend of a friend’s body was found in the Willamette River a few months ago. [...]

In the bigger city than the one I live in March 26, 2010

In the bigger city than the one I live in there were people walking with purpose and aim. I was seeing the city for the first time. I did not have purpose or aim. The market smelled like fish and dirty dishwater. Sometimes it smelled like dog shit. I noticed that people were wearing business [...]

I don’t know everything about anything (but some people do) March 18, 2010

At the Tao of Tea the man wore a kurta. It looked like it was shining in the candlelight. He was sitting at a table in front of a shelf lined with canisters. He had his eyes closed and was breathing in the steam from the pot of tea in front of him. He poured [...]

He would be a feast. February 26, 2010

She stared at him, eating the sweetbreads. Feeling the spongy matter on her tongue and the roof of her mouth. She imagined herself wielding the butcher knife, splitting him open from nose to navel, and collecting the spilled organs. Sorting and unravelling them into woven baskets. Heart. Pancreas. Intestines. Liver. Kidneys. He would be a [...]

bus #15 October 18, 2009

08/23/2009 The woman walked up and said the bus would be late. She said one of the horses had been hit – the ones who take tourists around the city. She kept checking the timetable against her watch and yawned one long yawn after another. When the bus arrived she checked the front grills  and [...]

stimulate your package February 21, 2009

Protected sex at least five times a week will stimulate the economy. People will get exercise. Optimism will be restored. Ben Bernanke needs to get laid at least six times a week. CEOs and investors need to fuck eight times a week. People who are laid off from their jobs should have wild sex all [...]

bumper sticker January 24, 2009

they all have a bumper sticker that they use for a blanket. it is clever for one minute. they pull it over themselves, up to their chins. some of them are mice, some of them are roaches, and some of them are pigeons. they all look the same when they are under their bumper sticker. [...]

i feel like… May 24, 2008

a wet tennis shoe a crepe myrtle a fume a ghost that isn’t scary a velour sweatsuit a bowl of pudding a crooked lampshade an animal with the head of an owl and the body of a rhinoceros a smoker’s cough a sagging bookshelf a chocolate covered ant a lottery ticket a funny bone a [...]

losingit May 13, 2008

Just saw a craigslist ad for a job as a “children’s photographer” and misread it as “children’s pornographer.” Started reading Raymond Carver’s “Where I’m Calling From.” So far… fishing, boners, kids being the little shits they really are, and married people who hate each other. So! Uplifting! The cats are all lazy (sonsof)bitches. They are [...]

the desert April 26, 2008

The sun here beats down on you, and the mountains have shadows that look like fingers crawling out of them. Everything seems to be below you, except for they sky. We all go to bed early, and we’ve been eating alot. I have been walking in the morning up and down the hills on the [...]