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dom_ino and I spoke briefly about personal goals for the coming year, mostly in terms of projects that would lead to personal growth. Since I said earlier that I'd like not to bog myself down this winter -- like I did with the poet essays this past fall -- and make this colder season more about whimsical pleasures, I want to be both selective and vague ( Read more... )

I was on vacation. My grandparents had a pool, so I asked them if I could spend a few days there with them, relaxing. They said they were tired, not doing well, and wouldn't mind a quick day visit, but otherwise, they couldn't manage a longer stay ( Read more... )

We just got a great new picture book: "Body Art: The Human Canvas -- Ink and Steel". I just looked at it with glee for the last 20 minutes. The photos are great and the models are young and old, sub-culture and professional, skinny and big ( Read more... )

It occurred to me this morning in the shower -- while I was reviewing my budget (scrub, lather, calculate, curse, pound thigh, repeat ...) -- that I will actually have the resources to get another tattoo in the middle of January ( Read more... )

It is amazing to me how you can be having one of the grittiest days, where you feel like you will either give or receive pressure-cooked aneurysms at the drop of a hat, and what really helps, what really smoothes it over, is staring at picture after picture of

tattooed men,

for about an hour.

Ahhh ... .

Not much to say today. Tired, plodding through work, over-smoked, sure to be tired-er before the bed fucks me slowly, with me playing the passive date rape-ee ( Read more... )