I'm about to sit down and play pinochle with my parents. Its a typical Tuesday night, with laundry and the internet. I made a list yesterday. And its a nice one. I think I finally got myself to a point of equilibrium with everything that's been running around since...shit. Mid-October? If 2007 was a bad year, filled with loss and poor choices ( ( Read more... )

You're invited to participate in the newest holiday on the calendar! It is smack dab in between Leif Erikson Day and Columbus Day. Its called "My Family Doesn't Leave The House For Fucking Anything" Day. Celebrate the fact that we've all kept our lives, and mourn the loss of Violet, and my father's velo. My parents are two of the three injured ( Read more... )

I walked over to the Albright-Knox Art Gallery on Friday, because I had a feeling that they had some good work out in the most recent remix of the collection. In 2002, the painter Edwin Dickenson had an exhibit at the AK, and I saw it on its last day. Unfortunately it was the last day, because I could have spent the summer there, staring at the ( Read more... )

For those of you who don't know, it is time I come clean: I don't have a couch. All I have in my apartment is a number of chairs, two of which are sandwiched next to each other to create what appears to be a larger piece of furniture. Thankfully the chairs don't have arms (though the hills have eyes, am I right? Am I right people??!). So, after ( Read more... )

There was something interesting after the alarm went off. It wasn't the twilight, and the warm XXXX next to me was XXXXXXXX XXXXX, all I wanted to do is XXXX XXXX and go XXXX XX XXXXX. Then XXX turned XXXX and tried to stop XXX XXXX in her XXXX. Sleepily, I did not want to let go, but my XXX XXX XXX made for that angle. She flopped XXX XXX to ( Read more... )