Sometimes a sweaty, wild-eyed cleaning binge really does the trick.

Sunshine & breeze. I don't remember the last time I woke up in my bed without a place to be or a person to meet, or an overdue job to process. You mean I can luxuriate in the easy gratification of washing dishes? Shampoo twice? Lick sediment off the bottom of my coffee mug simply for the taste of it? Post something on da Eljay ( Read more... )

Huh. Just had a weird realization about procrastination, my ugly little co-pilot since the first day I heard the word deadline ( Read more... )

Do your shit
Do your shit
Do your shit
Do your shit

And get lost up in it

Stopped in for a taste of the well in the seedy, shifty, pricey, inhospitably windy meatmarket of the Tendersquare-Unionloin. Mr. Moore, you changed everything. I'm thinking of you a ton this early in the year.

It's tough to declare anything in the moment. Guess I just like to wait and see how history gets written.

Le backdate: Tuesday 1/4/11 ( Read more... )

The Tuesday Night Jump holiday dance was last night. Ohhhh, I gotta say, it was just like the thrills of when I first started dancing: leads that surprise you, follows dressed to the nines, that critical mass in the room that makes you hyper-aware, and the nerves which make cocktails a risky luxury. My favorite moment was probably when Doug let go ( Read more... )

What a flavor this year has had. You can't always paint a swath of time with such a broad brush. It usually gets boiled down and reduced to a few sharp memories: a boy's smell, a job fire or hire, an employer, a rash of hobby enthusiasm, an injury, a family issue or event. But this year has kept true to its nature since day one. We dubbed it the ( Read more... )

Well I dined last night with scarface Ron
On talapia fish cakes and fried black swan
Razorweed onion and peacock squirrel
And I dreamed all night of a beautiful girl

And I'm lost
And I'm lost
And I'm lost at the bottom of the world
I'm handcuffed to the bishop
And the barbershop liar
And I'm lost at the bottom of the world