Keenan cupped her hands, and in her hands she held worlds. In one world the fingernail creatures would hold constant parties. Well, we might question whether these were what we would call parties, since it was in linking arms and dancing and doing something that they called "whooping it up" that the fingernail creatures created the Z-formula from ( Read more... )

Paste's online version of the Dylan blurb I wrote for their best-living-songwriters issue back in '06 gets rid of the paragraph breaks, to the piece's detriment. So I'm reprinting here.

By the way, Dylan might well make my top ten but it was Paste who put him at the top. I'd probably have chosen Jagger-Richards (Paste's #12), or maybe Johansen- ( Read more... )

Performance Anxiety

We were performing anxiety. I was assigned to shiver. Jolene was assigned to hesitate. Gerard turned away. Bella chattered nervously. Ashlee giggled. Magnum acted tough. Isabel searched for excuses. Thomas tried to feel superior. Peter acted detached. Sally was engrossed in doing her nails.

( He thought we were marvelous )

( Eyebrow Raising )