November 2006

Ink Blot: Pelvic Bone

November 29, 2006

In which modern technology is utiilized to form Rorschach-esque ink blots. Updates Wednesdays. This week’s inkblot is a pelvic bone. Growing up in a lake house my family had a dog-named Flash. He showed up one day under our car all malnourished and shaky, until we fed him some grits and he stuck around after [...]

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Tornado Season: No Political

November 28, 2006

In early summer of this year I went to a college graduation ceremony at which a minister and civil rights activist was giving the commencement speech. Toward the end of his speech, in the context of endorsing peace and goodwill, he asked what he probably considered a rhetorical question: “Have we accomplished anything by fighting [...]

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Two Stories I Think About

November 27, 2006

1. A man and a woman are next to a river. A devil in a suit made of ash and soot dances through the trees toward them. The woman carves numbers into the trees on the edge of the water. She does not speak. The man waves a piece of cloth over the water, and [...]

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Tornado Season: Octopus

November 21, 2006

Sunday night I dreamt of an octopus with glowing colored suckers on it’s tentacles wrapped around my shoelaces. My friend Matt showed up and said, “Isn’t that a strange octopus?” in Japanese, with English subtitles under his feet. I agree with him. It was a strange octopus. But I find it stranger still that my [...]

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The Crows Of The Ocean

November 20, 2006

you and I the crows of the ocean sang songs of devotion then folded our wings but you and I missed the split in the sky that told us the story of the day we would die you and I the crows of the ocean sang songs of devotion then folded our wings

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5 Things I Was Wearing In My Dream Last Night

November 17, 2006

1. Suit Pants & Black Belt. 2. Pressed White Dress Shirt. 3. Suspenders. 4. Polished black shoes. 5. Gigantic white wings that expanded from my back as I explored a forest road and stumbled on the little secret wooden boxes that someone has been hiding in the trees. Lists Forever Updates Mondays & Fridays.

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Ink Blot: Twin Sisters

November 15, 2006

In which modern technology is utiilized to form Rorschach-esque ink blots. Updates Wednesdays. I see two identical twin sisters lying in a claw foot bed, sharing thought balloons with winged edges. Above them, dreams of astronaut dogs in space helmets have already begun to take shape. From the way their heads are tilted inward and [...]

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Tornado Season: Awesome Bird Costume

November 14, 2006

Sometimes when I am walking downtown, and I see people in their polished shoes and crisp shirts and gorgeous dresses, eating on the sidewalks and behind tall windows with cloth napkins in their laps, I wonder what would happen if a guy in a bird costume flew through the glass, knocking over the decorated saucers [...]

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Three Things From My Dream Last Night And The Real Life Counterpart That Likely Inspired It

November 13, 2006

1. A magic trick involving heated coins glued together on a piece of wood. A. An episode of Mythbusters in which they tried to build a steam powered cannon, one of the components of which was a layer of nails. 2. An inflatable Cadillac made out of pool floats tilted toward the sky, next to [...]

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Four Things I Did To Your Cat

November 10, 2006

1.Renamed him “Mr.Sparkles”, even though you called him Aspen. 2.Trapped him under the chair and announced he was in “Mew Kitty Prison”. 3.Stuffed him into a box made for 24 Coke cans, paraded him around the apartment with his head sticking out. 4.Abandoned him abruptly by moving out and not speaking to you for years. [...]

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Ink Blot: Pippi Longstocking

November 8, 2006

In which modern technology is utiilized to form Rorschach-esque ink blots. Updates Wednesdays. I want to say Pippi Longstocking, but I see a rope bridge, too. Wouldn’t a rope bridge be the kind of place you’d find Pippi Longstocking? Coincidentally, I trace my long and complicated relationship with literature and nudity back to Pippi Longstocking [...]

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Tornado Season: Pizzazz!

November 7, 2006

Four years ago I was hung-over in an Olive Garden, sitting under some corporate art of a vineyard. This kid a few tables over yelled “Pizzazz!!” really loud and waved his little hands over the breadsticks. This morning I remembered that flamboyant little boy, and couldn’t help but wonder what he’ll be like when he [...]

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Hello, Hello: The 5 Things I Remember About The Old Woman Who Died Of A Heart Attack In The Lake House When I Was A Kid

November 6, 2006

1. She was sputtering and coughing in the living room, a lonely old piece of white fabric spinning into itself, wrapping it’s edges around my stepfather’s feet as he jumped over the couch to revive her. 2. My neighbors as silent and slow moving blurs, making way through the mossy trees and ivy, toward the [...]

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Sleep Lightly: Five Eccentricities of An Old Roommate Of Mine

November 3, 2006

1. Slept naked and drunk on the living room couch in the afternoons, on being asked to clothe himself, placed pillow strategically over buttocks. 2. Left computer on for an entire month, surprised when back of computer suddenly went from “not in flames” to “in flames”. 3. Slept in a pile of feathers left over [...]

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Ink Blot: Roosters.

November 1, 2006

In which modern technology is utiilized to form Rorschach-esque ink blots. Updates Wednesdays. I see two roosters looking up at the trees, waiting for the leaves to fall. Yesterday I saw this punk rock guy walking around under a tree that was turning colors and dropping leaves on his head. I guess he was a [...]

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