Archive for May, 2009
Posted on Sunday, May 31st, 2009
I come barreling through the uterus with my cutlass sharp and fierce. Amniotic prisons be damned! I swipe at her fallopian tubes, striking them with my foil. (Despite the doctors’ best efforts, I live to spit in my mother’s face.)
Posted on Saturday, May 30th, 2009
Swing dancing at Ernestine and Hazel’s
Posted on Friday, May 29th, 2009
Slightly Garbled Phone Message from My Mother
Posted on Thursday, May 28th, 2009
I saw a saviour
a saviour come my way
I thought I’d see it
at the cold light of day
Posted on Wednesday, May 27th, 2009
The party collapsed at the Poplar Lounge at around midnight. Tim Jackson sobered up enough to get drunk again, “twice in a day,” he kept saying holding up two fingers.
Posted on Tuesday, May 26th, 2009
Brandon decided that he was going to flee one hot, wet Southern city for another this Memorial day. He brought these pictures back with him.
Posted on Monday, May 25th, 2009
Chapter 4 of MAGICTOWN: The Man in the Mist
Posted on Sunday, May 24th, 2009
There is a line of writers around the block who would open up their own veins to get this guy to illustrate a book for them.
Posted on Saturday, May 23rd, 2009
To say that Tim is just a game designer is to do him a disservice. Before he ever thinks about the mechanics and dynamics of a game, he is building worlds.
Posted on Friday, May 22nd, 2009
On just the other side of
the Nickel Plate bridge,
the one that Steven always
said he’d jump from
Posted on Thursday, May 21st, 2009
“I’m a nasty piece of work, chief. Ask anybody.”
-John Constantine
Posted on Wednesday, May 20th, 2009
After that, conversation at work was almost always about bowling. Bowling magazines were in the john. The guys called each other their league names. Jimmy Cogan had a PBA finals watch party at his house.
Posted on Tuesday, May 19th, 2009
The bridges over the Mississippi River are fixtures of the Memphis skyline, but underneath them hides something even more beautiful.
Posted on Monday, May 18th, 2009
Chapter 3 of MAGICTOWN: The Man in the Mist
Posted on Sunday, May 17th, 2009
While on the 4 train, I wanted to poke some boobs. I wasn’t even attracted to the lady.
Posted on Saturday, May 16th, 2009
Every human being is an artist, a freedom being, called to participate in transforming and reshaping the conditions, thinking and structures that shape and inform our lives.
Posted on Friday, May 15th, 2009
Listening to “Stairway to Heaven” on 19th Street
Butterflies wintering in Mexico miss out on this–
Posted on Thursday, May 14th, 2009
the sunlight is going
into the mountain
i will crawl
Posted on Thursday, May 14th, 2009
The Complete Collection of Firewater So Far
Posted on Wednesday, May 13th, 2009
Thursday nights were league nights at Stratford. Nobody had to talk about it at work because it was a given. Show up or your ass is had. The guys would rag your ass Friday if you were a no-show.
Posted on Tuesday, May 12th, 2009
Toward the ends of the city, Brandon finds the beauty in border between civilization and nature.
Posted on Monday, May 11th, 2009
Chapter 2 of MAGICTOWN: The Man in the Mist
Posted on Sunday, May 10th, 2009
Work from David Goodman, a Brooklyn, New York based photographer and filmmaker.
Posted on Saturday, May 9th, 2009
A short meditation on forgetting
Posted on Friday, May 8th, 2009
Listening to “Listening to Otis Redding at Home During Christmas” at Home During Christmas