I keep seeing increasing frail old people in athletic gear… this morning I saw an old Chinese man in nike from head to toe, from his jaunty swoosh cap to the matching sweat suit to the hi-tech…

she told me she ran a mile as fast as she could, and the next day her lungs still hurt.  I told her about riding up the canyon on my bike, pushing with everything I had so that once I reached the…

Update on the RECIPIE CORNER: Last night we had pasta with anchovies and hazelnuts in a garlic-oil sauce; it was brilliant and filling but you gotta get the good anchovies.  Kel had chocolate banana…

The most physically isolated I’ve ever been, I think, was at the top of Donahue pass in the middle of a four-day hike from Mammoth into Yosemite’s Tuolome Valley.  We only saw two or…

doing lines of the fine powder…

keep your goddamn hands and arms inside the freaking tram at all times...

Been damn busy today - but not too busy to unload another poem: this one I wrote in high school while I was working at a department store (I actually wrote it on the back of a piece of cash register…

Isn’t anything funny on TV?
How come nobody ever visits me?
Got nothing nice to say, and I say it anyway
I like to complain

Got tired of living in the city
…

He pronounces the “ron” in “iron” and the “w” in “two”....

Today I scored a “freak-off” - I was sitting as usual next to an empty seat and I saw his eyes widen as he hove himself onto the bus.  He was ready to nuzzle up to me and make me crazy…

ratify
gratify
satisfy

I used to think - get this - that the hyoid bone was the only bone that didn’t touch the other bones.  Now I wonder - does the patella…

ode to subordination:

Can’t you see we’re walking backwards
just to pave your path with petals?
Don’t you know we’d kill each other
if we thought…

what a complex and distracting day - nothing to show for it either, so let’s toss this one to the studio audience.  THE MOST DISGUSTING THING I EVER ACTUALLY REALLY ATE, ON PURPOSE AND KNOWING…

so it’s come to this - a man can’t even go into a pub…

We hear only the questions to which we are capable of finding an answer.  Neitzche
The phrase “finding your voice” is misleading because it suggests that your voice is lost out…

seduction is the difficult made easy - or attainable…

the joy a leopard has in running a human should have in conversation

--There once was a person whom you don’t know.  This person shall never be known to you and for that matter to any friends of yours.
--Yeah, I know the guy you’re talking about……

maybe its not just me fixated on zombies...:

The cool thing was I got back to my desk after two hours of bargaining team caucuses and presentations on insurance options, and my head was all full of flaky dried brain cells, and there was an email…

It’s true but not too true - Chuckles is back from the Ancient West, where he performed traditional shopping and gaping rituals, visited nature’s most impressive crack, and celebrated himself…

I couldn’t help noticing the big sign at the edge of the Grand Canyon for people who wanted to pray; it said “Rim Worship Facilities 500 feet”.  Wouldn’t that be cheerful…

here’s a bit of the good stuff:
Before you condemn this eminent freak
as an outrage upon mankind,
reflect: something there is in him
that must forever seek

…

The thing that got me
about being up there
wasn’t the forest
where the trees seemed to shrink
and retreat from each other
it wasn’t the clouds
that…

RECIPEE CORNER: Return from the Center of…
So now FIGS are on the market again; they’re so sweet and sexy you should all buy lots and eat them in orgiastic bacchanals of fruitloving. …

I’ll be back on friday with my nurts in a sling… hope to get a chance to feed you all some cool links in the foregoing and suchlike but now it’s time to put it to sleep - cuz it’s…

That was a pretty cool trip to LA.  We stayed at a very funky hotel and I got to eat my favorite life-shortening breakfast at my favorite diner…

come see the darker side of sears....

you know, a guy can think, hey I’m hot shit, I can write poetry and cook figs and all this great stuff, I’m so special, and then you find a message like this scratched into the paint on…