One thing that I really did notice on our way out of Burbank was the shadow of my airplane against the ground below. By the time we…
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My grandfather died in May; my grandmother is in no condition to travel. These are the maternal g.p.s; the paternal ones are long gone; my mom never even met my dad’s mom. My sister’s…
SF Gate has published this list of celeblogs - just so you can check out billy or gene and confirm that nagging…
Alright my friends, I am writing with somewhat tragic news - my old comment server is floating upside-down at the top of the fishtank and I’ve had to transfer my patronage to Netcomments - old…
Yesterday we went to Santa Cruz to visit Sara and Greg and see some cool glass art and have a delicious and enormous home-made sushi…
Kel was telling me on the way home last night about someone of her acquaintence who has glass eyes - she’d gone blind early in life and her useless darkened eyes were causing her discomfort and…
yesterday morning we were walking the dog through the rose garden in the park - it’s near our home, we see it as an extension…
I’m downstairs doing laundry and there’s this shirt hanging near the machines, it’s gotta be from my landlady’s family. It’s longsleeved and white cotton with bright…
HOW CAN THIS BE? I CHANGED MY COMMENTS SERVER TO MAKE THIS WORK. THE NEW ONE IS DOWN NOW. WHY DOES GOD PUNISH ME LIKE THIS? WHY MUST MY LIFE BE TURNED…
In honor of sf sourdo’h I’ve bumped my pixel size - for your reading ease and comfort....
why am I so stressed about the comments - or lack thereof? Simple answer: my essential, inherent conceit, my belief that what I do is not as important as who’s watching me do it - and their…
why i write
mostly I want the things I do
to be means unto ends
and I shape my actions to my goals
through a myopic lens
my studies, sacrifices, dreams
are…
We ordered the chair. But it’s so much more than that.
Just a little before my birthday this year I got home from work on a standard issue wednesday to find a 9 x 5 business yellow…
You gotta enjoy the good times when they happen… most everybody piled off the 38BX at the first downtown stop; I was almost alone near the back of the bus with the two cute young women who’d…
more muni madness: I’m riding the bus and they’re advertising “collector’s edition” muni passes. Out of desparation borne of boredom I’m reading the copy and…
Life’s a game
and I’m the puck
comments are back
so what the fuck
nothing’s different
nothing’s changed
this whole thing
is quite…
unngh.... Lorna got back from 3 weeks in Hawaii and brought me a box of candy - ToffeeMacs, which are little square lozenges of milk chocolate-enrobed crunchy toffee with macadamia nurts. Eighteen…
What some people fry these days… it’s a pity they can’t just consume each other, they’d…
vignette
She sat with her arm in the clumsy black cuff, slumping sullenly in the contours of the molded plastic chair in the pharmacy aisle of the overgrown grocery store. Her legs, giftwrapped…
Just finished reading a favorite old book again… in the market for the next huge tome that will occupy my thinking…
Last time I went down to LA I sat next to a guy about my age (late 30s) who was dressed to impress - nice summer suit, expensive haircut, tidy cuticles… I was a bit more shlumpy but projected…
walking to the office today I was moving pretty quick - no reason to dawdle - and blew past someone whom I pass almost every day. She’s a shorter, older woman, kinda heavy, nicely dressed;…
I heard a story not long ago about a girl in elementary school who developed a bruise on her forehead. Over a few days it became larger, darker, more noticeable. It began to sag a bit, but…
it was the hardest thing I’d ever said
and the words just fell
out of my mouth
they lay on the floor
between our four feet
looking for a place to hide
…
I sit at the open window. The September sun beats unblinkingly of the buildings across the street. My black t-shirt amplifies the radiance. Shadows seem to sizzle.
Across…
Twenty of the things that make, or in the past have made, me sad (explanations omitted) (random order):
20. The buttons you push to make the traffic signal read “walk.”
19.…
But it does remind me…
I’d been driving the Mazda for seven years; my dad had bought it new and gave it to me when he upgraded and the old civic hatchback he’d made me buy…
my sack is snowy
with the ashes of cigarettes
that other people smoke
while I watch
my jacket is perfumed
with their fragrant exhalations
and I wonder how I…
I think she said her name was Athena. She sat down and introduced herself, friendly and buxom and tanned, and she told us she was freaked out - on account of her boyfriend, who’d just gone…