He got a girlfriend late last year, and then I went away for the summer and only gave my parents and everyone around me a week’s notice, confirming to the world or at least to him and a few others my eternal flakiness, my unfathomability, which if I were younger, richer or more famous could [...]
Archive for October, 2008
David and me
Posted in People and me on October 27, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Chalk-line provocations
Posted in Uncategorized on October 23, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Imagine there’s no countries? John Lennon’s youngish but ageing hand rises up, his long-haired ideas swirling once more. The pic of him curled up naked around Yoko was a clever photograph, probably representative of many relationships where one person loves the other more and is nakedly dependent on him/her while the other half stares out [...]
Friday
Posted in Uncategorized on October 20, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I was in my car, my small white thing that is maybe a few years away from death but for the current years serves me well enough, though it would subsequently refuse to yield to my will the next day. It was early in the morning, there was a painless sun out, an October sun [...]
An adage for our times
Posted in Uncategorized on October 16, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Adage against money from yesteryear (circa Native American times): “Only after the last tree has been cut down, only after the last river has been poisoned, only after the last fish has been caught, only then will you find that money cannot be eaten.”
Adage against money from today (circa 1993): “Try as she might, Demi [...]
Protected: But how can you say such things?
Posted in Uncategorized on October 13, 2008 | Enter your password to view comments
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Morriña
Posted in Uncategorized on October 9, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Morriña, a beautiful Galician-Spanish word that describes a state of sadness, of longing for what is lost or will never be. It is called saudade in Portuguese, a word that has a surprisingly expansive Wikipedia entry (in English) on the subject of sadness and longing – seriously, have a look. Saudade was listed by the [...]
Magic defeats Wall Street
Posted in Uncategorized on October 6, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Yeah sure, if the financial world falls then the jobs disappear, we lose our chance at having money and consequently freedom but… but, did anyone else feel their heart rejoice at least a tad that the all-knowing money changers bit the dust? Goddammit, the part of us that feels has been copping defeat after defeat [...]
