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2008.08.19: WETWORK
2008.08.18: Filthy Postcard #1
2008.08.11: Realism is for pansies, or, what kind of a Batman movie I'd make.
2008.08.04: Kitchen Oracle
2008.07.27: Street on Fire
2008.07.20: A Meeting of the Minds, with Killer Whale
2008.07.15: Fishfall
2008.07.08: FUTUROPOLIS: Continuity Shock
2008.06.27: Thoughts for the day.
2008.06.22: Breeding pairs
2008.06.17: TAKING NAMES
2008.06.15: The old man blues.
2008.06.08: FUTUROPOLIS: SO THEY SHOT HIM UNTIL HE WAS DEAD.
2008.06.08: "I had a lot of dates but I decided to stay home and dye my eyebrows. " (Andy Warhol)
2008.06.03: The Old Poisoned Water Supply Bit.
2008.06.02: Brief thought, not unlike a review.
2008.05.31: FUTUROPOLIS: Poor little baby doll.
2008.05.28: This week in comics.
2008.05.27: SKYSUMMER.
2008.05.24: Random aside; with sunlight.
2008.05.14: The difference between you and me is that I'm not on fire.
2008.05.13: The Death Mask of Jack Palance. Spooky.
2008.05.12: Parallel blues
2008.05.12: bits.
2008.05.06: I go see this, yes please.
2008.05.04: A walk along Dallas Road.
2008.05.02: FUTUROPOLIS: Welcome to Planet Clusterfuck.
2008.04.29: Pick-me-up uppercut.
2008.04.18: "One day you're going to divorce that man."
2008.04.15: And they'll be dropping blisteringly beautiful epiphany-bombs onto the mind-fields of Alabama by morning, thank you.
2008.04.13: An assortment, curios, moments, assembled thoughts catalogued & numbered for one's convenience.
2008.04.01: Futuropolis: All This Goddamn Film Noir Cakes Upon My Face
2008.03.23: Creature Feature
2008.03.17: Futuropolis: My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground.
2008.03.16: Futuropolis: Galatea waits for morning.
2008.03.10: FUTUROPOLIS: ELECTROCHURCH
2008.03.10: More thinking about the future.
2008.03.03: FUTUROPOLIS: 6-OPTION 5-DIMENSIONAL INTER-SPECIES SEX-SIM & THE SINGLE GIRL.
2008.02.25: See, I didn't have to watch the Academy Awards!
2008.02.24: Asimov's head in a jar
2008.02.21: Hallo, Spaceboy.
2008.02.18: But really, what was I thinking with "Razorblade eyes," anyway?
2008.02.18: More story notes and fruitless wiki-reading.
2008.02.17: Research Notes.
2008.02.17: Candles.
2008.02.13: And cue anarchist librarians chucking flaming romance novels at politicians.
2008.02.11: Interlude with spies.
2008.02.06: Letters home from Futuropolis.
2008.02.05: "More and more of us all the time. I wonder what it means?"
2008.02.05: Eyeball, with eyelid.
2008.02.04: Washed up and stuck in Todayville.
2008.01.31: infinitely late at night.
2008.01.29: "I have a red belt in Martian Kung-Fu." (Zatanna)
2008.01.27: Turn off my robotic brain.
2008.01.24: "Great Jasper! Will the real Metamorpho please stand up?"
2008.01.22: "...Borges began to speak out against then dictator Juan Perón; Perón retaliated by appointing Borges National Poultry Inspector." (Paris Review)
2008.01.21: Restroom Fiction.
2008.01.16: Until the world. Turns. To. Dust.
2008.01.14: Hunter Vessel
2008.01.09: "Gwaaarrr!" (Devil Dinosaur)
2008.01.08: "...he's still the same, but when you start out as a leaky grey sponge in a prosthetic body there isn't much room to deteriorate." (Tom Peyer)
2008.01.07: "That proves nothing! And furthermore, you'd think I could remember a thing like that; plus, who are you anyway?" (H. J. Farnsworth)
2008.01.03: "As rich people, we need weapons to shoot poor people." (Futurama)
2007.12.31: The Zookeeper's Boy.
2007.12.27: Random.
2007.12.23: "Ever wonder what a vegetable thinks about? Firecrackers...bee stings...happy egg faces." (G. Way)
2007.12.21: Trailer for Hellboy 2!
2007.12.19: *gutteral grunts*
2007.12.17: "It's not as if New York City burned down to the ground once you drove away..." (Rilo Kiley)
2007.12.16: Way to screw up the periodic table of elements, man.
2007.12.11: Things going through my head right now.
2007.12.10: "Have you been kissed by a computer / are you able to move your hips?" (Scissor Sisters)
2007.11.22: I'm with the pilots.
2007.11.19: I try to live on science alone.
2007.11.13: This probably means that I'm made of fail...
2007.11.10: Telegram
2007.10.31: No, but wait! Wasn't she already Alexander the Great's mother?
2007.10.30: Toiling away in the mines of obscurity.
2007.10.24: "I love that Ice-T plays cops now. There's a whole generation that knows him as a cop and not the O.G. Cop Killer that wants to Get Buck Naked and Fuck." (Matt Fraction)
2007.10.22: The pitfall of any job action: bad poetry might emerge.
2007.10.15: Monday Night Fiction
2007.10.09: Just a sigh.
2007.10.08: Porn Stars from Beyond, riding surfboards.
2007.10.03: CBC Podlist
2007.09.30: Suede
2007.09.24: Professional Widow.
2007.09.10: Faded Beauty Queens.
2007.09.07: Jimmy Olsen's Blues.
2007.08.26: "You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club." (Jack London)
2007.08.20: A nocturnal emission (with apologies to Mister Tom Waits)
2007.08.19: "Welcome, to the WORLD OF TOMORROW!" (Futurama)
2007.08.14: "She got much much problems. She brings it with her. Earth girls are not easy." (Brandon Graham)
2007.08.12: Your electrons are filthy.
2007.07.31: "Go back to sleep now/ Frank, and I may leave a tiny poem/ in that brain of yours as my farewell." (Frank O'Hara)
2007.07.29: Imogen.
2007.07.25: "She tied you/ to a kitchen chair/ she broke your throne/ she cut your hair..." (Leonard Cohen)
2007.07.15: "They danced the dance of the outcasts for the outcasts who watched them, amid the louring trees, with a blizzard coming on." (Angela Carter)
2007.07.12: "A naked girl smashing eggs. What is the world coming to?" (Paul Pope)
2007.07.10: "By no rocket's blue shade am no shells dead down there, gave no proof all day long that the flag was unwhere!" (Ancient Bizarro Anthem)
2007.07.04: "Like it or not, we will never live in the 20th century again." (Dirk Deppey)
2007.06.28: Three thought-things, giggling.
2007.06.26: Random splutter about a mystery novel.
2007.06.20: "Batman is getting 'borged, I have a giant on my butt with a thundercloud for a brain, and we are about to die by lightning!" (Mark Waid)
2007.06.19: Couple links.
2007.06.17: "Canada is not really a place where you are encouraged to have large spiritual adventures." (Robertson Davies)
2007.06.11: "She decided to go and ask Doris about the nature of affection, but Doris had been put to work on a papier-mache heathen temple and didn't have time to be metaphysical...." (J. Winterson)
2007.06.05: Just when you thought there weren't enough questions in this big, old, spastic world!
2007.06.02: "Robbie the Row-Boat's great crisis of faith came when the coral reef woke up." (Cory Doctorow)
2007.05.28: "And you're welcome to stay, but even your company must compliment the feng shui..." (Gnarls Barkley)
2007.05.27: "E Eats Everything!" (TMBG)
2007.05.20: "Music is my favourite waitress." (CSS)
2007.05.17: Subversion is the better part of valour.
2007.05.13: Confessions of a disorganized paper-eater.
2007.05.09: Wow! The Fear *and* the Loathing, too!
2007.05.06: Will Batgirl save the day?!
2007.05.05: Bang.
2007.05.04: Huzzah! The paranoia!
2007.04.30: Doop.
2007.04.29: Short paragraphs, no direction.
2007.04.17: Kazak, the hound of space!
2007.04.16: "Turn that whiskey into rain...wash it away..." (Tori Amos)
2007.04.11: Some days my life feels like a cover band playing in a bad bar on a Tuesday. Wednesday. Whatever day.
2007.04.09: *grunt*
2007.04.08: How old am I again?
2007.04.03: The Body, shackled and underwater.
2007.04.01: Red Dance.
2007.03.31: Incidental thoughts recorded in polymers.
2007.03.29: I told you before, we can't stop here.
2007.03.27: A startling turn of events.
2007.03.26: Movies.
2007.03.26: Laundry as transgressive commodified sexuality.
2007.03.25: Marie Antoinette.
2007.03.21: Films remembered fondly from childhood: Barbarella.
2007.03.21: Some negatives.
2007.03.19: Stupid, stupid rat creatures.
2007.03.18: "The madness is like soft swamp rain, lifting the dank smell of still water." (P. Milligan)
2007.03.17: phbbt.
2007.03.15: late night cleanse & banish.
2007.03.13: "Human rights evaporate when body-temperature hits 104 degrees." (J. Delano)
2007.03.12: R.I.P. Arnold Drake (1924-2007)
2007.03.12: Monster in a shirt.
2007.03.11: Look at that old grizzly bear.
2007.03.10: Saturday morning indiscretions.
2007.03.08: The Love Rhombus of Steel.
2007.03.08: "The fact that I'm a horrible person is probably the least horrible thing about me." (C.S.)
2007.03.06: Role Model for Healthy Relationship Conflict Resolution.
2007.03.05: "I don't know what was more disturbing - Being dead or the fact that the first man to touch my naked body was the coroner." (Dead Like Me)
2007.03.04: "This isn't a gun. We call this a miracle." (Me)
2007.03.04: Notes from the writing table.
2007.03.03: punk rock Queer Eye monsters
2007.03.01: skin dox. a dox par
2007.02.27: Day off.
2007.02.26: "And in the theatre, I want to change my seat, just so I can step on everybody's feet!" (Eartha Kitt)
2007.02.26: "Lick my lips, kiss my hips, but Contessa!...I already did." (New Pornographers)
2007.02.26: It's Monday morning, children-- time for the existential dread.
2007.02.25: The Passion of New Eve #4
2007.02.24: Passion of the New Eve Notes #3
2007.02.23: Further notes on Passion of the New Eve.
2007.02.22: "Sooner than I would have believed possible, I reached the desert, the abode of enforced sterility, the dehydrated sea of infertility, the post-menopausal part of the earth." (A, Carter)
2007.02.21: Who is the Big Man?
2007.02.20: He started every day with a hard-boiled egg and a femme fatale.
2007.02.20: scraps.
2007.02.18: "I gotta four-leaf clover, it ain't done a single lick of good, I'm still a drunk, I'm still a loser, living in a lousy neighbourhood..." (Old 97's)
2007.02.15: Musical Tarot (prog-rock prognostication?)
2007.02.13: "I'm the end of the world. Please get out of my way."
2007.02.09: I'm a good man.
2007.02.06: "British Columbia, a province, begins on the west coast with a dinner of rain; then it has a few drinks." (Paulette Jiles)
2007.02.05: skin fully regenerated after seven years.
2007.02.04: "This boy's life among the electrical lights..." (The New Pornographers)
2007.02.03: "Let's talk politics! I'm here as the duly-elected representative of the majority of people in this country who don't vote." (G. Morrison)
2007.01.30: "If bearded men can not band together in defiance of the clean-shaven foe, then what hope is there?" (G. Morrison)
2007.01.29: Well, if the narcolepsy doesn't kill me.
2007.01.28: "I think I'll take the Jaguar on the right." (Eartha Kitt)
2007.01.25: banquet
2007.01.24: Transmission 01.24.2007.
2007.01.22: Smackwater Jack bought a shotgun. (or, Dear Muse)
2007.01.21: bing.
2007.01.18: my brain is like leaves, turning brown, cracking, and falling--
2007.01.17: Won't somebody think of the children?
2007.01.17: Edible insects.
2007.01.16: Brief layover in the airport terminal of my brain.
2007.01.15: Huffle.
2007.01.15: Interpersonal relations as dimestore novel.
2007.01.14: "The stars are still out there/ but they're all out of light..." (Magnetic Fields)
2007.01.11: Flushing of bodily systems.
2007.01.11: On my mark, engage the Shirley Bassey Robot Army. Mark!
2007.01.11: I can't feel my toes.
2007.01.09: "I'm the Superman of A,D, 853,500. Your little super-familiar here's spooked because he smells the outer future on me." (G. Morrison)
2007.01.07: Futuristica; Night aboard the Citadel.
2007.01.07: Meh.
2007.01.03: Are you a hypnotist?
2007.01.02: Queen Bitch.
2007.01.02: Okay, maybe I have *one* resolution.
2007.01.01: Dull Senseless New Years Post.
2006.12.29: Green tea blended with raspberry lemonade.
2006.12.28: "You are the ink drawing me..." (Elysian Fields)
2006.12.27: "His books on tape ring true..." (New Pornographers)
2006.12.26: "I want to be evil/ I want to spit tacks..." (Eartha Kitt)
2006.12.25: Arrr!
2006.12.23: Screaming Mimi & The Barbarella Machine.
2006.12.23: Happy Solstice.
2006.12.19: Liquid Swords.
2006.12.19: I always wanted to be a Tenenbaum.
2006.12.18: Jackie, Dressed in Cobras.
2006.12.17: Stunted emotional response, or, E is for Emo.
2006.12.17: Poem.
2006.12.14: It isn't going to end well.
2006.12.12: The Gospel of Writing versus Rewriting.
2006.12.12: They're coming back.
2006.12.10: Why I shouldn't write romantic comedies.
2006.12.07: Brief interlude over the course of a busy day.
2006.12.04: Poet as Sex Object, Part 2.
2006.12.03: The needless sexual objectification of poets.
2006.12.03: Small Digression and a Lapse in Word Count.
2006.12.03: No, wait, wait, that isn't going to work. Scratch that.
2006.12.01: Bum-bum-bum.
2006.11.30: Variations on Thursday.
2006.11.29: Krypton never looked so good.
2006.11.29: "You magnificant bastard!" (Joy)
2006.11.27: "Frida, can't you spare me a dime, I got to give myself one more chance, to ring the band that I know I'm in..." (Scissor Sisters)
2006.11.27: "Littering isn't cool, Gandhi!" (Joan of Arc)
2006.11.27: Winter Wonderland, my ass.
2006.11.26: You don't think I'm going to make this easy for you, did you?
2006.11.25: Yo: Like a zen ocelot over easy.
2006.11.23: "Who but a book-poet would dishonour the God-big Finn for the sake of a gap-worded story?" (Flann O'Brien)
2006.11.20: "There is a crack in everything." (L. Cohen)
2006.11.19: "Cheat your landlord if you can and must, but do not try to shortchange the Muse. It cannot be done. You can't fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal." (William S. Burroughs)
2006.11.19: Back in the saddle again.
2006.11.17: The high probability of an impossible feat.
2006.11.16: writing round problem.
2006.11.14: Well, no, my head hasn't literally "opened up," but I'm certainly feeling volcanic, as it were.
2006.11.14: "Gardening is not a rational act." (Margaret Atwood)
2006.11.13: Productivity of angels.
2006.11.12: This one's for Joy.
2006.11.12: Mutant Massacre.
2006.11.09: "My life becomes more like Star Trek every day."
2006.11.06: "How could I have been so wrong, it was Earth all along..."
2006.11.06: The ineffable, swaying, swamp monster.
2006.11.05: "Then read me the list, of the crimes that are mine..." (L. Cohen)
2006.11.05: Remember, remember, the Fifth of November.
2006.11.02: Experimental apparatus lowered into the chest cavity.
2006.10.31: Firing another one into the mists.
2006.10.30: "This is my friend Milton. I bought him at the florists in Brasilia Airport. He wanted me to liberate all his little friends..." (Neil Gaiman)
2006.10.27: "...tell me I didn't fall for the sidekick-turns-bad twist...lucky I'm not already crippled with self-doubt, huh?" (Grant Morrison)
2006.10.26: "Wow. If we get to give parallel Earths names, this needs to be Earth Toilet-on-Fire." (Warren Ellis)
2006.10.24: "Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God." (Kurt Vonnegut)
2006.10.23: "Anyone who shoots a real gun at you when drunk and angry is simply not husband material, regardless of his taste in literature." (James Tiptree, Junior)
2006.10.22: The words "blood" and "rivulets" must not be seen within twenty pages of each other at all times.
2006.10.19: "This is a great look for you. And lighten up-- it's all superficial damage. No permanent scarring." (Matt Fraction)
2006.10.19: Further points made before eating.
2006.10.19: sound of rain and traffic jams.
2006.10.17: "Madmen say the meek shall inherit the Earth. Has that awful day come at last?" (Grant Morrison)
2006.10.16: One Man Action Campaign!
2006.10.15: Goddamned Computer Tyrants, or, why I ain't no good with modernistic techno whatsits
2006.10.12: "Because you're mine, I walk the line." (Johnny Cash)
2006.10.09: Imagine Andre Breton writing love letters to Guy Fawkes beyond the grave.
2006.10.07: aside to the audience
2006.10.05: I can't imagine what therapy bills were like on Krypton.
2006.10.03: A collection of points, catalogued, possibly psychotic (see: the madness of writers)
2006.10.02: Paint by Numbers.
2006.10.01: Superman 4, Legion of Super-Heroes 0.
2006.09.29: And the open, slackened mouth reveals a second, smaller mouth coming toward you.
2006.09.28: And (one by one) the lights winked off.
2006.09.27: Regarding the island and its erstwhile inhabitants.
2006.09.26: Yes: I'm having a literary crisis.
2006.09.25: What she said.
2006.09.24: Whatever Lola wants.
2006.09.19: The Swedish Chef as Master Inquisitor - how long until it burns?
2006.09.18: There's a United Nations in my brain, and its a hardcore one.
2006.09.17: Little Girl Blues.
2006.09.14: Sigh.
2006.09.14: "I called Superman an asshole once, but I don't think he heard me..." (G. Morrison)
2006.09.12: "I couldn't think of one clever way to stop this guy, so I just trusted to mindless violence." (G. Morrison)
2006.09.11: We can build him better, stronger, faster.
2006.09.08: "...feel the beat from the tambourine...oh GOD...I mean, oh yeah..."
2006.09.04: madd typewriter goal scoring
2006.09.04: Three sentences and you're out.
2006.09.01: "You fell in love with a boy? That's silly!"
2006.08.31: "Look at you! You write like a poet but you move like a landslide." (Grant Morrison)
2006.08.29: particle physics for intermediate trombone.
2006.08.27: I thought I could organize freedom; how Scandanavian of me.
2006.08.24: There are too many gardening metaphors.
2006.08.22: I don't have a problem, twitch-twitch.
2006.08.22: #47, the nape of the neck.
2006.08.18: "Don't try to impress me with your English counting. You know I growed up in a trailer park." (W. Ellis)
2006.08.16: "No virgin me, for I have sinned, sold my soul, for the sex & gin..." (Chumbawamba)
2006.08.16: "He's just a hero, in a long line of heroes, looking for something attractive to save..." (Liz Phair)
2006.08.13: "I got up to wash my face, when I come back to bed someone's taken my place..." (Simon & Garfunkel)
2006.08.10: The hubris of girls in bathtubs.
2006.08.09: Late night aside to the audience.
2006.08.07: To warm up the fingers.
2006.08.07: Dear Universe,
2006.08.07: Spelunking the wiki-world
2006.08.07: Look, it's half past midnight and we can't all play the self-esteem bumper car game.
2006.08.06: "Character is that sum total of moments we can't explain." (George Saunders)
2006.08.05: "The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words." (Philip K. Dick)
2006.08.03: Batwomen, Batgirls, & Catwomen
2006.08.01: a reasonable aside to the audience; the cookery of eggery; Ubik's Rubes.
2006.07.30: Mostly a lot of time was spent in transit between kitchen and patio.
2006.07.27: Indeed, yes, quite.
2006.07.26: "Machines have less problems. I'd like to be a machine, wouldn't you?" (Andy Warhol)
2006.07.23: Dissolved Girl.
2006.07.21: Heat bad. Make brain go crazy. Story ideas continue, unabated.
2006.07.20: galloping ghazals and gazelles and galumps...
2006.07.18: "I steal children and put them in pies for evil mothers to eat." (Olga Tannen)
2006.07.16: "According to Mister Gung, our new representative from the Paleolithic era..." (Screw-On Head)
2006.07.13: Dear Superman.
2006.07.13: Fish suspended mid-air against a white background.
2006.07.12: You & me & our waste products.
2006.07.09: Operational procedures for function in a perpendicular universe.
2006.07.06: spyblogging: "They expect celebrities to do EVERYTHING for them."
2006.07.06: There isn't enough lube in the world for this mission.
2006.07.06: Superman linkblogging.
2006.07.05: oh dear god.
2006.07.03: ah, ah, ah, oh, ah, ah, ah, oh.
2006.07.03: ah, ah, ah, oh, ah, ah, ah, oh.
2006.07.03: In other words: the state of the union.
2006.07.02: Sun-sick and potentially radioactive, or, a list of peculiar things.
2006.06.28: Zatanna wants your attention.
2006.06.26: The question of first drafts.
2006.06.25: poetry-bullets.
2006.06.21: "Have you ever heard the word 'haiku' so many times in one elevator conversation?" (G. Morrison)
2006.06.21: You said something.
2006.06.21: God is in your typewriter.
2006.06.20: Sooner or later, something had to give.
2006.06.20: Marilyn Monroe DEMANDS that I blog about comic books--
2006.06.18: "Well, as I explained, a whole rat colony like this working together can assemble a jet engine from spare parts in 48 hours." (Grant Morrison)
2006.06.16: Your beauty must be rubbing off.
2006.06.15: Comma karma coma, Jamaica and Roma--
2006.06.13: "He cried out to me: why not ask for more?" (L. Cohen)
2006.06.12: Chariot of the Gods.
2006.06.11: "One has to commit a painting the way one commits a crime." (Degas)
2006.06.10: "The smell of barber shops makes me sob out loud." (Pablo Neruda)
2006.06.08: "Is this how you spend your time now, Captain Chernomor? Commissioning bad rhymes about your own fabricated exploits?" (Bill Willingham)
2006.06.06: Witch-Boys & Witch-Girls.
2006.06.04: Ydal a eb kcul.
2006.06.04: The super-women are all right.
2006.06.02: ruminations; melancholy writer's block wankery; to blog or not to blog; the up-ended question.
2006.06.01: Good Girl / Good Boy.
2006.05.31: Positionary Mission.
2006.05.30: E(y/n)tymology? (Y/N)
2006.05.29: for consideration: assholes in pubs; the money esophagus; a terrible ending.
2006.05.28: For consideration: distaste for orange juice; conflicting elements; the state of the union of this marriage.
2006.05.26: "I saw his face/ I dropped my coffee/ he's cheating on me/ with a Hoochie Woman..." (Tori Amos)
2006.05.25: the biochemistry of idiots; the criminal callousness of some people.
2006.05.24: "Back in 1957, we had to dance a foot apart..." (Joni Mitchell)
2006.05.23: new excuse to buy pencil crayons; dead & Loving it.
2006.05.22: Sharon Stone.
2006.05.22: Reconstruction & smutty comic book links.
2006.05.22: "I don't care if Monday's blue." (The Cure)
2006.05.21: rotating wheels; the potential acquisition of property; the storage shed
2006.05.19: Unexpectedly.
2006.05.19: "Fish in the sea, you know how I feel..." (Nina Simone)
2006.05.18: I came back a ... changing man.
2006.05.18: There's no riddle.
2006.05.17: POEM: Flush Fatale
2006.05.17: This is why I love comic books.
2006.05.16: "I went to work and all the office girls/ were burning their poetry/ it wasn't good..." (T. Amos)
2006.05.16: The beard.
2006.05.14: Return trip to Paradise from Paradise.
2006.05.14: bug in rigor mortis
2006.05.12: laundromatic dramas.
2006.05.11: The hunter returns, smelling of solvents and wiping his mouth clean.
2006.05.10: this is the sound of Ben falling off his chair.
2006.05.10: You, sir, are a revolving door. Good day.
2006.05.08: "Open, please, your body up to my man-of-war...meta-language traffic jam, cunnilingus kissogram, isn't this what messages are for?" (Bran Van 3000)
2006.05.08: "Imagine I'm the king of Spain/ imagine I'm a weapon in your sheath..." (Bran Van 3000)
2006.05.05: a certain bullet which, when placed on the tongue, induces visions.
2006.05.04: brolliology 1.
2006.05.03: "The magician's underwear has just been found in a cardboard briefcase in a stagnant pond on the outskirts of Miami." (Tom Robbins)
2006.05.02: What?
2006.05.02: "I stormed the old casino/ for the money and for the flesh..." (L. Cohen)
2006.05.01: "...I think we could have the ebonic plague solution, lay some mucho lexiconic seed and in nine months we could raise the revolution..." (Esthero)
2006.04.27: "I already know you're having an affair with words, but boo, I'm married to it...my vocabulary leaves most men wary..." (Esthero)
2006.04.27: "...better keep an eye on your boys and lock them up tight..." (Esthero)
2006.04.26: For consideration: urban piracy; the sounds of machinery; the unfettered sleeves of laundromatical poesy.
2006.04.25: "These 'disguises' make us look like those politically correct, ethnically diverse gangs that only rob people on bad TV shows." (Brian K. Vaughan)
2006.04.24: I wonder...
2006.04.23: an zen of cohens; runaways; "sexy zombies"
2006.04.22: snags.
2006.04.18: "And she looks so beautiful in her armour..." (K. Bush)
2006.04.17: "Because that's what he feels like now. A strange girl." (Peter Milligan)
2006.04.17: For consideration: futurist criminology, governmnental regulation, terrorism poetica.
2006.04.17: Mass transit, Agent 900: in other words, urban paranoia.
2006.04.13: An example of neighbourhood anarchy, or, the Missionary Hansel.
2006.04.12: Saliva & wine bottles; a digression into bad poetry at 11:55pm; over-use of italics; the dangerous first draft.
2006.04.10: '...but you couldn't carry his balls in a paper bag..." (C. Bukowski)
2006.04.09: "If I needed to be patronized by someone I respect, I'd teach a goat to talk. Can you get me one?" (M. Waid)
2006.04.06: "No, his boyfriend's the shape-shifter. He's the warlock." (A. Heinberg)
2006.04.03: "A sentence need not have a noun." (Gertrude Stein)
2006.04.02: "Ah, but a revolution without dancing is not a revolution worth having." (V)
2006.03.29: "I can't smell the trees in Canada. I can't see all that gorgeous radio anymore...the stars have stopped singing like they used to." (G. Morrison)
2006.03.27: "Your vision is right. My vision is wrong. I'm sorry for smudging the air with my song." (L. Cohen)
2006.03.26: Corner pocket.
2006.03.26: Andromeda chained the rocks; the persistence of vision; a broken down cart in the middle of the road.
2006.03.23: "Oh, and nothing can be done..." (Joni Mitchell)
2006.03.22: "We look like supermodels/ in fashionable dresses..." (Pay TV)
2006.03.21: sex and the church.
2006.03.21: She much preferred a downward jig.
2006.03.20: "How long will this reign of masochism continue?" (K. Acker)
2006.03.19: "O Sinnerman, where you gonna run to?" (N. Simone)
2006.03.19: He opened the door; the spiral door; the door that was a stair.
2006.03.16: "From the homicidal bitchin'/ that goes down in ever kitchen/ to determine who will serve and who will eat..." (L. Cohen)
2006.03.15: Is now a good time?
2006.03.14: I was expecting chocolate.
2006.03.13: "They say he sprung from the skull of Athena/ think about your own head & the headache he gave..." (L. Phair)
2006.03.12: "He's just a hero, in a long line of heroes, looking for something attractive to save..." (L. Phair)
2006.03.08: "Every time I see your face, I get all wet between my legs..." (Liz Phair)
2006.03.08: Forget the postmodern! Welcome to James Bond Land.
2006.03.06: "I used to hate writing assignments, but now I enjoy them. I realized that the purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure poor reasoning, and inhibit clarity. With a little practice, writing can be an intimidating and impenetrable fog!"
2006.03.06: "Gravity cannot be held responsible for people falling in love." (A. Einstein)
2006.03.03: Thinking too much.
2006.03.02: "Five years I buy gas from him and Slurpees never grew on trees until I bring the redhead in." (Ivan E. Coyote)
2006.03.01: "...until my middle name was Excess...." (PJ Harvey)
2006.02.27: Moses on the mountain; God needs a personal ad.
2006.02.26: Don Juan's Reckless Daughter.
2006.02.26: "Fuck the bank I work for, fuck the baaaank..." (Kids in the Hall)
2006.02.24: "Said the Homophobe skeleton/ Gay folk suck..." (A. Ginsberg)
2006.02.23: "Can we actually 'know' the universe? My God, it's hard enough finding your way around in Chinatown." (W. Allen)
2006.02.23: Short film link.
2006.02.23: A small crisis of paperclips.
2006.02.22: "Oh, my God! I'm victimizing my lack of victimhood!" (J. Waller)
2006.02.22: The Whip.
2006.02.20: "This is where the fun really starts." (G. Morrison)
2006.02.17: "Look at those buggers that are looting the crash site..." (H. Workman)
2006.02.16: "Yeah yeah, like I said, you are really fit but my gosh, don't you just know it..." (The Streets)
2006.02.15: "Dkrtzy Rrr, on the other hand, does attend meetings. But since he is an abstract mathematical progression, only the Guardians notice his presence." (A. Moore)
2006.02.14: The Unbearable Lightness of Sitting.
2006.02.14: Slumming at the moon bar.
2006.02.13: Like is not the same as equal -- A Wrinkle in Time.
2006.02.12: Well, well, well.
2006.02.10: "I lay my weapon's down, with my pistol fully loaded, a haunted man to my root..." (T. Amos)
2006.02.08: "Infinity is present in each part. A loving smile contains all art. The motes of starlight spark and dart. A grain of sand holds power and might." (M. L'Engle)
2006.02.07: Postcards smuggled out of the Republic of Giraffes.
2006.02.06: "Three be the things I shall never attain: envy, content and sufficient champagne." (Dorothy Parker)
2006.02.05: The armada of umbrellas is lost. Off course. Last spotted in Nepal.
2006.02.03: "Does the Emperor wear no clothes? Or are you simply imagining him naked?" (W. Ellis)
2006.02.02: "I became a poet at the age of sixteen. I did not intend to do it. It was not my fault." (M. Atwood)
2006.02.02: The question of.
2006.02.02: Thoughts.
2006.02.02: "Hey baby, wanna kill all humans?" (Bender)
2006.01.31: "But that just raises further questions!" (Futurama)
2006.01.31: There's pretty much nowhere else to run.
2006.01.29: It was relentless, this marching procession of dead men.
2006.01.27: "Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music." (Nina Simone)
2006.01.26: One by one, the pieces are erased.
2006.01.26: Worked into a frenzy, Beryl at last unhinged the refridgerator door.
2006.01.25: Yes, yes I am.
2006.01.25: I feel like linkblogging.
2006.01.25: I'm maybe not a people person today.
2006.01.24: "You've been had, dad! Seeing's not believing and no one hoaxes the Hoaxer! Least of all you." (G. Morrison)
2006.01.24: interlude, bagels, apartment.
2006.01.22: "Saturday wait, and Sunday always comes too late, but Friday never hesitate..." (The Cure)
2006.01.22: Well. Thank you. & come again?
2006.01.20: "Okay, I'll go along with this but there had better be a devastating punchline." (G. Morrison)
2006.01.20: The Terrible Truth is Before You.
2006.01.18: "You think that's bad? Try being an imaginary sheep. Credit card applications are a pain." (K. S. Fuhr)
2006.01.17: "Good people drink good beer." (H. S. Thompson)
2006.01.16: "You know, Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocketship underpants don't help." (B. Watterson)
2006.01.16: "I hate to think that all my current experiences will someday become stories with no point." (B. Watterson)
2006.01.16: "My skin is tan/ my hair is fine/ my hips invite you/ my lips like wine..." (N. Simone)
2006.01.15: Interlude, with Batgirl.
2006.01.12: "I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy." (Tom Waits)
2006.01.12: "The Botticelli black boy/ with the fushias in his hair/ is breathing in women like oxygen/ on the Spanish stairs..." (J. Mitchell)
2006.01.11: "I never thought I'd say this but you were ... better than your husband. You're not still upset about that, are you?" (C. Sigal/J. Taymor)
2006.01.11: "Dear limbs adverbial, complexion of adjective,/ dimple and dip of conjugation!" (A. M. Klein)
2006.01.10: Dashed off postcards.
2006.01.09: "Oh, I'm a lonely painter, I live in a box of paints..." (J. Mitchell)
2006.01.09: "I got the Anti-Christ in the kitchen yellin' at me again..." (T. Amos)
2006.01.08: "There were eyes, tens of thousands of eyes, in different times and places all converging on me." (G. Morrison)
2006.01.08: "He looks better in red." (J. Whedon)
2006.01.08: "Noah's ark is a problem. We'll have to call it 'early quantum state phenomenon.' Only way to fit five thousand species on a boat." (J. Whedon)
2006.01.06: "Himself he has his moods, just like a poet." (A. M. Klein)
2006.01.05: Four fortunes, courtesy of the East Garden Chinese Restaurant.
2006.01.05: I'm not ready for an institution.
2006.01.04: Ha!
2006.01.04: Psychogeography.
2006.01.03: "Perhaps it�s your outlook that need a good bend, a ninety degree bend to a place where happiness is perpendicular to wonderment." (H. J. Farnsworth)
2006.01.02: "Birds flying high, you know it feels, sun in the sky, you know how it feels, leaves drifting on by, you know how it feels..." (N. Simone)
2005.12.30: "Everything must go," a, cough, poem.
2005.12.30: "And among the willow trees:/ water/ before water made up its mind/ to be water." (C. Simic)
2005.12.29: "The Nancy Boys," fragment #4 - "...she was the one who wore the fedora in the relationship..."
2005.12.27: "Boy I think you're confused/ I'm not Persephone/ She's in New York somewhere/ checking her accounts..." (T. Amos)
2005.12.27: And now, with avocado.
2005.12.26: "Ready for the action now, danger boy?" (�on Flux)
2005.12.25: Yearly Sleigh-ride ends in International Incident.
2005.12.23: "I Fell Into A Burning Ring Of Fire / I Went Down, Down, Down/ And The Flames Went Higher..." (J. Cash)
2005.12.23: Broken down studebaker on the side of the road.
2005.12.21: "This was the first time I felt it; reality cocking its fucked up gun." (Dead Like Me)
2005.12.20: "You do not do, you do not do/ Anymore, black shoe/ In which I have lived like a foot/ for thirty years, poor and white..." (S. Plath)
2005.12.20: "And then they were upon her." (S. Jackson)
2005.12.19: "In the end, won't death/ be an endless kitchen?" (P. Neruda)
2005.12.18: Ha? Ha? Ha? Ha? Ha?
2005.12.16: POEM: Grendel's Lover
2005.12.15: "you and I are not snobs. We can never be born enough." (e.e. cummings)
2005.12.14: "If you're sad, and you like beer, I'm your lady." (G. Maddin)
2005.12.14: "I can't believe life's so complex, when I just wanna sit here and watch you undress..." (PJ Harvey)
2005.12.13: Lois Lane does Metropolis.
2005.12.13: "The typewriter is overheated, my mouth is burning, I cannot touch you and this is the oppressor's language." (A. Rich)
2005.12.13: "But I don't think I respect coloured pencils very much." (Dana)
2005.12.11: "I conclude! I conclude!/ My dearest dust, I can't stay here." (T. Roethke)
2005.12.11: "Where do these go, these knick-knacks I forgot?/ --Gadgets we bought and kept, thinking perhaps/ They might be useful some day, and a lot/ Of others that were not: Bent key, Italian grammars, Mickey Mouse caps." (Thom Gunn)
2005.12.11: the end of boil.
2005.12.10: The curious incident of--
2005.12.09: And then you step off the boat, remembering at the last second that you don't remember how to walk on water--
2005.12.08: Hairline fracture in the elusive Townhouse #6.
2005.12.06: I left open a hole in the wall, and my collection of one thousand brass angels escaped through it.
2005.12.06: "On the back of a cartoon coaster, in the blue TV screen light, I drew a map of Canada - OH Canada, oh - with your face sketched on it, twice." (J. Mitchell)
2005.12.06: "Somebody shake-shake-shake me sane 'cause I am inching ever closer to the tip of this scorpion's tail..." (T. Amos)
2005.12.06: "As a brood of supplements and specials may lurch from the inky loins of a Sunday newspaper, so are there many answers to every question..." (P. Milligan)
2005.12.03: "Is 4 the same 4 everybody?/ Are all sevens equal?" (P. Neruda)
2005.12.02: "Will Czechoslovakians or turtles/ be born from your ashes?" (P. Neruda)
2005.12.01: Stupid, stupid, stupid day.
2005.12.01: The Plumber's Knock
2005.11.30: "...in a bar that faces a giant car-wash..." (S. Crow)
2005.11.30: "I like a good beer buzz early in the morning, and Billy likes to peel his bottles of Bud..." (S. Crow)
2005.11.29: Quick thought on B&P.
2005.11.27: FICTION: The Pornocaplyse.
2005.11.27: My atoms distressed, my photons undressed.
2005.11.26: What have I been saying?
2005.11.25: Bing.
2005.11.25: "And I build a castle from a single grain of sand, and I can make a ship sail on dry land..." (Temptations)
2005.11.25: I was meant for the stage, remix.
2005.11.23: The story is.
2005.11.23: "Quickly! Haven't either of you noticed the footprints on the ceiling?" (G. Morrison)
2005.11.22: "I think it's a bit fascist, the way some people go around being honest with everyone. It's my democratic right as an American citizen to live with a few comfortable lies, and I like to extend that right to my friends." (P. Milligan)
2005.11.22: "Don't you see how useless we would be in a natural disaster? Throwing orange juice on our problems?" (J. Waller)
2005.11.20: "On the run from Johnny Law...ain't no trip to Cleveland." (W. Anderson & O. Wilson)
2005.11.20: "I won't do too much scheming these days..." (Nico)
2005.11.18: Notes from a concubine.
2005.11.15: "If I coud find a real-life place that made me feel like Tiffany's, then I'd buy some furniture and give the cat a name." (T. Capote)
2005.11.14: "But this just raises further questions!" (Futurama)
2005.11.13: Fiction: "The Secret Acrobat."
2005.11.12: Misuse or defacement.
2005.11.11: "You let me violate you, you let me desecrate you, you let me penetrate you, you let me complicate you...help me...I broke apart my insides...help me...I've got no soul to sell..." (T. Reznor)
2005.11.10: Reason #1 why I should never actually try to catch a bus:
2005.11.09: "Birthdays wouldn't be birthdays without confusion." (T. Smedbol)
2005.11.07: "Yes, I'll admit that I'm a fool for you, because you're mine, I walk the line..." (J. Cash)
2005.11.06: The detectives clamber into the room with feet full of lead and kneecaps like chicken broth. Yes.
2005.11.06: aaa