Archives
- 2009.02.10: Filty Postcard #8 -- "The Voices are not in your head."
- 2009.02.10: Flash Fiction: Plaza of the Dolls, or, BARBARELLA scarred me as a small boy more than I let on.
- 2009.02.03: All the Little Czars & Czarinas
- 2009.01.17: Filthy Postcard #7 -- "I say Bye-Bye."
- 2008.12.24: Filthy Postcard #6 -- "Street nihilists."
- 2008.12.09: It's all biohazards down here.
- 2008.12.07: 3-69 -- "Street Performances."
- 2008.12.05: Filthy Postcard #5 -- "O, the Weather inside is Frightful!"
- 2008.12.05: Filthy Postcard #4 -- "Space Trash."
- 2008.12.03: Filthy Postcard #3 -- "Two-Fisted Entomologist."
- 2008.10.25: Flash Fiction Saturday: Sarah in the Wheat.
- 2008.10.16: Late Night Phone Booth Conversation. Approach with understanding and caution.
- 2008.09.29: Filthy Postcard #2 -- "Most babies are born perfectly normal, of course."
- 2008.09.28: FUTUROPOLIS: THE UP HIGH GOODBYE.
- 2008.09.17: "Night on the Compost Heap."
- 2008.09.12: Flash Fiction Friday: Phone System World.
- 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?" (Æon 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
- 2005.11.05: Isobel.
- 2005.11.04: Slouching? Bethlehem? Slouching!
- 2005.11.03: Lying face down in a fountain somewhere in Paris, he awoke with a start and realized he was drowning. Egad.
- 2005.11.03: One step forward, infinite steps backward. Really.
- 2005.11.02: "Hey boy, take a look at me...let me dirty up your mind..." (S. Manson)
- 2005.11.01: An incomplete appendix of various names applied to self - within and without.
- 2005.11.01: A Longing of Desires
- 2005.11.01: "And I'd like to find a way to enjoy the rain and smoking at the same time." (J. Loeb)
- 2005.10.31: "This remind Bizarro of Philadelphia Story, starring a young Katharine Hepburn." (C. Duffy)
- 2005.10.31: "Great Caesar's Ghost!"
- 2005.10.30: To be delivered by Pony Express.
- 2005.10.30: "Don't be nice to Ali. He's my nemesis." (W. Anderson)
- 2005.10.30: "Girlfriend in a coma, I know, I know, it's really serious..." (The Smiths)
- 2005.10.30: the cure? wild mood swings.
- 2005.10.28: Meh.
- 2005.10.27: New Acquisitions Form.
- 2005.10.27: "Oh no! That water must have contained epsom salts -- my robot body's sole weakness!" (M. Allred)
- 2005.10.27: "I just want to love, I just want to cry, I just want to love you, I just want to, I just want to, I just want to..." (Bran Van 3000)
- 2005.10.27: "Disruptive or disorderly behaviour or the use of abusive, obscene or threatening language is not permitted."
- 2005.10.25: "Fact: You are totally astounded by this information." (A. Moore)
- 2005.10.25: Five Links.
- 2005.10.24: "We moved like caged tigers, the way we talk, the way we walk, the way we stalk, the way we kiss..." (The Cure)
- 2005.10.24: "You don't like this future? Switch it off. Order another. Return to sender." (M. Atwood)
- 2005.10.24: "...and then she clearly understood, if he was fire, oh, she must be wood..." (L. Cohen)
- 2005.10.23: I was a failure as a knife salesman.
- 2005.10.23: "She reserves a special contempt/ for the slaves of beauty..." (L. Cohen)
- 2005.10.23: Now we wonder about the iron orchid's metallurgical bloom.
- 2005.10.21: The Passion.
- 2005.10.19: "Faithful mother tongue,/ I have been serving you." (C. Milosz)
- 2005.10.19: As is our custom:
- 2005.10.18: "P.S. Really I am more concerned than words would indicate." (C. Milosz)
- 2005.10.18: "Well, I like it. I think it's more interesting than looking the same as everyone else. I mean, you're no oil painting yourself." (G. Morrison)
- 2005.10.17: "I'd rather be a hammer than a nail, yes I would, if I could, I surely would..." (Simon & Garfunkel)
- 2005.10.16: "I knew that the Cult of the Unwritten Book was still active in the area. That morning, everyone in the city had forgotten his or her phone number for fifteen minutes. That's one of the signs." (G. Morrison)
- 2005.10.16: An abecedary...
- 2005.10.14: Early morning thought.
- 2005.10.13: "Then came the war of nerves, which lasted until recently. Each side would ignore each other in an attempt to irritate the enemy into submission." (G. Morrison)
- 2005.10.13: Shut your stupid face, Stupid-Head! or, the Pie-Hole Confessions.
- 2005.10.11: "...and I beavered away." (M. Atwood)
- 2005.10.10: "I'm a loser, baby, so why don't you kill me?" (Beck)
- 2005.10.10: Brilliant, day-glo eyes trained above, on elastic satellites blinking on and off.
- 2005.10.08: Proem: Only the truth?
- 2005.10.07: Poem: Raspberry.
- 2005.10.07: Poem: Never
- 2005.10.07: "The proof is in your moves and your grooves and the silly things you laugh about..." (Hawksley Workman)
- 2005.10.07: Another quiz-blog.
- 2005.10.07: "I'm jealous of your cigarette, and how you want to suck on it and not on me..." (Hawksley Workman)
- 2005.10.05: "I evolve, then dissolve, maintain my laws, 'til April falls, my sea runs red, my trees are dead, my breath runs short -- Please Report." (Tricky)
- 2005.10.05: "I hate graceful people." (anon)
- 2005.10.05: "I'll fly away, oh glory, I'll fly away in the mornin'..."
- 2005.10.05: "When my eyes were stabbed by a flash of neon light..." (Simon & Garfunkel)
- 2005.10.03: Best Friend.
- 2005.10.03: Not so much a case of the mean reds as much as a case of the angry chartreuses.
- 2005.10.02: "Flawless china blue eyes that never blink, and glitter like marbles." (A. Moore)
- 2005.10.02: "Dear Buddha, I would like a pony and a plastic rocket." (J. Whedon)
- 2005.09.30: Biohazard.
- 2005.09.29: Observation.
- 2005.09.28: "She's long gone with the red shoes on..."
- 2005.09.27: "He calls me baby, says Kiss Me Like You Mean It..." (Magnetic Fields)
- 2005.09.26: "Hello darkness, my old friend, I've come to talk with you again..." (Simon & Garfunkel)
- 2005.09.25: "Hiding in a hiding place where no one ever goes." (Simon & Garfunkel)
- 2005.09.25: "The only emperor is the emperor of ice-cream." (Wallace Stevens)
- 2005.09.25: Scratch. Scratch this, scratch that. Scratch.
- 2005.09.25: "I thought we were supposed to be the perverts." (Michael, on straight men screwing cantaloupes)
- 2005.09.23: "We have telescopes that can probe the furthest reaches of a man's spirit, profound equations to explain the meaning of love and hate." (G. Morrison)
- 2005.09.20: Typewriter Gang indicted on trumped up pornography charges! Word processors scandalized.
- 2005.09.19: Approaching midnight; calling out the shadow agents, the frozen clockwork men, the angels of stunted wings and overgrown tongues--
- 2005.09.19: High-flying adventures with the Young Intellectuals!
- 2005.09.19: "Now hush your pretty lips...I'm going to give you just one little tip: shut up and make out, shut up and make out, shut up and make out with me..." (The Hazzards)
- 2005.09.19: Radio Signals from the late Marilyn Monroe, Attorney-at-Law.
- 2005.09.18: "Instead, this is a wild house party where you're wearing your best trousers or cocktail dress, and somebody's spilt a dry martini all down your front--"
- 2005.09.16: "Garbage, you know, is very revealing. It beats the shit out of tarot cards." (Tales of the City)
- 2005.09.15: Telegram sent by carrier pigeon lost somewhere in the Pyrenees--
- 2005.09.13: Quick, frantic, senseless update.
- 2005.09.12: "You and me and the Devil makes three..."
- 2005.09.11: "I am a Dapper Dan Man." (E & J Coen)
- 2005.09.11: The Beast's number showing up on call display.
- 2005.09.09: "The Nancy Boys," Fragment #3
- 2005.09.09: Friday Five.
- 2005.09.09: "After she read 'Lady Chatterly's Lover,' she secretly picked forget-me-nots and stuck them in her pubic hair." (Angela Carter)
- 2005.09.07: Have a "doo-doo, doo-doo" theme song in your head for seven hours straight. No. Lyrics.
- 2005.09.06: 7 x 7?
- 2005.09.05: "Gir, your waffles have sickened me! Fetch me the bucket!" (Zim)
- 2005.09.05: For once I'm done the "Butterflies" story:
- 2005.09.04: Shortly after the break-up, Cedric fell down a well and died.
- 2005.09.03: The Birds.
- 2005.09.01: "What's it like? It's like breathing the electric air of the future." (G. Morrison)
- 2005.08.30: Grimm Fairy Story.
- 2005.08.28: Best example of why Michelle shouldn't allowed near open flame.
- 2005.08.28: Ooo, baby, the music sounds better with yoooou...
- 2005.08.28: The sky is falling.
- 2005.08.27: O Woe, o spite--
- 2005.08.26: And the Lord said "Bwow." And it was good.
- 2005.08.26: "Now, if I could just find a midget with some gin, I'd be set." (B. Griffin)
- 2005.08.23: Geraldine suspected foul play, but missed the sniper rifle.
- 2005.08.22: Creationism #2
- 2005.08.22: Creationism #1.
- 2005.08.22: Behaviour in parallel universes
- 2005.08.21: Odd jobs.
- 2005.08.21: Can you ghost-write your own autobiography?
- 2005.08.21: This weekend is sponsored by Food and Drink.
- 2005.08.18: Abruptly, the elevator dropped.
- 2005.08.17: Comic books were a real boon for crackheads everywhere.
- 2005.08.17: Up yours, guv'na!
- 2005.08.14: There is a certain question of Whiz-Bang Economics.
- 2005.08.13: Index Cards from Insanity.
- 2005.08.11: Your absence was both conspicuous and tragic.
- 2005.08.10: "The random wonder of a senseless road accident. Didn't that guy have legs before we hit him?" (G. Morrison)
- 2005.08.10: "But the basic psychic self-defense course doesn't cover dead bodies, guns, or giant spider carcasses." (G. Morrison)
- 2005.08.07: Batman! Batman! Batman!
- 2005.08.05: The ... heh ... "Gay" Meme ... heh ...
- 2005.08.05: "Even their witticisms felt like oral readings of insurance policy clauses to Lisey." (S. King)
- 2005.08.04: Your ideas interest me, and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.
- 2005.08.04: Inexplicably, the cake exploded and man-gorillas went flying.
- 2005.08.02: Silly Quiz Interlude.
- 2005.08.02: Life on the Ridiculous Sideways Jungle-Gymnasium.
- 2005.08.01: "The saddest part of a broken heart isn't the ending so much as the start..." (Feist)
- 2005.08.01: The Davie Street's Metamorphoses
- 2005.07.29: "See your face every place that I'm walking, hear your voice everytime I am talking..." (Garbage)
- 2005.07.27: Space grows soft and squirms at the edges.
- 2005.07.27: Described by Pesce as "transformation" furniture, these iconoclastic designs turned the act of purchasing a chair into a "happening."
- 2005.07.26: Rubber ducky, I awfully fond of you, doo-doo, doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo...
- 2005.07.24: Perennial sex bomb, aging, returns to the lagoon of her birth.
- 2005.07.21: "Michael, can I bum a shot of your wine off you, so that this might actually taste like alcohol?" (J. Waller)
- 2005.07.19: Partly Cloudy with a chance of...DOOM.
- 2005.07.17: Private Jet to Rio, for Two.
- 2005.07.15: More like the Fantastic TWO, and some other people.
- 2005.07.13: "We all come here."
- 2005.07.12: "At first Ursula felt cheated, as though she'd donated a kidney for a sick child and then spotted it a few days later in a pet-supply store being sold as an aquarium ornament." (A. Shakar)
- 2005.07.11: Notes from Underspace.
- 2005.07.10: Hexy lady...
- 2005.07.10: As we move toward zero hour, novelty expands exponentially--
- 2005.07.09: Exposed mattress, Jackson Pollack #45
- 2005.07.07: Found amidst the writing--
- 2005.07.07: Hail to the Long Underwear Gods.
- 2005.07.06: The ocean trembled.
- 2005.07.04: Lobster Boy versus the Fear!
- 2005.07.03: "When you're in love with a married man you shouldn't wear mascara." (B. Wilder)
- 2005.07.02: "At Serious Coffee? Seriously?" (J. Waller)
- 2005.06.27: Samurai Pizza Cats!
- 2005.06.26: "Then there was this giant talking fish who wanted to eat me, and feed me to a whale, and chop me into little pieces, and send me to all her friends." (M. Mignola)
- 2005.06.24: My Favourite Martian Manhunter.
- 2005.06.23: Wildcat #600
- 2005.06.22: STORY: "Listen to your grandmother..."
- 2005.06.22: The Island.
- 2005.06.21: Binoculars necessary.
- 2005.06.19: But the question was, who was this butterfly with the gun?
- 2005.06.17: The Untitled "Hardy Boys" / "Nancy Drew" Crossover Novel, Fragment 2
- 2005.06.15: "London is burning down. Flying saucers have just attacked America. I don't think we count as an emergency anymore." (G. Morrison)
- 2005.06.13: Because I've been talking about this for two and a half years.
- 2005.06.12: Raw garlic is like drugs!
- 2005.06.12: Sign me up for the Atomic Police!
- 2005.06.11: He suspected something was amiss.
- 2005.06.08: Synthetic long chain molecules.
- 2005.06.05: Some thoughts on Pulp.
- 2005.06.02: Story: "The Open Grave."
- 2005.06.02: "If you can save the world without breaking anything, I'd be grateful." (G. Morrison)
- 2005.06.02: "Your apprentice glides silently around the room in a way that makes my chakras incredibly nervous." (G. Morrison)
- 2005.05.31: "Now it's over, I'm dead, I haven't done everything I wanted, or I'm still alive and there's nothing I want to do." (TMBG)
- 2005.05.31: It like a hundred Sixties comic books coming true.
- 2005.05.30: Bhoots and Ghosts
- 2005.05.30: "Now at midnight all the agents and the superhuman crew come out and round up everyone that knows more than they do." (B. Dylan)
- 2005.05.29: The Russian Military is not here to serve you.
- 2005.05.26: Uh...huh.
- 2005.05.26: Daisy Daisy
- 2005.05.24: "There is something honest about being dead, just as being alive is necessarily evasive." (M. Cohen)
- 2005.05.24: Ten Favourite Short Stories.
- 2005.05.23: "Yes, yes, yes, it was profoundly meaningless..." (Magnetic Fields)
- 2005.05.22: Episode III: Revenge of the Thithies
- 2005.05.19: You wild, impetuous cat you...
- 2005.05.19: The train was late. The train was late. The train was late.
- 2005.05.18: "Oh, teamwork. I didn't recognize it." (J. Arcudi)
- 2005.05.18: Initial thoughts on waking up in the World of Tomorrow.
- 2005.05.16: The Foreign Exchange Rate on Bars of Pressed Sunlight.
- 2005.05.16: "I´m not a slut, I`m a time-saver." (M. Cho)
- 2005.05.12: "That is so Mulan!" (M. Cho)
- 2005.05.12: The Teapot Dictatorship.
- 2005.05.11: "I'd join you, but alcohol makes my liver convulse like a spider with a pin in it." (W. Ellis)
- 2005.05.11: A pretty girl named Hypathia
- 2005.05.10: "Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha!..." (L. Moore)
- 2005.05.09: The Game was Afoot.
- 2005.05.09: Red Right Ankle
- 2005.05.08: And our perennial favourite, Miss Bermuda Strongbox...
- 2005.05.06: Learning the Japanese word for chopsticks--
- 2005.05.06: "It just sat there, looking out of place. I was baffled." (S. Tan)
- 2005.05.05: "And Justin's heart grew heavy, alone in the poisoned lamplit city of Time-To-Come." (G. Morrison)
- 2005.05.05: "They´re out of this ragbag, these two..." (S. Plath)
- 2005.05.04: "A novelist's business is lying... In fact, while we read a novel, we are insane - bonkers. We believe in the existence of people who aren't there, we hear their voices, we watched the battle of Borodino with them, we may even become Napoleon. Sanity ret
- 2005.05.03: "He once joined Alcoholics Anonymous, I'll swear, in order to hear himself saying 'I am an alcoholic'. His drinking was not in truth excessive; he just loved drama." (F. Weldon)
- 2005.05.02: "At the end of every short story the reader should feel as if a cloud has been lifted from the face of the moon." (M. Chabon)
- 2005.05.02: This is my other housemate, the Fear.
- 2005.05.01: Lyrical interlude.
- 2005.05.01: Men grow cold as girls grow old - and we all lose our charms in the end--
- 2005.04.30: A prose-poem on Unwriters.
- 2005.04.29: "Lonely salesmen dizzy with alcohol watching the porn channel, which manages to reflect their lives. An arid waiting for that moment, that fabulous sale, that big break, that fat, naked close-up that never quite materializes." (P. Milligan)
- 2005.04.28: "My God, Sweet Clyde is right!" (Hubert J. Farnsworth)
- 2005.04.26: "I feel like a pig shat in my head." (B. Robinson)
- 2005.04.26: Love Cats
- 2005.04.25: "He suddenly has an overwhelming desire to crawl inside Envelope Girl's stomach and dream." (P. Milligan)
- 2005.04.25: "Of course I'm significant, you dunderhead! I'm the lovely Envelope Girl. Are you ready to be thoroughly sent?" (P. Milligan)
- 2005.04.21: "I got up off that concrete, bare-assed, naked, and thought to myself: I've just been pretending I'm a pirate and mean and an Arab terrorist and have no morals." (K. Acker)
- 2005.04.20: "Look out, Doc ... he's got a death ray!" (P. Hogan)
- 2005.04.20: Operations Manual for my heart, an organ which pumps.
- 2005.04.19: Squirrel system required.
- 2005.04.18: "We frisked the dead man's desk," (Dashiell Hammett)
- 2005.04.16: Momentum.
- 2005.04.15: "You want tact, call a tactician. You want an ass nailed, you come see Gus Petch." (E. & J. Coen)
- 2005.04.14: Neurotic Boy Outsider, pt. 1
- 2005.04.14: Covert rearrangements of magnetic poetry to form DEATH THREATS FROM BEYOND.
- 2005.04.13: "Then it seemed to me as I watched him with his short hair that December was no longer a blue month." (G. G. Marquez)
- 2005.04.13: "The world had been sad since Tuesday." (G. G. Marquez)
- 2005.04.13: "She had a reputation for being postmodern in bed." (W. Allen)
- 2005.04.13: If you could be a...
- 2005.04.12: "They're so high, but they just don't know--" (D. Grieve)
- 2005.04.12: "I am a lonely painter, I live in a box of paints." (J. Mitchell)
- 2005.04.11: Exactly what bizarre twist had left Frank and Joe Hardy in nothing but Nancy Drew's panties?
- 2005.04.10: The swagger, the spittle, the drunken man with a fiddle, he took me on his knee and he bashed my brains out.
- 2005.04.10: Black rook. Kitchen table. Chair. Rainy.
- 2005.04.10: "I'LL EAT YOU UP!" (M. Sendak)
- 2005.04.08: "You just got stuck with the dirtiest job is all. You ain't so bad." (A. Moore)
- 2005.04.07: I am building a house out of streets.
- 2005.04.06: collective noun. a PISS-UP of poets.
- 2005.04.05: "'I'm really a vampire, you know,' I'd say in a conversational tone as we walked along, licking our lime popsicles." (M. Atwood)
- 2005.04.04: "They were told they had dirty fingernails." (M. Atwood)
- 2005.04.04: "No, she would say. I don't know. I need a cigarette. Don't make me dizzy." (M. Atwood)
- 2005.04.04: It's oh so quiet, it's oh so still
- 2005.04.03: "Now you can lay them on me, as much as you like." (L. Rhodes)
- 2005.04.03: But you can't take the sky from me
- 2005.04.02: Since I found Serenity
- 2005.04.01: Free Writing 1
- 2005.03.31: Beryl suspected foul play; her prize-winning begonia, crushed under a bowling ball out of the sky.
- 2005.03.30: "There's no vacuum being you." (M. Waid)
- 2005.03.30: "Slaughter Swamp is one of those in-between places were solid things turn soft and change." (G. Morrison)
- 2005.03.29: Logging and Capturing Footage
- 2005.03.28: Book Survey Meme
- 2005.03.28: "Panzer-man, panzer-man, O You --" (S. Plath)
- 2005.03.27: "...watching the boat disappear on the black waters of Lethe." (A. Ginsberg)
- 2005.03.27: "Yes, you can bring zombie-christ, but leave your boyfriend out of this." (M.S.J.)
- 2005.03.27: "May he be remembered fondly until we all forget." (G. Morrison)
- 2005.03.25: Filming was Fabulous
- 2005.03.24: "It was like something H.P. Lovecraft pulled out of his nose." (A. Moore)
- 2005.03.21: "What colour is the scent of the blue weeping of violets?" (P. Neruda)
- 2005.03.20: My dream last night, or, why William S. Burroughs shits in my brain.
- 2005.03.18: "Help me/ it's your sex I can smell--" (T. Reznor)
- 2005.03.17: "What's in your head right now, everything, every moment's like stained glass." (A. Moore)
- 2005.03.17: Research Blogging
- 2005.03.17: "I called to the executioners that I might gnaw their rifle-butts while dying." (A. Rimbaud)
- 2005.03.16: "One evening I seated Beauty on my knees. And I found her bitter. And I cursed her." (A. Rimbaud)
- 2005.03.16: A quiet walking game played backwards without the instruction manual.
- 2005.03.14: "Look, they got boy-whores! I wonder if they service girl-folk at all." (J. Whedon)
- 2005.03.14: "Can't even start working on the jigsaw until I've got some more pieces." (M. Carey)
- 2005.03.13: "You should have seen me reading Marx!" (A. Ginsberg)
- 2005.03.10: "My fingernails smell like hardboiled eggs on Easter." (C.S.)
- 2005.03.10: POEM: Me & Michael in the Garden of Eden (don't want to say temptation but)
- 2005.03.09: Fading starlight caught through smoky, broken glass
- 2005.03.08: This is how the day begins:
- 2005.03.07: "Finish the fucking story!" (Hunter S. Thompson)
- 2005.03.06: "Why not just tell Mother her son was a whore?" (B. Rawluk)
- 2005.03.06: Swing it for me, DJ--
- 2005.03.02: "The sporting editors had also given me $300 in cash, most of which was already spent on extremely dangerous drugs. The trunk of the car looked like a mobile police narcotics lab." (Hunter S. Thompson)
- 2005.02.28: "That's a human ear, alright." (D. Lynch)
- 2005.02.27: "We are, after all, professionals." (Hunter S. Thompson)
- 2005.02.25: In the early morning solar radiation
- 2005.02.24: "How do you know when you've become a super-hero and not just a crazy fetish person with a death wish?" (G. Morrison)
- 2005.02.24: Meanwhile, in the wildcat subconscious
- 2005.02.23: To Tlazolteotl with vicious nipple piercings.
- 2005.02.23: "We're well out of mouth terrain at this point." (T. Lilburn)
- 2005.02.21: Creationism.
- 2005.02.20: R.I.P. Hunter S.
- 2005.02.20: You must remember this.
- 2005.02.19: I'll be back in touch as soon as I avert the coming of the Forgotten Ones from the Kingdom of Eternal Despair. Have fun in Pohnpei doing the same.
- 2005.02.19: This is the way the world ends. Thank God I brought champagne.
- 2005.02.17: The Nightmare of Taffeta
- 2005.02.17: You won't find a lower subscription offer.
- 2005.02.17: I fail to see, Buddha, the enlightment brought by you crowning my head, lotus-like.
- 2005.02.17: Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.
- 2005.02.14: The Three Faces of STEVE.
- 2005.02.14: You have nothing to lose but your minds!
- 2005.02.13: Getting lost in that hopeless little screen.
- 2005.02.13: I'm aching and breaking and shaking like humans do--
- 2005.02.13: The breeze carries scents of old leather and glue and pencil shavings.
- 2005.02.10: You wait and see how much an accountant's daughter from Southampton fancies existential doubt.
- 2005.02.09: Presently, I'm removing my six-shooters from their holsters and taking aim at that nasty varmint. Yowza.
- 2005.02.07: "Crazy theories one, regular theories a billion."
- 2005.02.07: Heaven - I'm in Heaven -
- 2005.02.06: In my hungry fatigue and shopping for images.
- 2005.02.05: Blue, a student of Brown, has been hired by White to spy on Black.
- 2005.02.03: All colours come from the sun.
- 2005.02.03: Where are we going, Walt Whitman?
- 2005.02.03: America, when will we end the human war?
- 2005.02.02: They've invaded your mind, Metropolis.
- 2005.01.31: POEM: THE HAIR IS ANTI-BODY
- 2005.01.31: What thoughts do I have tonight of you, Walt Whitman?
- 2005.01.31: And history rewritten by an ape.
- 2005.01.30: Look at that old Grizzly Bear.
- 2005.01.27: Ripped from the headlines (of Joy's Blog)
- 2005.01.27: Now we see what kind of ghost man you are.
- 2005.01.27: Well Cecelia, I'm down on my knees--
- 2005.01.26: These "no-nonsense" solutions of yours just don't hold water in a complex world of jet-powered apes and time travel.
- 2005.01.24: An incidental day.
- 2005.01.24: Eat me, beat me, mistreat me, Creature of the Night!
- 2005.01.23: Andre Breton.
- 2005.01.19: There are no curse words to describe...
- 2005.01.19: The wild, macabre tale of the twentieth century...
- 2005.01.17: For your consideration,
- 2005.01.16: Shocking new career path taken! News at 11.
- 2005.01.16: INTERTITLE: Malsata, City of Drones!!!
- 2005.01.16: Holland, 1945.
- 2005.01.15: Oh Great! No giants, no mirrors ... listen, how else am I going to show people what it's like being up in the sky?
- 2005.01.13: We begin our operation dawn.
- 2005.01.12: Further notes, written down and then left in the washing machine.
- 2005.01.12: She'd popped the cork of a chilled magnum of champagne between her teeth.
- 2005.01.10: I'm at Cookie's. Downtown.
- 2005.01.09: They swim through your liquid streets like brainless carp...
- 2005.01.08: The Question is
- 2005.01.07: Maybe. Maybe. // Baby, baby--
- 2005.01.06: Oh no, I seem to have dislocated my identity
- 2005.01.05: Part five is the same as part one.
- 2005.01.04: The potato came late to France, aided by public relations and fashion.
- 2005.01.03: Responde, responde, responde s'il vous plait!
- 2005.01.03: One does not put fish between bread.
- 2005.01.03: Postcard story: They'd run out of lion tamers
- 2005.01.02: While a dislocated voice from behind a different curtain cries...
- 2005.01.02: My flight had a stop-over in New York. I never quite stopped stopping over.
- 2005.01.02: My gravity-scrambler will slow them down!
- 2004.12.30: Just two girls from Littlerock, from Littlerock
- 2004.12.30: I never did order that rootbeer float.
- 2004.12.27: But then, I have an excuse. I am part-gay, after all.
- 2004.12.24: Cold-blooded by nature: a short, kneejerk reactionary rant.
- 2004.12.22: Oh, these sour times.
- 2004.12.21: No one ever told me that you could walk around with a strap-on, having orgasms.
- 2004.12.21: Is this clown on?
- 2004.12.19: "What say we go down to Little Tokyo and get some fireworks?"
- 2004.12.19: "...the truth is, I haven't slept with a man in eighteen years."
- 2004.12.18: The floor beneath Beryl collapsed at once. Oh bother, she cursed, before falling to yet another inevitable doom.
- 2004.12.17: Time table is not an hourglass.
- 2004.12.16: You found the key to his hideout in the Pyrenees
- 2004.12.15: Buck A Beer
- 2004.12.13: What's gruesome about Thursday?
- 2004.12.13: The minute you walked in the joint, I could see you were a man of distinction...
- 2004.12.12: Well, there she goes again
- 2004.12.11: Tell me more, oh immigrant rickshaw taxi mufflers rattling over glacial potholes?
- 2004.12.11: Next up: burning insects. Without a magnifying glass.
- 2004.12.10: Just follow the corpses, honey.
- 2004.12.09: Aw, F'r the luvva my Aunt Petunia...
- 2004.12.06: Push that knife in further, Beryl, and do us all a favour.
- 2004.12.06: I'm not ready for that final disappointment
- 2004.12.05: But why can't you just masturbate like the rest of us?
- 2004.12.04: Is that all there is to a fire?
- 2004.12.02: A tax audit, Jeremiah considered, should never feel this horny.
- 2004.12.01: Sitting in a park in Paris, France
- 2004.11.30: This is the story of your gypsy uncle
- 2004.11.29: In fact a flyswatter
- 2004.11.24: Up yours, Constable!
- 2004.11.23: UFOs keep falling all around me like badly folded paper airplanes.
- 2004.11.23: Unfortunate Exploding Pantomime
- 2004.11.22: Is you is or is you ain't my baby
- 2004.11.22: Notes on La Mancha First Section
- 2004.11.22: It's just pages and pages of people getting dressed to go to dinner!
- 2004.11.21: The duke, like most men over 70, is attracted to young charming women.
- 2004.11.20: We refuse to live any longer as exotic pets.
- 2004.11.20: And I don't sleep on a bed of bones---
- 2004.11.19: Gertrude Stein can't write a line.
- 2004.11.18: Kamikaze Killers! Rockets and romance!
- 2004.11.17: Even cowgirls get the blues
- 2004.11.16: Amber Waves
- 2004.11.16: The dog is dead, James. Believe me, I know a dead dog when I see one.
- 2004.11.16: Well, something was bound to happen.
- 2004.11.15: We're just imposters in this country
- 2004.11.15: Myriad Noteblog
- 2004.11.14: Prose-Poem: Dorothy and Sullivan
- 2004.11.14: Notes from the other side of the Underground #4
- 2004.11.14: Notes from the other side of the Underground #3
- 2004.11.14: Notes from the other side of the Underground #2
- 2004.11.13: Notes from the other side of the Underground #1
- 2004.11.13: Let me teach you about Susan B. Anthony while I pound you into salt mash, lunkhead!
- 2004.11.11: All natural supplements.
- 2004.11.10: Occasionally, I am callous and strange.
- 2004.11.09: Five by Five.
- 2004.11.07: Generate
- 2004.11.07: Lusty
- 2004.11.07: There's too much love.
- 2004.11.07: The tang of candle smoke, amnesiac gas jets.
- 2004.11.06: The model with the tragic air
- 2004.11.06: There's a map in my head! All lit-up like neon!
- 2004.11.05: You've got to make the bastard think he's right.
- 2004.11.05: Oh, ancient Sisyphus elevator wheezing in monoxide brownstone despair!
- 2004.11.05: What is it about guys like you and faces anyway?
- 2004.11.03: Oh, paint chip peeling over bare schizophrenic light bulb.
- 2004.11.02: She'll enjoy some employ as a boy with her name changed to Pip.
- 2004.11.02: When you meet her, she's like a weird cross between a dominatrix and Winston Churchill.
- 2004.11.02: My breath smells like garlic.
- 2004.11.01: And no one's to blame -- it's just hypocrisy.
- 2004.10.31: What's his number again? Oh, right. 1-800-I'M-DATING-A-SKANKY-HO.
- 2004.10.31: Embrace the pain and spank your inner moppet.
- 2004.10.30: Be free, be strong
- 2004.10.28: Let yourself go hungry now
- 2004.10.28: Hoping for a Frigidaire to come passing by--
- 2004.10.27: Wasted trip.
- 2004.10.26: They say you fell asleep after drinking every single bottle of Dom Perignon in existence.
- 2004.10.25: This is where Belle taught Sebastian to put on mascara.
- 2004.10.25: every finger in the room is pointing at me
- 2004.10.25: Words like violence break the silence.
- 2004.10.24: Boy, you are my Fifth Avenue.
- 2004.10.24: Who needs Forever?
- 2004.10.23: Down and dirty, doing it by hand
- 2004.10.23: What about the poets?
- 2004.10.22: It's another day, and Loulou is on her way to seduce her accountant.
- 2004.10.21: How long has this been going on?
- 2004.10.21: Blood on the leaves, and blood at the root
- 2004.10.21: La Croix, Darling. La Croix.
- 2004.10.21: Beryl considered Henry's coi fish in the fountain, and tried to remember where the insecticide was.
- 2004.10.20: Beryl didn't notice the opened bottle of strychnine beside her glass of wine. "Mmn," she said, sniffing her drink, "Almonds?"
- 2004.10.19: Beryl sensed danger when a sharp pain ran through her chest.
- 2004.10.18: Beryl selected a knife from the kitchen and considered how to go about the dissection.
- 2004.10.18: On Monday, Quentin's shoe lace got caught and he tripped over the edge of the bridge. As the water came up to greet him, Quentin sighed. "Bother."
- 2004.10.17: On his way to the pub for a pint with the boys, Quentin felt a ferret run up his trouser leg. "Oh dear," he thought.
- 2004.10.17: The Legionnaire's Lament
- 2004.10.15: "We can't stop here! This is Bat Country!"
- 2004.10.15: And then, a broken-down studebaker fell out of the sky and landed on my head.
- 2004.10.14: the fashion brigade
- 2004.10.14: No cigarettes, only peeled Havanas for you.
- 2004.10.14: Building nothing out of something
- 2004.10.13: Ballet Lane
- 2004.10.12: more more more?
- 2004.10.11: I'm a ballet mistress and things are never simple.
- 2004.10.10: Not an internet survey, but--
- 2004.10.10: On a three-legged chair with a singing saw over my shoulder
- 2004.10.08: Soon, by gum, she'll become the brave captain of some pirate ship
- 2004.10.07: you seemed to be in love with me, which isn't very realistic
- 2004.10.05: My girl is the queen of the savages, she don't know the modern world and its ravages
- 2004.10.04: Listen to the ride and fall of his Adam's Apple
- 2004.10.03: Judy is a punk
- 2004.10.02: He's acting dumb, that's what you've come to expect, needle in the hay.
- 2004.10.02: Planetary alignments shock world with "pong" formation
- 2004.09.30: Screaming
- 2004.09.30: I looked all over town
- 2004.09.30: Bang bang, I shot you down
- 2004.09.29: Famed It Boy loses his nerve
- 2004.09.28: My evil twin would lie and steal, and he would stink of sex appeal, all men would writhe beneath his scythe
- 2004.09.28: She tends to faint at the sound of a drum
- 2004.09.26: I'm glad you're back, so don't explain; quiet, don't explain, what is there to gain? Skip that lipstick, don't explain!
- 2004.09.26: Thoughts on "Shaun of the Dead."
- 2004.09.26: Shaun? Vaughn? Shaun! Vaughn!
- 2004.09.24: Bad News Format Memo
- 2004.09.24: ...and if you haven't heard of me, you're obviously not reading the right magazines...
- 2004.09.23: Don't you sass me, boy!
- 2004.09.23: The Persian Red Railway
- 2004.09.22: So there I was in South America, in steamy, surly Paraguay, bored brainless!
- 2004.09.21: Followed by an exclamation mark.
- 2004.09.21: Doom. Something.
- 2004.09.21: Railroad Boom
- 2004.09.20: I'm becoming chemical
- 2004.09.20: Put some energy into it
- 2004.09.20: In an operetta
- 2004.09.19: Somewhere they won't throw rocks at me.
- 2004.09.19: I wish I had an Evil Twin
- 2004.09.17: Today's Tarot Card is the World
- 2004.09.16: Hi. What?
- 2004.09.14: The Eater is the Eaten
- 2004.09.13: The skies shouldn't be this grey...
- 2004.09.12: No mad-mad world and no mad hatters
- 2004.09.11: Sir, that was no Ladytron. That was my Wifetron!
- 2004.09.10: And you're ugly, too.
- 2004.09.09: And Mum would stick a fork right into Daddy's shoulder
- 2004.09.09: Say what you want to say
- 2004.09.09: Now she's a little boy in Spain playing pianos full of flames
- 2004.09.08: A demon AND a poet?
- 2004.09.08: When I'm feeling low, nothing kills me like music
- 2004.09.07: Internet Surveys!
- 2004.09.07: But, Ms. Nova -- I'm only a dentist.
- 2004.09.04: We grow old and our toenails grow in
- 2004.09.03: Secret Agency at 8:30 in the morning
- 2004.09.02: Ahahaha!
- 2004.09.01: It makes you prone to crimes and sin
- 2004.08.29: A hookah-smoking caterpillar has given you the call...so ask Alice, I think she'll know...
- 2004.08.27: Your denial is our fuel!
- 2004.08.26: When met when I was stuck up a tree.
- 2004.08.25: Obscure Song Titles from the Nineteen Seventies
- 2004.08.22: Pachyderms
- 2004.08.22: Doin' the Chameleon
- 2004.08.20: Well, Ba-Lee-Hoo.
- 2004.08.18: and lo, did the giant salamanders rain down from on high!
- 2004.08.18: Needle in the hay
- 2004.08.18: Doctor Snap?
- 2004.08.15: dreamlogging again
- 2004.08.13: Why must I groove so much?
- 2004.08.13: Multi-talented and multi-sexual
- 2004.08.12: Hello, my name is GUTTERTRASH
- 2004.08.12: Spice Head
- 2004.08.11: The sweltering heat pounds onto my flat, dry skin!
- 2004.08.10: Kipling, old man, please take your hand off my leg. Thank you.
- 2004.08.09: catalogue of wretched dreams
- 2004.08.08: Oh, Rudyard.
- 2004.08.06: There's a murder of crows, an unkindness of ravens...
- 2004.08.05: You're a stranger, keep away from my danger!
- 2004.08.03: Terra Obscura
- 2004.07.29: By George, I think she's got it!
- 2004.07.27: Evidently, the dove flew west for the summer.
- 2004.07.26: Murphy and Smith
- 2004.07.25: I prefer the condoms, myself.
- 2004.07.22: Wide-awake and laughing-like
- 2004.07.21: Again with the lies of Science!
- 2004.07.20: I just lost an entry
- 2004.07.20: Pieces of July
- 2004.07.20: Rendering myself nude, I acquired a shower
- 2004.07.19: snakes and ladders
- 2004.07.16: How to make everyone think you're charming and fantastic even if you aren't
- 2004.07.14: Probably not, Tiffany decided.
- 2004.07.13: Sambuca licks the window ledge while sirens blare.
- 2004.07.12: Go get him, Tiger.
- 2004.07.10: Personal hygiene had always been a bit of a hobby for Max.
- 2004.07.07: It called itself the Tornado Tyrant!
- 2004.07.04: some courageous kangaroos do it, let's do it, let's fall in love!
- 2004.07.03: A kiss on the cheek can be quite continental, but diamonds are a girl's best friend
- 2004.07.02: Sloppy Friday Thinking
- 2004.06.30: The Metamorphoses
- 2004.06.30: They said it was an accident but, you know, he was distraught.
- 2004.06.28: it was a strange man crush, she said.
- 2004.06.25: Egad.
- 2004.06.24: Hawuh?!
- 2004.06.24: Class registration.
- 2004.06.23: Moon Safari II
- 2004.06.22: A Rogue's Gallery
- 2004.06.21: Body Boy, wait! You sank my battleship.
- 2004.06.20: The Wasps of Atlantis
- 2004.06.15: Atomic Balm
- 2004.06.15: sentence by sentence; syllables.
- 2004.06.14: Diamonds / best friend / and we all lose our charms in the end
- 2004.06.11: No better than I want to be
- 2004.06.07: I have this recurring dream when I lose my voice
- 2004.06.03: Animal Husbandry
- 2004.06.03: I like to do manly things, you know, manly guys doing manly things?
- 2004.06.03: Unexpectedly, the cowboy lost his invisible robot horse, Daisy.
- 2004.06.01: The Buck Stops Here
- 2004.06.01: Yes!
- 2004.06.01: Going on a moon safari. Don't forget the champagne.
- 2004.05.31: Mickey Eye? Red Eye?
- 2004.05.27: The boy in the backseat raised a fist.
- 2004.05.25: Cocktails? You have cocktails at nine in the morning, darling.
- 2004.05.19: Stop it, honey, or you'll make me pretend to cry!
- 2004.05.17: Sid Vicious as a Teenaged Lesbian Hindu Sex Goddess.
- 2004.05.14: Hydrating Spritz
- 2004.05.13: is that likely to affect his executive decision-making ability?
- 2004.05.12: tales of wisdom
- 2004.05.11: Without warning, the Count left me to run off with Gerta to Borneo, the second husband to be lost to a marauding servant with ideas above her station. The sink is full and there's a ring around the toilet bowl.
- 2004.05.11: Postcard Story: Partnership Gone Sour
- 2004.05.10: Inexplicably, the Eero Aalto chair falling out the 17th storey window landed on its legs in front of a cherry cadillac.
- 2004.05.09: Once again the Count failed to attend the banquet, pleading accidental limb-severing when questioned.
- 2004.05.08: Oh for the love of-! Use the bathroom like the rest of us, not the cashmere rug!
- 2004.05.08: Why do you have to ruin EVERYTHING? You can't hunt water buffalo in the canals of Venice!
- 2004.05.05: Leave the dishes to Gerta, darling, we've got company.
- 2004.05.05: Honey, stop touching my priceless Ming vase! People are watching.
- 2004.05.04: This is my son, Tree of Life.
- 2004.05.04: Postcard Story: In the Underbrush
- 2004.05.04: The Weekend Pocket Reference
- 2004.04.30: I'm not wearing any underwear.
- 2004.04.29: Postcard Story: Crocodile
- 2004.04.28: Reason #2099090909090 to Hate All of Mankind
- 2004.04.26: Was it where they lost me that I finally found myself?
- 2004.04.26: Did the Queen of Sheba have blood the colour of amaretto?
- 2004.04.22: I do not regret the things I've done, but those I did not do.
- 2004.04.21: The man had a busted lung and a squeezed tongue.
- 2004.04.20: Wind and Vertigo!
- 2004.04.19: Synopsis: the movie
- 2004.04.16: I'm a housewife with a jar of rat poison.
- 2004.04.16: I am a Warhol Superstar.
- 2004.04.13: One day this will all be underwater.
- 2004.04.13: Postcard Story: Prawn
- 2004.04.13: Postcard Story: Car Bomb
- 2004.04.13: Virgin Alarm
- 2004.04.11: The man really couldn't hold his arsenic
- 2004.04.10: Plastic Pants
- 2004.04.10: The aliens are writing to me!
- 2004.04.09: John Bradley had a nervous breakdown
- 2004.04.06: Spacelanders, Rejoice!
- 2004.04.06: Postcard Story: Refridgerator
- 2004.04.06: And now, the alpha bitches circle.
- 2004.04.04: This is the Obelisk of your Jubilee
- 2004.04.03: Jingo
- 2004.04.01: Chocolate Cake! And cookies.
- 2004.04.01: Oh Crap! *falling behemoths*
- 2004.04.01: Don't make me come to Vegas, Don't make me pull you out of his bed
- 2004.03.31: Asparagus
- 2004.03.30: Black Milk
- 2004.03.29: Microbes on Mars?
- 2004.03.28: The Death of the Novel
- 2004.03.27: Diary of a Japanese Meal
- 2004.03.27: Meanwhile
- 2004.03.27: i am misery made flesh
- 2004.03.26: Third Gender
- 2004.03.25: Ping 2001 Ping
- 2004.03.24: we're all wandering
- 2004.03.23: Prose-Poem: Underside
- 2004.03.23: yet something beats anew
- 2004.03.22: "Hey, hey! We can all fight when we're drunk."
- 2004.03.21: "Tempers are wearing thin. Let's hope some robot doesn't kill everybody."
- 2004.03.20: "Kittens give Morbo gas."
- 2004.03.20: Good news, everybody! I taught the toaster to love.
- 2004.03.19: Germs! I am a Mental Patient
- 2004.03.18: V is for Vernacular
- 2004.03.16: telepathic interlude 1
- 2004.03.16: Prose-Poem: Who's ever heard of a vibrating spatula?
- 2004.03.16: my little indigo boy
- 2004.03.14: I scare me too sometimes
- 2004.03.12: mememememememememe
- 2004.03.10: Imagist Poem Research
- 2004.03.10: true possibility
- 2004.03.09: Postcard Story: Skin Condition
- 2004.03.09: my ears hear every sound
- 2004.03.07: The Invisibles
- 2004.03.07: Twenty-Minute Story: Fish Baby
- 2004.03.07: Sunday, Muddy Sunday
- 2004.03.07: Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest
- 2004.03.07: Billboard Giantess
- 2004.03.07: anytime I move my finger
- 2004.03.05: Extracted Consciousness
- 2004.03.04: 2001 Qabbalah references
- 2004.03.04: Issues in Prose-Poetry
- 2004.03.04: poetic formalism
- 2004.03.04: Sheela-Na-Gig
- 2004.03.04: Kat und Maus
- 2004.03.03: Robert Bly! Robert Bly!
- 2004.03.03: A Bump in the Research
- 2004.03.02: Celebrate Empire of Dirt Day!
- 2004.03.02: Living art or biological madness?
- 2004.02.29: Little Atari Space Ships
- 2004.02.29: Naked Gunmen
- 2004.02.28: link like luke
- 2004.02.28: autonomous meme complex
- 2004.02.27: I need to learn Polish
- 2004.02.26: Entropolis
- 2004.02.25: like icicles down my spine
- 2004.02.24: It is an AGE OF EMPIRES
- 2004.02.24: and still be on my feet
- 2004.02.23: Doctor Scott! Janet! Doctor Scott! Rocky!
- 2004.02.22: the birdcage in the attic
- 2004.02.19: this diary will change your life
- 2004.02.18: That Old Intestinal Feeling
- 2004.02.17: you walk with the heat turned off
- 2004.02.17: the wonder, the wonder
- 2004.02.16: the new fetishism
- 2004.02.13: Television growing out of my brain. Yeah.
- 2004.02.11: Have a ball
- 2004.02.09: Set off on the road
- 2004.02.08: Ma Lin, 13th Century
- 2004.02.08: Meshes of the Early Evening
- 2004.02.08: Female Anatomy Lessons
- 2004.02.06: Low-speed Omniscience
- 2004.02.06: All that Adventure for One Thin Dime!
- 2004.02.05: uncomfortable attraction
- 2004.02.05: beautiful dreamer
- 2004.02.04: my brain stem is sexier than your brain stem
- 2004.02.03: whatcha gonna do when the storm takes over
- 2004.02.02: Confessions of an Interpreter
- 2004.01.30: Abort, retry, transcend?
- 2004.01.29: cellar door
- 2004.01.29: Beep Beep. Beep. Ping.
- 2004.01.28: And then all the mod kids jumped into a van and drove off in the direction of Left
- 2004.01.27: How does it feel to have a wacko son?
- 2004.01.26: what's with today, today?
- 2004.01.26: Domestication of the Rabid Lamb
- 2004.01.25: I'm not a foot fetishist, but.
- 2004.01.22: Trudge down those stairs! Into...the unconscious!
- 2004.01.22: It's raining spacemen. Watch the jetpacks.
- 2004.01.21: Imaginary Landscapes
- 2004.01.21: The Highly Inexplicable Madness Machine turns its platinum crank
- 2004.01.20: Shock twist twilight zone ending
- 2004.01.20: Marinated, I am watched by the Extravagance Police
- 2004.01.18: never a wittier partition has spoken
- 2004.01.18: There are too many B-Boys!
- 2004.01.16: because killing people's not my thing
- 2004.01.14: mini bonsai garden
- 2004.01.13: weird electronic noises pinging in my brain. ping. ping.
- 2004.01.12: breathe it in and breathe it out and pass it on it's almost out
- 2004.01.11: Morbo DEMANDS an answer!
- 2004.01.10: My Oola's bigger than YOUR Oola
- 2004.01.08: because all little boys need to dream really big
- 2004.01.07: Like a fresh manifestation of an old phenomenon
- 2004.01.04: Evian spelled backwards is Naïve.
- 2004.01.03: My roommate owns the Art of War
- 2004.01.02: notes from the underground
- 2003.12.31: running through my head
- 2003.12.30: Floating Ganesh Danger Signal!
- 2003.12.28: Toowander the Avenger
- 2003.12.27: The day the babies crawled away
- 2003.12.26: Something something novocaine
- 2003.12.24: Persons of Mass Destruction
- 2003.12.23: He scrambled up the anchor line into his evil skull balloon
- 2003.12.19: There's been some trouble at the Museum of Dangerous Books and Paper
- 2003.12.16: Free at last from my vegetable prison!
- 2003.12.15: Quiet, you horrible thing.
- 2003.12.13: Oh, the Joys I have known
- 2003.12.13: Making pancakes in a minute. Whee!
- 2003.12.11: Here I am, spastic and elastic
- 2003.12.09: it's a mood indigo
- 2003.12.06: THE SPACE RACE
- 2003.12.06: my steel has style
- 2003.12.04: she's got you shaving your legs, you can suck anything, so shimmy once and do it again
- 2003.12.03: and if you're tall, handsome, and strong, you can wear the uniform and i can play along
- 2003.12.02: thick green lights
- 2003.12.02: Something safe for the picture frame
- 2003.11.30: The Planet of Ears
- 2003.11.28: you were racing in a car beside a boy you just don't know
- 2003.11.27: Up the throttle and drive to the moon
- 2003.11.27: at work, blah.
- 2003.11.26: as he buttoned down his pants
- 2003.11.26: and i will never need umbrellas in the rain
- 2003.11.25: The folly of a boy's empty mind
- 2003.11.24: the model with the tragic air
- 2003.11.22: the test is over. now.
- 2003.11.20: on the way down (in honour of mineauge)
- 2003.11.19: elope with me in private and we'll sail around the world
- 2003.11.18: skipping tickets, making rhymes
- 2003.11.17: hey people looking out the window
- 2003.11.16: yes i am.
- 2003.11.15: Piano Solo with Dishes
- 2003.11.14: Hush now, don't explain
- 2003.11.12: Listen honey there is nothing you can say to surprise me
- 2003.11.12: Many nights of limping round and pagan holidays
- 2003.11.10: The Man on the Moon is the key!
- 2003.11.08: The Gift of Taymor
- 2003.11.07: you were doing it for businessmen on the piano bar
- 2003.11.06: there's no music on at all.
- 2003.11.05: Famous for showing her chest.
- 2003.11.04: Walk away from the electrical outlet.
- 2003.11.03: I was waiting on the moon.
- 2003.11.01: Did you just suck on my tongue? YES.
- 2003.10.31: those evil-natured robots
- 2003.10.29: for careers you say you wanna be remembered for your art
- 2003.10.29: Life-sized models of the Velvet Underground in clay
- 2003.10.28: dirty dream #2
- 2003.10.27: a spaceboy dream
- 2003.10.27: i am the last of your worshippers
- 2003.10.25: Pokemon must DIE.
- 2003.10.23: dancing clown.
- 2003.10.22: Get to the top and slide back down
- 2003.10.20: I live with Synthetic Cindarellas
- 2003.10.20: here is the key
- 2003.10.16: "My bip-bopping days are over..." - Belle & Sebastian
- 2003.10.15: "Language is a virus." - W. S. Burroughs
- 2003.10.15: I love my miscreants bold.