I remember, shortly after 9/11, the TV was on.  And wasn't it always on?  No airplanes, but plenty of TV.  Apparently, that is what we do.  I don't say that it's bad or good; I say that it is what we do, now that we are the people that we have become.  An off-screen announcer said, behind plain . . . (More)

 At one point, I ordered pizza, as we do in this great land of ours amen.  I noticed that if you ordered two eleven inch pizzas, the second was significantly discounted, so I ordered two identical eleven inchers.  The kid on the phone opined that a single seventeen inch pizza would . . . (More)

 I am vaguely comforted by the thought that we were all fucked into existence. (Well, most of us anyway.)Was it as good for you as it was for me? Tags: Everything ; Nothing ; Memoirs ; Whatever  . . . (More)

 Giants walked the Earth in those days; what can I say?  He lived in San Diego's Ocean Beach - "OB" to the cognoscenti.   He was a talented musician and artist, (even after he became blind) and he was from Outer Space.  There were certain delicate rumours that LSD may have been im . . . (More)

 I don't really know my neighbors.  Who does?But I can see their future.There's a young couple, no kids, across the street, and I was looking across at their yard from my balcony when something about it struck me as odd - a little cartoonish.  I at first thought my ragged neurons were to bl . . . (More)

 I know exactly what I mean to be doing here, and I have no idea how to do it.  I want to strip all the coating off my skewed view, my experiences, what I have seen of the world and made of it.  This is all one can do with words, after all - or most of what's worth doing.  I am no solipsist . . . (More)

 I have apparently been living in Seattle for nearly a month, which is an odd thing to find myself saying.  I don't particularly feel  like I have been living here, even though I have a daily commute and other external signs of citizenship - it seems very much like I . . . (More)