It’s no Gashlycrumb Tinies, but the point is I wasn’t going for that, anyway.

February 24, 2010 by · Leave a Comment
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I’ve been having the most interesting, intriguing, and ridiculous dreams lately. Last night, and I was medicine-free, mind you, I dreamed that I was a poet, of sorts, and that I was neighbors to a house. Well, I should say, House.  Because this House was alive, a real, bona-fide living House. In addition to that, this House lived in an envelope. That’s right.  An envelope. (It is a buyer's market, right?) At any rate, I’d been out of work for some time, and as a favor, the House had hired me to paint a new coat for its exterior. Except, instead of paint, the House had...

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How on earth do you wash a Fedora? [and other random thoughts]…

June 12, 2009 by · 1 Comment
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I have been intensely busy, lately. Not just by hand, either. My mind...it often goes into Mach 7 when I attempt to procrastinate (by the way, the word "procrastinate," itself, is ironic - I mean, by the time you write the word out, you could have done something already - it's not a word for the lazy), and the only thing I can physically do to make it stop is to sleep (even though my dreams are usually full of anger when I do that - last night, for instance...ouch!), but if I don't stop it, from time to time, it just runs all...

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