Orders of business: 1. I have found a local friend with high speed Internet to purchase the Andrew Bird tickets for me. 2. At the urging of half a dozen blog readers, I have in fact sent my “open [...]
Writing Check: No from Flash Fiction again.No from Thieves’ Jargon.No from Brick about my lyric essays from the MFA thesis, but Brick is no small potatoes, folks, and I got the most encouraging [...]
Body Check: Two months after having a 1/4” thick piece of class stabbed into my foot, the scab finally fell off and a glossy scar remains. I can do all the things I could do before, I just can’t [...]
It goes like this: 9:30pm Thursday night you get a call from the baker you used to work with at the craft school. She’s a craft-school ex-patriot like you are now, too, and she’s also a damn good [...]
Dear Andrew Bird, In anticipation of your October 9th, 2009 performance in Asheville, North Carolina; and given that I have been following your music since I heard its first note; and also [...]
Oh my god there is a god and he is friends with Andrew Bird and the good city of Asheville, North Carolina! On July 10th at exactly 12noon tickets will go on sale – online only – for Mr. Bird’s [...]
Ladies and Gentlemen, we have a new cloud. Call it the Jacques Cousteau. Call it the roiling ocean. Call it the Armageddon. Members of the Cloud Appreciation Society are calling it asperatus and [...]
It’s insane but I must drive 17 miles one way to the grocery store for three items: wine, chocolate, and tampons. I am grumpy about this fact and grumpy about the cute couple ahead of me in line, [...]
Thanks to tips from a friend back in Oregon, I think I may forgo interval training for Tabata training. The results sound convincing in a short amount of time…and I’ve only got about four weeks [...]
I would like to say that right now, today, I’ve never wanted to be in Oregon more. My parents are there on a visit and all my graduate school friends are convening at Pacific University for one [...]
