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Sorry for the lack of posts lately. Between being sick last week and all the catching up this week, on top of the wiggynia and restless mind syndrome, and I’m feeling a bit ungrounded. An [...]

It’s another slam-dunk weekend at Pizzart and we’re having a blast. Yes, there are anxious moments. Yes, we are understaffed. But yes, the community is supporting us and yes, the owner is [...]

S-I-C-K and still working…

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 [...]