It’s like motherfucking Wild Kingdom around here these days. WILD KINGDOM OF THE DAMNED. So here’s what happened. I was sitting in my living room this morning trying to jump-start my brain with epic doses of caffeine, when I heard a very light scratching sound coming from behind our TV cabinet (if you’d like a … CONTINUE READING »
I swear by all that is right and good in this world that this isn’t some kind of covert Disney plug
06/30/2009
Saturday
06/29/2009
There’s a dead bird on our porch, he said. He’s always been overly repulsed by the sight of dead animals. And so from our earliest days together it was one of the few critter-related matters I had to take on in our relationship, as he, incongruous as it may seem, has no problem killing hideous … CONTINUE READING »
Instant joy
06/25/2009
I’m just going to keep hitting “play” on this first clip over and over again all day long, like a rat compulsively tapping a lever for a dose of opiates: Extended release formula: Ahh, better. A fleeting, ephemeral better, but I’ll take what I can get right now.
Breathing underwater
06/24/2009
When I asked in Monday’s post how to survive this, how to go on, the response from many of you was to just put one foot in front of the other. So that’s what I’m doing here, with writing, because I still don’t have a clue what to say, but I feel like I have … CONTINUE READING »
Echo
06/22/2009
It probably doesn’t matter, but I was thinking of this when I chose the title of today’s post. Lines from it have been ricocheting around in my head all day. Somehow, it makes a kind of sense.
