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Monthly Archives: February 2005
Against Your Better Judgment
True – Downpilot – Leaving Not Arriving
This song is the canoe trip you took against your better judgment. With the boy who isn’t quite right for you but had exhausted your ability to say no or come up with alternatives. And the tipsy narrow floating piece of fiberglass passes under a bridge and under gray skies. And you look up to see black birds flying somewhere, wouldn’t it be nice to fly somewhere?
And it’s anachronistic to be listening to this song, but you hope there will be a fire tonight, and laughter, and maybe enough of a spark to forget that whatever there was between you died long ago, and then this will be validated. But there’s no fire, your campsite is stripped bare of wood by the hundreds of weekend woods people who came before you. And the song remains the anachronism of a sad little trip to a lake in the mountains in the woods, under a gray sky. Continue reading
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arabesque
[edit: Happy Birthday Blog - You're 1 years young...] The midnight cafe above candlelight. The conversation dances a cigarette in your hands, barely touched by the tips of your long long long olive fingers. Your eyes sparkle and your face … Continue reading
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a point for every pencil
Link-A-Licious As if anyone should have to ask. Area Man decides to live like Mel Gibson in that lame CIA-gone-bad thriller with Julia Roberts. ‘Gunkanjima’ (trns: Battleship Island) is a tiny island off the coast of Nagasaki, populated by the … Continue reading
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Overdue.
This evening while walking home I passed a man standing resignedly beside a small commercial truck (hard to convey the scale, a mini-truck, a Ryder truck shrunk down to Japan-size). He was parked in front of one of the large … Continue reading
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“I’m in heaven!”
My kin came up with some neat new comics. I’d tell you that even though there’s only two so far they’re fantastic, funny and beautiful…but I imagine you might suspect me of bias. So I won’t divulge exactly how awesome … Continue reading
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