Today I lay on the highest hill in the city of the dead, two coins clutched in my fist for Charon. To practice, I held my breath so that I could submerge in the sea of the dead, golden sunlight filtering down to the scattered bodies in the grass. At first I felt an unbearable …
Monthly Archives: May 2006
The Last Day of Our Acquaintance
Today a friend and I went to the beach. He is moving to Seattle tomorrow. We went to Jughandle. When I first moved away from California, I moved to Vermont. That was an interesting experience and a tale for another day, but I still vividly remember the last place I went. We were living in …
Evolution of style
There once was a time when fecund, fertile, round, fleshy women were adulated. In some parts of the world, this is still true. However, the majority of the west finds a hyper-skinny almost childlike appearance to be the paragon of sexuality, and women starve themselves, overexercise, undergo dangerous surgery, and constantly strive in other ways …
Party life & bonus feature!
I have played more Scrabble in the last 19 hours than I have in…quite a long time. I think I’ve played five separate games since midnight last night. Seriously. One of my coworkers made fun of me because I came in to work looking something the cat dragged in–the conversation went like this: “Woah! What …
River day
The first day of the year going to the river is always an exciting one. First one must decide Navarro or Big River, and from there the path only diverges further. It’s amazing anyone accomplishes a river trip at all these days, I tell you. People tend to feel very passionately about one body of …
Oh, how we celebrate
As anybody in any aspect of the service industry knows, it’s Memorial Day Weekend. Among service personnel, Memorial Day is generally viewed as the start of summer, the first busy weekend, a way to test the mettle and strength of your crew to see if they are fit for the busy summer months. Some might …
We are many: they are few
In the summer of 2001, we were still living in Caspar and I was using my typewriter more than the computer, thanks to the rolling blackouts. My friends on the East Coast used to make fun of me for the rolling blackouts, teasing me and saying that California was now a third world country. I …
Big Brother is watching you
Your conversation is being monitored by the U.S. Government, courtesy of the U.S.A. Patriot Act, Sec 216, which permits all phone calls to be recorded without a warrant or notification. –CrimethInc. Of course, as I hope we all know, it’s not just your phone…the National Security Agency (NSA) also monitors global internet traffic. Don’t believe …
Also, a Verizon mystery
I know that many of my readers are on the West Coast, and many of you may also be “in” with one of the largest service providers out here. I’ve been using Verizon since 2000, and have never had any complaints with their service, but today Verizon has presented me with a puzzle. Are any …
Chained to You
The other day, I woke up rather late thanks to excessive Scrabble activities the night before, and I decided to swing by the Headlands on my way into work for a chai and a croissant. I realize I should not be rewarding myself for getting up late, but I didn’t have time for breakfast and …