There was a marching band in my kitchen! An unexpected, drunk, totally awesome marching band playing songs for whoever could cram into my little apartment. The neighbors just turned up their salsa music and ignored the bass drum and tuba and trumpet

(find your context here)"She was crazy," he said, because they always say this. Sometimes with an eyeroll. Sometimes with a head shake. Crazy. She demanded. She demanded and did not listen and she made him crazy so she must be instead. She

back and forth, up and down, they moved in rhythm on the seesaw. going opposite directions but joined in the middle. a team. not one without the other. up up up she went. down down down she dropped. in perfect concert. until.sitting at the bottom, sh

I have allergies, and there is great shame in admitting it. All my life I've been allergy-free, not dogs or cats or peanuts or pollen, but on Monday I woke up with watery eyes and an itchy nose and I knew it was all over. Now every seasonal shift wil

Today Xian passed along this educationaly amusing site: Find Your Dead Celebrity Soulmate. He picked Frida Kahlo, but she did not pick him. Henry VIII and I were a match. Jay X got James Baldwin.Xian: I just got rejected by Freida Kahlo.Jay X: James

some days things are inexplicably bright and shining and good without any definable reason or cause. other days, a fog hangs over everything that distorts all the small, true dissatisfactions and worries and unhappinesses into heavy steel buildings

on repeat...birthday presents!...chinua achebe's things fall apart...meg's austin soundtrack - the go! team, challenger, wrangler brutes, and william shatner with henry rollins ...the postal service's give up...les savy fav's "one to three&quo