Fear, Freezing (Lake Celeste II)
From New Year’s Eve 2009, some thoughts on ice, fear, solitude and disaster.
Read MoreCollege
College, both so recent and so long ago, it is as if it occurred in a bygone millennium.
Read MoreLetter to a Young T-Shirt
A letter to my new t-shirt at the beginning of our journey together.
Read MoreBicoastal
New York is buildings and money, food and drink, glances and remarks. It is streets, not roads. It is filth, not dirt. It is noise, not sounds. It is highways, not freeways, five-hour drives of one hundred miles in stop-and-go traffic instead of five-hour drives of four hundred miles doing 80. It is rats, not […]
Read MorePeonies
Just before 2 a.m. I had a sudden craving for peonies so I went out to the very expensive deli in pursuit of them. There were no peonies, however, only a team of Latin American laborers restocking the juice and milk display. It was too beautiful an almost-summer night for anyone to be shopping. Everyone […]
Read MoreLake Celeste, or The Joy of Sex
First it was a lake, then it was a memory, then it became a blog post (2008), then it became an essay, published in Vol. 1 Brooklyn (2010), and then it became a zine, published by Julius Singer Press (2011).
Read MoreDings
In a few moments the red timer will ring. It just did. It is exactly 4:00 p.m. The red timer marks off the ten minutes for which I boil my eggs (which leaves the yolk just the tiny bit soft, but not liquid) the three minutes for which I steep my coca tea (which imparts […]
Read MoreMy (i)Life is Flashing Before My Eyes
Got a new computer last week. Had to perform a migration. Still performing the migration, actually. Cleared everything off my desk, books, papers, pictures. Got a big desk. Big glass desk. Wiped it down with glass cleaner. Wiped down the old computer with iKlear, the only spray-on computer cleaner recommended for Macintosh computers. Took the […]
Read MoreOne of Many
7:00 a.m. Alarm wakes me from sex dream. (Just so we’re clear, uncomfortable details of the sex dream will not herein be revealed.) The day is off to a resounding start as already a discovery has been made, a point proven: alarms are dangerous and can wake you from sex dreams. It is one of […]
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