Exercise #5: Just pretend you like it.

May 1, 2012
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I got confused this morning.  I saw the waves racing the southerly and I saw the clouds tagging along and for a second I thought it was all upside down.  Like me.  It’s May and it’s cold and I’m wondering when I’ll finally start to equate these gently named feminine months with the cooling and drying and dying of warmth?  It’s May and I should be pulling out my summer whites, having them pressed or something, imagining my face atop the charmingly bare wire hanger shoulders of models who make summer look so hot.  Like an atheist trying to...

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Easter baskets and lacrosse

April 23, 2012
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I’ve spent a lot of hours writing stupid shit about how much I dislike Easter.  I do what I can to get the theme into stories mostly because it’s a pretty steady obsession of mine.  It’s a holiday that frankly creeps me out.  When I was five, I locked...

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Please share my joy.

April 6, 2012
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Please share my joy.

Just thought I’d share a recent day in the life.  I can only hope that future stat reports exceed this absolute awesomeness. I’ve glimpsed nirvana and it’s full of misspellings.

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Exercise #4. People do not talk this way.

April 6, 2012
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Well damnitall and fry it in canola oil.  I’d like to be spewing venom at various issues of currency but here I am.  Not spewing and instead staring blankly at wisps of fog that only appear the moment I set myself up in the sun.  I swear to you,...

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Exercise #3 and Memory. Forgive me.

March 30, 2012
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Here's my current region.

I can admit that I was sort of wondering why all the fuss about this IIML Masters.  It’s been three weeks– start and stop like the clutch is bad due to the Writers & Readers event and other oddities– and I didn’t really fill my schedule last week.  I...

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