While cleaning my family’s place in Chula Vista, my brother stumbled upon a few writing assignments from when I was in first and second grade.
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Rain
The rain is raining all around,
It falls on feild and tree,
It rains on the umbrellas hear,
And on ships at sea.
[January 30, 1981. Second grade. A literal drawing of the poem is [...]
Work is hectic, so blogging has been deprioritized for the moment. I’m singing Mozart’s Requiem on Saturday and Sunday, preparing for a possible John Cage performance at CalARTS in early June (!), and contending with the end of the school year. A few posts are in the works (subjects include Vincent Van Gogh, Georges Bataille, [...]
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From The Waste Land, T. S. Eliot (1888-1965), lines 19-42
What are the roots that clutch, what branches grow
Out of this stony rubbish? Son of man,
You cannot say, or guess, for you know only
A heap of broken images, where the sun beats,
And the dead tree gives no shelter, the cricket no relief,
And the dry stone no [...]
Things I’ve Eaten (And Enjoyed) This Past Week Which Would Surprise People Who Have Known Me For A While:
Wild mushrooms.
Swiss chard.
Polenta.
Coconut juice.
Cherimoya.
Things I’ve Eaten This Past Week Which Wouldn’t Surprise Anyone Who Knows Me:
Two hot dogs from 7-11, affectionately dubbed “recession steaks.”
this was originally posted as a “note” on the facebooks
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25 (minus 15) random things about me
This will hopefully be the best one of these you read all day, because it only has 10 items on it. Plus, it is AWESOME. If I tagged you, you don’t have to do it… I mostly tagged [...]
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I use the I Ching when it is useful, just as I turn on the water faucet when I want a drink. I find the I Ching useful to answer questions, and when I have questions, I use it. Then the answers, instead of coming from my likes and dislikes, come from chance operations, and [...]
2012, baby. Maybe America will be ready for my “mandatory gay marriage” proposal by then.
My friend Chord called this to my attention:
In Pictures: America’s 10 Most Boring Cities [1/15/09: link is now fixed]
I’d like to point out that the tenth boring city in the country is my hometown, and that I taught in the ninth most boring city for six years. I’m pretty sure that Misty lives in [...]
… and I have no real plans, except to go to the St. John Coltrane Church on Sunday with a couple of friends. Feel free to suggest stuff to do.
four-thirty-three went live a couple of days ago.
An explanation: I’ve been sick of the bone for a while. It’s partly for aesthetic reasons; I’ve been blogging there since 2002, last did some tinkering with the design in late 2003 and early 2004… and I don’t really care for the site’s appearance anymore. Because I started [...]