Dash away all
“What the hell are we going to do with all these?” I asked, staring at the eight freshly severed heads lined up in the blood-stained snow. Their eyes had filmed over and the moonlit shadows of their...
View ArticleDark matter (a survey)
Take the survey here UPDATE: Here are the survey results as of noon, 1/21/10 (omitting the percentages of those who chose to skip the question): Can a houseplant die of loneliness? 52 (72%) said Yes 11...
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iPaddy
Foxconn, a Taipei-based manufacturer of high-tech goods like Apple iPads and iPhones, installed safety nets around the building earlier this year after more than ten employees jumped to their deaths....
View ArticleAdvice for silo bloggers
Are you a silo blogger? By that I mean: does no one ever link to you or comment on your posts? Well, I doubt it. Because if that were the case, you probably wouldn’t be reading this, either. Or if you...
View ArticleHow to meditate
1. Watch a flower bud swell and open over the course of a week. The moment it’s fully open, clip it for an ikebana arrangement. It should feel as if you were severing your own limb. 2. Radio waves are...
View ArticleBehind the big drop in euthanasia for America’s postmodernists and...
I’m live-blogging from the AWP conference in Chicago. Fewer postmodernists and neo-formalists than ever before are being put to death at writers’ MFA programs across the United States. Instead they’re...
View ArticleVocabulary for a New American Century
I’m taking a break and highlighting some classic posts from my first full year of blogging, 2004. Political posts have always been an occasional feature here, and tend to be personal in nature rather...
View ArticleGrievance Machine
let me brand myself he-who-is-different let me howl around in lieu of feedback then unwind in a hot bath of outrage feed the twist in my gut that feels like hunger we discriminating consumers who like...
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Unnatural History Museum
pressed under glass the last goldfinch whistle slowly solidifies into earwax untroubled by looters who choose flashier artifacts from this dilapidated museum close to closing time in one diorama the...
View ArticleFugue State
let’s pretend to be savage again with wild temperature swings and hundred-year floods tooth and claw rentable by the hour let’s pretend to be real authentic and shelf-stable as if today’s sunrise were...
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