There are lines around my neck this morning. Faint lines; deepened and reddened by yesterday’s sun. They are my mother’s lines. They are mine. I’m twenty six today. AP style says I should put that in numerals: 26. I am 26. I say it out loud and it’s true: twenty six, I’ve earned it, I feel it, I feel great. Twentyfive [...]
May 28th, 2007
Read...WASHINGTON, DC, May 23, 2007 Her steps were jagged; harsh crisscrosses on uneven pavement, the too-fluid jangle of hep in her veins. She wore tight black jeans, and a tank, with a Michael Jackson-style fedora bent and tilted over one eye, fake diamond in her nose collecting DC sun, looking down with off-rhythm cadence: “Excuse mema’am - I [...]
May 23rd, 2007
Read...WASHINGTON, DC, May 17, 2007 Angie and I heard the snap! The snap of victory - for the kinda awesome-looking wooden mousetraps, laden with chunky Skippy and emblazoned ‘Victory’ 40s style. But the snap of victory meant the snap of a neck, for the furry vermin I’d seen scampering in the kitchen just moments before. She didn’t want to [...]
May 17th, 2007
Read...Clipped using Clipmarks, here’s an excerpt from someone else’s blog about the difference between Fast Food Porn and the real deal. Clipmarks is a program I’ve been using with the intention of blogging it up on web.AAN.org, my web publishing news for alt papers blog. clipped from www.thewvsr.comFast Food: Ads vs. Reality Each item was purchased, taken [...]
May 15th, 2007
Read...WASHINGTON, DC, May 7, 2007 It is official. I - ever the perfectionist - can say that I have mastered the baguette. It only took me - oh - four years. Here tis, sliced for lunch with fontina, swiss, pancetta, granny smith apples (yes, I am obsessed with them), and strawberries. Check that luscious crust! Visual How-to
May 7th, 2007
Read...COACHELLA, CA, May 1, 2007 I have no other words for this - other than, yes, that is the REAL Paris Hilton, and yes, I met her at Coachella. It was kinda like meeting Mickey Mouse at Disneyland, except unlike Mickey, she didn’t have a sweaty pervert inside her who wanted to hug me. Oh, you dirty celebrity [...]
May 2nd, 2007
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