December 2011
1 post
distribution
of light,
the architect: 2012
November 2011
1 post
Rabbit Light
In light of rabbit mess,
we will keep reading.
September 2011
0 posts
Roland
He runs and he poops and he sits in it and he picks the pieces with his teeth.
June 2011
1 post
dance music
Gotta little boom in my big truck
gonna open up the doors and turn it up
gonna stomp my boots in the Georgia mud…
Project country music.
May 2011
1 post
memorial day.
sing for the dead, it is 85 degrees in the desert.
April 2011
1 post
easter
The year of the rabbit, the holiday of the rabbit.
Dyed some eggs. Fried some zucchini.
The more I read of Just Kids, the worse it gets.
Triple T truckstop, teeth optional. Can stay the night
or purchase a blue scrotum to hang from back bumper.
February 2011
1 post
[electric blanket deserves an Ode]
My aesthetics are off: palm trees, stucco….and the weather calls for a fireplace.
Arizona, why are you so cold right now?
Reading the original desperate housewife (a claim on the inside cover) Madame Bovary and Woolf’s Orlando. Both a bit boring, as well as struggling through too much Harold Bloom.
A sunrise here is worth waking up to see-an event!
Visitors soon.
January 2011
1 post
reading list
Reading the Memoirs of Hadrian, fascinated so far, but I am certain I will lose interest in the book.
Plato’s Symposium was fascinating because I had no idea Socrates and his Greek philosopher friends were so into little boys.
Must finish Don Quixote. Must finish Don Quixote.
Valentine making underway.
Rabbit eating my copy of A Lover’s Discourse…
Sunsets of Arizona are a...
December 2010
1 post
candy bacon
apologies to the sweet pigs who were fed a vegetarian diet, killed “humanely” and allowed “free range” and then ended up smothered in brown sugar…
Reading John D’Agata’s Halls of Fame. Over it already.
Enjoying watching old Nikolais dance videos. Totally trippy, and I’m intrigued. Biographies over Christmas break—a guilty must.
Warm sunny...
October 2010
3 posts
looking glass
Brandi, you’re a fine girl, what a good wife you would be….
Cheesy music is good for Sundays. Finished Kundera, Barthes, and Bill Bryson’s book on the history of private life.
I smell like a potato.
Tennessee fall sounds good. I could use the sight of falling leaves.
I’m tired of people vomiting.
Cold weather has arrived. It is nice to wear pants.
invisible city
been spending too much time with Dante, Galeano, Calvino…
I highly recommend volume 3 of Memory of Fire-incredible and sad
Finished FREEDOM the new Franzen novel which I would also recommend.
Fall should come. It only cools off at night. I used to say “October” and now I say, “November…” It is still so hot during the day.
Waffle Sunday=awesome.
Also, I do...
September 2010
1 post
escape artist
my rabbit, the ninja.
she may look fat, but she can fit through tight spaces.
I’ve been to home depot and ace hardware and I think I have caged the lion.
Homemade marinara is yummo and makes the whole apartment smell good.
My orchid is having a beautiful week. I hope it lasts.
Power outage problem has been solved by Perry the maintenance man. He is small but fast.
TOMORROW’S...
August 2010
4 posts
Red, Yellow, Honey, Sassafras and Moonshine...
Surry down to the stoned soul picnic!
Nothing is urgent right now, it is nice.
This kind of heat is worse.
I printed a coupon today. Coupons are cool.
Penelope likes to lay on the tile parts of the floor.
The Alphabet in the Park.
Here is a line I enjoy: Old people spit with absolutely no finesse
and bicycles bully traffic on the sidewalk.
Sonoran Hot...
rio
My apartment is lacking in storage.
Penelope seems to like it. I like it too, but my old place had columns and a view of the Tennessee Valley.
I have a little gated porch and a triple lock on my door here with a gated entrance to the complex. We are on lockdown.
All of my books made it. Dad hung my pictures yesterday, and the drapes before leaving for Houston.
Penelope and I flew Continental....
uhaulin
the truck is on the way to tucson, carrying my mattress,
my clothes, my books, and my parents.
i am dogsitting. Leon, although recently neutered,
enjoys humping his stuffed animals. He brings the ruckus.
Penelope does not enjoy living at my parents’ house.
It is loud with dogs, construction, alarm beeps, workers entering.
She does not like the barking or the hammering.
I enjoyed...
July 2010
6 posts
iron your waffles
The new cuisinart is working splendidly. It is always a good time for a waffle.
The countdown begins. Penelope will be a desert rabbit soon, though I’m not sure if she will fly, drive, or hop.
I checked out BURGER UP and it was delicious. I recommend the quinoa and black bean veggie burger.
I’m reading Octavio Paz, and meandering through his “labyrinth of solitude”...
coppertone 45
the rabbit and i have a new residency, River Road.
the river is dried up.
Art day with KG. Lamp making and painting.
Writing about Jesus. Yeah, that’s right. i think if he was, he was a teenager at some point.
a new heart shaped emerald on my right index finger.
Brief Encounters with Che Guevera
a gift from a good friend.
also, Las Paletas popsicles are the best.
finally my finger is looking normal.
I will share soon a picture of my new license plate.
It features Tennessee Wildlife with red flowers and a hummingbird. I haven’t seen anyone with one like mine. I am going on a hunt tomorrow.
Tomorrow: Dad’s 60th.
The month of the cancers, my water counterpart. The crabs in...
visitors
lots of visitors.
means pancakes, fried green tomatoes, sweet tea, and pretty drives in my sweet car. :)
chihuly at cheekwood was definitely awesome. i’d highly recommend a trip if you are in town. the glass is awesome. the gardens are awesome.
preparing for a desert move. rabbit has packed on some weight and fur and heat.
cucumbers from lisa’s garden are delicious.
also, the...
June 2010
3 posts
wagon wheel
note to self: stay away from rusty garden shears
DermaBond is glue that they use instead of stitches. It is a lot like super glue.
Leon is becoming a man of stature. He has legs like a stallion.
I would like to find somewhere for Penelope and I to live in Arizona. We need big closets, a second bedroom, a balcony, and good locks to keep the javalinas and scorpions out.
Thinking of trading in...
charleston
The air feels like walking into a sauna. My glasses fog up, and my body instantly soaks up. Swamp ass. Sweaty eyebrows. Sweaty upper lip. This heat wave is taking its toll.
Loved reading Girls Like Us about Carole King, Joni Mitchell, and Carly Simon. I love hearing about their love. I love the seedy details like that Joni was a Scorpio and had a brief love affair with Leonard Cohen.
I like...
britta's coming to tennessee
i will take you to
arnolds for the best sweet tea
i will take you on pretty drives in my cadillac
i know where all the best views are, and there is a good one from my apartment porch.
:)
April 2010
5 posts
tony
Self-Improvement Just before she flew off like a swan to her wealthy parents’ summer home, Bruce’s college girlfriend asked him to improve his expertise at oral sex, and offered him some technical advice: Use nothing but his tonguetip to flick the light switch in his room on and off a hundred times a day until he grew fluent at the nuances of force and latitude. Imagine him...
tech troubles
vista sucks. what’s new?
so does my macbook apparently.
i don’t think i’m smart enough for louise gluck. I just don’t get it.
BUT…I suggest Dean Young and Tony Hoagland. :)
danica
in the office next to mine, there is a life-size cardboard cutout of Danica Patrick in her green racing outfit with godaddy.com across the front.
there is a putting green.
two blue leather chairs, 4 file cabinets, and at least 57 photographs (that I’ve counted) mostly lined up in rows on shelves and tables. the room is crowded and very yellow.
recycled 11 lbs of paper.
knoxville...
everybody knows only zombies come back from the...
April Fool’s was a good day. We found balloons-and a nozel. We snuck down to the hose. We prepare 15 balloons each. Then, we walked back up to the top deck and called the boys.
They came up the narrow stairs and we started launching. It was epic.
Lack of sleep and too much travel-Kentucky is a pretty place, but that is all I can say. The trees and hills are like Tennessee, but I’d...
Dress Day
The day of the dresses. It was today. My car said it was 80 outside. I wore shorts and everything.
Crabapple trees are amazing.
Daffodils popping up.
Introduced the children to oatmeal cookies—they prefer chocolate chip.
Tomorrow, even warmer.
March 2010
5 posts
Desert
The desert is beautiful at spring—cactus flowers, warm sun.
Melvin, my cab driver, wanted to know about poetry.
Full flight + 42 lap sitting babies that did not stay in laps for the 4.5 hour flight to Los Angeles, en route to Tucson. Uncomfortable, loud, dangerous-scotch didn’t cut it.
Mammon: R spoke of javalinas, scary wild pigs. Mainly, we talked about poems and books and how...
fur
the rabbit has a tooth problem, and a very attractive veterinarian. His specialty is “exotics” and Penelope is compliant in his presence. Very out of character.
puppy eats everything, including but not limited to flowers, bark, bottle caps, hands, hair, furniture, trash.
the two dogs miss their family—I am a bad substitute.
puppies are cute.
nate from six feet under worked at the dog day care and i think i can totally identify with that job desire.
February 2010
11 posts
bad backs
Ignoring the phone call—I ignore most phone calls—I checked the voicemail an hour later only to find out I was being offered money to take care of some children. I cook chicken, do the carpool, teach the bratty one how to shuffle cards and make them do that bridge thing, all while the mom is home. This situation is uncomfortable. I feel there is someone listening and watching as if...
more snow
more snow, and cold.
Working out at a new place called D1 today. It has grass inside.
Watching some Big Love—the women are amazing, really.
My amaryllis are doing interesting things—the only bloom that has opened is down low. The others are still closed up and about 2 feet tall…
Will finish the 550 piece puzzle today.
I am very close.
chocolate covered snail
happy valentine’s day.
pancakes for lunch.
I think I may have more Mamabear instincts than I ever thought.
Reading more Deprivation and Delinquency by Winnicott
Amaryllis blooming. Orchid still alive.
Cactus is making me want Cactus Cooler. Too bad Tennessee doesn’t have Cactus Cooler.
frost on the pumpkin
nerve conduction studies: EMG
On the list of: wish I hadn’t ever had to do
white bean soup: Lunch
I could really go for a cookie.
Reading Arts of the Possible, essays by Adrienne Rich. I think I like her poems best.
Note to self: the humidifier makes the air feel better. Put water in it. Turn it ON.
Listened to a discussion about how best to design a logo for a pop-punk band. Various...
wonder bread
Today, we went to Arnold’s Country Kitchen for lunch, and it was delicious as usual.
It is one of my favorite places to eat in Nashville, especially on Thursdays and Fridays when they have fried green tomatoes.
I also obtained an orchid plant today. It is purple and yellow, and I am already certain of its demise in my care.
Babysitting tonight until late. Children have a way of really...
snow
it snowed again. I didn’t want to be alone up on this cold hill in the snow. I decided to get in my grey cadillac. I slid down the hill, and once I was at the bottom, I knew I had to go all the way to Destination KG. It began to sleet and I made no sudden movements, avoided slamming on my brakes, and made it to destination with backpack, 2 diet cokes, and the snail.
Upon arrival, we decide...
my dog is visiting.
there is a snail here.
and of course, the rabbit.
Free food is not usually good, but today was different.
I cried reading Zadie Smith’s essay about David Foster Wallace. Read him.
Working through “Of Woman Born” -Adrienne Rich, and woman at Bread and Company inquired about me being pregnant. I was eating a waffle smothered in syrup at 9 in the morning,...
shoulder slicing to come.
why in fort lauderdale the same weekend as all those fat football fans?
bad choice.
good weather.
beautiful beach.
note to self: warm weather>cold weather
move.
50,000
“Foreclosure?”
“Yes. They will lose that house.”
“Isn’t there a homestead act in Florida?” I feel intelligent knowing this. Then I feel sick at how good I feel asserting intellectual ability, especially to be contrary.
“The loan is out of a bank in Texas.”
TEXT MESSAGE: “I’m going to lose fifty g’s fuck NO”
...
January 2010
6 posts
Read!
Read
Yoga
Random Acts of Kindness
1-2-3
new year. 2010.
Let’s hope it’s better than the last.
Keep Passing the Open Windows.
1-2-3 means before I open my big large gaping mouth, I have to ask if anyone really wants to hear what I have to say or cares, is it the best way to say it—am i saying what i mean to say….and why am i sharing this information?
it’s a...
puzzling
the day starts late…i was up until 3, anxious, cleaning and doing things that might not have tangible evidence. (i swear i was productive)
there was quiche-of the spinach variety, and some snuggling with sweet Rambo.
then the good day began. seeing an old friend was really great.
we bought a puzzle.
two pandas, 5 butterflies, five or six birds, lots of grass—500 pieces.
we worked...