Miscellany. There is another word for it.
For some reason, I am cleaning the swimming pool at one of the houses David Lynch owns in the Hollywood Hills. I’ve seen pictures of the houses but I have no idea if any of them actually have a swimming pool. Possibly it is the swimming pool from Mulholland Dr. Which I suppose might make me Gene (played by Billy Ray Cyrus) owner and…
Whenever it takes three flicks of the Zippo to light a joint, I think, “I just got my head blown off in the trenches.” Out walking, I see a penny on the sidewalk. Someone is going to come along and pick that up, I think. But not me. I don’t want to ruin their day. Almost every Tuesday: a hamburger. If there was really…
The United States Citizenship and Immigration Services issued new (?) policy guidance regarding inadmissibility based on membership in a totalitarian party. It specifically designates “the Communist Party,” as if there is only one, as “inconsistent and incompatible with the Naturalization Oath of Allegiance to the United States of America. “Any intending immigrant who is a member or affiliate of the Communist Party (or subdivision…
Daylight Savings Time has been controversial since its inception. People do not like it when you mess with time. The clock in the head must match the clock of the day or else one risks madness. There is no time like the present, and daylight savings moves the present backward (or is it forward?) in time. We become dislocated from the hours. Sunrise is…
Material days were long and hot, but that is summer. Farmers and others who work by sunlight praise the season. It is a vacation from school for children all over America, and so their numbers in public spaces tends to increase during these sordid months. Because of the heat, the tawdry fashion sense that dominates America plunges to an all-time low. People would go…
Art school was often about hanging out with other art students, smoking cigarettes and drinking beer, and usually talking or arguing about art, philosophy. or music. Most artists listen to a lot of music. Nobody paints in a quiet studio. In art school the painting studio was the location of many music arguments, as there was only one cassette deck and a limited supply…
1) Never trust a cop in a raincoat. 2) Beware of enthusiasm and of love, both are temporary and quick to sway. 3) If asked if you care about the world’s problems, look deep into the eyes of he who asks, he will never ask you again. 4) Never give your real name. 5) If ever asked to look at yourself, don’t look.…
“You know what day it is?” “Tuesday?” “Thursday, actually. But no, the date.” “I don’t know the day of the week and you think I know the date?” “They’re not the same thing.” “I don’t know. It’s October, right?” “Right.” “So. Thursday in October.” “Think about it.” “I don’t know how to think about it.” “What day is it?” “You already asked me. I…
Mark this item off my bucket list: “Get name mentioned on Boing-Boing.” The latest issue of Pravic magazine, in which my short story “The Robot Felt” appears, was noticed by the editors at Boing-Boing.
Begin the morning by saying to thyself, I shall meet with the busy-body, the ungrateful, arrogant, deceitful, envious, unsocial. All these things happen to them by reason of their ignorance of what is good and evil. But I who have seen the nature of the good that it is beautiful, and of the bad that it is ugly, and the nature of him who…