Chess Is Stress

Afternoon, fuckheads. Happy thanksgiving. “Don’t alienate your friends by calling them fuckheads.” OK, then: if you’re a friend, of mine, and you’re reading, this web page, then after this sentence it is illegal for you to construe yourself as the “you” in these sentences. Fuck you. For real. Choke on a chokeberrry. Suck a suckberry. [...]

last night I was abused by a mosquito

thus: sleepy this: rules

dropsy the lion

with thanks to Emina

“The Wrath of Grapes” – SCENE ONE

GRAPES: WHAT TIME IS IT!!! WRATH: I’M SLEEPING!! CAN YOU KEEP IT DOWN!! GRAPES: !!SORRY WRATH!! I DIDN’T REALIZE YOU WAS SLEEPING FOR ACTUALS! I THOUGHT THAT WAS SOME PLAYFUL FRIDAY NIGHT TYPE THING! WRATH: Nope, it was real. And now I am irrevocably roused. You could even say… “a”-roused [GRAPES shucks her decomposing kimono [...]

Friday night dinners

We (just me) ate early, around 4 p.m. I pulled a lever at the health-food store to dispense some Zen Party Mix and accidentally filled the entire bag. “Oh well,” I thought. Then I ate it while perusing the outdoor book stall at Dog Eared Books. I saw three people I knew while I was [...]

bay music

proud of this post on the wfmu blog about sf bands involved with the forthcoming free music archive. Big ups to T.I.T.S. and Noddzzzz!

on the job

Tonight was feeling relatively defeated w/r/t work. Then, as a part of my job, I navigated surreptitiously, serendipitously, sandinistaly, sandwichismly, srichrachaly, snorrely, snarfly-barfly to this webpage commemorating in photos Chimimanda Adichie’s visit to Drexel University And it ineffably, inexorably, indongly, incorrigibly, indefatigably, indarknessedly totally maxxed out my night. What do I mean by that? It [...]

memo to myself

These guys are fun

The forgotten corners of our world

ARFIN: are you a little shitwizard? [Impatient, and with furious affection] Yes you are! CELEBRIANNE: no, I’m just sensitive A: What did you do last night during the historic election? C: Thought about sadness A: Are you really that self-important? C: No. I mean, yes. I acknowledge that the historic election will mean that the [...]

weak impulses

McCain also has the amateur chess player’s weakness for making an impulsive move just to see what will happen (Russell Baker, NYRB, 11/6/08) I share John McCain’s amateur chess player’s weakness. I’m impulsive when I play chess, and in real life. I’m an amateur chess player when I decide to click on some shit on [...]