archives for Sunday 9 July 2006

beauty in the breakdown

Sunday 9 July 2006 | I like a cookie

Last night I had a date with the Brujo (Lawrence Clark at Evangelo’s at 10 pm, a sax trio specially imported from Harlem at great expense); and, determining within myself that I would be the most fantastic, mysterious, sultry, enigmatic, desirable date he’s ever ever had, and, changing clothes multiple times in order to assist [...]

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we’re famous!

Sunday 9 July 2006 | someone left a cookie

Perhaps a slight exaggeration. But if you Google our favorite line from the last few movies we reviewed, our review of Over the Hedge is the tenth hit. Tenth, people! That’s on the first page. Exciting stuff, if you’re us. To quote ourselves: ‘Steve Carell as a permanently over-caffeinated squirrel is a high point, whether [...]

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sudden rain

Sunday 9 July 2006 | I like a cookie

And just as suddenly, running around in the icy pelt of it trying to pull my geraniums and gerbera daisy up on the porch out of the hail, with leftover pizza inside in the toaster oven heating and the sun having gone down—just as suddenly, rainstorm of tears, and then I feel fine, and wonder [...]

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gift from alanis, written on her closet floor

Sunday 9 July 2006 | I like a cookie

that I would be good even if I did nothing that I would be good even if I got the thumbs down that I would be good if I got and stayed sick that I would be good even if I gained ten pounds that I would be loved even when I numb myself that [...]

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