archives for October 2006

friday refrains: three after stevie (but by me, from days of yore)

Friday 20 October 2006 | I like a cookie

J’ai un faible pour elle
And that is why when the bell
Strikes out through the dark intervening wood
As late as 11 or 12
I don’t kick her out of my room as I know I should
But instead listen cross-legged in a spell
Car j’ai un faible pour elle.

Is it insanity to dream
La tête de Stéphane Mallarmé
Propped up against […]

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brief plaintive personal refrain

Friday 20 October 2006 | I like a cookie

I do not need a purple cashmere sweater, even if it is on sale from Lands’ End for $59.95. I do not need a scarlet cashmere sweater, even if it is on sale from Lands’ End for $59.95. I do not need a sea-green cashmere sweater, even if it is on sale from Lands’ End […]

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murciélago de fruta

Friday 20 October 2006 | I like a cookie

Which is, as it turns out, not only how you say “fruitbat” en español, but the first part is also a make of car—this from the Brujo, who then informs me that it’s made by Lamborghini and he’s driven one. I raise the eyebrow of quizzicality. “In my digital life,” he hastens to elaborate, referring […]

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who art thou, faithful oregonian reader?

Friday 20 October 2006 | someone left a cookie

Network

comcast.net

IP Address

24.22.1.# (Comcast Cable)

Location

Continent
:
North America

Country
:
United States (Facts)

State
:
Oregon

City
:
Portland

Lat/Long
:
45.5184, -122.6554 (Map)

Operating
System

Macintosh MacOSX

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speechless (friday refrains to follow)

Friday 20 October 2006 | I like a cookie

There’s genius. And then there’s this. We actually had to blink back the tears that sprang to our eyes, contemplating its mercilessly compressed summation of cultural disintegration, its riotously fragmented captioning of decline.

(And remembering our stroke-riddled grandfather struggling to articulate a sentence which eventually emerged as, “The only comic that’s funny anymore is Family Circus.” […]

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overheard in devargas parking lot

Thursday 19 October 2006 | I like a cookie

Twenty-something guy in leather jacket on cellphone, coming out of Hastings:
“Man, I’m leaving this bullshit town! Yeah, I’m going to Denver.”

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the week’s questing souls, via sitemeter

Wednesday 18 October 2006 | I like a cookie

• Raymond Carver unreliable narrator
• furry mice China [Eloise’s faves]
• carolqueenblog.com
• Emsam samples
• why is Rohatsu a holiday [good fuckin’ question]
• “more light! more light!” [Apollo presumably]
• I’ve been careless with a delicate man [guilt-stricken Fiona Apple fan]
• kitsy meyers [Kitsy = the Monk’s nickname for Eloise]
• viloxazine libido [we never took that one, man!]
• […]

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commentary on comments

Wednesday 18 October 2006 | someone left a cookie

Ah, but dear sourdean, I most certainly do read my glowing encomia—I live for them—not unlike the little Masochist of Amherst, I am consumed with lust for readership. (Take me to your reader!)
Ecumenically enough, both your choice morsels of advice seem to me to correspond not only to program concepts but also to dialectical-behavioral ones. […]

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another uncanny long-term transit

Wednesday 18 October 2006 | someone left a cookie

Personal Daily Horoscope of Wednesday, 18 October 2006
for the Unreliable Narrator, born 30 March 1969

It can happen now

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Valid during many months: This is an excellent time for you to achieve real stability in your relationships. Your individual personal needs will not conflict with the demands of the relationship, and you can base them on a […]

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fast food guru responds, astoundingly

Tuesday 17 October 2006 | I like a cookie

Dear Un, I’m deeply saddened to hear this. You are such a wonderful person and so undeserving of this haunting. Thanks for telling me and let me know if there is anyway we can help. I had an intuition that you were having a bad time. I recall a period years ago when […]

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