archives for November 2006
wassily in the midst of plagues
Tuesday 7 November 2006 | I like a cookie
Mr. Flipper in NYC sent us a Kandinsky postcard so lovely we will now break umpteen copyright laws in order to share it with you. Come and get me, Georges Pompidou! More in days to follow, once the antibiotic carpet-bombing has done its work and the bronchitis/pertussis/whateveritisis has been slain—
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not laughing now, are we?
Monday 6 November 2006 | I like a cookie
Thanks to, of all places, whoopingcough.net and its distressing .wav files: Whooping cough…usually starts as a sore throat with a mild feeling of tiredness and being unwell, that within 2 or 3 days turns into a (usually) dry, intermittent “ordinary” cough. [check] This persists, but may wax and wane over the next 7 to 10 [...]
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the fortnight’s searches
Monday 6 November 2006 | I like a cookie
baby miss ohio [infant beauty pageant?] oh me oh my oh [gillian welch fan?] what does queynt mean [oops, better define it somewhere] create unreliable narrator [no-noo!] mobylette bleu carb [some hipster nonsense or other] “wendy potter” anthropology [a relative of harry's?] “her stomach muscles” [ooh, kinky] personals abbreviations [DWF blog seeks LRT] unreliable narrator [...]
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plot developments
Monday 6 November 2006 | I like a cookie
1. Can’t sit up, walk, move arms above chest-height, stir tea, flush loo or in fact breathe without falling into dramatic helpless coughing fit à la tubercular 19th-century heroine (although, no brilliant telltale splash of crimson on lawn-edged handkerchief; no revelatory x-rays for Hans Castorp to ogle). Speaking of x-rays, does coughing warrant medical attention? [...]
overheard in my bedroom
Sunday 5 November 2006 | I like a cookie
Unnarrator: [underneath duvet, semi-delirious/hypochondriacal] What if it’s not a cold? The boys had whooping cough. What if I caught whooping cough? The Brujo: [firmly] You don’t have whooping cough. Un: [suspicious of childless boyfriend's certainty] How do you know? Brujo: Because I heard it when when I was teaching, and it’s really dramatic. [Demonstrates dramatic [...]
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kind of a late start, really…
Sunday 5 November 2006 | I like a cookie
From the classified section of the Santa Fe New Mexican: “Teacher Assistant—Santa Fe County Head Start seeks to fill year-round PT position and summers-off positions working with children ages 35.” And a scratch-your-head, well-duh headline: “DEADLY SHOOTING MAY HAVE BEEN HATE CRIME”
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sábado santa fé: scenes close to home
Saturday 4 November 2006 | I like a cookie
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overheard in group
Friday 3 November 2006 | I like a cookie
Group member: For Halloween I did something I hated—it was completely out of character, but that’s why I did it. I went as the center of the universe. Therapist: How was that? Member: Itchy. Therapist: [deadpan] Because you’re constantly expanding. Member: Well, and I was covered in silver glitter.
friday refrains · 5 very tiny poems
Friday 3 November 2006 | I like a cookie
AFTER THE STRANGER HAS LEFT I will wake having not slept I will be unable to remember why at first and then • ROUND for SPRINGTIME crocus, my allergy, my habitué; my personal emergency room, my prowler— if I’m dreaming of you, & you just ignore me, then why are you my • LOVE SONNET [...]
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maybe warm 1% would do in a pinch?
Friday 3 November 2006 | I like a cookie
From a poster in the La Familia Dental Clinic waiting room: AVULSED (knocked-out) TOOTH • Find tooth, but do not handle the root. • If tooth is soiled, rinse gently in water. Do not scrub or remove attached tissue. • Attempt to reinsert tooth in socket, if not possible, place tooth in cold skim milk [...]
