archives for January 2007
and she wonders why she’s broke
Friday 19 January 2007 | I like a cookie
When people say education is expensive, here’s what they really mean: Hawaii = $50 Tucson = $50 Austin = $50 Houston = $50 Las Vegas = $60 San Diego = $55 Tempe = $50 subtotal = $365 Kinko’s = $5.94 USPS = $52.05 GRE = $275 BU transcripts = $24 Mount Holyoke = $33 Cambridge [...]
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morning at the brujo’s
Friday 19 January 2007 | I like a cookie
Fiona, the goggly sweet “developmentally foreclosed” black Lab, wants out. She thinks she can do what she does every morning, which is lie on her fetid old cushion in the sun, licking her paws and squinting out at the back garden (Apollo for dogs?). But the sky outside is an unforgiving steel-gray and well below [...]
the rent is due today
Thursday 18 January 2007 | I like a cookie
And I am utterly done in by today and by everything in it, unexpectedly (though it is horrible cloudy). Daunted by a) having no money, b) having no work, or more accurately having work I don’t do, c) the prospect of getting work which will give me money while simultaneously requiring me to put on [...]
collaborating with the brujo
Thursday 18 January 2007 | I like a cookie
1. “The Baja Roadsign Song,” warbled in harmony to a soulful mariachi tune: obedezca las sigñales no tire su basura curva peligrosa disminuya su velocidad 2. Scary obsessive-love-song which developed from my entreating him to buckle up: please seatbelt my love seatbelt my love to the car so I can know where he are so [...]
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ut writes back!
Thursday 18 January 2007 | 2 cookies in the jar
Sure, it’s only a one-liner; and I know she’s seeing other people; but still! I do spy some marks of love in her: We will accept late applications up to today, January 18th. So this morning we give to you—the updated grad school rubric. “R” means requested but not necessarily received/arrived; and the asterisk means [...]
join the uua…or else
Wednesday 17 January 2007 | someone left a cookie
“Member Pograms Coordinator. 20 Hours per week. The Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Santa Fe is looking for an organized and out-going person to support new member assimilation….”
the rent is due tomorrow
Wednesday 17 January 2007 | I like a cookie
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa. Aaaaaaaaa. Aaaaaaa. Aaaaa. Aaa. A.
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an open letter to UT–Austin
Wednesday 17 January 2007 | I like a cookie
Dear busy people who open the many, many envelopes: During the long sleepless interval since Dr. King’s birthday, I have had ample opportunity to read the entire MCW website, which is quite explicit about the fact that no one will have time to answer any questions about my application. Yet I, haunted, persist in wondering—did [...]
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for once, even the church can’t lie
Tuesday 16 January 2007 | I like a cookie
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may she rest in noise
Tuesday 16 January 2007 | I like a cookie
Alice Coltrane (1937-2007) has gone back to whatever groovy planet it was she came from. Don’t miss the mighty fine tracks available this week on destination-out.com, as well as some kickass prose on both Alice and art: Alice was never afraid to look foolish. Some of her choices like, say, letting her guru chant over [...]
