archives for Tuesday 26 June 2007
cornfield plus cocaine
Tuesday 26 June 2007 | I like a cookie
A driver who was high on cocaine destroyed an entire cornfield in an attempt to escape from the police. Four police cars were destroyed before the 35-year-old crashed into a ditch and was arrested, near the village of Dussen in the south of the Netherlands.
but then too, things you like
Tuesday 26 June 2007 | someone left a cookie
1. Finding out that a lot of treats you already buy (Reed’s Premium Ginger Beer, Wild Oats apricot preserves, Trader Joe’s apple raspberry sauce) do not have any cane sugar in them at all.
2. Rereading and marveling over Lydia Davis’ book of short fiction/prose poems, Samuel Johnson Is Indignant, because for some reason unknown to […]
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things you are not liking at all very much today if you are me
Tuesday 26 June 2007 | I like a cookie
1. Being broke and having your credit card bill due, and contemplating taking out money on the credit card to pay the bill, which is worse than moronic.
2. People who write and/or talk all about how done with you they are, how shallow and irritating and forgettable and pathetic and inadequate they find you, and […]
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yet another reason why I’m going to miss living in Santa Fe
Tuesday 26 June 2007 | I like a cookie
On Monday morning, a man robbed a local credit union with an AK-47. Here’s how the story, by redoubtable New Mexican writer Jason Auslander, describes the suspect:
Patrick Romero said the man was fair-skinned, about 5 feet, 11 inches tall, with a skinny build, and he was wearing sunglasses.
“When someone points a gun at you, you […]
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emergency midnight trip to vet
Tuesday 26 June 2007 | 2 cookies in the jar
When I got home from dinner with the Brujo, Pyewacket kept flopping down in mid-stride to lick her bottom violently, but declined to let me see why. And when I say “declined” I mean with all four dagger-feet and eyeteeth flashing. I decided just to keep an eye on her, especially since she’s been through […]
