east texas category archives
to me he seems like a god…
Wednesday 6 December 2006 | I like a cookie
…who dominates my desktop now, regally, as though I should prepare an altar before him, though maybe the Rishi plum-berry white tea and chai rose Badger Balm (just visible on right, behind purple mousepad) will suffice: And this gleaming, snowy-white machine, faithless reader—not a Stormtrooper, not Zaphod Beeblebrox’s stolen Heart of Gold, but rather a [...]
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sometimes this old farm / feels like a long-lost friend [brief hiatus]
Thursday 16 November 2006 | I like a cookie
Sadly, the Un must leave you now, for a week or so during which she takes in the many miles of interstate highway en route to (and back again from) East and South Texas—Rice and Pipe Creek and Rice again, respectively. She will return with a black cat, an electric piano, and possibly a few [...]
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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 [...]
reader input solicited
Tuesday 26 September 2006 | someone left a cookie
A trip back to East TX scheduled for October; the paranoids want to bestow a cat upon me; this one, whom we would promptly rename Pyewacket (current barn-cat name doesn’t bear repeating). Is it nutty even to think about a feline, this feline, this soon? At least she’d match all our winter clothes.
from an epistle to mandarin
Thursday 14 September 2006 | I like a cookie
Darling! So glad you have arrived well and safe, if bizhausted and bewildered as is the way with first days in strange countries. Of course probably by the time you get this you’ll have obtained a PhD in Cervantes, but I can only imagine how the first few hours went. I myself have been incommunicado [...]
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ann richards
Thursday 14 September 2006 | I like a cookie
The late former Texas governor spoke at my undergrad graduation (undergraduation?) and was half pungently funny, half hair-raising, as she was today, posthumously, on Democracy Now, which I never listen to and only encountered accidentally whilst resetting my car radio. But there she was, cracking up a bunch of Texas Observer writers by telling the [...]
red slider turtles and levonorgestrel
Wednesday 9 June 2004 | I like a cookie
Newly returned from my Planned Parenthood appointment, I am fairly bursting with love for my fellow woman and her reproductive health rights, ready to phone my senator, ready to march on Washington, ready to, to, to do—okay I don’t quite know what, but something. Become a union organizer maybe. There it’s been all this time, [...]
