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Archive for June 2007

tear us apart, again

On 29 June 2007

New pants I am wearing, pants of the newness, mama's got some brand-new pants, first time out of the closet, check out my new pants! The new pants are the most complicated pants in pants history. New pants should have come with a manual or an instructional video. I somehow failed to realize the Byzantine […]

rot his blackened heart

On 26 June 2007

TOO LONG GONE Which means that I have been roaming around town composing diary entries in my head, writing lengthy emails to long-suffering friends, scribbling notes on bar napkins that turn out to be illegible even to myself, and finally carving out a whole THIRTY MINUTES (right now!) to sit in front of a screen, […]

could use some herring

On 18 June 2007

THE MISHMASH CATCH-UP I think I suffer from the exact opposite of body dysmorphic disorder, since if I give my appearance any conscious thought at all I tend to think I look all right. In fact, there are days when I have a vague feeling that I may even look hot-to-dare-I-say-it-smokin'-hot, and maybe my walk […]

dusty lid of the sugar bowl

On 7 June 2007

I should start a new website, dedicated solely to the collection of terrible teabag copy. I drank a hippie something-or-other herbal tea the other day, from Yogi Teas, and the tag told me, “Our destiny is to merge with infinity.” Which sounds an awful lot like DEATH to me, no shit it's our destiny, Yogi […]

a brief fling with disorientation

On 1 June 2007

Where I live, it is inhabited by savages. Where I am going, it is full of innuendo. Can you believe that in August we are going to rent a vacation home in a place called Woods Hole? Every time I say that name my Tourette's brain* starts this low mutter, morning wood stickitinyourhole hyuk hyuk […]