In one of the “lighter” of the several excruciatingly awkward moments of Girls this last week (Season 2, Episode 9), Marnie decides to do an impromptu performance of her own arrangement of Kanye’s “Stronger,” at the party of her ex-boyfriend phone-app start-up. Her voice is good. The arrangement is interesting. The moment and the audience … Read more
You’re crossing the ocean on a wooden ship. One of the boards rots, so you replace it with another that you’ve stored on your hold. It is still the same ship? Most people will agree that it is. But what if, bit by bit, as you make your journey, your ships sustains more and more … Read more
The kid stands near the door of the bus, unlit cigarette one hand, his lighter in the other. He turns the lighter over in his hand, puts it in his pocket, takes it out again. He looks ahead to the stop. In a minute, after this red light, after this car passes, and the next–in … Read more
Here is a story I wrote at the age of ten, called I WISH I WERE A DOG. I had completely forgotten this, and I have to say seeing it fresh, I was pretty impressed with my ten-year-old self. One sunny day a dog named Arto walked up the steps of the house he lived … Read more
Forget movies, too, the Hollywood trash in which nothing happened though they were loud and fast, and when they were overtime had passed, which was a blessing in itself. O blessed is Wong Kar Wai and his cities of blue and rain.Blessed is David Lynch, his Polish prostitutes juking to Locomotion in … Read more
The gym was too crowded and there were no cardio machines.My watermelon is too hard.My writing time has not generated good solutions.The house is messy.I ate too much bread today and it’s making me irritable.
Here is something I never knew until alerted to the fact by my friend Rosie’s recent blog post . The poem to follow was written by a man named Max Ehrmann, who lived in my home town of Terre Haute, Indiana. Whenever I come across this poem–or line from it, on a greeting card or … Read more
In conjunction with some writing research, someone recently sent me this video of an octopus that is awesome. You should click on the link, even though I can’t figure out how to make it look enticing by embedding the image.
Today I went to this festival at USC called “Get Your Hands Dirty with the Arts.” I signed up to learn how to make an animated Gif. We were supposed to bring an object, so I brought some clay. This other woman in my group also brought clay, so we were on the same page. … Read more