That there are very few people I would willingly cleanse of spew: my beloved offspring, wife, and my parents (who are thankfully still quite capable of taking care of such things themselves); siblings and best friends only under extreme duress; total strangers only under trulyegregious circumstances, like category five hurricanes, plagues, and similar disasters of biblical […]
Archive | April, 2009
A computer, dad
like going to the library only quicker we can stay right here not a TV, a monitor watch what is typed view search results it can’t see you, dad or hear you no need to whisper okay, I’ll ask it rhode island red rooster enter and presto see, wasn’t that quick oh really a hen […]
The Wire: A Fragmentary Postmortem
NT. MAJOR CRIMES UNIT FREAMON: Damn it, Jimmy, what’s wrong with you? Stop denying the obvious! If you don’t believe me, measure your deep rectal temperature and calculate Henssge’s nomogram. Even given the most conservative estimates of the rate of body cooling, no way you’ve been among the living for at least 12 months. McNULTY: […]
Suburban Summer
A bird sings, shimmy shimmy shimmy shimmy shimmy! and I know a neighbor must watch cable-soft porn. The bullhorn up the hill calls Elaine, Line 7, as bullfrogs croak numbers, names. Mockingbird answers their calls: bbring! Bbring! Bbring!