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  • A mouse is a mouse

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    In the grocery store a little boy was using a helium birthday balloon as a punching bag while his grandma and sisters mulled over canned tomatoes. I was passing him or soon to be passing him and he saw me and stopped punching the balloon. But he stopped too soon and right as I passed…

  • Shit Shine

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    Today, I won the shit shine award for many backlogged shit shines. Sometimes at work we get pictures of feet or fingernails or hip replacements or car bows and we have to design the shit out of it and make it magical. I have been designing shit for most of my career so far and…

  • Days after

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    The fog parts, but you’re still foggy. And tired. Floating on churned water into a realm that blends sea/sky. There are no distinct lines. Sliced wood drifts by. Then a drowning chest, an oar. And behind you the entire ship is a battled body. You set sail years before bound by duty. There is nothing…

  • What?

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    I think pat made me partially deaf in one ear. I’m not even joking. On Friday, he made this horrifically loud kissing/Suck noise right over my ear, I’m talking concert level point blank IN MY EAR and I googled all this crap about temporary hearing loss called “threshold shifts” and if it’s been longer than…

  • Boom

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    Too much coffee, too many trips, not enough work, too much work. I run around people’s ankles like an annoying shit dog and then stare into space. My body is completely still while my heart backs up under my ribs, oozing through the sewer grate. Somedays inside me is completely insane. Somedays the smallest statement…

  • Recap

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    I’ve had strange dreams this week ranging from the most amazing cookies only I have ever seen (because it was in my head: think chocolate fudge peanut butter layer cake IN A COOKIE) to being an rockstar soccer player in Mexico and being featured in a super artsy documentary. This morning, I had a dream…

  • In and out

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    Yesterday, I made this fig, olive oil, sea salt challah bread. This was my first bread-making and other than some dough stretched a little too thin, I’m pretty proud of myself. It’s been raining for three days and the clouds are colliding. Pat and I listened to music all day yesterday and I cleaned our…

  • Rachel vs. Boobs. Will there be justice?

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    Friday night, Pat, a co-worker and I went to this place called The Vig (Uptown) – there’s soon-to-be one DOWNTOWN and also one in Arcadia noneofthisisimportant. And while we were minding our own business, drinking beers, eating smoked salmon with pita bread, capers (which I hate), some sort of soft cheese, onions, balsamic spinach, tomato…

  • "Write as if you were dying"

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    I’m kind of at a crossroads – I know I need help with craft and form and I wonder how much of it I can do myself or if I can do any of it myself? I suppose there was a time way way back when when writers did not go to grad school, they…

  • I made this

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    So I just got an email this morning from NewsPageDesigner – an international website that used to be run by SND (basically the Oscar committee of design) and this site is basically a place where designers from all over the world can post their work and talk about it and whatever, but think about how…