01-31-09

there was a man on the radio for a moment.
he'd gone to spy school.
i spent my drive home thinking about that.

- four stars -

01-30-09

I'd decided to doodle.
When I tried to draw a face it turned into an apple.

- two stars -

01-28-09

my shoes fit me today. yesterday my toes were cramped and sore.
but my shoes have stretched and now i walk comfortably in them.

- three stars -

01-23-09

last night i realized all the tiny green lights that show in the dark of my room.
i closed my eyes wondering whether they formed a constellation.
i dreamt the stars in the sky were electronic devices charging.

- three stars -

01-20-09

i thought it was somewhere around noon when i looked at the clock but it was actually three eleven.

- two stars -

01-16-09

after i painted my nails i decided to wipe off the dark black color.

i've helped my sister paint her nails. i've helped by using a cotton swab and alcohol to clean the skin painted around the nails.

i don't have anyone to clean my painted finger's skin.

they look dirty. like they were painted with a permanent marker. they look like dirty nails.

- two stars -

01-16-09

i poured myself a soda last night. the fizz and bubbles spiraled into what looked like a galaxy.

- two stars -

01-15-09

so i'm cursed.

i am unable to own the perfect porcelain coffee mug.
i am very picky.
in the last year i've found two absolutely perfect mugs.

the first broke after my first sip of coffee. i set it on a table that just wasn't there.
the second broke today. four or five sips in. the handle fell off, it just broke off in my hands.

it frustrates me to think that perfection may be forever falling from my grasp.

but it is unusual to discover that you are cursed. it suggests fate somehow and comforts me to encounter evidence of it.

- four stars -

01-09-09

After I got tackled I started to limp.

Sometimes when I have a cold my voice gets scratchy and it sounds strange and weathered, it sounds cool. Well my walking is emphasized now in a new way, like having a scratchy voice and it doesn't hurt enough to detract from my rating.

For an unexpected change of pace...

- three stars -

01-05-09

today i drove for almost three hours through the snow in the silence of my car. afterward i wondered at feeling elated.

it reminded me of jack nicholson as robert dupea playing piano in the back of a stranger's truck, of jean-pierre leaud's antoine doinel running and running and running to the beach, of adrian grenier's sebastion cole racing his bike down long and steep and rural roads.

it was fantastic. really fantastic.

- four stars -

01-02-09

Laying in bed that Mmmmmmm song by the crash test dummies played on the radio. It reminded me of having the flu in jr. high.

- one star -

01-01-09

I'm not religious so it was strange that walking home drunk from the bar on new years eve, god appeared.

It is an interesting story, trust me.

- three and one half stars -