Category: bodega

  • Super Elastic Bubble Plastic

    Suddenly remembered this evening this brand name of some tv thing I wanted real bad at some point as a kid. Never got it. What the hell is it? :. A propos of nothing, I hear that in the future there will be no more tombs of the unknown soldier, sailors, marine, merchant marine, coast…

  • Franzen Killed Oprah's Book Club

    That’s my theory. File under memewatch (prototype) or mediajunkie (scaffolding), but it must have been the beginning of the end when she snubbed her. Why bother? I imagine her saying to herself. Watch the New York fame junkies whine as she takes her marbles out of the ring, hurles a thunderbolt.

  • Toasty Coffee

    I’ve stopped putting the coffee in a thermos in the morning. I leave it on the burner, warming. Now, after switching cars to let B out of the driveway and sitting down to work I notice that smell of the small amount of coffee left, starting to brown a little further on the burner. Time…

  • When She Gets Home

    The first thing she does is go downstairs out back. The cat follows her down. She’s got shoots to check on. She missed the weather all day. We are into the growing season. Snails and tiny slugs that live in the soil strip our beanlings of the leaves they need to transmute sunlight into growth…

  • That's Not a Real Flower

    This is what I love about digital cameras. I see this amazing mosquito hawk-like insect in my bathroom, run to get my camera, and take these snapshots. A day later they’re cropped and compressed and ready to be posted. They’re not perfect. A few bled off the long legs or lost part of the image…

  • More Stowaways Inside Kazaa?

    This makes me glad I’m behind the curve with music downloading: P2P network hidden in Kazaa downloads (ZDNet).