Category: Paleoblogs

  • scamming is easy

    looking for refills for my mach 3 razor, i parked at the walgreen’s near 51st street and telegraph. before i figured out that the refills were kept behind checkout number one, i witnessed an odd charade: a woman returning a dented pringles can for one dollar, grinning at me in bluff abandon as i interrupted…

  • dosin' the baby

    don’t keep dosing the baby. that’s one of the things i learned the other day. that kid in self who doesn’t know the name of anything but has a cat-like feel for what’s really going on. ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny they say. i know that’s greek to most. ontogeny is the development of the fetus in…

  • need new nipple

    i need a new nipple! my amazingly compact NEC Ready 20LT laptop, Oyster, has one of those nipple-pointing-device controllers between (among) the G, H, and B keys. I kind of like it, but the rubber thingie started wearing through months ago and now does nothing to protect my fingertips from the plastic stick itself. another…

  • collabors of love

    been refribbing a collaborative writing project. ran into the limits of what i could do all by myself some years back and been on a quest to discovers modes of collaboration with other people whose talents i admire and with whom i can imagine a good fit. there’ve been false starts and some very satisfying…

  • best of chores

    cleaned out the upper drawer of my subconscious over the weekend, spread it out all over the floor between the piano and the stereo (sorted the tapes and cds and semifinished recording projects while i was at it). that space on the floor is some kind of power spot. if it wasn’t before, it is…

  • origins and other myths

    Got a call from my mom yesterday. I’d just sent her some printed out e-mail messages from her brother. I’d asked him to tell me some stories from their time growing up in Erie, Pa. and about his family and his mom’s family. I’m beginning to worry about losing the lore from the past, and…