Category: still breathing

  • excuses, excuses

    learning at a furious pace how to build and manage large-scale web sites and researching content-management systems so i can streamline the whole publishing aspect of the web and make it easier to wail. at first, the mere existence of the net and the *relative* ease of posting to the web (even via telnet and…

  • kill the narrator

    Kill the narrator. He talks too much. You talk too much. (You never shut up.) Shut up “shuttin’ up.” (Good for dialog) I TOLD YOU TO SHUT UP maybe that;s why dead narrators tell the best stories? “…then they kilt me.” x Just relaxing and being yourself puts you at the head of the pack.…

  • visions of excess and restraint

    something rare for me happened a few nights ago: i dreamed about jerry garcia. now, some deadheads have these kinds of dreams all the time (and especially dreams of being at shows), but not me. i’ve only had the “intimate show” dream once or twice and never a “talking to the celebrity just like a…

  • epiphanies on the cheap

    sitting here still with a stiff neck that just won’t go away. got home and went to the backyard to chill. cat came by and we communed for a while. i finally let her sit on my lap some. kept thinking b was home but it was other car doors closing up and down the…

  • i'm melting

    incredible heat and not enough time to do all the things that need to be done. got my fixer ticket signed by one of two oakland motorcycle cops busy rousting a somnolent bearded derilect folded up at the base of a lamppost near the big grand “theft” auto on park boulevard and 18th. now, i…

  • richochet

    overdid it somehow lugging stuff to san diego and back last week (or, really, the week before). tried to pack light but still ended up with a sore neck, rigid trapezius and achey lower back. starting to pull it together physically, though, and enjoying the adventures of the moment. got a few messages from readers…