Category: still breathing

  • 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…

  • sunday at nobayview

    funny how everyone i talk to found topsy-turvy too slow or boring or with too much of the mikado in it. perhaps it was just the meticulously recreated world of the props and costumes, but i was enchanted by the film. then again, i grew up with the pinafore and penzance and the mikado on…

  • lazy long weekend

    spent the whole morning in bed, lounging, lazing, and reading to b. it started raining outside and the wind is still whipping tree branches against the windows of our house, as it’s been doing for the last few days. ever since monday i’ve been experiencing the bearable lightness of being, and i’ve been almost manic…