Nov
27
2009
A gyspy once told me during a tarot reading that I would find success only once I’d mastered the art of organizing. Which is a sinister thing to tell an already obsessive, loner of an Aquarian INTP. And I think she cursed me. I’ve always been kind of a wanderer. My sister and I were [...]
Nov
20
2009
I’m making my New Year’s resolution early this year…since I’ll be turning 30 in a couple of years and 2010 is the start of a new decade (the last one blew…hard). I bought a calendar a few months ago. I have a well-documented, almost Kantian, obsession with time and temporality.
Flipping through the pages and looking at [...]
Nov
17
2009
When your closest friends are all women life is nothing but castration anxiety. Oh sure, on our way out it begins so innocently with, “Boyz are gross…” and ends somewhere around two (a.m.) in a bile-strewn room with a kind of Salo-esque, Dionysian bloodlust. And all my parts get tossed into the Nile. So, I don’t go [...]
Nov
14
2009
All this sunshine and good weather–it’s enough to make one ill. No one appreciates quality cynicism anymore. Now it’s all about irreverence and charm and cache of wit. Where did all the heroic sufferers go? Those carrying the figurative weights and metaphorical burdens of creative life? Bohemians and loose women? God, I miss the loose [...]
Nov
12
2009
Just now setting down to part two of the work day and will probably write on through supper if I can keep my concentration. We’ll see. I’ll be glad to make it through the next piece and maybe chapter in Burn Pattern before my first cigarette break.
Spent morning updating, checking e-mail, sketching and writing. Over [...]
Nov
08
2009
That’s incredible–I haven’t done anything with this blog since last May. Oh, how so much has changed. When we left off, I was working as a stock-clerk for a large, and dying, corporate bookseller in sunny ole Austin Texas. I’d arrived a few months earlier on a quest for fortune and glory as a young [...]