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Brilliant in the morning

Erik bought some Folgers coffee. Normally I turn my nose up at canned grocery store coffee but today it works. I wish I had a styrofoam cup to drink it out of. This is the kind of coffee someone brings you in a crisis: taking someone to the hospital during a nervous breakdown or drug [...]

Santa ornament

Christmas Hangover

We (Erik) finally put away all of Christmas except a Pointsetta plant which I am convinced the cats will eat and both die. I thought I was done with Christmas but last night found myself looking on eBay at vintage Christmas ornaments. Like these enchanting Japanese made house ornaments. Wouldn’t it be cool to make [...]

steelcase

At work there is lots of Steelcase office furniture left over from the fifties. I actually don’t know if it’s from the fifties. It could be from the nineties. I think our generation thinks everything not from the 00′s is from the seventies- there is a design gap from what we remember as children or [...]

Footnote to Howl

Footnote to HowlAllen Ginsberg Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! The world is holy! The soul is holy! The skin is holy! The nose is holy! The tongue and cock and hand and asshole holy! Everything is holy! everybody’s holy! everywhere is holy! everyday is in [...]

The Acting Life

I was recently asked by a weekend house guest about my much talked about former career as an actor. This is something I hesitate to talk about. I am not ashamed or sad about this period in my life. It’s just not something that matters much to me anymore. I have settled down comfortably. So [...]