arrested development
seen it?
1) yes?
a) loved it? i love you.
b) didn’t love it? grrr.
2) no?
a) see it. now. fine, fine satire. the finest.
a word: i don’t normally watch tv. it’s the advertisements coupled with the fact that tv comes off so…forced, usually. but “arrested development” (it’s actually on dvd, so i don’t really watch tv) counts itself among a few shows that i think are divine, li…
glimpses
1. sometimes i say things i do mean, but still wish to take back.
2. poetry should not be a exhibition of the deep recesses of the poet’s soul, rather a quiet, hazily-lit window in.
3. my dog’s breath smells like dog food.
4. my tombstone shall read: “I did all I could.”
5. how love feels: “http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhOc0V-ES40&feature=related”
6. we should all be so lucky…
connection
My artistic side manifested itself very early in life, as is the case with you too. You know the kids: banging on tupperware and iron woks in the kitchen, coloring “masterpieces” on bathroom walls, that sort of thing. I once painted my whole face red with my mom’s lipstick because I’d decided to be a South American Indian.
Anyway, for me it started with reading and I read everything I could…
randomies
“To a poet, nothing is useless.” – Samuel Johnson
“A poet can survive everything but a misprint.” – Oscar Wilde
“Work is the curse of the drinking class.” – Wilde (Brilliant man, really)
“Contrariwise, if it was so it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn’t, it ain’t. That’s logic.” – Lewis Carroll (Through the Looking Glass)
“The more the marble wastes, the more t…