Really, Actually, Empty
Nov 15 2002
The car shuddered just a bit about halfway through first gear, hesitated a single beat of combustion, which I noticed nervously but shrugged off
Wheel
Oct 24 2002
I saw it seperate from the car, and slowly roll off the side of the road, down an embankment
New Category
Oct 22 2002
Perhaps another part of this trouble I've had producing writing over the last many weeks has something to do with the organization of this darn website
Sharp Cars
Oct 12 2002
I've never owned a truck, never owned a vehicle I could use to pull and haul things, never owned something I didn't have to drive gingerly over dirt roads and potholes
The Blue Guitar
Oct 11 2002
"You do not play things as they are...
they're changed upon the blue guitar."
--Wallace Stevens
In The End
Sep 17 2002
"In the end no one will sell you what you need,
You can't buy it off the shelf,
You got to grow it from the seed"
-- Chris Smither, No Love...
Time Value of Pizza
Aug 25 2002
Two and a half hours of baking, broken down into the timing for each task, would go something like this:
Looking for the yeast: 5 minutes
Stars and Grace
Aug 18 2002
Stars, and against them, a circle of pine trees, tall, dark figures against the night, standing as if in council around the ampitheatre
The Dark Side
Aug 8 2002
"Once you head down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny... and you get dental."
Tacos and Yard Sales
Jul 20 2002
I recently had a poem published in The White Shoe Irregular, a publication I help out with from time to time
Dream Camera Redux
Jul 8 2002
I had a dream once, and was allowed to take pictures,
because my camera had fallen into the water
Aarrg
Jun 21 2002
Language neurons... stiffening... creative juices... drying... must... find... antidote...
A Courtship (by Ted Kooser)
May 16 2002
There were parts of herself
that were not in the mirror
and those were pretty:
a kindly touch inside the gloves
of her big red hands,
a well of patience behind
her ropy eyebrows,
and a love of children
under the knocking bones
of her breast
One Night Homeless
May 11 2002
The train I wanted to catch from San Luis Obispo back
to Ventura left each morning at 6:35 am
Transportation
May 10 2002
Up until two weeks ago or so, I have been driving an old, early 1980s Oldsmobile Custom Cruiser station wagon
Beach House
May 5 2002
Today, after I've had some sleep, and assuming I am able to navigate public transportation, I will travel to San Luis Obispo county, and spend some time in a small town in a house by the sea
A Challenge To The Official Version of Reality
May 2 2002
[Note: I dislike spam as much as the next person, and since everybody gets so much of it in their mailboxes, it must seem somewhat pointless to post some on a web page
When I Didn't Know Who I Was
Apr 5 2002
"I spent a long day sleeping on a big clean hard white bed with dirty remarks carved in the wall beside my pillow and the beat yellow windowshades pulled over the smoky scene of the railyards
Progressive Observations About the Crickets with Which I Share A Room
Apr 4 2002
Day 1: There seems to be a cricket in the room chirping softly and occasionally
Camera
Mar 17 2002
I had a dream once, and was allowed to take pictures,
because my camera had fallen into the water
Want to Help Stop Telemarketers?
Mar 13 2002
The FTC is taking public comments on a national "Do Not Call" list
Google My Brain
Mar 10 2002
As I was hiking in Arches National Park last weekend, I was thinking Paul Ford's hilarious Google piece, and suddenly realized that this was...
Draft of an Anniversary Poem
Mar 2 2002
Each day the earth deeply, softly rolls
each night that moonlit wings move
over seasons, each round and solar
circle, slow, long, and smooth --
This is not time
Time Warp (part I)
Feb 27 2002
This morning I walked into the bathroom in the hallway in my parents house
A Convenient Answer
Feb 23 2002
Truth or Dare Jenga has black blocks (for truth) and red blocks (for dares)
Ice Sculptures
Feb 20 2002
These were taken at Provo's 2002 International Ice Carving Competition, an event produced in conjunction with the 2002 SLC Winter Olympics
What is a flower?
Feb 5 2002
What is a flower?
It is a kiss from the earth to the sky
a child of sugar and sunlight
low brown loam and God's bright dye
love returned for love and light
long, warn, and high
Half-Formed Thoughts
Feb 2 2002
What is the difference between a half-formed thought and a full-term thought? Some of the things I've posted here in a few short weeks seem OK; others bother me
What is a Free Market?
Feb 2 2002
Question: what is meant by the phrase "free market"?
It's a question I ask myself increasingly as I think about economics