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If I were to batter you with concrete blocks
Inundate you with cash flows,
bury you with lesson plans and
stacks of bills of lading.
I could pile a days receipts
for lattes and for scones
Make a pyre of HTML
and toast your toes on ticket stubs.
I could tell you, I’ve brought Excel to bed.
Let’s run regressions, baby.
I’ll paint your back […]

Things to do on a Monday night

Go see a play! The playwright Dan Fishback is amazing, and not just for persistence, as Gawker says.

coming home to silence

Nov 5, 2006
Multi-coloured, former salsa jars
purple juice, warm vodka
(still open on the stove)
sits silent. Five empty rooms.
All lights on.
Instead, the cheese is squished between
half-eaten tortillas, perched on a mixing bowl
with waves of whiteness.
Perhaps beans, refried, stuck
on the spoon, half-hidden by empty orange-
stained scraps of carrot bags.
Melting. Spinach. On the floor.
Must have missed […]

publishing?

Does anyone know a really cheap way to publish simple books?  I want to make a present of all the haikus and send it out in a little black book called ‘Handheld’ for everyone who has got me through this year.  I need only about 40 pages, even two inches by two inches, with a […]

Early Thanksgiving

My little brother is going to university.  We never thought this was possible.  It’s a huge accomplishment for him, and a positive testament to what happens when a village works.  I think it’s important to take a moment and reflect, as something great is about to happen, on all that was part of bringing us […]

Siren Festival

Siren Festival

We are going here today! For freckles and fabulous folk rock, and maybe some Russian treats with poppy seeds.

Please let me love you

A new play by Dan Fishback, in which we learn about global politics, pop culture, and the hateful things we do in the name of love.  It is going to be surprising, nuanced, funny, and bitterly revealing.  It is also by DAN FISHBACK who loves an audience more than he loves basically anything. 
Review here:
http://www.culturebot.org/archives/2006/02/04/PleaseLetMeLoveYou.php
Tickets and […]

Lazy Art

For those of us who don’t want to go very far for free entertainment…
We have free performance art around the corner!
http://chashama.org/currency/c05.php
at 208 W 37th St. Thur - Sat, Oct 13 - 15, starting at 8 pm.
I recommend we stand outside and try to be part of the show

Skating in our backyard

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Shopping List for Party

Coke
Diet Coke
Tonic
Diet Tonic
Cranberry Juice
Orange Juice
Pineapple Juice
Bags of Ice
Cheesies
Animal Crackers
Pretzels
Chips
something sweet?
plastic cups
napkins