So my little weather channel status bar on Firefox is showing an alert. A red triangle with a yellow exclamation point in the middle. In Iowa this meant thunderstorms blowing out windows, hail as big as baseballs, town destroying tornadoes, floods sweeping away SUVs, white out blizzards or ice storms shutting down the world. Here […]

I served all this? No wonder I’m depressed. Thanks for the pics Americans Are Brainwashed (I’d link, but it’s myspace and it’s fucking up my browser. Fuck you myspace.)

The smell lingered heavily in the air. Wood burning. Waste burning. Diesel burning. Life, love, death, poverty and sex and misery. All burning here, filling the town with its pungent sweet odor. A raining snow had forced everyone to shelter, made the place almost beautiful. But the snow couldn’t do anything about that smell. It […]

What the fuck? Stanford University has just hired the war criminal Donald Rumsfeld. He will spend a year at the university as a fellow “examining national security and world peace in the post 9-11 era.” World peace? Seriously? “‘Don has had immense experience in public service and has much to contribute to society as a […]

What you think of Bukowski. He was an asshole. And he knew it. But he speaks to me. When I feel like quiting, joining the army, flying back to Iowa, to Kansas. All I have to do is read some Bukowski. And I know things can get worse. But I’m no where near as tough […]

Police departments can’t find enough qualified applicants. Probably because they don’t pay shit, expect long hours, and hold a strong commitment to such rules as no home made porn. Our beloved baby boomers are retiring in record numbers–hopefully to die soon–and too many youngsters have been busted with the lethal pot, forfeiting forever their hope […]

It is said that President Bush goes to bed early. He even claims to have missed Janet Jackson’s Super Bowl nipple slip because he was already in bed. I wonder if he sleeps. He probably does. The president must have the most comfortable bed in the country. Hopefully, one day soon, and I don’t hold […]

I’m starting my MFA program tomorrow. Others have expressed anxiety over this leap. I’ve read about students so nervous they couldn’t sleep, puked before their first class. I don’t feel this way. I feel more tense than anything. I’ve spent a month here in California. But now I’m out of money and my bike has […]

I’ve been reading a very interesting article on Salon. A little while ago two border patrol agents were sent to prison for covering up the shooting of a fleeing suspected Mexican drug smuggler. I’ve heard of this case. It has become a prominent case in this time of immigrant hating. But let me, with eight […]

What can I write here? What can I write? I’ve written this said this all before. Nothing matters. Everything moves with no control. I’ll be sent to jail to prison to death. This earth will eventually break it will crumble. None of it will matter. The earth will spin around the sun. The sun will […]