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 […]

I don’t have it in front of me, but Jon Stewart, in the Daily Show’s America: The Book said something like this: “The Pilgrims came to America to be free to practice the most oppressive form of Christianity known to man.” The Puritans. Our Christian loving contemporaries should keep in mind that the Puritans were […]

“I have one of two choices — stay in the post office and go crazy … or stay out here and play at writer and starve. I have decided to starve.” –Charles Bukowski I stumbled upon stumble upon tonight. And in stumbling found a quote site. Here are some quotes for posterity. For me at […]

Michael Moore was recently on The Colbert Report (Video). He was on the show to talk about his recent row with CNN. Moore was ambushed by Wolf Blitzer on The Situation Room by a piece put together by Dr. Gupta highlighting “inaccuracies” in Moore’s new movie Sicko. Moore wanted to know what pharmaceutical company’s ad […]

My cousin Jill sent this to me the other day. I’m glad she did. It makes me laugh. I heard it once in a writing class and couldn’t find it. If I ever teach writing I’ll try not to hand out an assignment like this. So thanks Jill! A writing assignment: A professor tells his […]

I had to listen to a lot of shit while getting out of the army. The battalion re-enlistment NCO telling me the grim statistics. “Over 85% of the military police who get out are back in a year. It’s not nice out there.” “You know,” I said, “my recruiter told me I had to serve […]

Well, actually I am. For another few weeks. Topeka, to be exact. Home of the crazy Phelps clan. It’s purgatory. I’m moving to San Francisco in a few long weeks. I was getting my oil changed today. I sat in the lobby reading a magazine and a man came in wanting to buy tires. Michelin […]