Month: February 2004

Lunching on shrimp tossed with finely sliced tomatoes and cucumbers in vinaigrette. Cheap luxury. Reading a book on the nature of Time. Lazy intellectualism. Listening to Duran Duran. Instant nostalgia trip. What a world I’m living in. Time spirals in on itself. In need of new material. Wrote a new vampire poem based on half… Continue reading Meanwhile. I’m still thinking…

My review of the flu is that it really sucks, especially when you’ve had your shot and you still get it anyway…

…tomorrow would be a great day to call your oldest friend 🙂

1. What is your favorite type of literature to read (magazine, newspaper, novels, nonfiction, poetry, etc.)? A witty magazine, a subversive newspaper, a brilliant novel, enlightening nonficiton, cleverly worded poetry. 2. What is your favorite novel? “Animal Dreams” by Barbara Kingsolver, “Stardust” by Neil Gaiman, “The Mists of Avalon” by Marion Zimmer Bradley, “Reservation Blues”… Continue reading friday five anachronistically… Literary Five

I invited the Vampire into my chamber Because I was bored Because it looked pretty Because I’m no stranger to bloodletting And it leaves such pretty corpses Bloodless and pockets emptied but With stories to tell in stone And costumes and long locks of hair And I know how to speak to the dead And… Continue reading Bite Me

1) Ride a bicycle 2)Snap my fingers 3)Whistle 4)Read sheet music 5)Drive stick shift

Boudicca, Queen of the Iceni (Also known as Boadicea) Died A.D. 60 Boudicca has been the subject of myth and legend for centuries. Revered as a symbol of British freedom, stories of her heroism have been told to English schoolchildren for the past two hundred years. In fact, she was the wife of King Prasutagus… Continue reading Queen Boudicca

…McSweeney’s links! More Pope Reviews McSweeney’s Internet Tendency:Confessions of a New Coffee Drinker Popular Children’s Fairy Tales Reimagined Using Members of The Author’s Family Is It the Flu? The American Canon of the Choose-Your-Own-Adventure

Corbid is a bit, shall we say, under the weather of late. Not to regale you all with the sordid details, but the gist of it is that if I don’t eat, I am fine until I grow weak from low blood sugar, at which point I must eat, but then when I do I… Continue reading It’s not easy being green…

From an interview in The Onion with Neil Gaiman: “All my life, I’ve felt that I was getting away with something because I was just making things up and writing them down, and that one day there would be a knock, and a man with a clipboard would be standing there and say, “It says… Continue reading What happens to little boys who make things up…