He sat amid a sea of empty cafe tables and chairs — a lone island in perhaps the Pacific. The shirt he wore bore illustrations of small sharks — a throng of them speckling the deep. He himself wore a mohawk. He had just demolished a slice of pizza: The flattened box sat lifeless on […]
Author Archives: Cassandra
This and that
Lagrime San Pietro for the sublime voices. Di Lasso madrigals. Better with snowfall in barren winter but still above-average lovely. ** Can cannibalism save the planet? Would you eat a Republican to help curtail climate change? ** It’s a perfect day and age to talk to yourself. Bluetooth as a ruse — a bum component […]
An intro to pretty much every topic you can think of
This Oxford University Press book series is great for those of us who are curious about everything and want to know it all. I spotted them at a local bookstore. My favorites: A Very Short Introduction to Identity A Very Short Introduction to Infinity A Very Short Introduction to Nothing A Very Short Introduction to […]
Yay, more time for books & coffee (it’s finally Friday)
Cats, etc.
Having a cat is like having a plant. You have to give it food, water and some love and make sure it has access to a window. Handle delicately. ** Bukowski as the gateway poet. ** New Ginsberg book. Post-mortem. $29.95!! The trick is they use courier or some other slab serif to evoke strike-on […]
Summer casualties
Everything colorful was gone from the woman’s flower beds, despite all her ardent work. The summer just wouldn’t allow anything other than perennial green now. Listening to Chopin’s tender Nocturnes as dusk descended, I gazed into her yard at a wheelbarrow holding slender planks of oak she had acquired for a trellis. A large ceramic […]
Cellphones are for aliens
It seems obvious they weren’t made for humans because by nature we have greasy hands. Mobile phones are a technology you wanna keep clean. At least I do. But it seems a cruel joke because it’s futile to do so. We live in a grimy world with greasy hands.
Just checking in on you
The emergency room is like a restaurant, with nurses instead of waiters. They stop by to see how everything is going. Patient: This sling could use a little more support. That’s perfect. Oh, and I prefer such and such pain killers with a glass of water on the side.
Glut(s)
Glut feelings Follow your glut It takes gluts
