random items for 1.22.05 a poem I like: Boston by Aaron Smith Monbiot on the US media: The role of the media corporations in the United States is similar to that of repressive state regimes elsewhere: they decide what the public will and won’t be allowed to hear, and either punish or recruit the social deviants who insist on telling a different story. The … Read More

Right now, the skin beneath my fingernails is blue

It is that time in winter when it is more cold than not. Snow beneath boots makes that squeaky sound—you will know this sound if you’ve heard it and you’ll know how it feels to walk on the snow when it’s this cold; it’s not quite slippery—there is something that adheres. It is not crunchy—that came earlier. It is like salt. Like walking on … Read More Right now, the skin beneath my fingernails is blue

Is it sad that I think this: Drink Beer Or Wine And Be Sharper? is good news? I spend a great deal of time worrying that if I drink a couple of glasses of wine a night, I’m killing my brain cells–not that it stops me.

dreams…

Had a dream the other night that I was in prison–a coed prison, with people of all ages, children even. I had the bottom bunk and there was an old guy in the top bunk and another younger guy in a cot next to the bunk bed and then a topless (?!?!) woman on a cot next to him. We were in a sort … Read More dreams…

We will not trade spaces

In case you were wondering, I will not be trading spaces with you. It seems possible to paint a room in a weekend. Certainly, it can be done. They do it on home decorating shows all the time. Tear out the rug; throw in a wood floor (or wood flooring, as they like to say. Wood flooring and cabinetry instead of cabinets and tiling … Read More We will not trade spaces

New at Salome: The Codependent Guide by Patricia Parkinson

If you are looking for something to do this Thursday (other than get trashed because you are so depressed that it is inauguration day), please join Lilies and Cannonballs Review for a casual celebration of their second issue on January 20 from 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm at L.I.C. Bar in Long Island City, New York.  Click here and scroll down to “January 20” for … Read More

U.S. Conducting Secret Missions inside Iran: One former high-level intelligence official told The New Yorker, “This is a war against terrorism, and Iraq is just one campaign. The Bush administration is looking at this as a huge war zone. Next, we’re going to have the Iranian campaign.” & U.S. planning for possible attack on Iran: Hersh said Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and Defense … Read More

poem for 1/17/05: Still I Rise by Maya Angelou

Slip it In (an excerpt) by Myfanwy Collins We are going to wait for two strangers to scratch at our nighty-night windows. Wait for their white faces to show up in our dark rooms. Wait for them to poke their fingery eyes at us. To repeat: Strangers will come and watch and poke—their eyes like salt, like fire. And there will be a knife … Read More

There is a brand-spanking new FRiGG online, featuring some of my favorite writers: Bob Arter, Randall Brown and Jeff Landon and many more.

1,000 words

Britney Spears does 1,000 abdomen crunches. Every day. It’s true. I saw it on one of those shows. She said one thousand crunches a day. Or almost every day. She thinks she might sometimes miss a day or two. Imagine if she wrote 1,000 words a day instead? Better yet, imagine if I wrote 1,000 words a day? Well, I do actually–often more, much … Read More 1,000 words