Please read this fantastic new piece by my friend, the talented Katrina Denza: The Portrait.

here’s a great new at Pindeldyboz: Horizons by Jen Wright

poem for 2.25.05: In Every Direction by Ralph Angel

path in the woods.

Car in the woods.

Darby after her has just eaten some snow.

I find this chilling–No Encryption for E-Passports : The new passports will include a radio frequency identification tag, a chip that will store all the information on the data page of the passport, including name, date and place of birth, and a digitized version of the photo passport, according to the proposal in the Federal Register. RFID chips are widely used in automatic toll-payment … Read More

Why do people have tigers and lions and suchlike as pets? I’m baffled. Trackers kill mystery tiger roaming Southern California hills It’s sad that someone kept this creature to begin with and then to have it shot is horrific, but what was the alternative?

Don’t you love listening to people from New England complain about the weather? Don’t they endear themselves? No? Oh well. Here’s what I have to say anyway (even though it might make you hate me): Winter is sucking the life out of me.

Yes, it is February. Yes, there is a full moon tonight. Yes, big, fat, fucking snowflakes are falling or flurrying or whatever. Yes, it is cold. Yes, I get it that winter is not yet over. The Vernal Equinox is in 25 days.

Read this, Brushes with Llamas, by J. Sallini-Genovese, on YPR. My favorite bit: My attempt to engage him proved unsatisfactory. “Aren’t you Fernando Llamas?” I asked him. “You know, the actor, married to Esther Williams, the swimming star.” I would have listed selections from his filmography but I couldn’t think of any. I tried to get more personal. “Say, between you and me, isn’t … Read More

StorySouth Notable Online Stories for 2004

The storySouth Million Writers Award Notable Online Stories for 2004 have been posted and I am THRILLED and honored to note that for the second year in a row, one of my stories (“Bridges“) has been selected out of the 1,200 nominations to be a part of this list. I’m also delighted to see many of my friends on this list. My thanks go … Read More StorySouth Notable Online Stories for 2004