A few weeks ago, I got really sick.Well, really sick might be an exaggeration, or a relative term, but I got way more sick than I was before I got sick, which means I got more sick than normal, i.e. not sick.I got sick.How I got sick, it seems we'll... Read more

First off, yes you all look great. Of course you do. Shut up, stop being stupid. Take the compliment. What? No, ha, who said that? Yes, I know spring is here! Yes, your butt does look great in those pants! My pants? No, these aren't... Read more

My friend Peter's cousin works as a dancer in Chicago at some swanky place downtown where top percenters and investment bankers make decisions that feel heavy in the morning. Sometimes when she comes into town we'll go out and I'll ask her that... Read more

There are friendly ghosts swooping low over Washburn, and above the freeway on that footbridge crossing 35, arrows of yarn point down into afternoon traffic and the ghosts point up-up-up! Oh my paper bag covering cheap champagne queen,  at... Read more

There's this thing in Saint Laurent, called the "little summer," where the rain lets up and the sun comes out and it stays out for a month or so. Everything is lusher and yellows and greens and the roads get dusty again and women switch their... Read more

There's this secret place where the kids from my school go to do sex stuff or whatever, cause its 2012, and apparently they call it "Chocolate City." And there are a lot of reasons why that's gross and funny and weird, but my immediate reaction was... Read more

Mrs. Daniels is really very pretty. This is what I am thinking a lot of the time. I believe that this is probably what most people are thinking a lot of the time: students, other faculty, the general public. Today I think she is even more pretty... Read more

Tonight after work I will go to a picnic table in a garden and drink beer and watch the sunlight finish out. The garden will open out onto the beach, the beach out onto the ocean. And pretty soon, It will all open out onto the... Read more

He was at Titus Comics up until the shift from golden to contemporary, before the nephew came in and everything changed and he was drowned out of the business slow in an altogether cowardly way.  He had changed his name for print, changed it from... Read more

From Salut On a Thursday night in December I pour all of the dish soap and all of the hand soap and all of the laundry detergent into our bathtub and I put all of my shoes and socks and boots and pants and underwear inside and I turn on the... Read more

French Guiana is for lovers. They know it. It is.Last week, I did all of these Valentine's Day lessons with my little middle schoolers and it was great and they ate that shit up. At first they pretended they didn't like it but we all knew it wasn't... Read more