Monday, September 30, 2002
Scenes from a movie that I only saw a few minutes of:
Various founding father-types are sprawled around a big room. Ben Franklin is leaning against a window frame, staring outside. It’s a meeting of the Continental Congress.
James Adams is arguing that the Constitution should ban slavery. Someone points out that Adams owns [...]
Monday, September 30, 2002
There was a mosquito buzzing around me last night. When its high whine first woke me, the logic of the dream that I was escaping made me certain that I could get rid of it by downloading some new fonts onto my computer. The mosquito kept me up for a few hours. [...]
Tuesday, September 24, 2002
Then I was writing an email to Amazon’s customer service. My order had been mishandled in a couple of different ways. So I layed out what needed to happen to resolve the situation, then I closed the email by explaining that I’d worked at Amazon for four years and was embarrassed that such [...]
Tuesday, September 24, 2002
Ingrid and Sam went out to get websites, but there was only one website left. Sam got the website and Ingrid got a house instead.
Cheese, Nintendo, Ingrid’s house, and the size of George W. Bush’s penis at Sam’s weblog, Fox in the Snow.
Friday, September 20, 2002
A loud thump above me, the window pulses and I sit up alert, expecting a rain of shattering glass. The window doesn’t break, there’s another thump and the window shudders again. I jump and look up. There’s a pigeon flying around inside, bumping up against the glass, trying to get out. [...]
Tuesday, September 17, 2002
These fast little Coast Guard boats have been zipping around Elliot Bay off and on for the last week - since the country was put on a high threat level. They pace back and forth, patrol along the docks, and ride alongside ferries as they pull in and out of docks. Those appear [...]
Sunday, September 15, 2002
Start with the grocery stores. Safeway was the only real show in town at first. Reynold’s was a couple of blocks east of Safeway, it was kind of dingy. I enjoyed going there though, because there was a giant swordfish mounted above the exit. The fish was removed when Reynold’s became [...]
Friday, September 13, 2002
“In the first day or two the flags were plastered everywhere, seeing them was heartening because they indicated that we’re all in this sorrow together. The flags were purely emotional. Once we went to war, once the president announced that we were going to retaliate against the “evildoers,” then the flag again represented [...]
Saturday, September 7, 2002
Witnessed while walking home late last night:
A taxi pulled into the Paramount’s parking lot. The driver got out and walked around beside the front of his car where he stood and peed into the pool of light made by his car’s headlights.
Two women at a hot dog stand trying to force something out of [...]
Saturday, September 7, 2002
At the Doug Martsch solo show last night, I’m disenchanted, not sure if I’m more annoyed and frustrated by the low rumble of people chattering behind me or the over-done distortion effect on Martsch’s microphone. I head off to a corner to sit down. All is forgiven when he plays “Twin Falls, Idaho” [...]