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Monthly Archives: August 2003

New Age

Friday, August 29, 2003

I get into Jessica’s car and immediately pluck something out of the little forest of trinkets on the dashboard. First I fiddle with a wooden Scrooge McDuck toy. Jessica reaches over to set upright a little Ganesh idol that had fallen over. She puts the car into gear and pulls out, and I swap the [...]

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Build it up, then turn it down.

Thursday, August 28, 2003

Taco Del Mar

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Onion Pie

Tuesday, August 26, 2003

I was sure that I had never read Lydia Davis’ Almost No Memory before. But aspects of one of the stories seemed familiar.

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From Off the Streets of Cleveland

Tuesday, August 26, 2003

Pekar/Crumb, American Splendor #9 Harvey Pekar, everyman/oddball-cartoonist of some renown, and his family are blogging.

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Phone

Friday, August 22, 2003

Photo Friday – Broken

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Setting the Pace

Friday, August 22, 2003

Without looking up from the book, she takes a long drag from the cigarette that she holds in her right hand. The ash perched precariously at the tip of the cigarette is as long as the unsmoked portion of the cigarette.

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Photologgers in Ballard

Friday, August 22, 2003

The Seattle Pfhotologgers Guild met yesterday to forage for pictures in Ballard.

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Sunflowers

Thursday, August 21, 2003

A set of three photos

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Are You?

Wednesday, August 20, 2003

A young guy strolled over and stopped me as I was walking up Harbor Steps tonight. He wore an oversized policeman-style cap. He carried a clipboard. “Excuse me. Are you an artist, a writer, or a poet?” His inflection was internally conflicted, and it wasn’t apparent if it was a yes or no question or [...]

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Singular and Plural

Tuesday, August 19, 2003

Language from a bank document: “Any references in this agreement to gender include masculine, feminine, and neuter. Unless otherwise indicated by the context any singular references include the plural and any plural references include the singular.” In other words: By they, we may mean he, and by he, we may mean she. And that goes [...]

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