Thoughtsam

- make of it what you will -

10.31.2006

Speaking of remarkably tenuous segues. . .


10.30.2006

Gosh, I hope they know I don't give a damn.


10.29.2006

Last time he borrowed a metaphor of mine, it came back broken.


10.28.2006

When we breathe out, we die a little bit, and when we breathe in, we are reborn. Everybody dies, the trick is to not stay dead.


10.27.2006

This is why I burned those photos.


10.26.2006

He carved a path through the autumn evening, leaves jumping before his boots and cartwheeling around his coattails.


10.25.2006

"But wait, if you're Hilda, who have I been sleeping with these last few days?"


10.24.2006

I love my toaster for who I am when I'm with it.


10.23.2006

Children are the foot soldiers of entropy; they destroy the world to remake it in their image.


10.22.2006

He came from the "function follows form" school of design; he made things, then figured out what they were good for.


10.21.2006

Less bad is not the same as more good.


10.20.2006

As I worship at the altar of abstraction, I am yet bound by specifics.


10.19.2006

Pity the poor xenophobic neophile.


10.18.2006

Tuna is no more a fish than bacon is a meat.


10.17.2006

2 + 2 = 4. . . it's funny 'cuz it's true!


10.16.2006

It read, "Someday we'll all look back on this T-shirt and laugh."


10.15.2006

I'm sorry, you must have me mistaken for someone who would have a witty rejoinder.


10.14.2006

"Why does it hurt so much?" she thought, and twisted the knife again.


10.13.2006

Everything true has already been said; only liars can be original.


10.12.2006

On the bread aisle at the inconvenience store you'll find wheat stalks and millstones.


10.11.2006

Life is the fracture zone where chaos and order collide. You may be in love with one or the other, but don't forget you need both.


10.10.2006

"Touch the leaf!" he said, as if it was the most important thing in the world. For all I know, it was.


10.09.2006

I wonder what whale milk tastes like. I bet it's creamy!


10.08.2006

She felt she was being dishonest, wearing her hair that way; anyone could tell she was not that kind of girl.


10.07.2006

Class clown and teacher's pet at the same time? Talk about eager to please!


10.06.2006

Moderation in all things does not make good art.


10.05.2006

Even when she knew the cops were on to her, she just kept on dancing.


10.04.2006

If life is what happens when you're making other plans, what happens when you stop planning?


10.03.2006

The author's body of work, when seen from low-Earth orbit, resembles nothing so much as the exoskeleton of some hitherto undiscovered Precambrian life form.


10.02.2006

There is nothing more slippery than the illusion of certainty.


10.01.2006

We sat there, watching a crow express its dominion over an empty chip bag.