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Alden

About Me

Mild shut in. Anxious coffee house writer.

My Interests

Atlantis, atlantis, atlantis. Mongolian death-worm.

I'd like to meet:

I'm bored of you, actually.

Books:

Borges and Gombrowicz, making babies.

My Blog

tunnels

Every shadow walking on the horizon, walks like you.
Posted by Alden on Wed, 12 Sep 2007 09:08:00 PST

I miss my friends

But they span across the globe, and throughout time.They've become a category.So that I cannot find one, or a handful.
Posted by Alden on Tue, 11 Sep 2007 09:38:00 PST

unfit

I am in a terrible, furious mood, and I don't think it has a foundation.
Posted by Alden on Sun, 22 Oct 2006 01:42:00 PST

Baby It's You

I've moved to Winnipeg, where I listen to the girl groups of the sixties, with a runny nose, and a lazy disposition in regard to finding employment; a sewing needle in my hand, and scrap leather in th...
Posted by Alden on Wed, 11 Oct 2006 07:43:00 PST

the Vancouver blues, cars, bikes, and pollution

People, unspecific, have told me in the past that things like this are all in your head, but that is precisely the problem. There are cities that make me remember things that I left behind. The map ...
Posted by Alden on Thu, 21 Sep 2006 03:19:00 PST

Portland, OR

I just got into Portland a few hours ago, and I have already fallen in love with this helpful girl at the library.Before I left Minneapolis, Lara and Nathan told me that I'm not allowed to fall in lov...
Posted by Alden on Sun, 10 Sep 2006 01:24:00 PST

...

I've been eating ideas again.And puking.**Half of me wants to hole up somewhere.The other half wants to sleep with someone non-specific.**Certain cities question my humanity....
Posted by Alden on Mon, 14 Aug 2006 03:07:00 PST

something I wrote on the 23rd

These cities only come out of you after they've left teeth marks, some are sexy, and some are just painful. I will walk alongside that euphoria that determination brings, to leave, to continue. Each s...
Posted by Alden on Thu, 10 Aug 2006 07:28:00 PST

let's go to the derby, again, and again

I'm trying to decide between two cities, two massive obelisks that obscure at the tip, and here I am, no where near either of these two places, to the point of not being able to see either of them at ...
Posted by Alden on Thu, 13 Jul 2006 07:28:00 PST

sun tea for a fleeing rechargeable battery

Out in the backyard of my mother's house, I put out my sun tea, and I was picking fresh oregano for her marinade when I reaffirmed my yearning for true peace. I was dreaming of my own little cottage,...
Posted by Alden on Sat, 24 Jun 2006 11:22:00 PST