The Staircase |
It is 4:23 in the morning. I am at the top of the beautiful, stupid staircase in my head. It was three months ago, during a trip to the dentist, I realized that I needed the staircase. I arrived to th...
Posted by Dessa on Sat, 19 Apr 2008 10:27:00 PST |
Spin Pick |
What: www.spin.com/blog/months-book-club-sacks-anthropologist-mars
Where: Um, same as above.Why: For fun and art.Why not: Because you are very, very busy.
Posted by Dessa on Sat, 01 Mar 2008 09:48:00 PST |
The Greatest Remove |
To extricate yourself from your daily chores and errands (which are constantlike minding a fire in a light rain), you are most thoroughly removed by a gram and a half of opium from Manali. It comes w...
Posted by Dessa on Sun, 13 Jan 2008 09:49:00 PST |
Little Note On All Of It. |
Life, life is bad. But people are good.Regrettably, life is the only way to animate people.They are otherwise slack dolls, slumped over their deskswhose limbs must bestuffed through the holes in their...
Posted by Dessa on Sun, 09 Dec 2007 12:44:00 PST |
Mercy |
To forgiveis to summon your character,red-eyed and sober,and command it to behaveagainst the current of your instinct. Against self-saving drivesinstilled by ten thousand years of evolutionand calcifi...
Posted by Dessa on Fri, 19 Oct 2007 12:38:00 PST |
Excerpted from The Perfect Burn, an essay of creative nonfiction. |
Few creatures could be more poorly designed for human life than human beings. We habituate to the glorious, we are magnetized to the vanities, we love desperately while too aware of our own dying, we ...
Posted by Dessa on Tue, 07 Aug 2007 01:58:00 PST |
Bitches and Hos. |
Minneapolis is preparing for this year's B-Girl Be summit, an event that celebrates women in hip hop. If you happen to be a girl and a rapper living in this city, the press starts calling you this wee...
Posted by Dessa on Sun, 10 Jun 2007 12:15:00 PST |
Do Not Talk Politics with the Montagnard |
The carpet is white, so I am abstaining from the red wine. Dinner is over, coffee is brewing. Jordan is drunker than I have ever seen him. My grandmother seems determined to keep pace. It's a bad Eas...
Posted by Dessa on Tue, 10 Apr 2007 12:56:00 PST |
SPIN.com |
Using their powers for good, the staff of spin.com created a book club--if anyone can save the novel from the jaws of a culture in decline, it's Spin. The club all is comprised of wildly successful ro...
Posted by Dessa on Thu, 15 Mar 2007 11:52:00 PST |
Nostalgia |
Nostalgia comes home latethe lovely, tired little drunkhair let loose and curling at the ends.In the darkness of the livingroom,and in her stocking feet,she tip toes to the couch with exaggerated snea...
Posted by Dessa on Sat, 24 Feb 2007 07:50:00 PST |
