a curse of almonds |
bet you weren’t expecting this: another quilt done! took me by surprise, too. i forgot how pleasant quilting can be after that last thread-snap nightmare. i made this one for my...
Posted by Brak on Thu, 10 Apr 2008 05:33:00 PST |
touched by a janus |
even though i think all lesbians know how upsetting it is to be discriminated against because of their sexuality, i still notice that a great deal of them are hostile towards bisexual women....
Posted by Brak on Tue, 01 Apr 2008 06:12:00 PST |
aha koala! |
this is the last quilt of the Quilts I Started as an Overambitious Teenager and Couldn’t Finish group. i believe i first began sewing it in 1997. i really had almost no idea how to quilt back th...
Posted by Brak on Fri, 28 Mar 2008 06:17:00 PST |
less for the incinerator |
i wrote some bad poetry!Reality by Brakstrung up barbed wire around my perimeterposted notice at two foot intervalsthis is a quarrantine to test my humanityi know it seems extremebut glassy-eyed, trem...
Posted by Brak on Tue, 25 Mar 2008 07:20:00 PST |
police exterior |
The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gillman (1899)
It is very seldom that mere ordinary people like John and myself secure ancestral halls for the summer. &nbs...
Posted by Brak on Fri, 21 Mar 2008 06:37:00 PST |
the only lobster with a tongue |
"You can’t charge innocent people for saving their lives." So spake Buffy. She argued that it would be wrong, immoral, and outrageously selfish for a person who possessed superpowers such as her...
Posted by Brak on Tue, 18 Mar 2008 09:57:00 PST |
chucking stones at normalcy |
Vipassana meditation, or insight meditation is most commonly associated with the theravedan buddhist tradition from southeast asia. unlike most other forms of meditation, in vipassana you do not conce...
Posted by Brak on Mon, 17 Mar 2008 08:51:00 PST |
thousand pound myocardium |
before i went to san antonio, i made a promise to myself that i wouldn’t put up with anymore shenanigans. if this next doctor i saw who came so highly recommended and with such a clean record an...
Posted by Brak on Sun, 16 Mar 2008 03:09:00 PST |
fever of the enchanted waterline |
even though i think i’ve done a pretty good job of accepting the fact that i cannot change my current situation, even going so far as to (at times) see it as an opportunity for enlightenment, t...
Posted by Brak on Sat, 15 Mar 2008 03:18:00 PST |
crayons from the ocean |
when i first started getting serious about meditation, every book i read told me to start by focusing on my breath. but exactly how does one focus on the breath? it isn’t as easy as it...
Posted by Brak on Thu, 13 Mar 2008 09:36:00 PST |
