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tommy

A life like a trainwreck or a monster giving birth

About Me

on fire. attempting to put out said fire.failing to extinguish fire.

My Interests

unicorns, and to a lesser extent, centaur(s?). the idea that at some point in history, pretty much every imaginable substance on earth has been eaten by a human, and that often times, if unknown, those things may have been poisonous, and therefore, at least theoretically, scores of people have died or at least experienced brutalizing discomfort at the price of building our cultural awareness of what is and what isn't edible food. knives. foreign people. the possibility that dreams dont' just happen in your brain. chemistry. procrastination.

I'd like to meet:

Wells Tower. He's the guy who wrote the best short story ever, "Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned." That alone makes him one of the coolest people ever. But on top of that, he was once in a band with Al Burian and the Harrison Haynes of Les Savy Fav. If you know how I can contact this person, please let me know. I want to talk to him. I want to ask him some questions. I want to be his friend.

My Blog

So, Toulouse is Burning...

Maybe this is bad for me to say... I really have enjoyed living in Toulouse for the last two months. Its so different from anything back home, with its narrow, unpredictable roads, its crowded buildi...
Posted by tommy on Mon, 07 Nov 2005 12:14:00 PST

The post office in France.

In my rush to get out of Fayetteville, I accidentally brought my entire keychain across the Atlantic with me. That normally wouldn't be a big deal, except my parents wanted to sell my car while I was...
Posted by tommy on Fri, 04 Nov 2005 09:52:00 PST